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Thirteenth Series, Vol. XXII, No. 10 Thursdn:\liHch 14, 2002 --~.--:\ Pha12una 23, ----'923 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Ninth Session (Thirteenth Lok Sabha) I G;1ZC"'~~~~''3 ~: r-r'~"~(~' ','nit Par i i d ;'1) :. :' 1 L:!,) ~ r.. '. .. ~ :J i n g ROOl:l H.' \·l ·:~:':'5 Block 'G' (Vol. XXII contains Nos. 1 to 10) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price .. Rs 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD G.C. Malhotra Secretary-General Lok Sabha Dr. P.K. Sandhu Joint Secretary P.C. Chaudhary Principal Chief Editor Y.K. Abrol Chief Editor Vandna Trivedi Senior Editor Manisha Tewari Assistant Editor (Original English Proceedings included in English Version and Original f:iindi Pr~ings included in Hindi Version will be treated as authoritative and not the translation thereof. CONTENTS [Thirteenth Series, Vol. XXII, Ninth Session, 200211923 (Saks)] No. 10, Thursday, 118rch 14, 2OO2IPhIIlgune 23, 1823 (Sea) COLlAH> ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS "Starred Question Nos. 162 to 164 1-29 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 165 to 180 30-39 Unstarred Question Nos. 1696 to 1925 ... 39·321 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 321-324 STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Hundred-Fourteenth and Hundred-Fifteenth Reports ... 324 COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS Thirteenth Report ... 324 STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER Current situation in Ayodhya in the wake of Supreme Court Judgement Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 325-327 "The Sign + marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Mulayam Singhji, if you don't listen to me even for two minutes, how will it do? Thursday, March 14, 2OO2IPhalguna 23, 1923 (Saka) SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV : We were told that during the army recruitment drive in Lucknow, 10 boys The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock were killed at the spot and many more have died after having been admitted in the hospital. The boys have [MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER in the Chairj resorted to agitation resulting in damage to property {Translation] and set the roads of Lucknow on fire. Sewer line has collapsed. Kindly name the agency which was reaponalble SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV (Sambhal) : Mr. for it. A probe should be held Into It and action ahouId Deputy Speaker, Sir, call the Prime Minister and ask him be taken against the person held responatble for to make a Statement. .. .(Interruptions) the tragedy whether it is Minister of Urban Development or some engineer or a contractor or any Minister. of the [English] State. MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Let us have the question [English1 Hour. According to today's Revised List of Business, the MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Shrl Valko, please take your Prime Minister will make a Statement at 12 0' clock. The seat. Prime Minister is held up In the other House. (lnterruptKJns) (Interruptions) MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Shri Mulayam Singh, you {Translation] can take it up during Zero Hour. Please let the Question Hour go on. SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV : Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, approximately 50 boys who had gone at recruitment (Interruptions) center for recruitment in the Army at Lucknow, have been killed due to the collapse of sewer line ... .(lnterruptions) MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Shri Mulayam Singh, I will hear you. COL. (RETD.) SON A RAM CHAUDHARY (Barmer) : (Interruptions) Mulayam Singh ii, please give us also an opportunity to speak. (Interruptions) {Translation] SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV : I am also speaking. SHRI KIRIT SOMAIYA (Mumbai North East) : What .. (lnterruptions) You sit down ... .(lnterruptions) How can objection does he has over the Question Hour. ~u ask me to sit down ... (lnterruptions) who are you (Interruptions) • to ask me to sit ... (lnterruptions) You resume your seat. {English] . (Interruptions) MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Shri Mulayam Singh, please {English] ask your Members to take their seats. SHRI PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSI (Raiganj) : Mr. (Interruptions) Deputy, Speaker, Sir, my only appeal to you is that, as a special case, if Members want to seek any clarification MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Shri MuIayMI Singh, I am they should be allowed to do so after the Prime Minister telling you pie... let the Question Hour function. The Prime makes the Statement. .. (Interruptions) Minister is coming. {Translation] (Interruptions) {Translation] SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV : We have got an information right now that 50 boys have been killed in MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Mulay.m Singh ii, han. Lucknow due to the collapse of sewer line. Prime Minister Is in R.iya Sabha, he cannot come here (Interruptions) now. He is coming at 12 o'clock to make a Statement Muiayam Singhii, you pIeue sit down. SHRI RAGHUNATH JHA (GopaIganj) : Your keep on supporting Congress. (Interruptions) (lnterruptioM) 3 MARCH 14, 2002 4 {English] [Translation] MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : The hon. Prime Minister is SHRI AVTAR SINGH BHADANA (Meerut) : Mr. Deputy coming and making a Statement. In the List of Business, Speaker, Sir. unless the han. Minister of Defence comes you can see it. clear of the accusation levelled against him, no one will ask question from him ... (Interruptions) (Interruptions) THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : The hon. Prime Minister is MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION coming and making a Statement at Twelve of the Clock, TECHNOLOGY (SHRI PJ;IAMOD MAHAJAN) : The han. Please help me to conduct the Business of the House. Members of your party ,has asked the Question in (Interruptions) Rajasthan. .