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Eleventh Series, Vol. V II, No. 15 Wednesday, December 11, 1996 Agrahayana 20, 1918 (Saka LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Third Session (Eleventh Lok Sabha) (VoL VII contains Nos. II to 20) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI P rice : Rs* SO. 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 Secretanat 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 Aron Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor (O r ig in a l E n g l is h proceedings in c l u d e d in E n g l is h V e r s io n a n d O r ig in a l H in d i proceedings i n c l u d e d in H in d i V e r s io n w il l b e t r e a t e d a s authoritative a n d n o t t h e translation t h e r e o f] Corrigenda to Lok Sabha Debates (English Version) Wednesday, December, 11, 1996/Agrahay ana 20, 1918 (Sate Col/Line For Read 6/19 Atontc Atomic 50/17 misuser Misuse 1*4/15 35.78 35.70 194/17 984 981 195/12 183.08 183.03 CONTENTS [Eleventh Series , Vol. VII , Third Session 1996/1918 (Saka)] No. 15, Wednesday, December 11, 1996/Agrahayana 20, 1918 (Saka) Subject C olumns ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS : ‘ Starred Questions Nos. 281 - 284 1—-20 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS : Starred Questions Nos. 285 - 300 20— 37 Unstarred Questions Nos. 2729 - 2878 37— 211 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 211—214 MESSAGE FROM RAJYA SABHA 215 COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Third Report — Presented 215 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Eighth Report — Presented 215 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE Action taken Statements — Laid 215— 216 UTTAR PRADESH BUDGET — Presented 217— 218 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 242— 246 (i) Need to release adequate funds for early completion of Kilo dam project in Raigarh district, Madhya Pradesh Shri Nand Kumar Sai 242 (ii) Need for construction of an over-bridge at Gaushala railway crossing in Ghaziabad, U.P. Dr. Ramesh Chand Tomar 242— 243 (iii) Need to expedite completion of Auranga Hydro Reservoir Project in Southern Bihar Shri Dhirendra Agarwal 243 (iv) Need for construction of a foot path on the railway bridge on the river Dilli Borhat and Namrup in Sibsagar district, Assam Shri Bijoy Handique 243— 244 (v) Need for construction of an over-bridge near Shankarpur Gumati on Dawoodnagar-Aurangabad National Highway Shri Virendra Kumar Singh 244 (vi) Need to look into the problems of farmers whose cultivatable land falls beyond barbad wire fencing on Indo-Pak border Shri Major Singh Uboke 245 (vii) Need to provide financial assistance to Government of Bihar for completion of Punpun-Dargl.a-Morehar Irrigation Project Shri Ramashray Prasad Singh 244— 245 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. Subject C olumns (viii) Need to include construction of a road bridge at Chowkighat on National Highway No. 52 in Sonitpur district, Assam in plan outlay Shri Iswar Prasanna Hazarika 245— 246 MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL URDU UNIVERSITY BILL 246— 264 Motion to Consider Prof. Rasa Singh Rawat 246— 252 Shri G.M. Banatwalla 252— 258 Shri Ramashray Prasad Singh 258— 260 Shri Rambahadur Singh 260— 262 Shri Ram Kripal Yadav 262— 264 (Speech unfihished) DISCUSSION UNDER RULE 193 264— 292 Rise in Prices of Essential Comnloditlea Shri Chitta Basu 264— 269 Shrimati Sushma Swaraj 269— 276 Shri Dileep Singh Bhuria 277— 280 Shri Haradhan Roy 280— 284 Shri V.V. Raghavan 284— 286 Shri Prakash Vishwanath Par&njpe 286— 288 Dr. Laxminarayan Pahdey 288— 292 Shri Pinaki Mishra 292 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA strange that this Government is unable to persuade one of the States of our own country to permit us to do Wednesday, December 11, 1996/Agrahayana 20, prospecting and drilling of petroleum crude. Apparently 1918 (Saka) it is because of Article 317A of the Constitution, which. inter alia provides that ; (The Lok Sabha met at Two Minutes Past Eleven of the Clock) "No Act of Parliament in respect of ownership and transfer of land and its resources shall [Mr. Speaker in the Chair] apply to the State of Nagaland unless the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland by a resolution so decides" ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Obviously the Government of Nagaland must have invoked this Article and directed the ONGC to withdraw [English] its operations from the territory. In this context. I would like to know whether an Oil Reserves in Nagaland