The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs has recommended that the Monsoon Session of the Parliament be held from July 18 to August 10, PTI reported. President Ram Nath Kovind will now formally convene the session.

The committee, which is headed by Union Home Minister Rajanth Singh, met in New Delhi on Monday to recommend the dates. The Monsoon Session will have nearly 18 sittings, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said.

During the previous session of the Parliament, the Budget Session, the Lok Sabha lost nearly 128 hours to “interruptions and forced adjournments”. Only 34 hours of sittings took place. The second tranche of the Budget Session, which concluded on April 6, saw proceedings being washed out each day amid uproar from the Opposition for various reasons.