3085 Resolution re. [6 DEC. 1968] Development of Calcutta 3086 the constitutional and legal position of the Patil, Shri P. S. Patra, Shri N. police in , with particuluar reference Punnaiah, Shri Kota. Purkayastha, to— Shri M. Reddy, Shri Y. (i) the status, duties and powers of Adinarayana Satyavati Dang, the police and the nature and extent of Shrimati. Shukla, Shri M. P. control of Government over their Siddalingaya, Shri T. Singh, Shri functioning under the provisions of the Dalpat. Singh, Shri T. N. Sinha, Constitution and the criminal law ; Shri B.K.P. Sinha, Shri R. B. (ii) the spheres of responsibility of Upadhyaya, Shri S. D. Usha Government and the police in the Barthakur, Shrimati. Varma, Shri performance of police functions ; and having regard to the experience gained of C. L. the functioning of the police under the law The motion was negatived. and the Constitution, to report on the changes, if any, necessary in the law with a THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR view to effectively helping in the ALI KHAN) : Mr. Bhargava's Resolution is preservation of the rule of law and the lost. Now we go on to the next Resolution. efficient and impartial performance of police functions, and ensuring uniformity in standards throughout the country." The House divided : Ayes—14; Noes—27. RESOLUTION RE DEVELOPMENT OF AYES—14 CALCUTTA Basu, Shri Chitta. Bhandari, Shri SHRI CHITTA BASU (West Ben-bal) : Sundar Singh. Bhargava, Shri M. P. Mr. Vice-Chairman, Sir,... Chatterjee, Shri A. P. Kesavan (Thazhava), Shri. Mandal, Shri B. N. Misra, Shri Lokanath. Mohta, Shri M. K. Panda, Shri Brahmananda. Patel, Shri Sundar Mani. Pitamber Das, Shri. Rajnarain, Shri. Thengari, Shri D. Varma, Shri Niranjan. NOES—27 Abid Ali, Shri.

Appan, Shri G. A. THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR Chavda, Shri K. S. ALI KHAN) : I did not expect such an advice Chengalvaroyan, Shri T. from an experienced parliamentarian like you. Dharia, Shri M. M. Hussain, Shri Syed. Khaitan, Shri R. P. Kulkarni, Shri A. G. Lalitha (Rajagopalan), Shrimati. Mangladevi Talwar, Dr. (Mrs.). SHRI CHITTA BASU : With your Mehta, Shri Om permission I beg to move : Neki Ram, Shri. "This House is of opinion that in view of the national, political, cultural and economic importance of the city of Calcutta, its development should immediately be taken up as. a national problem." 3087 Resolution re. [] Development of Calcutta 3088

[Shri Chitta Basu] I of our country like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Vidyasagar, Kesabchandra Sen, Swami Mr. Vice-Chairman, when I move this Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Resolution, I am prompted not by any feeling Jagadish Chandra Bose, Acharya Prafulla of parochialism, regionalism or localism or Chandra Ray, Netaji , even from any sectarian point of view. As I Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Dr. Rajendra belong to Calcutta and the State of West Prasad, Dr. C. V. Raman, Maulana Abul Bengal, it may be the impression of many Kalam Azad, even J. B. S. Hal-dane and a host friends of this august House that I am interested of others. I think you will agree with me that if in that particular city because of my I go on reading the names, it will be association with it. Mr. Vice-Chairman, Sir, inexhaustible and I will be doing great therefore at the outset I want to place before injustice. Therefore, I desist from mentioning this august House that Calcutta is the city of all those great personalities who have the nation; Calcutta does not belong only to contributed, by their genius, to the remoulding WesE Bengal. {Interruptions) As I was stat- and reshaping of our country. ing, my feeling is—and that is a sincere feeling—that Calcutta does not belong to In this connection, I also beg to recall to alone but Calcutta belongs to the memory the history of the great city of nation, and therefore it has to be discussed in Calcutta. As you know, this' city of Calcutta, the background of the national interests. As about 250 years ago, was established by Job a matter of fact, Mr. Vice-Chairman, a very Charnock on a tiny plot of land, 5000 acres in important person of our country has area, with a population of only 1,50,000. It was written a book which is entitled a I small and tiny trading centre for the British, 'Calcutta—India's City'. This book is for the East India Company. Today, after 250 written by Mr. , former years, Calcutta has grown into a big metropolis Registrar General of the country. That means sprawling over an area of 40 square miles, Calcutta belongs to the nation; Calcutta does having a population of 7 million. Calcutta is not belong to West Bengal alone. Therefore, if second only to Tokyo, London or New York. Calcutta dies, it is not West Bengal alone that dies. It is India that dies. My endeavour will be SHRI B. T. KEMPARAJ (Mysore): What to introduce Calcutta to 'Ais august House as about Bangalore? representing the supreme sovereignty of the people and the nation. With this SHRI CHITTA BASU: It is also. I am not going into it in competition, but only in perspective in view, my endeavour will be to comparison. introduce the great city of Calcutta to this august House in all its splendid and magnifl- SHRI B. T. KEMPARAJ : Hyderabad. cient traditions, in all its rich wealth and also SHRI CHITTA BASU : Yes, all of them. with its appalling poverty and with its too Again, at the very outset I said that the great prolonged and too many ailments that she is city of Calcutta belongs not to West Bengal suffering from today. This House, I am alone, but to the nation as a whole. How does confident, cannot afford to forget the great ir belong to the nation? I want to give very role the city of Calcutta played in shaping the briefly certain facts in favour of that destiny of modern India. I also believe that this comment) of mine. I quote from a very reliable House cannot afford to forget the fact that this survey report conducted by the Calcutta great city of Calcutta cradled and reared up University. In that report it has been stated many of the best sons and daughters not only of that in the year 1951 only 65 per cent of the Bengal, but of the country as well. History has population of 4.6 million in the city's it that Calcutta reared up many a philosopher, industrial region or 2.55 million claimed many a scientist, many a politician and many Bengali as their mother tongue. That means a a statesman of this great country of ours. large part of the city's population in the Calcutta has the rarest distinction of cradling industrial region did not claim their language and rearing up national personalities, important or mother-tongue to be Bengali. personalities, whose names also I want to refer to, if not at great length. She has SHRI B. T. KEMPARAJ : No popular the rarest distinction of rearing | up Government is there. personalities, leaders and great men 3089 Resolution re [6 DEC 1968] Development of Calcutta 3090

