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145 Tuesday, the 24Th April, 2012 TUESDAY, THE 24TH APRIL, 2012 (The Rajya Sabha met in the Parliament House at 11-00 a.m.) 11-00 a.m. 1. Oath or Affirmation The following Members made and subscribed oath/affirmation and took their seats in the House :— GUJARAT 1. Shri Arun Jaitley, Leader of the Opposition ANDHRA PRADESH 2. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury 3. Shri Chiranjeevi Konidala 4. Shri C. M. Ramesh 5. Shri Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu BIHAR 6. Shri Ali Anwar Ansari 7. Dr. Mahendra Prasad 8. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan 9. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad 10. Prof. Anil Kumar Sahani 11. Shri Bashistha Narain Singh CHHATTISGARH 12. Shri Bhushanlal Jangde GUJARAT 13. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya 14. Shri Praveen Rashtrapal 15. Shri Shankarbhai N. Vegad HARYANA 16. Shri Shadi Lal Batra HIMACHAL PRADESH 17. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda 145 RAJYA SABHA KARNATAKA 18. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar 19. Shri K. Rahman Khan 20. Shri Basawaraj Patil 21. Shri Rangasayee Ramakrishna MADHYA PRADESH 22. Shri Satyavrat Chaturvedi 23. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot 24. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla 25. Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste 26. Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki MAHARASHTRA 27. Shrimati Vandana Chavan 28. Shri Anil Desai 29. Shri Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh 30. Shri Ajay Sancheti 31. Shri Rajeev Shukla 32. Shri D. P. Tripathi ODISHA 33. Shri Rabinarayan Mohapatra 34. Shri A. V. Swamy 35. Shri Dilip Kumar Tirkey RAJASTHAN 36. Shri Narendra Budania 37. Shri Bhupender Yadav UTTARAKHAND 38. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra 146 24TH APRIL, 2012 UTTAR PRADESH 39. Shri Naresh Agrawal 40. Shri Munquad Ali 41. Shri Arvind Kumar 42. Shrimati Jaya Bachchan 43. Shri Vinay Katiyar 44. Shri Rasheed Masood 45. Km. Mayawati 46. Shri Kiranmay Nanda 47. Chaudhary Munabbar Saleem 48. Shri B. B. Tiwari 49. Shri Darshan Singh Yadav WEST BENGAL 50. Shri Tapan Kumar Sen 11-50 a.m. 2. Welcome to new Members The Chairman welcomed the newly elected and re-elected Members. 11-51 a.m. 3. Obituary Reference The Chairman made a reference to the passing away of Shri N. K. P. Salve, ex-Member. The House observed silence, all Members standing, as a mark of respect to the memory of the departed. 11-56 a.m. 4. References by the Chair (i) The Chairman made a reference to the successful test-firing of the nuclear capable, 5000 K.M. range surface-to-surface Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile AGNI-V from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast on the 19th of April, 2012. 147 RAJYA SABHA 11-58 a.m. (ii) The Chairman also made a reference to the National Panchayati Raj Divas. 11-59 a.m. 5. Announcement regarding the Leader of the Opposition The Chairman made the following announcement:— ―I have to inform Members, that consequent upon his re-election to the Rajya Sabha with effect from the 3rd April, 2012, I have accorded recognition to Shri Arun Jaitley, Member and Leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Rajya Sabha, as the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha with effect from the 3rd April, 2012.‖ 6. Panel of Vice-Chairmen The Chairman announced that the Panel of Vice-Chairmen has been re-constituted w.e.f. 19th April, 2012 with the following Members:— 1. Prof. P.J. Kurien; 2. Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan; 3. Shri Shanta Kumar; 4. Shri Prasanta Chatterjee; 5. Shri Tariq Anwar; and 6. Dr. Mahendra Prasad. 7. Starred Questions Answers to Starred Question Nos. 261 to 280 were laid on the Table. 8. Unstarred Questions Answers to Unstarred Question Nos. 2016 to 2170 were laid on the Table. 12-00 Noon. 9. Papers Laid on the Table Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad (Minister of Health and Family Welfare) laid on the Table:- I. A copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Department of Health) Notification No. G.S.R. 76 (E), dated the 8th February, 2012, publishing the Drugs and Cosmetics (2nd Amendment) Rules, 2012, under Section 38 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. 148 24TH APRIL, 2012 II. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (i) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, for the year 2010-11, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Institute. (c) Statement giving reasons for the delay in laying the papers mentioned at (i) (a) above. (ii) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), New Delhi, for the year 2010-11, together with the Auditor‘s Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Academy. (c) Statement giving reasons for the delay in laying the papers mentioned at (ii) (a) above. (iii) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysore, for the year 2010-11, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Institute. (c) Statement giving reasons for the delay in laying the papers mentioned at (iii) (a) above. Shri Jairam Ramesh (Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Minister of Rural Development) on behalf of Shri Praful Patel laid on the Table a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (i) Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of India (Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Department of Heavy Industry) and the Scooters India Limited (SIL), for the year 2012-13. (ii) Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of India (Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Department of Heavy Industry) and Tungabhadra Steel Products Limited (TSPL), for the year 2012-13. 149 RAJYA SABHA (iii) Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of India (Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Department of Heavy Industry) and the Triveni Structurals Limited (TSL), for the year 2012-13. (iv) Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of India (Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Department of Heavy Industry) and the Andrew Yule Group, for the year 2012-13. Shri Jairam Ramesh (Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Minister of Rural Development) laid on the Table a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Rural Development) Notification No. G.S.R. 27 (E), dated the 17th January, 2012, publishing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Fund (Amendment) Rules, 2011, under sub-section (1) of Section 33 of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan (Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests) laid on the Table:- I.(1) A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers, under sub-section (1) of Section 619 A of the Companies Act, 1956: — (i) (a) Thirty-seventh Annual Report and Accounts of the West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Limited (WBFDCL), Kolkata, for the year 2010-11, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation. (ii) (a) Thirty-fourth Annual Report and Accounts of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Forest & Plantation Development Corporation Limited, Port Blair, for the year 2010-11, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation. (2) Statements (in English and Hindi) giving reasons for the delay in laying the papers mentioned at (1) above. 150 24TH APRIL, 2012 II. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora, Uttarakhand, for the year 2009-10, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Institute. (c) Statement giving reasons for the delay in laying the papers mentioned at (a) above. Shri Namo Narain Meena (Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance) laid on the Table a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services) Notification No. 1/2010, dated the 6th January 2011, publishing the United Bank of India (Officers') Service (Amendment) Regulations, 2010, along with delay statement, under sub-section (4) of Section 19 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970. Shri Namo Narain Meena (Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance) on behalf of Shri S.S. Palanimanickam laid on the Table:- I. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Notifications of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), under Section 159 of the Customs Act, 1962, along with Explanatory Memoranda:— th (1) S.O. 2684 (E), dated the 28 November, 2011, regarding exchange rate of conversion of foreign currency into Indian currency or vice-versa for the purpose of assessment of imported and exported goods. th (2) S.O. 2723 (E), dated the 30 November, 2011, amending Notification No. S.O. 748 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2001, to substitute certain entries in the original Notification. th (3) S.O. 2798 (E), dated the 15 December, 2011, amending Notification No. S.O. 748 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2001, to substitute certain entries in the original Notification. th (4) S.O. 2914 (E), dated the 28 December, 2011, regarding exchange rate of conversion of foreign currency into Indian currency or vice-versa for the purpose of assessment of imported and exported goods. th (5) S.O. 2926 (E), dated the 30 December, 2011, amending Notification No.
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