Twel ........ Vol. III, No. 20 Monday, July 13, 1. Asadha 22,1120 (Salal) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Second Session (Twelftb Lok Sabba) (Vol. //I contains Nos. 11 to 20) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price : Rs. 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD Shrl S. Gopalan Secretary General Lok Sabha Dr. A.K. Pandey Additional Secretary Lok Sabha Secretariat Shrl S.K. Kauahlk Director Lok Sabha Secretariat Shrl P.C. Bhatt Chief Editor Lok Sabha Seeretarlat Shrl A.P. Chakravarti Senior Editor Lok Sabha Secretariat [Original English Proceedings Included In English Version and Original Hindi proceedings Included In Hindi Version will be treated as authoritative and not the translation thereof.] 1IcndIr, .:IJly 13, ~ 22, 1920 (SUa) ODl./line 8/23 'rIlE MINISl'ER OF LAW, TIE MINISTER OF IAW, JUSTICE AND 41n .JUSrICE AND CDMPAN! CCJ4PM1Y AFFAIRS A.'ID MINISTER OF J.52/5 A.!PAIRS AND MINIS'l'BR ~ 'ftWISPC&T ([1\. M. mA.'tB! OF SURP'ACE 'DWISl'CRr 'IRAI) (.au II. 'l.'IIMa1 1UlAt) 13&J.4/22(Col.4) 1,67,680 157/4 Y- (a) Yes 157/6 (a) lind (el (b) and (el 178/7 (bl (d) (fran be!0Ii) 183/2 3855 3755 196/16 (a) to (d) (a)(b) ~d (d) (fran below) 237/2 (e) Cd) (frau be!0Ii) 32:/16 (e) Ce) CONTENTS (Twelfth SerIN, Vol. III, Second Session, 1920 (Saa) No. 20, Monday, July 13, 199B1As.dhs 22, 1920 (Sea) SUBJECT • COLLIMN WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 'Starred Questions Nos. 362-381. .... 3: ..... Unstarred Questions Nos. 3643-3872. 46-337 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE .............................................. 337-354 Standing Committee on Urban and Rural Development Third Report . 351 standing Committee on Home Affairs. 351 Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Reports . ...... 351 (i) LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA want to ask questions. Please understand the position. The Members want to ask important questions. M9nday, July 13 1998/Asadha 22, 1920 (Saka) (Interruptions) [Translation] The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock MR. SPEAKER: Shrl Mulayam Singh jl, you are a very senior Member. Please sit down. It is not proper. [MR. SPEAKER in the Chaitl {English] {English] MR. SPEAKER: Please understand. (Interruptions) (Interruptions) [Translation] SHRI BUTA SINGH (JALORE): Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Government is trying to commit a fraud on the nation in the MR. SPEAKER: No, no. It Is not like this. Please let the name of reservation for women. Question Hour run. MR. SPEAKER: This is Question Hour. Piease take your (English] seat. After the Question Hour, we can take it up. Please take your seat. Q. No. 362, Shrlmati Suryakanta Patll: Today, we have important questions, and the Members want to ask questions. Please understand the position. SHRIMATI SURYAKANTA PATIL (HINGOLl): Q. No. 362 . Please take your seat. ... (Interruptions) (Interruptions) SHRI BUTA SINGH: We are in favour of reservations for [Translation] women. We oppose this Bill. We are not opposing the reservations for women. MR. SPEAKER: No, do not do like this. Please sit down. The Members whose questions have come In the list, want MR. SPEAKER: You can raise it after the Question Hour. to ask those questions. You can raise it during the Zero Hour. {English] SHRI BUTA SINGH: Unless this Government comes out with a clear policy, we are going to oppose it. This Govern- I am appealing to you, please resume your seat. ment is trying to cheat the country. Therefore, Mr. Speaker. (Interruptions) Sir, this Bill cannot be introduced in this House. [Translation] MR. SPEAKER: Shrl Buta Singh, please take your seat. You can raise it after the Question Hour. MR. SPEAKER: Today, we have very Important Questions in the list. Please sit down. Do not do like this. Let the House (Interruptions) function. MR. SPEAKER: Please take your seat. You can raise it (Interruptions) after the Question Hour. (English] (Interruptions) MR. SPEAKER: Shrl Buta Singh, you are a senior Mem- • MR. SPEAKER: Shri Buta Singh, please cooperate. After ber. Please take your seat. the Question Hour, you can raise this matter. Shri Mohan Singh, you are a senior Member, please cooperate. (Interruptions) (Interruptions) MR. SPEAKER: Shrl Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shrl Lalu Prasad, please take your seats, [Translation] (Interruptions) MR. SPEAKER: No, Shri Lalu Ji, please be seated. MR. SPEAKER: I appeal to Shrl Buta Singh, Shrl Mulayam (Interruptions) Singh Yadav and Shrl Lalu Prasad to take their seats. You can raise your demand after Question Hour because today {English] there are many important questions. Please resume your MR. SPEAKER: Shrl Mulayam Singh, please understand seats. Shrl Lalu Prasad, please understand. that 'we have important questions today, and the Members (Interruptions) 3 Written Answers JULY 13, 1998 To Questions 4 MR. SPEAKER: I once again appeal to hon. Members to 2. Mansar, District Nagpur, Maharashtra, has revealed resume tbelr seats. It is Question Hour now. After Question large religious structures which flourished from 300 A.D. to Hour, you can raise whatever matter you want. Please 650 A.D. understand. 