SHRI CHITTA BASU : You will have and hearths of millions and millions of people your chance. I am not speaking about ihe of rural India. When I say this, I say this Government now. What is that? Ask him to... according to a figure available with me from the Government sources —I can also cite the THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR source. From the Calcutta Postal Region in the ALI KHAN) : Please continue. year 1960-61 about Rs. 276 million, roughly Rs. 28 crores, were sent to different parts of the country by money orders. That means that by money orders payments were made to different parts of India and with that money SHRI CHITTA BASU : I am stating they could maintain their living. When this is certain facts. It does not concern this the figure for Calcutta, let me take the Government or that Government. If he wants opportunity of quoting the figures for other to learn something, certainly let him ask me big cities of our country— not with any sense to the fullest possible extent. of animosity or any kind of ill-feeling against anybody in this country. Calcutta's figure is SHRI LOKANATH MISRA (Orissa) : Rs. 276 million. Bombay's figure is Rs. 231 Not through a speech. mil-Ion. For Delhi which is the capital of the SHRI CHITTA BASU : I leave it to you. I was countrj', it is only Rs. 77 million. Madras, Rs. saying that 75 per cent, of the population of the 69 million. By this it is proved beyond doubt city proper, Calcutta proper, claimed different that a large number of people go to Calcutta, languages. As far as I am concerned, 25 per toil there, labour there, work there, earn their cent of the population claim Hindi and Urdu as living, and that living lights the fire of the their mother-longue. The remaining percentage hearths and homes in the villages of all the of the population claim the various other States—I have got the figures to say that none languages referred to in our Constitution. That of the States is left from that. means Calcutta is not only the city of Bengali- speaking people. Calcutta is the city of people Mr. Vice-Chairman, Calcutta is a very speaking fourteen or fifteen languages, even important industrial centre of our country. languages which have not found a place in the When I say that, I rely on certain figures. I Constitution of the country. It is inhabited by have got a certain book published by the them also. Therefore, Calcutta belongs not FICCI, Federation of Indian Chambers of only to the Bengali-speaking people, but also to Commerce and Industry—centrally reliable. the people of the various parts of this gTeat According to the figures given by that country of ours. I think you will agree with me particular book—I possess that book with me, when I say that money and learning do not I will quote from it— it says that until 1935-36 know any frontier. You will also agree with over half of India's joint stock companies me that work also has no barriers. In this engaged in manufacturing, tea plantation and respect Calcutta has attained a unique coalmining industries were located in the State Indianness. This surely is an example in of West Bengal and it accounted for over 55 practice, in concrete terms, of the realisation of per cent of the total paid-up capital in large- the cherished goal of ours, namely, emotional scale industries of the country. Again, in this respect may I submit respectfully that a greater 3 P.M. integration. Emotional integration you speak of in the Integration Council. Emotional part of the entrepreneurial talents and the integration you speak of on the floor of capital came from the States outside Bengal. I Parliament. Emotional integration we, j the also wan: to quote certain figures to show people of Calcutta, have achieved during our what even in the year 1960-61 was the time through our tears, through our toil, industrial growth in that State. The figures are through our work, , through living together in in respect of the paid-up capital of joint stock harmony and j amity. companies relating to manufacturing, tea plantation and coalmining industries Mr. Vice-Chairman, I am also tempted to registered and at work in West Bengal and give a single figure to show how | Calcutta India. For the year 1960-61, it is said that lights the fire in the homes there are 5300 enterprises and the total amount of paid-up capital is Rs. 24,533 lakhs, 3091 Resolution re [ RAJYA SABHA ] Development of Calcutta 3092

[Shri Chitta Basu] ! Calcutta handles 30 per cent of the j while the all-India figure is Rs. 114,691 lakhs. country's bank clearances. Calcutta I That certainly goes to prove thai about 50 per again, Mr. Vice-Chairman, contributes very cent of the industrial aclr vity is concentrated largely to the Central coffers by way of in Wes; Bengal anc Calcutta—that industrial income-tax, by way of customs duties, and activity has centred round Calcutta which is a only a little portion of it is sent back to the very important place in the industrial map of State for continuance I of the industrial the country. activity, for the continuance of the increase in the living conditions of the people of Let us have a glance at the Calcutta. When the time comes, I will prove by manufacture of our country as a figures how injustice has been done to Bengal whole and the share of West Benga] and and Calcutta, by figures available from Calcutta. In this particular brochure Government sources. published by the FICCI, it is stated that West Bengal however continues to account for ' Sir, again, the gay Calcutta has got | a port, a large share of the national production. the Calcutta Port. This Calcutta Port is not For instance, the State's share in the total only the nation's door through which either production of jute goods in India in 1963 we have to 'export or perish' which has been was about' 95 per cent—Mr. Vice-Chairman, I the slogan or the catch-word of the want your attention to these—finished steel 30 Government, this Calcutta Port is the great per cent; enamel ware 70 per cent; soap 31 door for export; not only is it a great door for per cent; whitewares (crockery) more the export of our merchandise or our than 50 per cent; razor blades 92 per cent; commodities, but it is also a great window to coal 29 per cent; tea 25 per cent; electric fans look beyond our borders, to see and look 87 per cent; radio receivers 31 Der cent; around the world. And in this connection. . . paints and varnishes 49 per cent; sewing SHRI BRAHMANANDA PANDA machines 80 per cent; rubber footwear 74 per (Orissa) : Do you also import something? cent; electric lamps 56 per cent; paper and paper boards 21 per cent; railway wagons 78 SHRI LOKANATH MISRA : Mr. per cent. While this is so, what has been the Chatterjee will look to China all the time actual treatment meted out to this industrial through that. growth—when I mean industrial growth, I mean industrial growth centring round SHRI CHITTA BASU : When I said, "It Calcutta? According to the figures is a window", it means that we look at the available with me it is found that West Bengal world through the window of Calcutta. I do does not get its due share from the Central not look to Peking or Moscow, I look around Government. How do I say this? The figure is the world. In view of the importance of the with me to show that in the year 1963-64 Port of Calcutta, I am tempted to quote from West Bengal received only 11.5 per cent of the proceedings of the First National the copper requirements, 7.5 per cent of the Conference on Shipping, Shipbuilding and zinc requirements; 10.5 per cent of the tin Ports, 1967. The latest figure is available requirements, and 2.3 per cent of lead. While here. With your indulgence, I quote.. . West Bengal contributes very largely towards manufacture, these very important THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI raw materials which are needed for the AKBAR ALI KHAN) : You have already industrial growth and maintenance of taken 25 minutes. industrial activity are not being given fully SHRI CHITTA BASU : I will require from the Centre, and the percentage figure more time. is as low as 2 per cent in certain cases. Mr. Vice-Chairman, you will appreciate that. This THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI city of Calcutta, has got a very big AKBAR ALI KHAN) : Half an hour you commercial importance. I have got also figures will get. to quote—I limit myself to quoting only one SHRI CHITTA BASU : Sir, You give me figure. There are a large number of banks, more time. I will appeal to you. insurance companies and a large number of commercial enterprises and commercial units. THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI Only in the case of banks it has been found AKBAR ALI KHAN) : You have got five that minutes. 3093 Resolution re [6 DEC I968] Development of Calcutta 3094

