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LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Twelrth Series, Vol. V, No. 37 WedDeId.y, Auplt 5, 1M Sbr8Y.... 14, 1'20 (SaU) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Second Session (Twelfth Lok Sabha) (Vol. V contains Nos. 3J to 38) LOK SABRA SECRETARIAT NEWDELm Price : RI. SO.OO EDITORiAL BOARD Shri S. Gopalan Secretary-General Lok Sabha Dr. A.K. Pandey Additional Secretary Lok Sabha Secretariat Shri P.C. Bhatt Chief Editor Lok Sabha Secretariat Shri Sharda Prasad Senior Editor [ORIGINAL ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS lNCWOED IN ENGLISH VERSION AND ORIGINAL HINDI PROCEEDINGS INCLUDeD IN HINDI VERSION WIU BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIIiE AND NOT THE TRANSLATION THEREOF.] CONTENTS [Twelfth Series. Vol. V. Second Session. 199811920 (Saka)} No. 37, Wednesday, Augu8t 5, 1198/Shrwana 14, 1920 (Sao) SUBJECT COLUMNS OBITUARY R~FERENCE ................................................................................................................................. PAPERS ~AID ON THE TABLE .................................................................................................................... 2·6 MESSAGES FROM RAJYA SABHA ............................................................................................................. 7 PRESENTATION OF PETITION ...................................................................................................................... 8 MOTION RE : CONSlbERATION OF FINAL REPORT OF JAIN COMMISSION AND MEMORANDUM OF ACTION TAKEN ON THE REPORT ....................................................................................................... 8·40, 41·92, 96-102. 108·132. 137·252 Shri Madan Lal Khurana .......................................................................................................... 8 Shri L.K. Advani ......................................................................................................................... 11. 14-16 Shri P: Shiv Shanker ............................................................................................................... 16-40 Shri Ram Jelhmalanl ................................................................................................................. 41·53 Shri Indrajit Gopta ....................................................................................................................: 53·tl1 Dr. Subramanian Swamy ......................................................................................................... .. 61·83 Shri Basu Deb Acharia .............................................................................. ; ............................. 83·92 Shri Lalu Prasad ........................................................................................................................ 97·102 Shri Satya Pal Jain ........................................ :............ ,............................................................ 108-119 Shri Rajesh Plio! .............................................................................................._ ..... _ ............... 119·128 Shri R. N!uthiah ..................... / .................................................................................................... 137·150 Shri Murasoli Maran ................................................................................................................. 150-169 Dr. M. Thambi Durai ................................................................................................................. 169·170 Shri Bhagwan Shankar Rawa! ................................................................................................... 174-'80 Shri Ajit Jogi .................................................................................................................-; .......... 180-198 Shri Prabhunath Singh ...... _....... ;............................................................................................. 196-201 Shri Arif Mohammad Khan ....................................................................................................... 201·205 Shrl C.P. Radhaknshnan .......................................................................................................... 205-214 Shri N.K. Premchandran ............................................................................................................ 215-220 (ii) SUBJECT CoLUMNS Prof. Prem Singh Chandumajra ............................................................................................... 220-223 Shri Shailendra Kumar ......................................................................................, ...................... 223-224 Dr. C.P. Thakur .........................................................................: .............................................. .. 224-228 Shri K.S. Rao ............................................................................................................................. 228-236 Shri Ramdas Athawale .............................................................................................................. 237-238 Shri Bat-''Iaraj Patil Sedam ...................................................................................................... 238-240 Shri Var~ ala Radhakrishnan ..................................................................................................... 240-246 Shri C. Gopal ............................................................................................................................. 246-251 AN,"OUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER RE : SITTING OF THE HOUSE ............................................... 40-41 STATEMENTS BY MINiSTERS ....................................................................................................................... 93-96, 132-137 (i) Special package of measures for boosting exports Shri Ramakrishna Hegde ............................................................................................. 93 (ii) The situation along the line of control in Jammu & Kashmir Shri George Fernandes .............................................................................................. 132 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 ....................................................................................................................... 102-108 (i) Need to set up a regional centre of Indian Council of Medical Research at Jammu. Shri Chaman Lal Gupta ............................................................................................. 102 (ii) Need to improve the functioning of telephones in Ferozabad and Agra, U.P. Shri Prabhu Dayal Katheria ........................................................................................ 103 (iii) Need to take steps for providing adequate Irrigation faellities in Banaskantha In Gularat. Shri Haribhal Chaudhary ............................................................................................. 103 (iv)" Need to ensure earty completion of Amrahat Pump Canal-Phase II in Kanpur Dehat. U.P. Shrimati Kamal Rani .................................................................................................... 104 (v) Need to take steps to revive sick Industrial units in Himachal Pradesh. Shri K.D. Sultanpuri .................................................................................................. .. 104 (vi) Need to take steps for the elimination of leprosy from the country. Shrlmati Jayanti Patnalk .............................................................................................. 105 (iii) SUBJECT (vii) Need to ensure that applicants for Prime Minister's Rozgar YO/na are adequately assisted by banks. Shri S. Ajaya Kumar .................................................................................................... 106 (viii) Need for construction of Super Thermal Power Plant at Nabinagar, Bihar during Ninth Five Year Plar.. Shri Sushi! Kumar Singh ........................................................................................... .. 108 (ix) Need to direct State Govemment of Orissa to formulate cIlntingency Plana to help agricuhural operation in the State. Shri A~un Sethi ........................................................................................................... 108 (x) Need to establish small scale industries in rural areas to mhigate hardships of rural unemployed youths. Prof. Prem Singh Chandurnajra ................................................................................. 108 (xi) Need for doubling of Sonapur-Canning Railway line during Ninth Plan hseH. Shri Sanat Kumar Mandai ........................................................................................... 107 (xii) Need to formulate a plan to check pollution in Deihl. Shri Rajo Singh ............................................................................................................ 107 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA 11.03. hr•• PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE Wednesday, August 5, 19981Shravana 14, 1920 (Saka) [English] (The Lole Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock) AnnUlI! Report and Revlaw by the Governmenl ot the wortdng of the Fedel1ltlon 0' Indian [MR. SPeAKER in the Chair) Export Organlaatlon, N.D. THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE (SHRI RAMAKRISHNA {English] HEGDE) : Sir. I beg to lay on the Table:- OBITUARY REFERENCE (1 ) (i) A copy of the Annual Report (Hindi and English versions) of tha Federation of Indian Export Organisations, New Delhi, for the year MR. SPEAKER : Han. Members, I have to inform 1996-97 alongwith Audited Accounts. the House of the sed demise of one of our former colleagues, Maj. Gen. Rebart G. Williams. (ii) A copy of the Review (Hindi and Engllah veraions) by the Govemment of the
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