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Estimates Committee (1965-66) B.C. No, <4> ESTIMATES COMMITTEE (1965-66) EIGHTY-SEVENTH REPORT (THIRD LOK SABHA) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS Action taken by Government on the recommendations contained in the Forty-Third Report o f the Estimates Committee (Third Lok Sabha) on the Ministry of Railways—Northeast Frontier Railway LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI November, lMS'Agmhayma, 1887 (Sdkm) Price: Re. I LIST OF AUTHORISED AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF LOK SAB HA SECRETARIAT PUBLICATIONS SL Name of Agent Agency SI. Name oi' Agent Agency No* No. No. N o. ANDHRA PRADESH 13- Deccan Book Stall, Fer- 65 guson College Road, 1. Andhra University General 8 Poona-4. Cooperative Stores Ltd., Waltair (Visakhapatnam).g RAJASTHAN 2. G. R. Lakshmipathy Chetty 94 and Sons, General Mer­ 14. Information Centre, 38 chants and News Agents, Government of Rajasthan, Newpet, Chandragiri, Tripolia, Jaipur City. Chirtoor District. ASSAM UTTAR PRADESH 3. Western Book Depot, Pan 7 15. Swastik Industrial Works, 2 Bazar, Gauhati 59, Holi Street, Meerut City. BIHAR 16. Law Book Company, 48 Sardar Patel Marg, 4. Amar Kitab Ghar, Post 37 Allahabad-1. Bax 78, Diagonal Road, Jamshedpur. WEST BENGAL GUJARAT 17. Granthaloka, 5/ 1, Ambica 10 5. Vijay Stores, Station Road, 3s Mookherjee Road, Belgha- Anand. ria, 24 Parganas. 6. The New Order Book 63 18. W. Newman & Company 44 Company, Ellis Bridge, Ltd., 3, Old Court House Ahmedabad-6 . Street, Calcutta.. 19. Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, &2 MADHYA PRADESH 6/iA j Ranchharsm Akrur Lane, Calcutta-12. 7. Modern Book House, Shiv 13 Vilas Palace, Indore City. DELHI MAHARASHTRA 20. Jain Book Agency, Con- 1 naught Place, New Delhi. 8. M /s Sunderdas Gianchand, 6 601, Girgaum Road, Near 21. Sat Narain& Sons, 3x41, 3 Princess Street, Bombay-2 Mohd. Ali Bazar,* Mot i Gate, Delhi. 9. The International Book 22 House (Private) I.imired, 22. Atma Ram & Sons, Kash- 9 o. Ash Lane, Mahatma mere Gate, Delhi-6. Gandhi Road, Bombay-1. 23. J. M . Jaina & Brothers, xi 10 The International Book 26 Mori Gate, Delhi. Service, Deccan Gymkhana, Poona-4. 24. The Central News Agency, 15 23/90, Connaught Place, ix. Lambert 8t Com- 30 New Delhi. pany, xoi, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Opposite 25. The English Book Store, 20 dock Tower, Fort, 7-L , Connaught Circus, Bombay. New Delhi. 12. The C om m Book House, 60 26. Lakihmi Book Store, 42* 23 Macuti Lane, Raghunath ^MuritijgalMarket, Janpath, D a M S o se t. Ec j u w - i . CONTENTS Composition ov the C o m m i t t e k ......................................................................... (iif) Introduction ........................................................................................................ (v) C hapter I . R e p o r t ......................................................................... 1 C baptka II Recommendations that have been accepted by G o ­ vernment ............................................................... 2 C hapter III Recommendation which the Committee do not desire to pursue in view of the Government’s reply. 55 C hapter IY Recommendation in respect of which reply of Government has not been accepted by the Committee....................................................... 56 Appendices I Extract from the Railway Budget discussion in Lok Sabha on 26th February, 1964 ...................................................... 58 II Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) letter No. 63/Fucl/289/17, dated the 16th April, 1964, to the General Manager, Northeast Frontier R ailw ay.............................................. 59 III Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) letter No. T C 111/3534/63/ Estimates Committee/(3rd Lok Sabha)/1II, dated the 19th March, 1964, to the General Manager Northeast Frontier Railway 61 IV Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) I etter No. TC 111/3534/63/ Estimates Committee-I, dated the 20th March, 1964, to the General Manager, Northeast Frontier Railway . 63 V Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) letter No. TC 111/3534/63/ Estimates Committee-1 V, dated the 25th March, 1964, to General Managers of all Indian Railways .... 65 VI Analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommen­ dations contained in the Forty-Third Report of the Estimates Committee (Third Lok Sabha) . 