SHRI CHITTA BASU: No, 15 minutes. University College of Sciences, the Bose Research Institute, the Viswa-Bharati of Kavi THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI AKBAR Guru Rabindranath Tagore. In this ALI KHAN): Ten minutes all right. connection, I also like to mention that I do not know whether the present Prime Minister of SHRI CHITTA BASU : Give me 15 our country does feel a sense of belonging to minutes because I am not speaking anything Visva-Bharati. But we are proud that she is irrelevant. If I say anything irrelevant, then also a student of that Great institution of Poet stop me. Gurudev. Again, we have got institutions like 'The Amrita Bazar Patrika', 'The Hindustan In that Report, it is stated : Standard', The Statesman' and the 'Modern Review' which are not only of Calcutta and "The hinterland of the Port includes the Bengal, but which also belong to the nation as States of West Bengal, Assam, , a whole. Therefore, I am to say that this Orissa, almost the whole of Uttar Pradesh, part of Madhya Pradesh, Nepal, Sikkim and Calcutta belongs to the nation and when it Bhutan, covering an area of about half a belongs to the nation, it has got two million square miles with a population of prolonged ailments from which it suffers. about 200 million. In this extensive area And if this Parliament is concerned about are located the rich coal and ore mines in restoring the health of the nation, it cannot do the country and the well-established tea that unless it is determined to remove the ills, and jute industries, steel plants and other maladies and ailments in the body of Calcutta. large and medium scale industries. The My attempt would be to list certain ailments region is also known for its agricultural or illnesses or maladies from which we suffer. wealth. These natural advantages and its geographical location give the Port of Mr. Vice-Chairman, before going in detail Calcutta its opportunity to handle about into the ailments, I simply refer to certain 41% of the total value of exports and 28% aspects of them. We have got the problem of of the total value of imports of the country. drinking water even in the year 1968. There Its two-way traffic potential is an added is the problem of transport, there is the attraction to shipping from all corners of problem of sewers and drainage. There is the the world." problem of education, the problem of un- employment, the problem of housing and the That means that the Port of Calcutta is not problem of health. I do not know whether I the Port of Bengal alone, it is the Port of a will be able to discuss in great detail the very large part of India, and beyond India, problem... Sikkim and Bhutan. Therefore, I again say (Time bell rings) that Calcutta belongs to the nation, Calcutta does not belong to West Bengal alone. THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR ALI KHAN) : Half an hour. Mr. Vice-Chairman, since you have SHRI CHITTA BASU : Another 15 minutes reminded me about time, I will certainly try to I wanted. be very brief. Calcutta bas got its cultural THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI AKBAR aspects also in addition to what I have already ALI KHAN) : There are other people also. said regarding its commercial importance, industrial importance, and the importance of SHRI CHITTA BASU : You have to know the question of the national and emotional Calcutta. Unless you know Calcutta, how can integration. This City of Calcutta is endowed vou tackle its problems? I think you will agree with a number of scientific and technical and with me. research bodies and a number of universities which are reallv temnles of learning drawing countless scholars not only from the different parts of the country but al<;o from the world outside. We are really verv proud of its SHRI CHITTA BASU : I do crave your academic life with its 5—40 R Sf68 indulgence on this occasion because vou have to know Calcutta .as the 3095 Resolution re [ RAJYA SABHA ] Development of Calcutta 3096

[Shri Chitta Basu] Sir, this is what is Calcutta. We have no water nation's city. You are not to see Calcutta from to quench our thirst And this is so even after Hyderabad or from that very, very glorious 21 years of freedom. Mind you, it is a city and Chair. As I said earlier, my object is to not a village, a city which is second only to introduce Calcutta in a new way to this great London. There is no provision for j drinking House. Therefore, let the Members of the water for about GO per cent, of the population. House know Calcutta and if they know Please note. Calcutta, then they will give their opinions about the demand which I place before them. Mr. Vice-Chairman, then I refer to some problems of transport. You will note that four SHRI BRAHMANANDA PANDA : He is lakhs oi' people daily come to Calcutta through talking of Calcutta of the disciplined part, not and Sealdah stations. They go back the indisciplined part. from Calcutta afler the day's work. In a survey SHRI CHITTA BASU : Coming to it has been found lhat about 10 lakhs travel drinking, I think it is the minimum essential of daily by the trams, another 15 lakhs by bu^es. life. But it is shameful that even today 60 per You will be astonished to learn, if you bave cent, of the people of Calcutta do not get any experience o'' Calcutta's traffic problem, adequate protected water to drink. According that a tram car, which ha- got a capacity of 65, to a survey published in The Hindustan Times' carries invariably 165 passen-| gers. A bus on the 10th June, sixty per cent, of the city's with a capacity ol" 45 curries 100 passengers. population get less than ten gallons of water This is what is Calcutta. per head per day as against the minimum requirement of 50 gillons. Mr. Vice-Chairman, Sir. there are about 10.03,967 licensed in 16 Municipal and 14 non-Municipal towns vehicles including 815 Government buses, around Calcutta, there is no arrangement for 410 Irams. 80.000 motor cars and thousands the supply of protected water. In this of rickshaws and flielas. 1 do not know how connection, Mr. Vice-Chairman, I beg to refer to express what is a th el a and n rickshaw. to the report of the World Health Organisation Bui this primitive form of transport is also Consultant Team which was invited by the found in r;ilcutta. Government of West Bengal. They visited Calcutta some years ago. I am searching for it Comine to suburban railways, here I in my bag because these things have to be would like to compare Bombay with searched out for refreshing the memory of the Calcutta. In the year 1950-51. the number of Government. The Team says : passengers carried by the Bombav suburban "The provision of filtered or otherwise railways was 29 crores and 4 Iakh-. Tt safe drinking water is inadequate to a increased to 4? crores in 1960-61. Rut in serious degree and has been so far many Calcutta it was 3 crores 9 lakhs which years. Because of this inadeauacv. hundreds 'ncrease to 6 crores in 1960-61. The solution of thousands of people are driven to a of this i^r'-ifK |VT(T|C problem i rf»