3. Lachhura, District Bhllwara, Rajasthan, Excavation (Interruptions) which has commenced in 1997-98, has started to yield an assemblege of the Gupta period (crlca 4th-5th centuries MR. SPEAKER: Nothing will go on record. A.D.). (Interruptions)" 4. Dholavira, District Kachchh, GuJarat, has revealed MR. SPEAKER: Shri Buta Singh, I am once again appeal- a highly significant Harappan city which Is notable for Its Ing to you to understand that this Is Question Hour. After planning, architecture, water harvesting system, inscription Question Hour, you can raise It. This matter does not come and also for providing an account of the rise and fall of the under Question Hour. Please understand It. Harappan civilization which covered 1500 years from the early (Interruptions) 3rd millennium B.C. to the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. 11.11 hr•. (b) and (c) Palthan and Mansar are already under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India; the protec- At this stage, Shri Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi tion of Lachhura will be contingent on the nature of evidence and some other han. Members came and stood excavated. A preliminary gazette notification for protection of on the floor near the Table. the Dholavira site has been Issued. MR. SPEAKER: The House stands adjourned to meet (English] again at 12 noon. Universal Service Obligation 11.12 hr•• The Lok Sabha then adjourned till Twelve of the Clock. "363. SHRIMATI LAKSHMI PANABAKA: Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state: (a) whether the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS has decided to evolve a policy on Universal Service Obligation (Translation] to boost the rural telephone in the country; Historical Places Found in Excavation Works (b) if not, the time by which a final decision Is likely to be taken in this regard; "362. SHRIMATI SURYAKANTA PATIL: Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to (c) whether this proposal was also enunciated In the state: National Teleconi Policy, 1994; and (a) the details of the historical places .found In various (d) if so, the extent to which It will give a boost to the excavation works undertaken in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and rural telephone in the country? . Gujarat during the last three years; THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCAST- (b) whether any scheme has been formulated by the ING AND MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS (SHRIMATI Archaeological Survey of India for the protection of these SUSHMA SWARAJ): (a) and (b) The Telecom Regulatory places; and Authority of India has not made any specific recommenda- (c) if so, the details thereof? tions to the Government on Universal Service Obligation and promotion of rural telephone. The Telecom Regulatory Au- THE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOP- thority of India, however, proposes to initiate an exercise for MENT AND MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY open consultations on key dimensions of Universal Service (DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI): (a) The Archaeological during the current financial year and may make recommen· Survey of India has conducted during the last three years excavations at the following historical places in Maharashtra, datlons to the Govt. on different aspects of Universal Service Rajasthan and Gujarat: Obligation based on such consultations. 1. Palthan, District Aurangabad, Maharashtra, excavated (c) and (d) One of the objectives of the National Telecom' joInlIy wIIh the Society for South Asian Studies, London (UK) Policy 1994 Is to achieve universal Service covering all has 8Iarted giving evidence of a historical fortification with villages as early as possible. It had laid down the year 1997 some medieval structures upon It as well as remains of two as the target for covering all villages. This meant the provision brick temples of the 4th-5th century A.D. which survived upto of access to all people for certain basic telecom services at 8th century A.D. affordable and reasonable prices. "Not Recordad. 5 Written Answers ASADHA 22, 1920 (Saka) To Questions 6 Funds to 11M, Calicut (f) whether any alternative arrangements are being made with other countries which have evinced Interest In *364. SHRI T. GOVINDAN: power sector in India to overcome the situation; and SHRI A.C. JOS: (g) if so, the details thereof? Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVEL- THE MINISTER OF POWER (SHRI P.R. KUMARA- OPMENT be pleased to state: MANGALAM): (a) to (g) A Statement is laid on the Table of (a) the number of institutes functioning under the the House. Indian Institute of Management at present; statement (b) whether their performance has been evaluated; Statement Referred to in reply to parts (a) to (g) (c) if so, the details thereof; of Starred Question No. 365 to ba answered /n the Lok Sabha on 13.7.1998 Regarding Impact (d) whether the Union Govemment propose to sanc- of Sanctions on power projects.