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513 Motion ofTlrtrnks on PHALGUNA 11,1905 (SAKA) Mollon o/Thanks 514 Pres ident ~ s Address on President's Address 15.57 hIS. lar d.istu).'bance which took place just MOTION OF THANKS ON THE before I got. up to speak. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS . CONTD PROF. SAIFUDDIN SOZ: It is • regul~r . 1PROF. SAIFUDDIN SOZ all ega- (Baramulla) : Sir, c ertain SHRIMATI INDIRA GANDHI: Hons. If somebody wants to make a state- MR. SPEAKER: No. Please sit ment, the Chief Minister is absolutely down. Don t you have ~ny ethics 1 able to r eply to the questions which we have asked him. PROF. SAIFUDDIN SOZ : Three minutes, Sir. Allegations have been .PROF. SAIFUDDIN SOZ: But made against the people of Jammu a Member of this House has a right. and Kashmir. MR. SPEAKER: I have explained SHRIMATI INDIRA GANDHI: to you that I will allow you tim e ~ but I am not speaking to you, I am spea- not at the present time. king to the Speaker. PROF. SAIFUDDIN SOZ: Two Mr: Speaker, Sir, in this HOllse minutes: we those sitting on this side, the Government, do not expect praise, but MR. SPEAKER: N<. t now. I will we do say that proven facts cannot be allow you later on. disputed. I could have gone into much PROF. SATYASADHAN greater detail~ but fortunately my CHAKRABOR TY (Calcutta South): coll e ague ~ the Finance Minister; pre- You can give him two minutes. sented the Budget yesterday and he has given the d etailed figures. So, I need MR. SPEAKER: Professor, don' t not go into them. But eVl!n at the r isk you r e ... lise ? of boring my fri ends h ere, I am going THE PRIME MINISTER to repeat some of the things h e sajd. (SHRIMATI JNDIRA GANDHI): Just the da y before yesterday we had Now~ the most important fact of a long discussion On the unfortunate this year and these last four ye;rs has and tragic happenings in our neigh- been thc big incrcns c in ur d evelop- m ent effort year by year, not only in bourhood in Punj:l b and H aryana. It was my impression then that we had physical tcrms but in terms of the number of people covered and sections all agreed that we should try to create of population sp cially helped. In the an atmospher e in this country w~h would b e more conducive to different Sixth Plan as a whole the growth of the G .D. P. (Gross Domestic Product) el m ents working together; and that is expected to be 5.2 per cent which this could onl y be done wh n we all is the highest any Plan. FinanCially, join forces to fight all communalist in the Plan outlay has been increasing t cnd enci es~ all cast c ist tend encies and substantially year by year and this year all above all secessionist and fissiparous it will be 25 per cent higher than in tendencies. Unfortunately that debate the previous year. Our sound fiscal and does not seem to have left much monetary policles have created a impression on many Hon ble Me.mbers sound macro environment for growth, here. but we are also concentrating on the The President's Address is not vigoro~s implementation of OUf basically d ealin g wi th these subj ects, programmes' so as to give greater although these are the background and purchasing. power to all sections, arc very important; I shall come back specially the poorer sections an4 to them at a later stage. I have refer- alleviating the hardship of our middlt: fed to this only because of the irresu· classes. !t, Motion 01 Thanks on MARCH Ij 1984 Motion 01 Thanks on SI& President's 'Address President's Address DR. SUBRAMANIAM SW AMY Irrigation and dry farming have been (Bombay North East): Is it about the special concerns of mine and I shQuld ndian economy? like tt' give some figures about irri- gation. The addition made in 1981-82 SHRIMATI INDIRA GANDHI: was 2.2 millio\} hectares; in 1982-83, It is about the Indian economy. If 1983-84 and 1984.85 each year 2.3 YOll were not travelling so much, million hectares. In just these four perhaps you would know more about years, mo.re than 9 million hectares it. h ave been added. And it is most unfair criticism to sa y that we fell As for the coverage, let us se e short of the a-nnual target by a small what we have been abt e to do for percentage. We had, 1 admit, kept our various secions. But I shall go into target rather high. If there had not the details