RAJYA SABHA —— REVISED LIST OF BUSINESS

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

11 A.M. ——— QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS entered in separate lists to be asked and answers given. ————

PAPERS TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE

I. Following Ministers to lay papers on the Table entered in the separate list: — 1. SHRI PRANAB MUKHERJEE for Ministry of Finance; 2. SHRIMATI JAYANTHI NATARAJAN for Ministry of Environment and Forests; 3. SHRI for Ministry of Finance; 4. SHRI S.S. PALANIMANICKAM for Ministry of Finance; 5. SHRI S. GANDHISELVAN for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and 6. SHRI SUDIP BANDYOPADHYAY for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

II. SHRI NAMO NARAIN MEENA to lay on the Table, under clause (1) of article 151 of the Constitution, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Reports:— (i) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of for the year ended March, 2010 (No.13 of 2011-12): Union Government (Civil, Autonomous Bodies, Performance Audit of National Institutes of Technology (NIT) (Ministry of Human Resource Development) (Department of Higher Education). (ii) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2010 (No.16 of 2011-12): Union Government (Civil), Compliance Audit Observations; (iii) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2010 (No. 17 of 2011-12): Union Government (Civil), Autonomous Bodies (Performance Audit); and ————

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REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE WELFARE OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES

SHRI K.B. SHANAPPA MISS ANUSUIYA UIKEY to lay on the Table, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Reports of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (2010-11 and 2011-12):— (i) ∗Twelfth Report on the subject “Examination of Programmes for the Development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PTGs)”; and (ii) πThirteenth Report on the subject “Termination of 10 SC ex-teachers appointed by Navyug School Educational Society of Municipal Council on contract basis during Special Recruitment Drives 2005 and 2007”. ————

STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS

1. SHRI to make a statement regarding status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Eighth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development pertaining to Demands for Grants, for the year 2010-11, of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

2. SHRIMATI JAYANTHI NATARAJAN to make a statement regarding status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred and Ninety-second Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests.

3. SHRI SUDIP BANDYOPADHYAY to make a statement regarding status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare on the Demands for Grants, for the year 2010-11, of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. ————

MOTION FOR ELECTION TO THE JOINT COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE MATTERS RELATING TO ALLOCATION AND PRICING OF TELECOM LICENCES AND SPECTRUM

SHRI to move the following Motion:—

“That this House concurs in the recommendation of the Lok Sabha that do appoint two Members of Rajya Sabha to the Joint Committee to Examine Matters Relating to Allocation and Pricing of Telecom Licences and Spectrum in the vacancies caused by the resignation of Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan from the membership of the Committee and the retirement of Shri Sitaram Yechury from the membership of Rajya Sabha and communicate to Lok Sabha the names of the Members so appointed by the Rajya Sabha to the Joint Committee and resolves that Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan and Shri Sitaram Yechury be appointed to the said Joint Committee to fill the vacancies.” ————

∗ The Report was presented to the Speaker, Lok Sabha on the 30th April, 2011 and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha was informed accordingly on the 9th May, 2011. π The Report was presented to the Speaker, Lok Sabha on the 1st June, 2011 and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha was informed accordingly on the 6th June, 2011. 238

LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS Bills for consideration and passing

1. FURTHER CONSIDERATION of the following motion moved by The Commercial Shri Salman Khursheed on the 29th August, 2011:–– Division of High Courts "That the Bill to provide for the constitution of a Commercial Division in Bill, 2010. the High Courts for adjudicating commercial disputes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, as passed by Lok Sabha and as reported by the Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha, be taken into consideration."

SHRI SALMAN KHURSHEED to move that the Bill be passed.

2. SHRI to move that the Bill to declare the Indian Institute of The Indian

Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, in the State Institute of of to be an institution of national importance and to provide for its Information incorporation and for matters connected therewith, as passed by Lok Sabha, be Technology, taken into consideration. Design and Manufacturing, ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. Kancheepuram Bill, 2011. 3. SHRI KAPIL SIBAL to move that the Bill further to amend the Copyright The Copyright Act, 1957, be taken into consideration. (Amendment) Bill, 2010. ALSO to move that the Bill be passed.

4. SHRI KAPIL SIBAL to move that the Bill further to amend the Institutes of ∗The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, as passed by Lok Sabha, be taken into consideration. Technology (Amendment) ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. Bill, 2011.

5. SHRI KAPIL SIBAL to move that the Bill to amend the National Institutes *The National of Technology Act, 2007, as passed by Lok Sabha, be taken into consideration. Institutes of Technology ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. (Amendment) Bill, 2011.

6. SHRI PRANAB MUKHERJEE to move that the Bill further to amend the The Customs Customs Act, 1962, as passed by Lok Sabha, be taken into consideration. (Amendment and Validation) ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. Bill, 2011.

NEW DELHI; V.K. AGNIHOTRI, September 5, 2011. Secretary-General.

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