RAJYA SABHA FRIDAY, THE 2ND DECEMBER, 2016 (The Rajya Sabha met in the Parliament House at 11-00 a.m.) ______11-00 a.m. 1. Papers Laid on the Table

Shri (Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare) laid on the Table a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) Notification No. RLBCAU/BOM/3/A&P/2016-PART-I, dated the 2nd November, 2016, publishing Rules for Emoluments, Terms and Conditions of Service, Powers and Functions of Officers of Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University-2016, under sub-section (2) of Section 44 of the Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University Act, 2014. Shrimati Smriti Zubin Irani (Minister of Textiles) laid on the Table:- I. A copy (in English and Hindi) of the Notification No. S.O. 3016 (E), dated the 21st September, 2016, regarding reconstitution of the National Jute Board, with effect from 29th September, 2016 for a period of two years, under Section 23 of the National Jute Board Act, 2008. II. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers, under sub- section (1) (b) of Section 394 of the Companies Act 2013:— (a) Thirty-third Annual Report and Accounts of the National Handloom Development Corporation Limited (NHDC), Lucknow, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation. III. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (i) (a) Forty-seventh Annual Report and Accounts of the Handloom Export Promotion Council (HEPC), Chennai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Council.

112 2ND DECEMBER, 2016 (ii) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International School of Textiles and Management (SVPISTM), Coimbatore, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Institution. Shri Radha Mohan Singh (Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare) on behalf of Shri S.S. Ahluwalia laid on the Table a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (i) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Society. (ii) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics (ISAS), New Delhi, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Society. Shri (Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways) laid on the Table a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers, under sub-section (1) (b) of Section 394 of the Companies Act, 2013:— (i) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC), New Delhi, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation. (ii) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Limited (MRVC), Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation.

113 RAJYA SABHA (iii) (a) Fortieth Annual Report and Accounts of the IRCON International Limited, New Delhi, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Company. Shri (Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj) laid on the Table:- I. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Notifications of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare), under sub-section (3) of Section 36 of the Insecticides Act, 1968:— (1) G.S.R. 794 (E), dated the 13th August, 2016, publishing the Insecticides (Second Amendment) Rules, 2016. (2) S.O. 3385 (E), dated the 4th November, 2016, amending Notification No. G.S.R. 9 (E), dated the 9th January, 1974, to insert certain entries in the original Notification. II. A copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare) Notification No. S.O. 2614 (E), dated the 5th August, 2016, publishing the Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) (Seventh Amendment) Order, 2016, under sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914.

III. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers, under sub-section (1) (b) of Section 394 of the Companies Act, 2013:— (a) Thirty-eighth Annual Report and Accounts of the Karnataka Cashew Development Corporation (KCDC) Limited, Mangalore, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts and the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India thereon. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation. IV. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (i) (a) Fortieth Annual Report of the National Federation of Urban Co-operative Banks and Credit Societies Limited (NAFCUB), New Delhi, for the year 2015-16.

114 2ND DECEMBER, 2016 (b) Annual Accounts of the National Federation of Urban Co-operative Banks and Credit Societies Limited (NAFCUB), New Delhi, for the year 2015-16, and the Audit Report thereon. (c) Review by Government on the working of the above Federation. (ii) (a) Fifty-second Annual Report and Accounts of the All India Federation of Co-operative Spinning Mills Limited (AIFCOSPIN), Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Federation. (iii) (a) Annual Report of the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad, for the year 2015-16. (b) Annual Accounts of the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad, for the year 2015-16, and the Audit Report thereon. (c) Review by Government on the working and of the Annual Accounts of the above Institute. (iv) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the National Labour Cooperatives Federation of India Limited (NLCF), New Delhi, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Federation. Shrimati Smriti Zubin Irani (Minister of Textiles) on behalf of Shri laid on the Table:- I. A copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Textiles Notification No. S.O. 3095 (E), dated the 30th September, 2016, amending Notification No. S.O. 126 (E), dated the 14th January, 2016 to substitute certain entries in the original Notification, under sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987. II. A copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers:— (i) (a) Thirty-sixth Annual Report and Accounts of the Man-Made Textiles Research Association (MANTRA), Surat, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by the Government on the working of the above Association.

115 RAJYA SABHA (ii) (a) Sixty-sixth Annual Report and Accounts of the Synthetic and Art Silk Mills’ Research Association (SASMIRA), Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Association. (iii) (a) Thirty-third Annual Report and Accounts of the Indian Silk Export Promotion Council (ISEPC), Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Council. (iv) (a) Sixty-second Annual Report and Accounts of the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC), Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Council. (v) (a) Annual Report and Accounts of the Textiles Committee, Mumbai, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Committee. (vi) Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of India (Ministry of Textiles) and the National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) Limited, for the year 2016-17. Shri C.R. Chaudhary (Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) laid on the Table a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following papers, under sub-section (11) of Section 31 of the Warehousing Corporation Act, 1962: — (a) Fifty-ninth Annual Report and Accounts of the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), New Delhi, for the year 2015-16, together with the Auditor's Report on the Accounts. (b) Review by Government on the working of the above Corporation.

^Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya (Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers) laid on the Table a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals) Notification No. G.S.R. 834 (E), dated the 30th August, 2016, publishing the Chemical Weapons Convention Rules, 2016to lay on the Table, under sub-section (3) of Section 56 of the Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000.