SHRI CHITTA BASU: It is 4,45,673 registered. Among the educated unemployed matriculates account tor 76,000, Higher Secondary passed for 54,000, graduates for 8,380 and postgraduates ccme to 713. I can give so many figures. But I have got figures to show that annually 54,000"peoples well the army ol the unemployed in the city ilone. And what is the per capita income of the city population? Calcutta has got an annual per capita income of only Rs. 811, while that of Bombay is Rs. THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI AKBAR 1,180 and Delhi's Rs. 872. In this onnection. AU KHAN.) : You see, Mr. Basu, how you Mr. Vice-Chairman, I should ilso like to refer put the Chair in difficulty. You do not to a particular news 'lem published in a understand that. You want more time. It foreign journal, the 'New York Times', There it means others suffer. You can take time while has been said that "Calcutta is a city of many you answer. Now 1 am not giving you more disasters. than four minutes. You have already taken 42 minutes. Three minutes more. Now before concluding. I would refer to the housing problem. You will understand the SHRI CHITTA BASU : Mr. Vice- seriousness of the problem by this one fact Chairman, you will be astonished (o learn that that there are 7 lakhs of peoole living in the even today, according to the report of J. P. s'ums. And of these 7 lakhs, '0 per cent of the Naik, 50 per cent, of the school-going people have got no latrines, 66 ner cent have children in the 5-11 age group have got no eot no bath-rooms, 90 per cent live in single arrangement for primary education. The apartments without any kitcnen and 50 per figure with me suggests that out of 3.80,000 cent have got no provision for drinking water. children in the 5-11 age group, only 1,63.000 Ten lakhs of people live on the pavements. have schooling facilities. It is thus obvious How horrible, how terrific the problems are. that over 50 per cent, of the children in the 5- 11 ate" group have no scope for primary THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR schooling. Is it not a shameful thing? Is it not ALI KHAN) : Thank you. a violation of the Constitution? E\en today in the great city of Calcutta nearly 50 per cent, SHRI CHITTA BASU : No. my .-on- of Ihe children have got no scope of schooling cludinc part comes now. I have been able to nnd 30 per cent, of the peoole ire still introduce Calcutta partially, not fully, illiterate in a city which you call yours, because you did not allow me to do so. which you call an Indian city. THE VTCE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR Again, Mr. Vice-Chairman, the matter of AT.T KHAN.) : You have taken 45 minutes secondarv education is equally alarming and although vou are entitled onlv for half-an- colleeiate education is equally disquieting. I hour ^nd still you say this? have got facts to show how appalling those circumstances are. SHRI CHITTA BASU : Mv point is this, that Calcutta belongs to the nation and its ills Now I come to tfie unemployment should be removed. problem. In this matter, Mr. Vice-Chairman I would simply refer to certain figures given by the Government 3099 Resolution tn [ RAJYA. SABHA ] Development of Cakutta 3100

[Shri Chitta Basu] Resolution of Mr. Chitta Basu, I would For that a comprehensive plan is necessary. emphasise in this House that I would like ihe As a matter of fact, Mr. Vice-Chairman, I entire India to develop and not in particular think you know that a plan was made by the parts unevenly keeping the same disparity C.M.P.O., having an outlay of Rs. IOO that already exists. In fact, what I would wish crores. But the State Government is not in a is that rural India should develop so that we position to finance that Master Plan which is produce whatever we need and we do not necessary to remove some of the ills that I have to import foodgrains. We had laid a lot have mentioned. Therefore, I demand of the of emphasis on this, but the leaders of the Government of India and of this august House Congress Government have misled the that this problem of Calcutta's development, country so long and ultimately we are being a problem of national character, should experiencing the difficulties of the wrong be treated as such and the Government of plans pursued by the Congress leaders for India should release sufficient funds outside these 20 long years. Therefore, each man in the State's Fourth Five-Year Plan allocation every part of the country now feels that that so that this great city can remain a great city particular area has not been properly taken and a national city, voo. In this respect, I am care of, so much so a gentleman from tempted to quote what Pandit Jawaharlal Calcutta has also the same grievance, that Nehru once remarked about Calcutta in 1961. Calcutta has not been properly looked after. SHRI G. A, APPAN (Madras) : There is no Sir, there are two types of cities in India. quorum. What is it ? Are you speaking to the The first type is that which has developed on walls? its own, where the population has increased from year to year, and from a small SHRI CHITTA BASU : This is what population it has grown into an enormous city Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said : with an unweidly population. Calcutta comes "Calcutta is the biggest city in the in that category. And there are also cities like country. Its problems are national yours, Sir, or Bangalore or the city in which problems, quite apart from the problems of we live now, the city of Delhi, which are West Bengal, and it is necessary that planned cities, which began with some something special should be done. If the planning. Therefore, they do nor have any whole city went to pieces, it would be a difficulty in growing because the growing tremendous tragedy." population was visualised and the city was carved out accordingly. Calcutta, coming And echoing the sentiments of Pandit undeT the hrst category, should have Jawaharlal Nehru, I say : If Calcutta dies. definitely got the attention of the Government India dies: if Calcutta lives, who dies? that was due to it. I am one with Mr. Chitta Basu in saying that Government should give The question was proposed. much more attention to Calcutta than it has THE VICE-CHAIRMAN ( SHRI AKBAR given. But there is also another aspect which ALI KHAN) : Mr. Lokanath Misra. has to be looked into. Calcutta which developed because of its industry, because of SHRI CHITTA BASU : You have done its location, because of its strategic position some injustice to me. from many points of view, depended very SHRI LOKANATH MISRA : Mr. Vice- much on industrial development. That was Chairman. Sir. while supporting Mr. Chitta number one. For a certain period of time. Basil's Resolution. . Calcutta's industries developed normally without any hindrance. All of a sudden, a time SHRT CHITTA BASU : ... and my came when theTe was great difficulty in the speech. industries' normal functioning. The pitv was that mv friends like Mr. Bhupesh Gupta and SHRI LOKANATH MISRA : No, not' Mr. Chatterjee who are absent unfor- your speech. You had put me to a lot of tunately—T would have been verv much more inconvenience. I had fixed an engagement at inspired if chey were present to speak on this 3 o'clock with the Planning Commission for because I do not believe in their maxim of discussing the Plan of Orissa. I do not' know condemning somebody in his absence. I whether I could be present there. Anyway, believe in arguing out things in their presence. coming back to the debate, while supporting the 3101 Resolution re [6 DEC. 1968] Development of Calcutta 3102

I am surprised, I do no know what could have kept them away from the House when we are discussing a matter like C a lc utta from where thev come. It seems they arc not interested in anv topic like the development of Calcutta and something else has attracted them and kept them away from the House. I would have very much relished their presence here. Friends like them—I would call it misleading the people— id tiie people of Calcutta and that way, the labour problem overstepped ihe development of industries. Beiore Just lies could develop in the right direction io the point oi' fulfilment, the leftist elements in Calcutta, in West Bengal, wanted to persuade the people. . .

SHRI G. A. APPAN : Sir, on a point of order. We are only 14 here. There is no quorum. THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR ALI KHAN) : All right, I will see. Yes, you are right. I will ask them to see that there is quorum. Thank you for reminding me. SHRI LOKANATH M1SRA : In other countries of the world, the leftist elements at least waited in ihe national interests for the industries to grow sufficiently well before the labour trouble was brought in. But' unlike that, in Calcutta the communists thought that thai was the only instruments that they could use politically for their own ends. for their own purposes. And, therefore, much against the national interests they started indulging in direct activities in the labour field. So much so all the insists at one time got scared. There were invitations from different parts of the country by differen;' Chief Ministers. You must be remembering. Sir, at one time, Mr. Nijalingappa, the erstwhile Chief Miniver of Mysore, invited the industrialists who were scared by this Communist menace, by the left wing menace, in Calcutta. It is a great menace. It is a national menace. . . (Interruptions). It is not capitalism at all. If you have also understood Marxism as well as I do, it is not capitalism at all.. . {Interruptions). THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR ALI KHAN) : Mr. Kesavan, let him speak. SHRI KESAVAN (THAZHAVA) : Sir, communism may be a menace to my friend.

