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Eighth Series, Vol. XLIV No. 19 Wednesday, December 7,1988/1910 Agrahayana 16, 1910 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Twelfth Session (Eighth Lok Sabha) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price: Rs., 50,00 CONTENTS [Eighth Seriss, Vol. XUv, Twelfth Session, 198811910 (Saka}J No. 19, Wednesday, December 7. 1985/Agrahayana 16,1910 (Saka) COLUMNS Obituary Reference 1-2 Oral Answers 10 Questions: 2-33 ·Starred Questions Nos. 370 to 374, 379 and 380 Written Answers to Questions: 34-370 ·Starred Questions Nos. 375 to 378 and 34-52 381 to 389 Unstarred Questions Nos. 3673 to 3905 52-370 Statement Correcting reply to USQ No. 4902 dated 371 5th September, 1988 Re Requirement and Import of Coconut Oil and Copra Statement Clarifying the Reasons for Delay in 371-372 Correcting the Reply to usa No. 4902 dated 5 th September, 1988. Fortieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of 372-376 Human Rights REL Extension of Sittings of Lok Sabha upto 16 December 376-379 Papers Laid on the Table 379-406 Message from Rajya Sabha 406-408 Assent to BIII- 408 Leave of Absence from th~ Sittirlgs of the House 408-409 Public Accounts Committee - 409 Hundred and thirty-ninth Report-presented • The Sign t marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floo. of the House by that Member. (it) COLUMNS Railwav Convention Committee 409 Eleventh Report-presented Committee on Subordinate Legislation 409 Twentieth Report-presented Committee on Absence of Members 410 from the Sittings of the House Minutes-laid Matters Under Rule 377- 410-420 (i) Demand for regular supply of water from 410-411 the Indira Gandhi Canal for Irrigation in the Command area,_ Shri Birbal (ii) Demand for continuing import of Rifampicin, 411 a medicine used for treatment of T.B. patients- Shr; Santosh Kumar Singh (iii) Demand for initiating action to promote 411-412 permanent friendship and lasting peace with the people and Government of China- Shri Aziz Qureshi (iv) Demand for acceptance of the principle of 412-413 payment of pension to ex-servicemen on the basis of One-Rank-One Pension- Prof. Narain Chand Parashar (v) Demand for construction of a National High 413 way from Hajipur to Betia via Vaishali- Shrimati K ishorJ Sinha (vi) Need to approve the projed for establishment 413-414 of non-formal Primary Education Centres for Children of fishermen in Orissa- Shri Chintamani Jena (iii) COLUMNS (vii) Demand for issuing a commemorative stamp 414 in memory of late Shri M.G. Ramachandran- Shri K.R. Natrajan (viii) Demand for extending the Bakhtiarpur-Rajgir 414-415 railway line upto Bodh Gaya and conversion of Fatwa-lsJampur railway line into broad gauge- Shri Viloy Kumar Yadav (ix) Demand for conversion of Miraj-8elgaum railway 415 line into broad gauge early- Shri S.B. Sidnal (x) Assault on Member by the Police in Kerala on 415-417 November 17,1988- Shri V.S. Vijayaraghavan (xi) Demand for ensuring equal price of cane to all 417-418 cane-growers in Uttar Pradesh- Shri Ram Nagina Mishra (xii) Demand for Central Government's taking over 418-419 Ramacast Limited, Mothihari (Bihar)- Shrimati Prabhawati Gupta (xiii) Demand for extension of the Barhan-Etah 419-420 Railway hne upto Farrukhabad (U.P.)- Shri Mohd. Mahfooz Ali Khan Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill 420-499 Motion to Consider, as passed by Aajya Sabha 503-528 535-539 Shri Z.R. Ansari 420-422 Shri E. Ayyapu Reddy 422-429 Shri Harish Rawat 429 438 Shr;mati Prabhawati Gupta (iv) COLUMNS Shri Gadadhar Saha 440-443 Shri Zainul Basher 443-447 Prof. Narain Chand Parashar 447-451 Shri Ram Bahadur Singh 451-454 Shri Ajay Mushran 454-458 Shri K.P. Singh Deo 458-463 Shri S. Thangaraju 463-465 Shri K.N. Pradhan 465-469 Shri Vijay N. Patil 469-471 Dr. G.S. Rajhans 471-474 Shri Vijoy Kumar Yadav 474-476 Shri Somnath Rath 476-478 Shri Keshaorao Pardhl 478-480 Shri Virdhi Chander Jain 480-482 Shri Bhadreswar Tanti 482-484 Shri Y.S. MahaJan 484-486 Shn N. Tombt SIngh 486-487 Shnmatl Basavarajeswari 488-492 Shra Mohd. Mahfooz Ali Khan 492-494 Shri S.G. Gholap 494-497 Shri Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh 497-499 Shri Mankuram Sod. 503-505 Shri Balasaheb Vikhe Patil 505-508 (v) COLUMNS Shri R. Annanambi 508-510 Shri Aziz Qureshi 510-514 Shri Sriballav Panigrahi 514-517 Shri Ram Pyare Panika 517-520 Shri C. Janga Reddy 520-523 Shri N. Dennis 523-525 Shri Kali Prasad Pandey 525-528 Shri Ram Bhagat Paswan 535-537 Statement Re: Report of National Commission on 500-503 Urbanisation submitted to Government in August, 1988- Shrimati Mohsina Kidwai 500-503 Statement Ae: Damage from Cyclone in West Bengal, 528-535 Orissa and Andaman and Nicobar Islands on November 29,1988 and Relief Measures Undertaken- Shri Shyam Lal Yadav 528-534 Statement Re: National Forest Policy- 540-542 Shri Z.R. Ansari 540-542 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOKSABHA 12 November. 