New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has emphasized the importance of quality legislative drafting and the importance of inputs from elected representatives in legislative processes, Lok Sabha Secretariat said in an official statement.

Calling for wider consultations in the legislative drafting process, Birla highlighted that lack of adequate inputs at the stage of drafting of legislations has its impacts on both the functioning of the government and legislative scrutiny by lawmakers.

Delivering the inaugural address at a two-day Orientation programme for newly elected members of Haryana Vidhan Sabha, he said that newly elected lawmakers should be suitably engaged at this early stage to ensure that the perspectives and conce...