Workers clean Parliament House in preparation for the newly elected members of the upcoming 16th Parliament, in New Delhi on May 15, 2014.
In a few hours, India discovers who it has chosen as the 543 members of the 16th Lok Sabha.
But at Parliament, orientation arrangements are peaking.
The Lok Sabha secretariat, which handles the administration of the Lower House of Parliament, has set up special help desks inside Parliament to assist the new members.
"We will run the facilitation desk from May 16 to May 26. Members will have to fill up forms, give specimen signatures. Those who want an email id as a member of Parliament will be given one instantly," said P Sreedharan, Secretary General of the Lok Sabha.
Parliamentarians will first have to furnish the election certificate which establishes them as the winners of their constituencies. Then they have to register as members of Parliament by filling up a form. A green temporary identity card will be given to them with a brown one for spouses. These card are valid for three months.
At the next desk, they will be photographed for parliamentary records as well as for their permanent ID cards. Once that's done, they will be handed over a briefcase containing a handbook of rules and Parliamentary procedures.
There's also special desk to handle the accommodation for first time MPs - rooms have been booked in various state guest houses, bhavans and ITDC-owned Hotel Ashok. The monsoon session of Parliament usually begins in July but because this is a new Lok Sabha, a special session of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will be addressed by the President.
So a green carpet (green is the color associated with Lok Sabha and red is for Rajya Sabha) had been rolled out for the newly elected members to the 16th Lok Sabha.
One just hopes that the new members are committed to vastly differing from the 15th Lok Sabha that's gone down in the record books as the least productive one, with the maximum number of disruptions.