New Delhi, October 21: The winter session of Parliament will commence from November 19 and end on December 22.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
The session in all will have 24 sittings, Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal told reporters after the meeting.
At the end of the budget session this year, both the government and the opposition had favoured at least 100 sittings of Parliament in a year and the winter session to be a six-week affair.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar had even felt that Parliament should sit for at least 110 days in a year.
Normally, the winter session lasts for four weeks beginning in the last week of November and ending just ahead Christmas.
–Agencies