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SHRl CHITTA BASU : I am not interested space for the traffic, for motors cars, Ior in you. . . pedestrians to walk freely, on the surface of the city. (Interruptions) SHRl A. P. CHATTERJEE (West SHRl LOKANATH M1SRA : Not in me, Bengali : Why do you t h i n k that ir an you must be interested in what I say. 1 do not underground train is burnt, its fire cannot want you to be interested in me nor would I be put out? Have you got any special relish it because I know what your feelings reasons for that? are. SHRI LOKANATH M1SRA : 1 have Therefore, Sir, an atmosphere of security is given specific reasons for that. My only fear needed and that way the left wing party had is there was only one Communist Party vitiated the atmosphere of Calcutta to such an previously, only one, but now part of it went extent that the head offices also feared that it further left that created Mr. Chatterjee. They would be difficult for them to function. There- have now gone I irther and further left. They fore, the number does not grow now. The new have created Naxalites. 1 do not know how companies that come up, they see that they are far they wiH be able to go. And ( saw in the not registered in the zone of Calcutta, but morning's newspapers today Miss Ajitha elsewhere. They go to Bombay. There are whose photograph is lovely, that reminded me hundred and one more registering offices of of how evil the preachings of the Communist the joint stock companies in the country. Previ- Party could I be. A girl of 23, who would ously they wanted to rely on Calcutta because have probably educated herself and done a lot they thought that Calcutta was a Nate place. of service to the country, was going into Ihe But now it has become unsafe from that point forests and wandering about and getting of view. Therefore, I put the entire blame on arrested for being in possession of transistors the left wing party who have seen to it that' and other things, may be for dacoity, may be anybody coming to that place became unsafe. for thieving, may be for many other things. Therefore, both commerce and industry havc F cannot conceive ot these ideas. 1 do not been retarded. know where they want to take the country. . . (Interruptions) Now, Sir, I am one with Mr. Chitta Basu that the city must have a circular railway and AN HON. MEMBER : She comes from. an underground railway. I have had the . . opportunity ot looking around some of the I Interruption i main cities of the world during the last one or two months and 1 have seen how their SHRI LOKANATH Ml SR A : I be, any underground trains and lines function, how place. I have no quarrel '.'ith the place. She efficiently they function. But here also it needs might have belonged to Orissa. That makes a lot of investment. All the country's resources little difference for would have to he poured down in one me. particular city which needs its safe maintenance, safe upkeep. The way a number Now, Sir, while urging for an under- of trams and buses are burnt by our ground r ai l w a y for Calcutta 1 would communists friends in Calcutta, that gives me request the honourable Railway Minister to an impression that if there is a fire in the ensure that nothing goes wrong with it by the underground train, no fire brigade probably communist menace be-' cause a lot of the would be able to come and they have their resources til the country would be poured own tactics of not allowing the fire brigade to into it. Therefore, all safeguards should be reach the place. . . (Interruptions'). I would taken so that nothing wrong happens to it. very much iatist on the Government, Sir, that in the congested cities like Calcutta. Bombav Mr. Chitta Basu said a lot of things about and Madras, and in all the congested cities as a agricultural production in the country. I am marter o'f fact, underground railways are a happy that West Bengal is still best at its very good substitute. Thev take away the agricultural production and it is because congestion from the surface of the city right the Communists have been kept confined to down underneath thereby creating a lot. the citv of ' Calcutta, ff they were allowed to of go to the rural areas, probably that would , have been impeded also. Fortunately 3105 Resolution ic [6 DEC 1968 ] Development oj Cmanni 3106 for the people of Bengal, they know whal the Therefore I would like tha: something Communists are and therefore they are kept should be done immediately for the suburban confined to the city where they are playing railway in Calcutta. Secondly, at least for the havoc. It reminds me casually of the slum-dwellers immediately some housing demonstration a few days ago when Mr. schemes j should be evolved. There must be McNamara had come. A lot was attempted fo ade-i quate provision for education of ihe be made of Mr. McNamara's coming to small children because they have to go a long Calcutta and his association with Indo-China, distance and Calcutta being very crowded, it Indonesia, etc. He is a person wh0 came here is difficult for small children to walk long as the World Bank Chairman to help Calcutta. distances. There is difficulty about drinking The arguments are substantiated by the water and it should be made available. Then demonstrations anj the action taken by the taxi is a problem there. In Delhi you gel taxis Communist Party during Mr. McNama-ja"s on phone but in Calcutta, in Chowrin-ghee, visit that they do not want Calcutta to you do not get. If it is an evening and if you develop. They want to have a vicious circle have to catch a train, you are bound to miss it and have all sons of difficulties crated, have because taxis ar>-available during the al! sorts of frustration among the people and mornings in the interior of Calcutta and no taxi is avail-! able at the platform when you then gain more popularity by creating chaos. : Mr. McNamara had travelled a long distance gev down from the trains. In the evening it is from New York to Calcutta to offer help for vice-versa. When you try to come back from its development and these gentlemen who ac the city, you do not get taxis. They arc all crowded probably at the railway station or least appear to be very much concerned about elsewhere. the development of Calcutta, and apparently so, staged a lemonstration and created all the SHRl A. P. CHATTERJEE : There : hurdles possible to Mr. McNamara's being should be nationalisation. taken round and shown the pitiable condition in which the people live. If it had been SHRI LOKANATH MISRA : In the possible, probably some immediate help case of nationalisation, .you will no: get at till would have come. I would Kave liked Mr. and if the Ministers go there, all the taxis will McNamara to see the slums. In the dead of be standing in a row for them. The number ol night a f t e r one in the night he could not have taxi licences should be increased immediately gone I'd see them. There are several thousands so that there is free competition and there are ; of Oriyas serving the city of Calcutta as a lot of taxis in the city and there is i no coolies, plumbers, etc. and in the Corporation dearth of them. There should be no , illegal they are in so many capacities. They live in bargains made by the taxi-drivers as many of the slums. Seventy-five people sleep in one them do now. T know about it. I request the room. They do not have any space. It is Minister to at lc:ist issue about two to three atrocious. But who is responsible for it? If Mr. thousand more licences immediately when McNamara comes to help these people here Bengal is under the Presidential Rule. If ano- my friend Mr. Chatterjee would not allow him ther Government there again, there might be to go and see. I would have wanted Mr. difficulty because T know some of "heir McNamara to see the places as the World difficulties. Thank you. Bank Chairman. What was the ultimate aim and what was the outcome of your demonstration except putting people in a lot of difficulties and retarding some of the office workers and commercial workers and the normal life in Calcutta? What else did you achieve through your demonstration? It is a vicious circle. You want to create misery and you want to fish in that misery. The Communists want to enlist the people's support by appearing as if they are the only saviours. Ihis vicious circle goes on in Calcutta.'