1,988 at the age of 79. We deeply mourn the loss of this friend. Wednesday, December 7, 1988/Agrahay- I hope the House will join me in conveying ana 16, 1910 (Saks) our condolences to the bereaved family. The House may now stand in silence for The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock a short while in memory of the deceased. Obituary Reference The Members then stood in $ilenc8 for a short while [MR. SPEAKER in the Chait] [English] ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS MR. SPEAKER: Honourable Mem- bers, I have to inform the House of the sad [English] demise of Shri Kailash Prakash who was a member of the Sixth Lok Sabha during 19n- Production of Cooking Oils 79 representing Meerut constituency of Ut- tar Pradesh. Earlier, he had been a member *370. DR PHULRENU GUPTA: Will of the Uttar Pradesh legislative Council the Minister of FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES during 1948-52; 1962-68 and 1970-76 and be pleased to state: member Uttar Pradesh legislative Assem- bly during 1952-62. He held the office of the (a) the tolal production of vegetable ois Minister of local-self Govemment, Educa- and other cooking oils in the country dwing tion. Finance etc. in Uttar Pradesh. the last three years; A well known political and social worker, (b) the total requirement of vegetable the dedicated himself to the spread of edu- oils and cooking oils in the oounIfY; and cation in Uttar Pradesh. (c) the quantum of vegetable oils and An able parliamentarian, he served on cooking oils imported during these years? the Rules Committee during 1977-78 and 1978-79. He took keen interest in the pro- THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE ceedings of the House. MINISTRY OF FOOD AND CML SUP· PLIES (SHRI SUKHRAM) : (a) to (c). A Shri Kailash Prakash passed away on Statement is given below. 3 Oral Answers DECEMBER 7,1988 Ora/Answers 4 STATEMENT (a) The total production of vegetable oils and cooking oils expeller/refined solvent extracted during the oil years 1985-86 to 1987-88 is as under:- (/akh tonnes) Year Vanaspati Cooking oils 1 2 3 1985-86 9.17 32.26 1986-87 9.29 34.15 1987-88 (estimated) 9.85 35 ..00 Total 28.31 101.41 (b) The estimated requirement of cook- for increasing the oilseeds product jon in the ing oils including vanaspati in the current oil country. year is about 58 lakh tonnes. DR. PHULRENU GUHA: My s8CX)nd (c) About 44.95 lakh tonnes of edible question is, whether it is a fact that cooking oils were imported during the 011 years 1985- oil which had to be sold through public distri- 86 to 1987-88. bution system is being sold in the black market; if so, what action has been taken by DR. PHULRENU GUHA: I want to know the Government in this regard. whether there is any proposal under Government's consideration to help cooking SHRI SUKH RAM: As the Hou5e is oil producing States to increase production aware. we issue these edible oils for public so that the imports can be reduced. distribution to the State Governments and it is the responsibility of the State Govern- SHAI SUKH RAM: Government have ments to ensure that the oil which we give to taken various steps to increase production the poor people and the vulnerable sections, of oilseeds in the country. There is a reaches the poor people. There may be scheme, National Oilseeds Development certain instances where It might be diverted Project, and Oilseeds Project, of the Na- to some unauthorised channels, but if any tional Dairy Development Board to give hone Member gives this information, we will better incentives to the producer through definitely write to the respective State fixation of minimum support price of major Governments so that they can take the cor- oilseeds and intensification of the research rective measures. efforts for increasing the productivity of ollseeds, increasing the area of non-tradi- SHRI BRAJAMOHAN MOHANTY: Mr. tional oilseed crops like Soyabean and Speaker Sir. I would like to know what is the Sunflower and the setting up of the technol- basis of distribution of imported oil to differ- ogy mission for oilseeds. These are the ent States and Union Territories, whether it various steps the Government have taken is on the basis of the population or on the 5 Oral Answers AGRAHAYANA 16,1910 (SAKA) Oral Answers 6 basis of the needs. Also I want to know years. our import has basn on higher side.