^ At 11-04 a.m. 116 2ND DECEMBER, 2016 11-02 a.m. 2. Reports of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce Shri , presented the following Reports (in English and Hindi) of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce:— (i) 127th Report on the Action Taken by Government on the Recommendations/Observations of the Committee contained in its 122nd Report on Ease of Doing Business; (ii) 128th Report on the Action Taken by Government on the Recommendations/Observations of the Committee contained in its 126th Report on Demands for Grants (2016-17) of Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion); (iii) 129th Report on the Action Taken by Government on the Recommendations/Observations of the Committee contained in its 125th Report on Demands for Grants (2016-17) of Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Commerce); and (iv) 130th Report on Industrial Policy in the Changing Global Scenario. 11-03 a.m. 3. Report of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel Shri Ram Vichar Netam, laid on the Table, a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Twenty-fourth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Eighteenth Report of the Committee (Sixteenth ) on 'Demands for Grants(2016-17)' of the .

4. Reports of the Railway Convention Committee Shri T.K. Rangarajan, laid on the Table, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Reports of the Railway Convention Committee (2014):—

117 RAJYA SABHA (i) Sixth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Rate of Dividend payable by the Railways to the General Revenues for the year 2016-17 and other ancillary matters'.

(ii) Seventh Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Role of IRCON in Infrastructure Building in Indian Railways'.

(iii) Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Third Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Commercial utilisation of surplus Railway land- Role of Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA)'. 11-05 a.m. 5. Statement regarding Government Business Shri , Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, made a statement regarding Government Business for the week commencing Monday, the 5th of December, 2016. ¢11-23 a.m. 6. Information to the House In response to a matter raised by Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of the Opposition, Shri Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Km. Mayawati and other Members regarding the alleged deployment of Army at 19 Toll plazas across the State of West Bengal without prior intimation to the Government and Administration of that State, Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence, responded and on the direction of the Chair, laid on the Table, a Statement along with enclosures (in English only) regarding data collection exercise by the Army Formations in the Eastern Command and other Commands.

 From 11-04 a.m. to 11-05 a.m., see item at Sl. No. 1 (14). ¢ From 11-06 a.m. to 11-23 a.m., some points were raised. 118 2ND DECEMBER, 2016 §11-44 a.m.

7. Matters raised with permission

1. !Shri Sanjiv Kumar raised a matter regarding unrest among tribals in Jharkhand due to wrong policies of land acquisition.

11-51 a.m. 2. Shrimati Vijila Sathyananth raised a matter regarding need to stop the disinvestment of Salem Steel Plant.

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3. Shri K.K. Ragesh raised a matter regarding concern over steep fall in the prices of coconut.

!Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare responded. 12-00 Noon 8. Starred Questions Starred Question No.181 regarding Acquiring land for Bandra Kurla station for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train was orally answered.

12-04 p.m. (The House adjourned at 12-04 p.m. and re-assembled at 2-30 p.m.) Answers to remaining Starred Question Nos.182 to 195 were laid on the Table. 9. Unstarred Questions

Answers to Unstarred Question Nos. 1921 to 2080 were laid on the Table.

§ From 11-27 a.m. to 11-44 a.m., some points were raised. ! Spoke in Hindi.  From 11-45 a.m. to 11-51 a.m., some points were raised.  From 11-52 a.m. to 11-59 a.m., some points were raised.  From 12-01 p.m. to 12-04 p.m., some points were raised. 119 RAJYA SABHA 2-32 p.m. 10. Private Members’ Bills — Introduced (1) The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (Insertion of new article 21B) was introduced by Shri K.K. Ragesh. 2-33 p.m. (2) The Women Welfare Bill, 2016 was introduced by Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa. (3) The Women Workers (Equal Pay and Welfare) Bill, 2016 was introduced by Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa. (4) The Women (Reservation in Services) Bill, 2016 was introduced by Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa. 2-34 p.m. (5) The Tea Workers’ (Welfare and Special Provisions) Bill, 2016 was introduced by Shri Vivek Gupta. (6) The Inter-State River Water Authority Bill, 2016 was introduced by Shri Vivek Gupta. 2-35 p.m. (7) The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (Amendment of articles 102 and 191) was introduced by Shri V. Vijayasai Reddy. (Due to gross disorderly conduct in violation of the rules and etiquette of Rajya Sabha by the following Members, who entered the ‘Well’ of the House, shouted slogans and persistently and willfully obstructed the proceedings of the House, the Chair adjourned the House twice:-

1. Shri Oscar Fernandes 2. Shri Rajeev Shukla 3. Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy 4. Shri Narendra Budania 5. Shri Mohd. Ali Khan 6. Shri Shantaram Naik 7. Shri Parvez Hashmi

 From 2-30 p.m. to 2-32 p.m., some points were raised. 120 2ND DECEMBER, 2016 8. Shri Husain Dalwai 9. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra 10. Shrimati Wansuk Syiem 11. Shri Santiuse Kujur 12. Shri B.K. Hariprasad 13. Shri Ranjib Biswal 14. Dr. Sanjay Sinh 15. Shri Madhusudan Mistry 16. Shri P.L. Punia 17. Shri Ripun Bora 18. Shri Partap Singh Bajwa 19. Shri Shamsher Singh Dullo 20. Shrimati Chhaya Verma 21. Shri 22. Shri K.C. Ramamurthy 23. Shri Md. Nadimul Haque 24. Shri Vivek Gupta 25. Shri Ahamed Hassan 26. Shri Veer Singh 27. Shri Rajaram 28. Shri Ashok Siddharth 29. Shri A. Navaneethakrishnan 30. Shri S. Muthukaruppan 31. Shrimati Vijila Sathyananth 32. Dr. V. Maitreyan 33. Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa 34. Shri A. Vijayakumar 2-38 p.m. (The House adjourned at 2-38 p.m. till 11-00 a.m. on Monday, the 5th December, 2016)

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