Rajya Sabha —— Revised List of Business
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RAJYA SABHA —— REVISED LIST OF BUSINESS Friday, December 22, 2017 11 A.M. ———— OBITUARY REFERENCE OBITUARY REFERENCE to the passing away of Shri Jalaludin Ansari (ex-Member). ———— PAPERS TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE Following Ministers to lay papers on the Table entered in the separate list: — 1. SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL for Ministry of Coal; 2. RAO INDERJIT SINGH for Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers; 3. SHRI MANOJ SINHA for Ministry of Communications; 4. SHRI VIJAY GOEL for Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; 5. SHRI HARIBHAI PARTHIBHAI CHAUDHARY for Ministry of Coal; 6. SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN for Ministry of Railways; 7. SHRI PARSHOTTAM RUPALA for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; 8. SHRIMATI KRISHNA RAJ for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; 9. SHRI C. R. CHAUDHARY for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and 10. SHRI P. P. CHAUDHARY for Ministry of Law and Justice. ———— REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE MOTOR VEHICLES (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2017 DR. VINAY P. SAHASRABUDDHE SHRI AJAY SANCHETI to present the Report (in English and Hindi) of the Select Committee on the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2017. ———— REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL SHRI RAM VICHAR NETAM DR. PRADEEP KUMAR BALMUCHU to lay on the Table, a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Thirty-fifth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Twenty-seventh Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Demands for Grants (2017-18)' of the Ministry of Coal. ———— 95 STATEMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES SARDAR BALWINDER SINGH BHUNDER SHRI PRADEEP TAMTA to lay on the Table, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Statements of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18):— (i) Statement showing Further Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Fourth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Issues concerning Flood Management, Compensation and Status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to disposal of the sand left in the fields of farmers'; (ii) Statement showing Further Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Fifteenth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Tenth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water bodies -Encroachment on water bodies and steps required to remove the encroachment and restore the water bodies'; and (iii) Statement showing Further Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Seventeenth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Sixteenth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Demands for Grants (2017-18)' of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. ———— REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN SHRIMATI KAHKASHAN PERWEEN MS. DOLA SEN to lay on the Table, a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Tenth Report of the Committee on Empowerment of Women (2016-17) on the subject 'Women in Detention and Access to Justice. ———— STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS 1. SHRI HARIBHAI PARTHIBHAI CHAUDHARY to make a statement regarding Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirty-first Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel titled "Coal Review of Allotment, Development and Performance of Coal/Lignite Blocks". 2. SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN to make a statement regarding Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Sixteenth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways on 'Outstanding Dues for Indian Railways'. 3. SHRI C. R. CHAUDHARY to make a statement regarding Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Sixteenth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution on Demands for Grants (2017-18) pertaining to the Department of Consumer Affairs. ———— 96 MOTION FOR ELECTION TO THE COCONUT DEVELOPMENT BOARD SHRI RADHA MOHAN SINGH to move the following Motion:— "That in pursuance of clause (e) of sub-section (4) of Section 4 of the Coconut Development Board Act, 1979 (No.5 of 1979), read with clauses (i) and (ii) of sub-rule (1) of Rule 4 of the Coconut Development Board Rules, 1981, this House do proceed to elect, in such manner as the Chairman may direct, one Member from amongst the Members of the House to be a member of the Coconut Development Board." ———— MOTION FOR ELECTION TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS SHRI VIJAY GOEL to move the following Motion:— "That this House concurs in the recommendation of the Lok Sabha that the Rajya Sabha do agree to nominate two Members from Rajya Sabha vice Shri Shantaram Naik and Shri Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, retired from the Rajya Sabha, to associate with the Committee on Public Accounts for the unexpired portion of the term of the Committee and do proceed to elect, in such manner as the Chairman may direct, two Members from among the Members of this House to serve on the said Committee." ———— STATEMENT REGARDING GOVERNMENT BUSINESS SHRI VIJAY GOEL to make a statement regarding Government Business for the week commencing Wednesday, the 27th of December, 2017. ———— #QUESTIONS QUESTIONS entered in separate lists to be asked and answers given. ———— (FROM 2.30 P.M. TO 5.00 P.M.) PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS (RESOLUTIONS) 1. *SHRI D. RAJA to move the following Resolution:— “Having regard to the fact that:— (i) the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes (OBCs) have been provided with reservation in jobs in the Government on the basis of Constitutional and statutory provisions to fulfill the vision of the framers of the Constitution for addressing the problems of discrimination, inequality and deprivation caused by castes, which in the words of Dr. Ambedkar constituted "ascending order of reverence and descending order of contempt"; (ii) the Government jobs are now shrinking because of privatization and most of the jobs in the Government are contractual in nature for which reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs is not applicable and, therefore, reservation is being taken away through backdoor; (iii) in the market driven economy where corporate sector is the dominant engine of economic growth, most of the employment opportunities are now available in the private sector where reservation is not applicable; # At 12 Noon. * Resolutions at sl. nos. 1 to 3 are carried forward from 11th August, 2017 (243rd Session). 97 (iv) the Constitutional provision of positive discrimination in favour of Scheduled Castes and the deprived sections of society and exploited castes and tribes are being negated because of neo-liberal policies at the heart of which remain the market forces and withdrawal of the State from many key sectors and massive disinvestment of the public sector enterprises is causing lack of employment opportunities in the public sector enterprises; and (v) there is greater and urgent need to extend the reservation for SCs and STs and OBCs to the private sector in tune with the objectives and Constitutionally enshrined provisions in this regard and in tune with the pronouncements of the former President of India, Late Shri K.R. Narayanan in his Republic Day eve speech in 2002 that "Indeed in the present economic system and of the future, it is necessary for the private sector to adopt social policies that are progressive and more egalitarian for these deprived classes to be uplifted from their state of deprivation and inequality and given the rights of citizens and civilized human beings. This is not to ask the private enterprise to accept socialism, but to initiate something like the diversity bill and the affirmative action that a capitalist country like the US has adopted and is implementing", this House urges upon the Government to extend reservation of jobs for SCs, STs and OBCs in the private sector on the pattern of reservations in the Government sector." 2. DR. T. SUBBARAMI REDDY to move the following Resolution:— “Having regard to the fact that: (i) India requires speedy economic development and higher growth rate to make it among the few large economies in the world with propitious economic outlook; (ii) infrastructure development is one of the key components for industrial development and engine of growth; (iii) road network is one of the essential parameters for economic development and communication; (iv) economic downturn seen in the last few years caused reduction in the growth of traffic and lower revenue realization for Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) road projects; and (v) reduced revenue realization adversely affected debt service concessionaires and caused widespread default in debt accounts, this House urges upon the Government — (a) to take immediate and concrete steps to remove all bottlenecks in the awarding of road projects under BOT and EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction); (b) to initiate measures to restore market confidence