66 14?7(Aii)LS—I. ESTIMATES COMMITTEE (1965-66) C h a i r m a n Shri Arun Chandra Guha M e m b e r s 2. Shri B hagw at Jha A zad 3. Shri D inen Bhattacharya 4. Shri C. K. Bhattacharyya 5. Shri Brij Raj Singh—Kotah 6. Shri Jagannath Rao Chandriki 7. Shri Chuni Lai 8. Shri R. D harm alingam 9. Shri Digambar Singh Chaudhri 10. Shri Indrajit Gupta 11. Shrimati Jamuna Devi 12. Shri Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar 13. Shri Gauri Shankar Kakkar 14. Shri C. M. Kedaria 15. Shri L. D. Kotoki 16. Shri Narendrasingh Mahida 17. Shri Dwarka Dass Mantri 18. Shri Jaswantraj Mehta 19. Shri Mahesh Dutta Misra 20. Shri Mohan Swarup 21. Chowdhry Ram Sewak 22. Shri B. Rajagopala Rao 23. Shri J. Ramapathi Rao 24. Shri P. G. Sen 25. Shri H. Siddananjappa 26. Shri Nardeo Snatak 27. Shri N. M. R. Subbaraman (iu) 1 4 7 7 < • !) L S — 2. m 28. Shri Raxnachandra Ulaka 29. Shri Vishram Prasad 30. Shri Yudhvir Singh. S e c r e t a r ia t Shri B. B. Tewari —Deputy Secretary. Shri B. K. Mukherjee—Under Secretary. INTRODUCTION 1. the Chairman of the Estimates Committee, having been autho­ rised by the Committee to submit the Report on their behalf, pre­ sent this Eighty-Seventh Report on action taken by Government on the recommendations contained in the Forty-Third Report of the Estimates Committee (Third Lok Sabha) on the Ministry of Rail­ ways—Northeast Frontier Railway. 2. The Forty-Third Report of the Estimates Committee was pre­ sented to the Lok Sabha on the 19th February, 1964. Government furnished replies indicating action taken on the recommendations between the 14th Jtily, 1964 and the 14th September, 1964. Further formation in respect of four recommendations was called for from the Government on the 4th January, 1965, which they furnished bet­ ween the 3rd February, 1965 and the 24th February, 1965. Government’s replies to the recommendations were considered by Study Group ‘D’ of the Estimates Committee (1964-65) on the 23rd April, 1965 and 29th April, 1965. On the 7th August, 1965, Gov­ ernment furnished further information indicating the latest position in respect of recommendation No. 71. The draft Report was adopted by the Committee on the 24th November, 1965. 3. The Report has been divided into the following Chapters:— L Reper II. Recommendations that have been accepted by Government. III. Recommendation which the Committee do not want to pursue in view of Government's reply. IV. Recommendation in respect of which reply of Government has not been accepted by the Committee. 4. An analysis of the action taken by Government on the recom­ mendations contained in the Forty-Third Report (Third Lok Sabha) of the Estimates Committee is given in Appendix VI. It would be observed therefrom that out of 74 recommendations made in the report, 72 recommendations i e , 97*3 per cent., have been accepted (v) (vi) by the Government. The Committee do not desire to pursue one recommendation, i.e., 1*35 per cent, in view of Government's reply. The reply of Government in respect of one recommendation, i.e., 1*35 per cent, has not been accepted by the Committee. N e w D e l h i- 1 ; ARUN CHANDRA GUHA, 27 th November, 1965. Chairman, Agrahayana 6, 1887 ( Saka). Estimates Committee. CHAPTER I REPORT The Estimates Committee are glad to state that the points brought out in their Forty-third Report (Third Lok Sabha) have been replied to by the Government in time and generally to their satisfaction. CHAPTER 1| RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BY GOVERNMENT Recommendation (Serial No. 1) Para Nos. 1—3 The Committee are glad to note that the more important indices of performance and the overall operating-cum-effidency indices hav• shown a progressive improvement on the N.F. Railway and the North Eastern Railway despite the continuous pressure on the N.F. Railway particularly since the onset of the emergency—not to speak of recur­ ring Naga activities. R e p l y o r G o v e r n m e n t Noted. [Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) O.M. No. 64-B(C)-EC/III / 43, dated the 14th July, 1964]. Recommendation (Serial No. 2) Para No. 5 The Committee note that the Railways which generally show a higher rate of expenses to earnings viz., the Northeast Frontier Rail* way, North Eastern Railway and the Southern Railway are either wholly or substantially Metre Gauge Railways. These have inherent­ ly less economic characteristic of working as compared to Broad Gauge Railways. Passenger traffic also generally preponderates on these three zonal railways and passenger traffic contributes less to earnings than freight traffic. The Committee note that the operating ratio, indicating the per­ centage of total working expenses to gross earnings, which had rise* to 141.89 in 1960-61 has been progressively brought down to 123.26 m 1962-63 and is expected to be further reduced to 117.54 in 1963-64. The Committee would, however, like to draw attention to th• study made by the Efficiency Bureau of the ordinary working ex­ penses of the Northeast Frontier Railway and would urge that the Railway should take effective measures to reduce the Workshop and running repair costs of coaching vehicles, effect economy in fuel con• gumption, eliminate loss of coal and other goods in transit and im­ prove the utilisation of diesel engines. They also feel that with the increasing tempo of industrial development of Assam and North 2 » Bengal tend the proposed extension of the Broad Gauge line to Assam, it should be possible for the Railway to effectively bring down the operating ratio and minimise, if not altogether eliminate, the losses on its working.
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