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the development of the circular railway or better hospital arrangements or the development of roads, etc. I agree with my colleagues and I do not want to take the time of this august House by repeating the same arguments. I am more concerned with two aspects of the economic development of Cal- cutta. One is the infra-structure of Calcutta itself. You must have noted that the development of Calcutta port is being delayed too long. Calcutta port is very near the eastern side. Because of the closure of the Suez canal, unless these ports are developed, the country cannot depend only on ports like Bombay. I can understand the difficulties of Plan priority and of funds. The development ol Calcutta port is a priority :n the total concept of India's foreign trade. In that respect, again. I plead with the Government that more attention and priority A-l must be given to the development of Calcutta port. It opens up the vast hinterland right up to the Himalayas, from SHRI A. G. KULKARNI : Mr. Vice- Calcutta to Bihar, UP, etc. Chairman, I am very happy tha; my colleague. Mr. Chitta Basu, has brought forward this Resolution before the House. 1 There is another necessity also. It is the know that Mr. Chitta Basu has got his own development of the Calcutta aerodrome. You patriotic views and we are here to support his must have seen the Dum Dum airport. "It is cause of the development or Calcutta. Not absolutely in a dilapidated condition. Along being a politician. 1 will not indulge in the with the port. I can say there is very urgent political claim of Calcutta, etc. and 1 will necessity for developing the Dum Dum limit my remarks to the economic deve- airport." You must have seen in the papers lopment of Calcutta. that there were one or two crashes recently, w i t h i n the last two or three years, at Dum SHRI M. N. KAUL (Nominated) : You Dum airport. It is mainly hecause the radar ought to be a politician. installation and scientific instruments for the blind landing of aircraft are not provided. I SHRl A. G. KULKARNI : I said I am not may say that the development of the Calcutta a politician and I will confine myself to the airport as well as the Calcutta port is a 'must'. economic development of Calcutta. Calcutta is not a city belonging only to the people As regards housing. I only add my voice to living in West Bengal. It is a city having the submission made by my colleagues here. high place in national pride. It is a city where Unless the houving problem is solved, no Ramakrishna and Vivekananda were born. Il worth-while effort will be achieved in is a city which was previously used to be industrialisation. Industrialisation requires glorified as the city of Lal, Pal, Bal, where housing and unless housing is achieved, no Bengal and Maharashtra along v, ith Punjab industrialisation of a very high order can be were united for the emancipation of India. achieved. Having «aid all these things, I have got certain advice to give to my friends. There SHRI SUNDAR SINGH BHANDARI : was an occasion for me to go to Calcutta with Now you have started with politics. one of the Administrative Reforms Commission groups to study the development SH*I A. G. KULKARNI : it is culturally of small industries and agro-industries in and historically important. I value ihe Calcutta. Here I am not blaming only the importance of Calcutta, because it is culturally recent Government of the United Front, but and traditionally coning up and our comrades the blame lies intend to develop Calcutta. It is one of the biggest cities in this countiy. I am one vith my friend and I am not going to repeat the same arguments regarding 3119 Resolution re [RAJYA SABHA | Development of Calcutta 3120

[Shri A. G. Kulkarni] requires a nursing ot industries, it right from Dr. B. C. Roy's Government. 1 requires a nursing of institutions, [ which can develop only then, whether found out, Mr. Vice-Chairman, that the 1 development of industry in Calcutta was an it is agriculture or whether it is accident. There is a steel plant in Jamshedpur, industry. and now in Rourkela and in Durgapur the ancillary engineering industry has developed due to these plants. No worthwhile effort or Mr. Vice-Chairman, I am one with what you call no cultivation of the engineering my friend. Mr. Bhandari when he said that industry was made in Calcutta by the one is really not only surprised—these Government, whichever ;t might be—it might adjectives are not going to make any impact be the Congress Government in the previous on the Communists in Calcutta because regime or it might be the United Front these are very minor and Government during the last one year or so. sweet adjectives to them. You can have Why 1 bring this matter to the notice of this political awareness, you can have your own august House as well as my friends from that way of compelling the employers to give area is because we people who arc brought up more to the workers : I can understand all in States like Maharashtra or the old Bombay these things. But, Mr. Vice-Chairman, I do State have got a tradition of development of not understand why they fail to see that the industry, not only big industry but small system of gheraos has done incalculable industrv also. When we talk of small industry, harm not only to Calcutta but to the country small industry is always nursed through the itself. Why I say this is because I have got Government purchase programme. When we some experience of these gheraos, and we interviewed the Director of Industries in Cal- have found out that these originated from cutta, he said there was no such Government Calcutta and from the fertile brains of the purchase programme from the small-scale Communists who are interested in nothing industries in the West Bengal Government else, who are interested not in the itself. I was really surprised, I was shocked, development of this countiy, but who are because no Government which really wants to interested in trying to create chaos in this develop the ancillary industries can say thai country, so that they can pave the way for there was no purchase programme on ihe the Chinese or for the Russians—for whom I Government account through the Director of do not know. While I make this bold Industries. He says each Department purchases statement, I I have seen the development of as per its own will through tender. Why I am the Howrah area, I have seen small engi- bringing this point before this House is that at neering workshops. I have visited at least least the Central Government should now IOO engineering workshops. I have tried to introduce modern methods of development of talk with the em-plovers as well as with the small industries wherein the purchase employees. That is why I um giving this programme through the DirectO|- of Industries opinion. Otherwise I do not want to risk this is a 'must' and is an incentive to develop small opinion. I say that gherao has done an industries. Also I have seen that what you call incalculable harm not only to Calcutta but to the development ot co-operation to boost the whole country. So I plead with my hon. agriculture, to boost artisans, to earn their friend Mr. Chitta Basu, I know Mr. Chitta living is nol tried on a level which ought to Basu is absolutely a nationalist, who cham- have heen tried. You know ihe cultural history pions always national causes; he will never of Calcutta, the national history of Calcu tta be with the Communists as far as the is so inspiring that I reallv fail to understand question of loyalty to the country or the how the leaders of Calcutta in the old days, development of the country is concerned ; he right from the last fifteen years up to the is one with us. So, T wanted to give my present day. have not realised that only friend a piece of humble advice that when political awareness is not going to solve the we say to the Government that all these problems of West Bengal or Calcutta itself. institutions have to be built up, the economy Only political awareness and only what you of a city or the economy of a State cannot be call slogans on socialism are not going to built up by miracles. It can only be solve the problem at all. It developed when you build institutions, when you nurse institutions, whether it he in agriculture, whethe'- it be in industry or whether it be in any other 3121 Resolution te [6 DEC. 1968] Development of Cakutta 3122.

