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enth Series, Vol. xxvm, NO.5 M{lDdat, ,ebl'lllU')' 28, 1994 ~aIpaa 9, 1915 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Ninth Session (Tenth Lok Sabha) PARLlAMENT L18l\ARY No. 'J .... ~•....••••.... ~_ Da.~._~ 2j£/.J.J.~__ (Vol. XXVIII contains Nos. 1-10) LOKSABHASECRETABlAT NEW DELHI [ORIGINAL ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN ENGLISH VERSION AND ORIGINAL HINDI PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN HINDI VERSION WILL BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND NOT THE TRANSlATION THEREOF.J CONTENTS [Tenth Series, Vol. XXVIII, Ninth Session, 199411915 (Saka)] No.5, Monday, February 28, 19941Phalguna 9, 1915 (Saka) COLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions: 1-39 'Starred Questions Nos.: 61 to 6<t Written Answers to Questions: 39-613 Starred Questions Nos.: 65 to 80 39-103 Unstarred Questions Nos.: 635 to 657, 659 to 679, 103-613 681 to 783, 785 to 804 artd 806 to 866 Announcement by Speaker 613 Presentation of the General Budget Re: Demand of New Wage Board for the Journalists 614-617 Re: Issuing of Photo-Identity cards to voters 617-634 for electoral purposes Papers Laid on the Table 634-641 Message from Rajya Sabha 641 Railways (Amendment) Bill 641 As passed by the Rajya Sabha-Laid Special Court (Trial of Offences relating to 642 transactions in securities) Amendment Bill-Introduced Explanatory statement giving~reasons for immediate 642-643 Legislation by the Special Court (Trial of Offences relating to Transactions in Securities) Amendment Ordinance Coffee (Amendment) Bill-Introduced 643 Explanatory statement giving reasons for immediate 643 Legislation by the Coffee (Amendment) Ordinance Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) 644 Amendment Bill-Introduced Explanatory statement giving reasons for immediate 644-645 Legislation by the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Ordinance Matters Under Rule 377 645-650 (i) Need to ban Lottery Business in the country Shri Shantaram Potdukhe 645 • 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. (i) (ii) COLUMNS (ii) Need to include Patan and Shirala blocks in Maharashtra in the Revamped public distribution system Shri Prithviraj D. Chavan 645 (iii) Need to enhance allocation of Natural Gas to Gujarat Shri Chhitubhai Gamit 646 (iv) Need for conversion of Balasore- Kharagpur Grand trunk road in Orissa to National Highway Dr. Kartikeswar Patra 647 (v) Need for early completion of Narmada Project with a view to mitigate acute drinking water problem in Gujarat Shri Ratilal Varma 647 (vi) Need to upgrade Gopalpur port in Orissa to All-Weather Direct Berthing Port Shri Braja Kishore Tripathy 648 (vii) Need to allocate funds for construction of an overbridge at railway gate crossing NO.1 in Urai of Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh Shri Gaya Prasad Kori 649 (viii) Need to start work on Eklakhi Baraunghat Railway Project in West Bengal Shri Jitendra Nath Das 650 Motion of Thanks on the President's Address 651-684, 684-855 Shri Shiv Charan Mathur 651 Prot. K.V. Thomas 678 Shri Jaswant Singh 692 Welcome to the President of the 684 European Parliament General Budget, 1994-95-Presented 855-907 Shri Manmohan Singh 855 Flnanc:e BBI, 1994-lntToduced 907-908 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOKSABHA THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SHRI K.P. SINGH Monday, February 28, 19941 DEO): (a) Details of requests for Phalguna, 9, 1915 (Saka) el'lhancing the duration of programmes telecast by the variou,$ kendras of Doordarshan are not maintained centrally in a compiled form. The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock (b) While no increase in ttie duration of such programmes' was effected by Doordarshan during 1993, the [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair] reach of the existing programmes has increased alongwith the expansion of the Doordarshan network that took place during the year. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS (c) Does not arise. [English] (d) Revision' of the programme Doordarshan Programmes on schedule is an ongoing activity depending Agriculture upon the overall programme requirement of the network at a given time. No *61. SHRI K.G. SHIVAPPA: Will the increase in the duration of such Minister of INFORMATION AND programmes is on the anvil at present. BROADCASTING be pleased to state: SHRI K.G. SHIVAPPA: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a very big farmer (a) whether there is persistent. class in India. But television has demand to increase the duration of neglected the farmer's class. The programmes on agriculture telecast by Government has given more importance Delhi Doordarshan and Regional Centres to improving