exploration licence and petroleum mining lease was granted to the ONGC To start with, in 1980-81, the + drilling was started under Rule 5 of the Petroleum and ‘281 SHRI ISWAR PRASANNA HAZARIKA Natural Gas Rules, 1959 framed under the Oil Fields (Regulations and Development) Act. 1948. If that licence SHRI UDDHAB BARMAN . was granted, was it subsequently withdrawn or had the Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state Nagaland Government refused to pass a resolution (a) whether exploration by Oil and Natural Gas permitting the ONGC to continue drilling? What steps is Corporation has resulted in location of proven oil the Government is taking to persuade the State reserves in Nagaland, Government of Nagaland9 (b) if so, estimated quantity of oil and gas reserves MR. SPEAKER : Please frame your question in the State SHRI ISWAR PRASANNA HAZARIKA ; This is the question. What steps is the Government taking to (c) whether ONGC has commenced drilling and persuade the State Government of Nagaland to permit production of crude oil in Nagaland; the ONGC to resume drilling operations in Nagaland9 (d) if so, quantity of oil produced so far; SHRI T.R BAALU ; Mr. Speaker, Sir. the hon: Member (e) whether drilling operations are still continuing; has raised the question connected with those raised by and the Government of Nagaland. On 7.5.94, the Government (f) if so. the details thereof and if not. the reasons of Nagaland had instructed the ONGC to suspend therefor? forthwith the extraction of work till a final decision was taken by the State Government. The Issue raised by the THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF State Government is about the interpretation of Article PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS (SHRI T.R. BAALU) 371A of the Constitution which relates to the ownership (a) Yes, Sir. and transfer of land and its resources Article 371A (b) The reserves as on 1.4.1996 are 2.20 MMt of Oil says and I quote : and 0.64 BCM of Gas. "No Act of Parliament in respect of ownership (c) and (d). ONGC has been producing crude oil/ and transfer of land and its resources shall gas from Champang field in Nagaland since 1980-81. apply to the State of Nagaland unless the However, crude oil production operations in Nagaland Legislative Assembly of Nagaland by a have been suspended w.e.f. 1 1.05.1994 as per the resolution so decides” directive of the State Government and have not yet SHRI ISWAR PRASANNA HAZARIKA I have already resumed. A cumulative production of 1.036 MMt of crude quoted that. oil has been obtained till May 1994. SHRI T.R. BAALU : What is .wrong in quoting it once (e) No, Sir. again? (f) DrilMng operations had to be stopped from SHRI ISWAR PRASANNA HAZARIKA We want a 11.5.1994 due to problems created at various locations reply. in Nagaland from time to time and subsequently as per SHRI T.R. BAALU : We have already sought the the direction of State Government of Nagaland. legal opinion of the Attorney General to this effect. The SHRI ISWAR PRASANNA HAZARIKA : Mr. Speaker, Attorney General says that Article 371A relates only to Sir, when we are faced with a severe shortage in the ownership and transfer of land and its respurces indigenous production of petroleum crude, it is very The Mines and Minerals (Development and Re^ulaKtm Act. 1951 which is applicable to Nagaland does not by the various industries. We are also having storage relate to ownership and transfer ot resources ot land. facilities to store the extracted gases. Therefore, the legislation relating to development SHRI ISWAR PRASANNA HAZARIKA : No, no, gas regulations of mines and minerals will not require is not stored. There is no storage facility. It is being ratification. This is the position. flared. Now the ONQC has, spent Rs. 162 crore by way of What is the Government doing about the Gas ^ investment. We have lost two drilling rigs out of the five Cracker Project to exploit the flared gas? that we had deployed. Out of the five rigs, two have beer damaged and pilfered and we have lost about Rs. SHRI T.R. BAALU : Sir, the question relates to 28 crore We have paid Rs. 33 crore by way of royalty. N agaland. We have spent Rs 2 crore by way of welfare measures MR SPEAKER : Yes, I think so. to construct roads and bridges. In spite of all this The question relates to Nagaland and you cannot coordination, we want to have relationship with the expect him to answpr about Assam. States. The State Government had opted to send a letter on 7.5.94 requesting us to stop the work.

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