how to read a budget, how to deal with the sometimes obstructionist local bureaucracy, how to deal with the media, and—the most popular item—how to manage your time. Most legislative assembly members are besieged by round-the-clock requests to attend weddings, funerals,cheap toms shoes, bless children, secure hospital beds for sick constituents and so on, leaving little time for actual law-making.“It made the group of MLAs think about exactly what their role as an MLA is and what it should be,” said first-time Ludhiana state lawmaker Jasbir Singh Khangura, who returned from the U.K. in 2006 to run for office,toms shoes. “The bulk of our work tends to be as plaintiffs for our constituents whose rights are denied by government machinery so most of our time is spent intervening for them.”Mr. Khangura, who was elected to the Punjab assembly for the Congress Party in February 2007,cheap toms, attended the first workshop for state lawmakers, which took place in January at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, and said he particularly enjoyed meeting MLAs from other states.“You tend to become insular in your state,” said the 47-year-old Mr. Khangura. “It was a good opportunity to meet a wide range of skill sets and see how they cope with the challenges.”The workshop offered tips about what to do (and not to do) when a TV news crew lands up in the middle of a breaking news story and demands a comment and how to cultivate journalists, and discussed online tools for building their profiles, like Twitter and Facebook. In terms of dealing with the local bureaucracy, the workshop discussed how different sources of funding are routed so lawmakers can approach the right person with their queries in order to save time and perhaps gain the respect of the bureaucrat in question.The budget session—also a popular one—goes over concepts like “fiscal deficit” and dissects different state budgets to show the lawmakers different ways of analyzing the data.“For more than half of them it’s new,” said Mr. Madhavan.Anita Singh, a first-time Bharatiya Janata Party MLA in the desert state of Rajasthan who attended the second workshop at Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Management in April, said the budget session was the best.“A lot of things I didn’t know,” said Ms. Singh, 39, who served as a district head before winning an assembly seat in 2008. “It was very well presented.”Close to 70 lawmakers have attended the two workshops held so far, and Parliamentary Research Service hopes to work with about 500 over the next three to four years. The next one is likely to take place in July, but exact dates haven’t been set yet.The workshop organizers do try to temper expectations at the start of each workshop though, by asking why people are attending and telling them what they’ll be getting from the workshop.“Some would come clearly with the view that maybe it’ll help them win an election next time,” said Anil Nair, the workshop coordinator for the think-tank. “We need to tell them that it may not help you do that. The objective Related articles:

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