<span style="color: #222222;">Rajya Sabha transacted private Members' Businesses full time after 22 months.  The upper House however lost 52.30 percent of the scheduled sitting time during the first week of the ongoing winter session due to disruptions and forced adjournments. The productivity of the House during the last week has been 47.70 percent of the scheduled time. However, with the House sitting for 33 minutes beyond the scheduled time last Thursday, the overall productivity for the first week against the scheduled time has improved to 49.70 percent. The best productivity of 100 percent was reported on Friday and 95 percent on the previous day last week showing signs of the return of the House to normal functioning.    <br />''        <br />'' Rajya Sabha took up the Private Members' Business for the full scheduled time of two and half hours on Friday doing so after one year nine months and 24 days and after 66 sittings. The last time it happened was on February 7, 2020, during the Budget session, the 251st session of the House.    <br />''  <br />''Chairman  M.Venkaiah Naidu held discussions with some opposition leaders and ministers and urged both sides to further discuss their stated views on the suspension of 12 members of the House in the wake of the demand of the opposition for its revocation.</span><br />