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Agrahayarui 25, tS,iLnI1) 18 LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Third Session (Eleventh I,ok Sabha) (Vol. I'll contains Nos. II to 20) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price Rs. 50 00 EDITORIAL BOARD Shri S. Gopalan Secretary-General Lok Sabha Shri Surendra Mishra Additional Secretary Lok Sabha Secretariat Shrimati Reva Nayyar Joint Secretary Lok Sabha Secretariat Shri P.C. Bhatt Chief Editor Lok Sabha Secretariat Shri A. P. Chakravarti Senior Editor Shrimati Kamla Sharma Shri P.K. Sharma Editor Editor Shri P.L. Bamrara Shri J.B.S. Rawat Shrimati Lalita Arora Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor E n g lish proceedings in c l u d e d in E n g l ish V e r sio n a n d O r ig in a l H in d i proceedings in c l u d e d in H in di VILI BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND NOT THE TRANSLATION THEREOF] Corrigenda to Lok Sabha Debates (English Version) Monday, December 16, 1996/Agrahayana 1918 (Saka) ■pQl / L.lQ.Q R e a d 16/27 After Sir, add 11’ 16/20 could be could he 16/25 no not 17/20 (from below) Sh. Shivraj Singh Chauhan Shri Shivraj Singh Qb/2 Shri Prem Singh Prof. Prem Singh Chandumajra Clianduma j ra 2Qh/5 (from below) Sh. Dhanush Kodi S Ixr i R. D hanu s hk od i - Athithan R. At hi. than 208/17(from below)Delete "(Tindivanam)" 221/21 Shri Vi jay Kumar Goel Sr r i V ijay Goel 225/23 Shri Sushma Swaraj Shrimati Sushma Swar 230/2b 2 ' Delete "Re" 2 ^ 0 A 2 552 A After it adfi "is" 313/1 Delete "19.00 hrs." 313/5 Mr. Chairman Mr. Chairman (Smt, Geeta Mukherjee) CONTENTS IEleventh Series, Vol. VII, Third Session 1996.1918 (Saka)] No 18, Monday. December 16, 1996/Agrahayana 25. 1918 (Sakai Cot UMNS izNCE BY SPEAKER Commemoration of Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Liberation Day of Bangladesh JSWERS TO QUESTIONS : .tarred Questions Nos 341, 345. 347 and 351 3— 23 >l ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ; arred Questions Nos. 342 to 344. 346, 348 to 350 and 352 to 360 23— 45 1 nstarred Questions Nos. 3285 - 3517 45—208 iZh6 LAID ON THE TABLE BILL — Introduced 208— ? M (i) Rice-Milling Industry (Regulation) Repeal Bill 2 1 4 - 2 1 1 (ii) Sugar Export Promotion (Repeal) Bill 2 I f: RE PAPERS RELATING TO INDIA’S STAND ON WTO MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE AT SINGAPORE 2 1 5 - 217 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 237— 241 (i) Need for construction of a bye-pass at Kuju on National Highway No. 33 in Hazaribagh district, Bihar Shri Mahabir Lai Bishvakarma (ii) Need to set up a bench of High Court in Saurashtra region Shri Ratilal Kalidas Verma 238 (in) Need to set up biosphere centres in National parks to protect tigers Shri K.P. Singh Deo 238— 23! (iv) Need to take up the matter re construction of dams on rivers flowing down to Bihar from Nepal with the Nepalese Government Shri Nawal Kishore Rai 239 (v) Need to lay a new railway line between Ariyalur and Salem in Tamil Nadu Shri A. Raja 239— 240 (vi) Need to include Sakri Reservoir Project of Bihar in Ninth Five Year Plan and release adequate funds tor its completion Shri Ramendra Kumar 240 (vii) Need to open more post offices in Erandol Parliamentary Constituency Maharashtra Shri Annasahib M.K. Patil 240 (vui) Need to provide economic package to Himachal Pradesh on the lines of one provided to North Eastern States Shri K.D. Sultanpuri 240— 241 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. S u b je c t C olum ns DISCUSSION UNDER RULE 193 241—261, 267—304, 304—313 (i) Rise in Prices of Essential Commodities Shri Devendra Prasad Yadav 241—258 (ii) India’s Stand on Singapore Declaration of World Trade Organisation Shri Srikanta Jena 267—271 Shri Ramendra Kumar 271—273 Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 274—284 Dr. Debi Prosad Pal 284—288 Shri George Fernandes 289—296 Shri Rupchand Pal 296—300 Shri C. Narayana Swamy 300—304 Shri Shatrughan Prasad Singh 304—307 Shri Chitta Basu 307—309 Lt. General Shri Prakash Mani Tripathi 309—313 MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL URDU UNIVERSITY BILL 262—286 Motion to Consider Shri D.S.A. Sivaprakasam 262—263 Shri Shivanand H. Kougalgi 264 Shri Chaman Lai Gupta 264—265 Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar 265 Shri Satya Pal Jain 265—266 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ninth Report — Presented 304 ARREST AND REMAND OF MEMBER 313—314 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA SHRI NIRMAL KANTI CHATTERJEE . Why is it that no Statement is here? Monday ; December 16, 1996/Agrahayana 25, MR. SPEAKER : The Government’s stand will be 1918 (Saka) there in the Statement. I will see that these are made (The Lok Sabha