STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS

The following Statements by Ministers were made/laid during the Session: —

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time No. taken Hrs.Mts.

1. 19-11- Recent cyclone and devastation caused Shri Pranab 0-01 2007 by it in Bangladesh. Mukherjee 2. 22-11- Status of implementation of Shri 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. 3. 23-11- Status of implementation of Dr. Akhilesh Prasad 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Singh Eighteenth Report of the Department– related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution. 4. -do- ‘National Policy for Farmers’ Shri 0-02

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

5. -do- Serial bomb blasts in the State of Uttar Shri Shriprakash 0-02 Pradesh. Jaiswal

6. 26-11- Status of implementation of Shri A. R. Antulay 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Ninth and Eighteenth Reports of the Department–related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment. 0-01 7. -do- Status of implementation of Shrimati Renuka recommendations contained in the One Chowdhury Hundred Seventy-first Report of the Department–related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests. 8. -do- Serial bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh on Shri Shriprakash 3-54 the 23rd November, 2007. Jaiswal

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

9. 26-11- Violence by All Adivashi Students -do- 1-06 2007 Association of Assam (AASAA) on the 29-11- 24th November, 2007 2007 10. 27-11- Status of implementation of Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Seventh Report of the Department– related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources. 11. 28-11- Status of implementation of Shri Ashwani Kumar 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Eighty-first Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce. 0-41 12. 28-11- Stay of Ms. Taslima Nasreen in . Shri 2007 29-11- 2007

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

13. 29-11- Status of implementation of Shri S. Jaipal 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Twentieth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development. Shri Mani Shankar 14. -do- Status of implementation of Aiyar recommendations contained in the One

Hundred Sixty-ninth, One Hundred Eighty-fifth, One Hundred Ninetieth and One Hundred Ninety-fifth Reports of the 0-01 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development. 15. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Suresh Pachouri recommendations contained in the Twenty-first Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture. Kumari Selja 16. 29-11- Status of implementation of 2007 recommendations contained in the

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

Twenty-first Report of the Department-

related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development. 0-01

17. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Anand Sharma recommendations contained in the Fifteenth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. 18. -do- National Old Age Pension Shri Raghuvansh 0-02 Scheme (IGNOAPS). Prasad Singh 19. -do- Status of National Rural Employment -do- 0-02 Guarantee Act (NREGA) 20. -do- Status of implementation of the -do- 0-02 components of Bharat Nirman relating to the Ministry of Rural Development.

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

21. 30-11- Status of implementation of Shri Sharad Pawar 2007 recommendations contained in the Nineteenth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

22. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Ram Vilas recommendations contained in the Paswan Twenty-second Report of the 0-01 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel. 23. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Pawan Kumar recommendations contained in the Bansal Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-sixth and Fifty-second Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance.

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

24. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Suresh Pachouri recommendations contained in the Ninetieth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy. 25. 30-11- Status of implementation of Shri Suresh Pachouri 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Fifteenth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. 26. -do- 'HINDRAF Demonstration in Malaysia'. Shri Pranab 0-02 Mukherjee 0-01 27. 03-12- Status of implementation of Shri Suresh Pachouri 2007 recommendations contained in the One Hundred Seventy-third Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests.

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

28. 04-12- Status of implementation of Shri Pawan Kumar 2007 recommendations contained in the Fifty- Bansal first Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance. 29. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Sontosh Mohan 0-01 recommendations contained in the One Dev Hundred Seventy-ninth and Two Hundred-first Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry. 30. 04-12- Status of implementation of Shri 2007 recommendations contained in the Fourteenth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas.

31. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Prem Chand recommendations contained in the Fifty- Gupta fifth Report of the Department-related

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance.

32. -do- Status of implementation of Shri R. Velu recommendations contained in the Twenty-seventh Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways. 33. 05-12- Status of implementation of Shri B.K. Handique 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in Sixteenth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. 34. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Shivraj 0-01 recommendations contained in the One Vishwanath Patil Hundred Twenty-sixth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. 35. 05-12- Status of implementation of Shri E.V.K.S. 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Ninth Elangovan

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

and Twenty-first Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour. 36. 06-12- Status of implementation of Shri S. 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Eighth and Sixteenth Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development. 37. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Mani Shankar 0-01 recommendations contained in the One Aiyar Hundred Twenty-seventh Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. 38. -do- Status of implementation of Shri G.K. Vasan 0-01 recommendations contained in the Fifty- fourth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance.

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

39. -do- Status of implementation of Shri M.V. 0-01 recommendations contained in the Fifty- Rajasekharan third Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance. Dr. Shakeel Ahmad 40. 06-12- Status of implementation of 2007 recommendations contained in the

Twenty-Sixth, Thirty Ninth, Forty-first, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Reports of 0-01 the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology.

41. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Prithviraj Chavan recommendations contained in the One Hundred Seventy-fifth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology Environment and Forests.

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

42. -do- Status of implementation of Shri Raghuvansh 0-01 recommendations contained in the Prasad Singh Twenty-eighth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development. 43. 07-12- Status of implementation of Shri Suresh Pachouri 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Eighteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy. 44. 07-12- Status of implementation of Shri Suresh Pachouri 0-01 2007 recommendations contained in the Eighteenth Report of the Department- related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. 0-01 45. -do- ‘Reconciliation of Revenue and Fiscal Shri Pawan Kumar Deficits as in Finance Accounts 2006-07 Bansal and Accounts-at-a-Glance/Budget-at-a-

Sl. Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken No. Hrs.Mts.

Glance’

46. -do- Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Shri Suresh Pachouri 0-01 Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

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