agriculture by using of Ooordarshan; fertilizers, pesticides, drip irrigation and also by giving more subsidies. But more (b) whether the Govemment have duration has not been given to agricultural increased the duration of such programmes on television. It is just programmes during 1993 according to the neglected. In these circumstances, I demand; would like to know whether the hon. Minister could provide, specifically for (c) if so, the details thereof; and farmer's class, a sep.arale channel called 'Farmers' Channel' as is given to business (d) if nbi. the time by which the' class and also like qo Metro, and if so, needful is likely to be done? when it will be done. 3 Oral Answers FEBRUARY 28, 1994 Oral AnswelS 4 SHRI K.P. SINGH DEO: The hon. SHRI K.P. SINGH DEO: Sir, with Member has said that farm sector has regard to Delhi, as I have mentioned, on been neglected. I would like the House to Channel II, it is shown once a week with a judge whether it is neglected or not. I will duration of 15 minutes. give you facts and figures. Firslly, Doordarshan Kendra, Delhi telecasts MR. SPEAKER: What is the Krishi Darshan on every Monday, percentage of the entire time allotted? Tuesday and Friday for a duration of 25 minutes at 7.00 p.m. Another ten minutes SHRI K.P. SINGH DEO: Sir, in a pfogramme specifically meant for States minute, I will give you the details very like Haryana, Western U.P. and Himachal quickly. Pradesh is also telecast from Delhi. In Bombay, it is five days a week SHRI AMAL DAnA: You should programme with a duratiOn of 30 minutes not only give the time but should also give on each day; in Calcutta, it is once a whell exactly and which hour of the day it month and once a week programme with is telecast. That is very important. a duration of 30 minutes and 25 minutes respectively, being telecast at 7.00 p.m. in SHRI K. P. SINGH DEO: Madras, it is four days a week and also mentioned it as 7.00 p.m. Then for once a week programme in the Second Gramin Mahilaon ke liye, there is a Channel with a duration of 30 minutes programme on 1st, 3rd .and 5th each; in Jalandhar, it is four days a week Wednesday at 7.00 p.m. for 25 minutes; programme with a duration of 15 minutes; Gramin yuvakon ke liye again there is a in Srinagar, it is four days a week programme on 2nd Wednesday at 7.00 programme with 30 minutes duration; in p.m. for 25 minutes; Gramin bachchon ke Lucknow, it is five days a week liye there is a programme on the fourth programme with 30 minutes duration; in Wednesday at 7.00 p.m. for 25 minutes. Hyderabad, it is four days a week Then in the regional channels also, programme with 35 minutes duration; in agricultural programmes are shown. Cuttack, it is four days a week programme Consultations are done with the Ministries with 20 minut~s duration and in Ranchi, it or Departments of Rural Development, is once a week prpgramme with a Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal duration of 15 minutes. (Interruptions) Husbandry. Banking, Irrigation and Non- What I was trying to say is fhat we are not Conventional Energy which has a bearing neglecting it. on agriculture. MR. SPEAKER: It is not convenient Consultations are also held with to give the percentage value. Health and Family Welfare Ministry, as part of the agricultural community SHRI K.P. SINGH DEO: It is very development and functional literacy difficult to give it in percentage terms programmes. Would you like me to give because it changes from. Kendra to the details for all the States? Kendra. SHRI AMAL DATTA: Why do not MR SPEAKER: Is it possible tor you give the details in percentaQ8 value from to give the percentage of time due? Kendra to Kendra? 5 Oral AnswelS PHALGUNA 9,1915 (SAKA) Oral Answers 6 MR. SPEAKER: Now the hon. Speaker, Sir, that the farmers, in their Member may ask the second anxiety to achieve more production, are supplementary question. applying more and excessive dosages of pesticides and fertilizers, sometimes, SHRI K.G. SHIVAPPA: Sir, the leading to drastic adverse effects on the farmers belong to a poor class and they fertility of the soil itself in the long run. are unable to purchase the TV sets to see Doordarshan is the most effective, the programmes. Now, almost all villages powerful instrument to take the fruits of have their own community halls where research to the farmer's notice. So, I they have their own cultural activities. So, would like to know, whether the considering the fact that they belong to a Doordarshan will make its stand clear on poor class, will the Government, with the its attitude towards agricultural sector and cooperation of the State Governments, give more time for this. provide these TV sets free of cost to these community halls in the villages? I SHRI K.P. SINGH DEO: Sir, as far would like to know from the hon.