Lucknow, Jan. 22 -- The creation of a National Legislative Index has been proposed to benchmark the performance of legislative bodies on the basis of objective parameters to introduce a conducive environment for healthy competition and serving public interest with greater accountability. This was reflected in one of the six resolutions adopted at the 86th All India Presiding Officers Conference that concluded here on Wednesday. Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, who was speaking to media persons after the conclusion of the conference at the Vidhan Bhavan here, said a committee (on the National Legislative Index) would be constituted in a week to set standards for a healthy competition. The conference held discussions on key points that included use of technology for transparent, efficient and people centric legislative procedures, capacity building of legislatures for increasing efficiency of legislative institutions and making the legislators responsible to the people, he said. He also said the presiding officers should be impartial. Efforts should be made to evolve a culture for ensuring that business of the House was not interrupted, he said. Displaying placards and raising slogans was not good for democracy and discussions were held on ways to ensure that disruptions are not caused in the house even for a day, he added. Birla said the first resolution called upon all the state legislatures to debate the development works being undertaken in their respective states and 'conduct business in such a way that helps achieve the national goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047'. Another resolution was about continuing to harness technology for improving ease of doing legislative business with the objective of building an effective connection between the people and their legislatures. The best available tools should be used with adequate precaution and responsibility along with credibility and morality should be ensured, he said. Birla said the presiding officers have resolved to continue providing leadership to all participatory institutions, including the panchayati raj institutions, so as to deepen and strengthen the democratic ethos of the nation. "The presiding officers have resolved to continue supporting capacity building of legislators and parliamentarians in efficient use of technology and strengthen research support with digitisation of proceedings having digital libraries," he said. An earlier presiding officers' conference held at Lucknow in 2015 had resolved to make the legislatures paperless and all the states have achieved this objective, he said. He said efforts are underway to bring all the legislatures on one platform and one would be able to watch proceedings of all legislatures live on one single platform. Efforts were also underway to work out model rules for all the legislatures and a committee headed by UP assembly speaker Satish Mahana has held its meetings on this issue, he added. Rules would be worked out in 2026 and the legislatures would have to adopt these rules to implement them....