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26.02.2013 1 C O N T E N T S Fifteenth Series, Vol. XXXI, Thirteenth Session, 2013/1934 (Saka) No.3, Tuesday, February 26, 2013/Phalguna 7, 1934 (Saka) S U B J E C T P A G E S WELCOME TO PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION 2 FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION OBITUARY REFERENCES 3 ORAL ANSWER TO QUESTION *Starred Question No.21 to 23 4-36 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos.24 to 40 37-711 37-105 Unstarred Question Nos.231 to 460 106-711 *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. 26.02.2013 2 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 712-715 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE 715-716 64th to 69th Reports COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES 716 3rd Report COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE 716 42nd and 43rd Reports STANDING COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE 717 17th Report STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CONSUMER 717 AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION 27th Report STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE 718 DEVELOPMENT (i) 248th to 252nd Reports 718 (ii)Evidence 718 ELECTIONS TO COMMITTEES 719-723 (i) Committee on Estimates 719 (ii) (a)Committee on Public Accounts 720 (b)Committee on Public Accounts 720 (iii)(a)Committee on Public Undertakings 721 (b)Committee on Public Undertakings 721 (iv)(a)Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes 722 and Scheduled Tribes (b)Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes 722-723 And Scheduled Tribes MOTION RE: FORTY-FOURTH REPORT OF 723 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE RAILWAY BUDGET, 2013-14 724-770 26.02.2013 3 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 771-788 (i) Establishment of AIIMS like facilities at Sambhalpur in Odisha Shri Amarnath Pradhan 771 (ii) Need to set up a railway reservation counter at Siruseri in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu Shri P. Viswanathan 772 (iii) Need to set up storage facilities for copra at Mangalore and Beypore and also relax conditions for procurement of copra from farmers of Lakshadweep islands Shri Hamdullah Sayeed 773 (iv) Need for a special financial grant for development of civic and other basic infrastructure in Nagpur city, Maharashtra Shri Vilas Muttemwar 774-775 (v) Need to undertake immediate relief measures for the families who suffered loss of lives and crops due to unseasonal rains and hailstorms in Andhra Pradesh particularly in Karimnagar parliamentary constituency Shri Ponnam Prabhakar 775-776 (vi) Need to start Central Nursing School at Koratty Leprosy Hospital in Thrissur district, Kerala Shri K.P. Dhanapalan 777 (vii) Need to allocate sufficient funds for execution of railway projects in a time bound manner Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan 778 26.02.2013 4 (viii) Need to remove the condition for submission of digital map of forest land for undertaking development works in Uttarakhand and also extend time limit for mutation of the forest land in the State for such works Shrimati Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah 779 (ix) Need to undertake repair work of National Highway No. 75 between Gwalior and Jhansi Shrimati Yashodhara Raje Scindia 780 (x) Need to ban cow slaughter in the country Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel 781 (xi) Need to implement Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh Shri Rakesh Sachan 782 (xii) Need to construct a bridge over Ghaghra river at Kamhariya Ghat in Uttar Pradesh Shri Bhism Shankar alias Kushal Tiwari 783 (xiii) Need to put a moratorium on payment of interest on outstanding debt liabilities by the Governments of West Bengal, Kerala and Punjab Prof. Saugata Roy 784 (xiv) Need to re-lay a new railway line between Morappur and Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu Shri R. Thamaraiselvan 785 26.02.2013 5 (xv) Need to enhance the minimum wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Shri A. Sampath 786 (xvi) Need to impose restriction on mining of sand from river beds in the country particularly in Bihar to prevent environmental degradation Shri Jagadanand Singh 787 (xvii) Need to take steps to ensure remunerative price to the rubber growers in Kerala Shri Jose K. Mani 788 DISCUSSION UNDER RULE 193 789 Situation arising due to drought and hailstorms in various parts of the country Shri Shailendra Kumar 789-796 Shri Arun Yadav 797-799 Shri Gopinath Munde 801-808 Shri Vijay Bahadur Singh 809-817 Shri Sharad Yadav 818-819 Sk. Saidul Haque 820-824 Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 825-828 Shri Anant Gangaram Geete 829-832 Shri Naranbhai Kachhadia 833 Shri Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi 834-835 Shri Sanjay Dhotre 836 Shri S. Semmalai 837-838 Shri K. Sugumar 839 Shri Ajay Kumar 840-841 26.02.2013 6 Shri M. Anandan 842-844 Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal 846 Shri Haribhau Jawale 847 Shri Jagdambika Pal 848 Shri Satpal Maharaj 849-850 Shri Narendra Singh Tomar 851-854 Shri A.T. Nana Patil 855-856 Dr. Kirit Premjibhai Solanki 857 Shri Ramesh Rathod 858-859 Shri Virendra Kumar 860-861 Shri Prabodh Panda 862-864 Shri Ashok Argal 866-867 Shri Jagadanand Singh 868-870 Shri K. Bapiraju 871-873 Shri Raju Shetti 874-875 Shri Manicka Tagore 876-877 Shri Suresh Angadi 878 Shri Prasanta Kumar Majumdar 879-880 Shri N. Peethambara Kurup 428-882 OBSERVATION BY THE CHAIR 808-809 ANNEXURE – I Member-wise Index to Starred Questions 899 Member-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 900-904 ANNEXURE – II Ministry-wise Index to Starred Questions 905 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 906 26.02.2013 7 OFFICERS OF LOK SABHA THE SPEAKER Shrimati Meira Kumar THE DEPUTY SPEAKER Shri Karia Munda PANEL OF CHAIRMEN Shri Basu Deb Acharia Shri P.C. Chacko Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan Shri Inder Singh Namdhari Shri Francisco Cosme Sardinha Shri Arjun Charan Sethi Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Dr. M. Thambidurai Dr. Girija Vyas Shri Satpal Maharaj SECRETARY GENERAL Shri T.K. Viswanathan 26.02.2013 8 LOK SABHA DEBATES __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ LOK SABHA ---------- Tuesday, February 26, 2013/Phalguna 7, 1934 (Saka) The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock [MADAM SPEAKER in the Chair] 26.02.2013 9 WELCOME TO PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION MADAM SPEAKER: Hon. Members, I have to make an announcement. On behalf of the hon. Members of the House and on my own behalf, I have great pleasure in welcoming Her Excellency, Mrs. Valentina I. Matvienko, hon. Chairperson of the Council of Federation, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and members of the Russian Parliamentary Delegation, who are on a visit to India as our honoured guests. They arrived in India on Monday, 25th February, 2013 and are now seated in the Special Box. We wish them a pleasant and fruitful stay in our country. Through them, we convey our greetings and best wishes to the Parliament, the Government and the friendly people of Russian Federation. 26.02.2013 10 11.01 hrs. OBITUARY REFERENCES MADAM SPEAKER: Hon. Members, I have to inform the House about the sad demise of our former colleague, Shri Baishnab Charan Patnaik. Shri Baishnab Charan Patnaik was a Member of the Third Lok Sabha from 1962 to 1967 representing the Dhenkanal Parliamentary Constituency of the then State of Orissa. Shri Patnaik was also a Member of Orissa Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1957. Shri Patnaik, popularly known as “Veer Baishnab”, actively participated in the freedom struggle and Quit India Movement and was imprisoned several times. Shri Baishnab Charan Patnaik passed away on 1 January, 2013 at the age of 98 in Dhenkanal, Odisha. We deeply mourn the loss of our friend and I am sure the House would join me in conveying our condolences to the bereaved family. Hon. Members, as you are aware, eleven persons were killed and several others injured when a boat capsized in Yamuna River in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh on 20 February, 2013. Hon. Members, in an another tragic incident, eight persons including six policemen were killed in a landmine blast in Gaya district of Bihar on 22 February, 2013. The House expresses its profound sorrow on these tragic incidents which have brought pain and suffering to the families of the bereaved and injured. The House may now stand in silence for a short while as a mark of respect to the memory of the departed. 11.02 hrs. The Members then stood in silence for a short while. 26.02.2013 11 11.02½ hrs MADAM SPEAKER: Question No.21. Now Shri Basu Deb Acharia. (Q. 21) SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA : I have gone through the statement made by the Minister on this question. The statement has been made in a very cavalier manner. There has been miscarriage of justice to scores of Muslim youths who were all being arrested and charged in cases related to terror attacks in different parts of the country. In some cases, these young men have been incarcerated for more than 10 to 15 years. They have had to stay in jail and after 10 to 15 years, they were acquitted by the courts. These Muslim youths have now become vulnerable targets today. The hon. Minister has stated that the Government does not maintain any record or any report about this. But I have a list of 22 such youths who had been arrested from different parts of the country. Even youths in the age of 18 to 20 years were arrested and they had to remain in jail for more than 15 years. Just imagine a situation where a youth being arrested on concocted charges has to spend on jail for 15 years. What will happen to his family? What will happen to his life? These Muslim youths had to spend 15 years in jail. MADAM SPEAKER: Please ask your question.