sector. But what I want to say is, please, for SHRl M. M. SUR (West Bengal) : Mr. Heaven's sake do not try these tilings which Vice-Chairman, the importance of Calcutta will harm the cause of Calcutta City itself and the problems of Calcutta have been and West Bengal in the larger context. spoken of by various speakers previous to me. 1 would like to make some suggestions for the solution of the problems. i am not going to take more time of the House but only one or two minutes. I had The problems are principally these. The been to Calcutta and why I was provoked transport problem is there. The was, Diwali was just going to come and 1 concentration of population has increased. was just talking with the workers who were The roads remain the same for the last fifty sweeping the area where 1 stayed—it was a years. We have built up only one road which Circuit House. I was just ta lking with them is known as-Central Avenue, now called and also with man) people in the engineering Chittaranjan Avenue. Only there are factories. They were telling me, "We are not some C.l.T. roads in the outskirts of Calcutta, much worried ; we want only rice and one but the congestion of traffic has increased with cover for our body in Ihe the increase of population. Then there is night. srrTT ffrcr.^resr £&n sft?: T*m q£t. the problem of garbage removal, and there is Thai is what they were saying. That is their the drainage problem. The drains were view. I just asked them how was the constructed about a hundred years ago. the countryside because I had gone to see the co- underground drains, and those who have operative societies in three or four villages. visited Calcutta know that it is only Central They said. "What can we tell you ? They are Calcutta which has got underground drains. So singing such songs"—I forget, Mr. far as other portions are concerned, which are a Basu will recite that for me. I ! song under the Calcutta Corporation, such as meant they prefer Vietnam to •his country. Tollygunge, Belgachia, etc.. there is no Mr. Chitta Basu knows underground drain ; there is only surface verv well. drain. There is the drainage problem, the transport problem. There is the SHRl V P. CHATTERJEE: Mr. Kulkarni drinking water problem. If the Farraka knows how to get hold of proper persons. Barrage is completed, they expeet to get more fresh water from the River Ganges or SHRI A. G. KULKARNI : We are the Hooghly and then perhaps that one with you in the development of problem will be solved. But the traffic Calcutta and West Bengal, but I wil1 problem can only be solved by the dispersal plead with you that these ghcraos of the town. We are trying to increase the not going to help you. living areas by having taller houses. Previously those who have-visited Calcutta 30 years ago might have seen that there were many one-storeyed buildings, tiled, kutcha, count.y tv pe houses. In the place of those houses, many multi- storeyed buildings have sprung up. So, in a small area where 20 people were living, SHRl A. G. KULKARNI : Mr. Bhandari now 200 people live. The garbage on the is quite right -^q- irPFT 3T7 3T roads has also been accumulating because q-nr, T^t wr fazr^m i what i there is no facility for the removal of that want to say is that this type of tendency is not garbage. So the garbage remains piled up in going either to help ( alcutta or West Bengal the city, adding to the city's health problems. or this country. We are here to develop these institutions, parliamentary institutions, insti- The traffic problem can only be solved by tutions of credit, institutions of agricul-ra! the dispersal of the town. The City of development, and may I request the co- Calcutta is now restricted in a small area. On operation of my friends that we could the one side is the river Ganges and on the develop Calcutta through only constructive other side is the Salt Lake. On the two sides means by keeping pace with democracy and there are flanks which can be increased. If by strengthening our hands here. across the river you have to go, there 3123 Resolution TC [RAJYA SABHA] Development of Culcutta 3124

.Shrj M. M. Sur] Ram Mohan Roy as its president. Since those is a single bridge which is not sufficient. We days Calcutta has got its international spirit roust have another bridge so that people can and wherever there has been a revolution of go out of the City and come into the City the people against autocracy and monarchy more freely. Therefore the necessity of a and absolutism, Calcutta people have come second bridge is very important, the second forward and shed their blood even for that bridge which is suggested at the Princep Ghat. cause. And an underground railway or a circular rail- way will solve the problem of traffic within ihe city. If the second bridge across the Ganges is built and if there is an underground or a circular railway rfnd if these two things SHRl A. P. CHATTERJEE : I can are attended to properly and if with the again give you another instance that when in introduction ot' ihe Farraka Barrage the water 1946 the Vietnam war of independence was question is speeded up, then most of Calcutta's going on, it was on the streets of Calcutta that problems will be solved. We must see that young boys shed their blood, and it' 1 am tot Calcutta increases in size in the suburbs. Dr. mistaken, one student was killed by police Roy introduced the Kalyani township, firing because he was one of those which is 30 miles demonstrators and processionist \ were But across the river, I Bally and demonstrating in favour of Vietnam and Belur, these localities have to be developed; against the aggression ol American the underground drainage has to be developed imperialism on Vietnam. And when Ho Chi and the water can be drained into the River Minh as a guest to this country . . . Hooghly. That problem is not so great {Interruptions) 1 think it was in 1946, not in because we have got the River Hooghly to 1949, just before independence. Now, when take care of the underground sewage water. Ho Chi Minh came to India as a guest after So, if Calcutta is extended across the river, our independence, I remember that he then only can the problem be solved. Also, if caressed and embraced one of these young these two things—the second bridge across men who were wounded in the police firing of the Hooghly and the underground or circular course he was not killed at that time, hut railway—are attended to. the problem will be wounded by police firing—and said, you have solved. kept the banner of internationalism Hying aloft in Calcutta. We are proud of that Cal- SHRI A. P. CHATTERJEE : Mr. Vice- cutta, (Interruptions) I can tell you also Chairman, Sir, some jocular remarks were another instance. The other day the United made about Calcuttans' love of Vietnam. I am Front got a ring made of steel of 3,500 really proud ot that love which the Calcuttans American planes downed over North have expressed for Vietnam . . . Vietnam, the Government of North Vietnam, AN HON. MEMBER : Shame. the Government ot Ho Chi Minh had sent that ring as a present to the people of Calcutta as a THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR token of admiration and love for the people of ALI KHAN) : But I am Calcutta who have kept the banner of sure that has been concocted by friends who internationalism alive and aloft. arc unfriendly. Mr. Vice-Chairman, I am again proud SHRI A. P. CHATTERJEE : As far as the when that murderer, when that organiser of people of Calcutta are concerned, they have murders in Vietnam in another capacity, not always been international in spirit, and I do as the President of the world Bank, but as not find any shame in that 1 find a matter of Defence tary, McNamara, who is esponsi-ble pride therein. I can tell you, Mr. Vice- for the napalm-bombing on the Vietnam soil, Chairman, that way back in 1830 when the who is responsible for the massacre of the second French Revolution broke out driving innocents there, when that McNamara, that away monarchy from the throne of France, murderer McNamara went there, I am proud the monarchy which had again sneaked in that the people of Calcutta came out in even after the first French Revolution of procession and it was his life's experience that 1789, that 1830 Revolution of French was McNamara could not go out celebrated in Calcutta at a public meeting by Raja 3124 Resolution K [6 DEC. 1968] Development of Calcutta 3125