only on two or three of the been drought, I am sure, we would most deprived sections. I was astoni- have overtaken it. shed to hear myoId friend, Shri Banarsidas saying that the purchasing power of farmers has gone down. The So far as dry farming is concer- ver y fact that more and more farmers ned, a national sch eme for dry farming are using in larger and larger quanti- was formulated and launched; more ties various modern inputs and are than 400Q water-sheds identified and thus able to increase to produce, more, crops and practices suitable for them contradicts this allegation. You need have been devised. One hone Member only compare the deal which our spoke-may-be more than (ine spoke-of farm rs got during the years1977-79 our importing foodgrains as if this was and since 1980. I should like to read some big secret we were hiding and out thesx figures. which they had managed to unearth. Sir ,.1 have spoken on this openly and We have substantially increased publicly. As you know, we did not procurement and support prices of import food grains because of any agricultural commodities. Since compulsion but because of abundant January, 1980, wheat has increased by caution. This is nothing new. I have 32.2 per cent, paddy 38.9 per cent, spoken on this the last time we impor- pul~s40.71 percent, cotton 45.per ted grain. On both occasions we were cent, ground nut 66 per cent. Sugar- able to buy at a time when prices were cane prices have not been allowed to low in the other countries. Whatever fall and wherever there was any the monsoon and weather forecasts remote suspicion that there might be may be, one has to be careful and he trouble, we have gone ahead to give prtpare~ in case of trouble or of support prices and so on. By way of drought. We should not find ourselves direct help, we have reduced. fertiliser begging as happened in 1966. I should prices by 7 .5 per cent in 1983, we like to remind the. House that when I expand d short-term credit Py 47 per became Prime Minister in 1966, it was cent and long and medium term credit a time of famine-not just drought but by 27 per cent. Farmers, specially the famine. When I toured the States of small and marginal farmers and land- Bihar, Maharashtra and at that time less labour have been the focu of our MYiore, the only point that farmers attention. It is obvious that all of us put to me was: Don't bother about owe our very live,S to their production. relief; don't bother about anything. In fa~t, I thin,k it is no exaggeration to But do something so that when there say that our Government and this is drought in future, we should be partioular government has done more stronger in facing it. So, since hen, for them than has ev r been don~ this has been my major concern. Now, b fore. this time in 1982-83, there was drought which, I think, has be en called the We are trying out the crop oountry's very worst affecting hundreds insurance scheme on a pilot basil. of districts. Its impact was not felt by l ~" ~ ," , " . ' • I •• I Motion of TJ,anics PHALGUNA 11, 1905 (SAKA) Motion 0/ tJ,anks ~ 1~ on President's Address .. on President's Addres' the people; and the Opposition was remaining 50 % is to be provided by denied the opportunity to raise a hue the States. Rs. 39 lakhs has b ~en and cry as they would have liked to provided in 1983-84 for tbis scheme. do. The scheme is applicabl e to mari- ne as well as inland fishermen. Origi- DR. SUBRAMANIAM SWAMY: nally, we had announced it only for That is because pf the good work done the sea going ones. But some months earlier. ago, my attention was drawn to the fact that dver and lake fishermen were SHRIMATI INDIRA GANDHI: left out. So; we have included them That is beca.use of our success in also. managing the crisis. Yes. Th~re were good bUffers/stock from internal We have also asked the States to procurement and we augmented them create a Natural Calamity . Distress by importing 4 million ttlhnes in Relief Fund. 1982-83 and 2.7 million tonnes in 1983-84. There was no knowing last A large section of our poor year how this year's monsoon would people are weavers. We believe in turn out. So, it is an example of encouraging handloom production. Not taking advance care as any good house- only is this the means' of livelihood wife would do for her household.