(Interruptions) [Translation] SHRI PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSI : It will not be so in Lok Sabha ... (lnterruptions) SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV: Mr. Deputy. Speaker. Sir. if you seat we will have to sit. You please remain in {English] the Chair... (lnterruptions) SHRI VAlKO (Sivakasi): Why should they deny the right MR. DEPUTY·SPEAKER : Han. Prime Minister is of the han. Member to put Question? .. (lnterruptions) coming after the question Hour. {Translation] (Interruptions) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF {English] DEFENCE PRODUCTION AND SUPPLIES OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (SHRI HARIN PATHAK) : Mr. SHRI SOMNATH CHATTERJEE (Bolpur) : This is a Deputy Speaker. Sir. he is saying a wrong thing. serious matter. Let them say something. (Interruptions) MR. DEPUTY·SPEAKER : We can take it up during {English] Zero Hour. MR. DEPUTY·SPEAKER : Shri Harin Pathak. you are (Interruptions) a Minister now. [Translation] SHRI VAlKO: The hon. Prime Minister is in Rajya KUNWAR AKHILESH SINGH (Maharajganj. U.P.) : Mr. Sabha. (Interruptions) Deputy Speaker. Sir. 50 young persons lost their lives in [Translation] the constituency of the han Prime Minister. (Interruptions) SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR (Ballia, U.P.) : Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a submiSSion to make before you. {English] Since yesterday the tempers are running high over MR. DEPUTY·SPEAKER : The hon. Prime Minister will that Question. It the hon. Prime Minister makes a come for making a Statement at Twelve of the Clock. He Statement earlier. nothing introward will happen. is in the Upper House. How can he be present here as (Interruptions) well as in the Upper House at the same time? SHRIMATI BHAVNABEN DEVRAJBHAI CHIKHALIA (Interruptions) (Junagarh) : Mr. Deputy Speaker. Sir•.. (lntelTUptions) MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Q.No.161 - Shri Avtar Singh {English] Bhadana. MR. DEPUTY·SPEAKER : I know it, let me regulate (Interruptions) the House. I am conducting the House. MR. DEPUTY·SPEAKER : Shri Bhadena. you just (Interruptions) mention your Question number. MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER : Please let him complete (Interruptions) it. 5 PHALGUNA 23, 1923 (Saka) 6 {Translation] O. 161 - Shri Avtar Singh Bhadana. SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR : This way the entire (Interrupt;ons) Question Hour will get disturbed. It can be finished within 15 minutes to half an Hour. If you want to adjourn the MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Do you not want to ask the Question Hour for full and also adjourn the House then Question ? it is right. If it behaves as the parliamentarians then let (Interruptions) it be so... (lnterruptions) Now nothing will happen by your speaking on it. If you can make noise and create SHRI AVTAR SINGH BHADANA (Meerut) : No. disturbances then they can be more noisy than you and (Interruptions) you are free to do so and it will further disturb the House. If you want then let a competition be there in this regard. (Question No. 161 was withdrawn by the hon. Secondly. Shri Mulayam Singh raised the Question that 50 Member) boys were killed due to sewer collapse ... (lnterruptions) Young boys had arrived to participate in the recruitment MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : 0.162. drive of the army. Now the boys have resorted to agitation (Interruptions) and arson. If it continues further whether this will be raised in the House or not. It is upto you to decide and pass {Translation] this message to the Government that they should not make it a prestige issue. 11.12 hrs. MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Chandra Shekha~i. I have At this stage Kunwar Akhllesh Singh and some already said that the hon. Prime Minister is in Rajya Sabha. other hon. Members stood on the floor nHr He is to make a statement after the Question Hour. the table of the House He will come, I told him. Besides. the second matter {English] raised by him will be taken up during the Zero Hour after the Question Hour. There is no doubt that it is a very MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Please go to your seats. Do important Question. You let the Question Hour to proceed, not disturb like this. you can raise it afterwards. (Interruptions) SHRI MULAYAM SINGH YADAV : Why are you getting MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Switch off angry ? the cuwru.. MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Why should not I be angry ? (Interruptions) SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR : Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER : Shri Girdhari Lal Bhargava. my submission is that the hon.