met at Four Minutes Past available to the Members. Eleven of the Clock) SHRI NIRMAL KANTI CHATTERJEE : We wanted to (M r. S peaker in the Chair] have the authenticated speeches made by our members there Why they cannot be made available to us? MR. SPEAKER : I will see to it. [English] SHRI SAT MAHAJAN : Where is the Leader of the House or the Prime Minister? Who is gong to answer SHRI NIRMAL KANT! CHATTERJEE (Dumdum) : it9 Sir, it was promised to us that the statement of the Commerce Minister in the Singapore Conference would MR. SPEAKER : Today is the Twenty Fifth Liberation be given to us. Nothing has been sent to us at our Day of Bangladesh. home. Today, on our seats we find here only the Draft SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA : You may speak in of the Singapore Ministerial Declaration.. (Interruptions) Bengali. Sir. The papers about which we mentioned in our speeches on that day are not here... (Interruptions) Unless the 11.05 hrs. papers are here, how do we discuss it9 ...(Interruptions) COMMEMORATION OF TWENTY-FIFTH [Translation] ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION DAY OF SHRI RAM NAGINA MISHRA (Padrauna) : Mr. BANGLADESH Speaker, Sir, I have given notice to suspend the Question Hour. The Government of Uttar Pradesh has fixed the [English] prices of sugarcane at the rate of Rs.72 per qumtal. The *MR. SPEAKER : Hon. Members, today is thq.Twenty Allahabad High Court has given a stay when the Mill Fifth Liberation Day of Bangladesh. Today we are Association appealed before it ...(Interruptions) reminded of the historic event of the joint action by the MR. SPEAKER : You give the notice. I will see. Bangladesh freedom fighters and the Indian Armed (Interruptions) Forces which resulted in the emergence of an independent sovereign state of Bangladesh. The SHRI RAM NAGINA MISHRA : It is an important services rendered by our Army, Navy, Air Force and the issue. The High Court has ordered that the State Border Security Force during this event were truly Government has no right to fix the prices of sugarcane consistent with their great traditions. The people ot India ...(Interruptions) will always recall with great pride and gratitude the MR. SPEAKER : Okey, you give the notice, I will sacrifice of those who had la*d down their lives. see Respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, SHRI RAM NAGINA MISHRA : We have given a peaceful co-existence and non-alignment, adherence notice to suspend the Question Hours. The plight of the to democratic values and human rights are the basic farmers in UP is very misrabte Whatever prices of tenets which both countries profess and practise. It is sugarcane are fixed by the Government, have to be indeed this common ground which guides the friendly paid to the farmers ...(Interruptions) and good neighbourly relations between the two countries. [English] I am sure, the House will join me in commemorating SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA (Bankura) : How can the event on this day of its silver jubilee and in conveying we participate in the discussion without all those papers? its greetings to the people, Parliament and Government of Bangladesh. SHRI RUPCHAND PAL (Hooghly) : Sir, you had assured us that by Saturday evening we would get all the papers. SHRI SAT MAHAJAN (Kangra) : Sir, the Leader of [English] the House is not here. The Prime Minister is not here. SHRI NIRMAL KANTI CHATTERJEE (Dumdum) SHRI SONTOSH MOHAN DEV (Silchar) : When I What is your ruling on this? first came to the House, I saw on my table a Statement MR. SPEAKER : Since it is coming up at four of the Minister along with the Declaration. Those papers o’clock, after the Question Hour I will ask the have ultimately been withdrawn from the table. This Government to give all the material. problem will be solved if those papers are made available to us. * Translation of the Speech originally delivered in Bengali. SHRI PC. CHACKO (Mukundapuram) : Sir, the reservoirs constructed in the country from the year prisoners of war are languishing in Pakistan jails. When 1991 till October 1996 alongwith the irrigation they are celebrating this victory day - when Parliament capacity generated as a result thereof, State-wise and is commemorating this occasion - I would like to bring year-wise; to your notice that more than 40 prisoners of war have (b) the position regarding the clearance of the been captured by the Pakistani Army. What is happening proposal for construction of the Narmada Sagar Dam now? Even today ...(Interruptions) on Narmada river as National project and financial and [Translation] other assistance sought therefore and the reasons for delay in the clearance of the project; and SHRI RAM NAGINA MISHRA : Mr.