ceets of Calcutta by day, he had, Detention Act, and in that way an arti-icial like a thief, to roam about the streets of majority was created by the Con-»ress and Calcutta at midnight. I am proud of Culcutta. the Congress therefore cap-ured ali the Committees and elected ts Mayor, the THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI AKBAR Deputy Mayor and the Aldermen. And in that AU KHAN) : But he had gone there to help . way, Calcutta lias been governed and ruled . . by the Congress. Therefore, as I say, Calcutta is prototype oi SHRI A. P. CHATTERJEE : Mr. the mischief of Congress rule and the Vice-Chairman, do you believe that that Congress rule it is which has created, this American imperialist would go to a particular garbage in Calcutta, created this traffic city in order to do henefii to that city? He congestion, created this abnormal situation, went there to see Mr. Birla, he went there to intolerable situation, in living conditions. see the business magnates so that he could have a liaison, a kind of comprador capitalist Mr. Vice-Chairman. Sir, here one of the agreements with the capitalists there. That is Congress Members said that there are many why he went there ; he never cared for the portions of Calcutta where there is no people of Calcutta ; he never cared to give any underground drainage. There are surface benefit to Calcutta. I am not one of those who drains at Belgachia and other places. Jf you go will be so gu'lible as to believe that to the suburbs of Calcutta, which are within McNamara went to Calcutta in order to do the Calcutta Municipality,, during the rainy good to Calcutta. The man who is responsible season you will wonder how the people live in for the massacre of thousands and thousands, those areas. But who is responsible for these lakhs and lakhs of people in Vietnam, the man things ? Why is Calcutta not getting who is responsible for high explosives underground drainage ? Why Tallygungc is bombing of the towns and villages of still suffering from surface drainage and is not Vietnam, the man who is responsible for the having underground drainage ? It is the naked aggre- Calcutta Corporation which is responsible for 1 on South Vietnamese soil, will that man it and it is in the clutches jr the Congress. go there to do good to the people of Calcutta ? The man who has not the heart to see that he should not kill the innocent children of Mr. Vice-Chairman, you were putting it to Vietnam with impunity, about that man at me that Mr. McNamara might have gone least I am not so gullible to believe that he has there to do good to the people of Calcutta. gone there in order to do any good to the What about those CM. P.O. fat-salaried people of Calcutta. He had gone there perhaps foreign experts who have been as the chief of the CIA, to do spying or to vegetating on Calcutta's wealth and Calcutta have some contact or to enter into an hospitality for the last few years ? What have agreement with some of the big business they produced ? After putting in a mountain magnates there. I am not so gullible as to of labour they have produced the proverbial believe that. Therefore, I am proud of the mouse. These C.M.P.O. ofiicials, those international fat-salaried officials are sitting there and iition of Calcutta. doing nothing. This is the position of the C.M.P.O. people and this C.M.P.O. is supposed to get grants from the Ford But who is responsible for Calcutta's woes? Foundation, another name for the Calcutta is a prototype of the Congress C.I.A. organisation. They are supposed to administration. Mr. Vice-Chairman, if you get grants from certain foreign look at the history of the Calcutta sources. Therefore, Mr. Vice-Chairman, it Corporation, you will see that the Calcutta is not good giving all this advice to the poor Corporation has always been in the clutches and down-trodden people of Calcutta. The of the Congress Party. When there was a poor and down-trodden people of Calcutta are chance in the last General Election that the suffering a lot. If you once go there, then United Front members would come in a you will find how they ride a bus, how majority and would take over the they ride a tram. And you will be 1 administration of Calcutta Corporation, you surprised that even afte all these know, Sr.r—that is the history— that six of r the United Front members were detained under the Prevention 3127 Resolution TC [RAJYA SABHA] Development of Culcutta 3128

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What is ghe-rao ? It is merely a kind of living conditions and better transport, demonstration. One is not breaking the head better traffic, better housing conditions of the manager or the employer. It is a kind because, Mr. Vice-Chairman, Sir, it is from of deputation merely on the employer. Calcutta that 40 per cent, of the revenues of the Centre comes. The majority of the income-tax earnings come from that area, SHRl PREM MANOHAR (Uttar Pradesh) the majority of the export earnings, at least a : You killed one of Ihe proprietors of great part of the export earnings—1 will not Surajmal Nagarmal. say majority—comes Irom Calcutta. These export earnings, these income-tax earnings SHRl A. P. CHATTERJEE : But are not individuals'. Individuals pay the employer will rend the skies with his cries income-tax on their own income. But how that he is gheraod. But, Mr. Vice-Chairman, do they earn that income, these can the employer close down his business in business magnates and million-naires ? that fashion ? Can the employer close down They earn their income because of the his concern by throwing on the streets such blood, sweat, toil and tears of the ordinary an army of unemployed ? Therefore, Mr. people of Calcutta. I agree with Mr. Bhandari Vice-Chairman, let not advice be given. The that it is the ordinary people whose blood, wearer alone knows where the shoe pinches. sweat, toil and tears they exploit and, in this Let them go among the people and talk to way, add to the bank balances of these busi- them. But when Mr. Kulkarni said that he ness magnates. These ordinary people are talked to some persons they talked, he said, drawn from various trades and various about Vietnam and all that. But 1 say, Mr. provinces. The Oriyas, 5 P.M. Bengalis. Vice-Chairman, likes meet likes. When Mr. Biharis and the Punjabis shed their blood Kulkarni went there, he gravitated towards together. They are sweated, they are his own likes. That is a different thing. But exploited by the same business magnates who when we lalk to people -we do not find such do not care to which States or Province a people. particular man belongs because they know only how to fill their coffers by exploiting the people. Therefore, Mr. Anyway. Mr. Vice-Chairman, the point is Vice-Chairman. Calcutta has a claim. this that as far as Calcutta is concerned . . . Calcutta, by its blood, sweat, toil and tears pays the major share of the earnings by way of SHRI PREM MANOHAR : So you create revenue of the Central Government. such people. Therefore, Calcutta has a claim and that claim will have to be satisfied. SHRI A. P. CHATTERJEE : . . . apart from politics, apart from all these lectures whether we should be inter- THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI I AKBAR ALI KHAN) : The House stands nationalists or not, whether we should be adjourned till 11 A.M. on Monday, the 9th politically-inspired or not, I think we should December. have all these things. That is my definite and categorical view, let there be no mistake about it. The Calcutta people will be going The House then adjourned at on doing these things. But the point is this. five of the clock till eleven of the The Calcutta people have a right to bettei clock on Monday, the 9th December, 1968.