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nlrtalltlt Serta, VoL VI, No. 19 ....und.y. M.y .t. 1_ V.... kII. '4, 19l1 (Saki' LOK SABRA DEBATES (English Version) Third Session (Thirteenth Lok Sabha) .'.~ - 'W?' ..... ·'!tWAMEN1 blllUI l . :~~. D•••• =-._L~ ..... _.... _~ ~);h\ll .. _._ !5_: ..~~~~.o0J _., .... - ' : ..,.. .... ~ -- ,.." ....... ""'. (VoL VI contaills NDS. 21 to 30) LOKSABHAS~CRETAJUAT NEW DELHI Prier· Rs. 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD G.C. Malhotra Secretary-General Lok Sabha Dr. A.K. Pandey Additional Secretary Hamam Singh Joint Secretary P.C. Bhatt Principal Chief Editor A.P. Chakravarti Senior Editor Vijay Chhabra Editor (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. CONTENTS {ThIrfNnth Serles. \obi. VI. Third Session. 200011922 (Ssb}) No. 29, ThurUlly, May 4, 200C11Ya1 ..khll 14, 1922 (Saka) Suucr Cot.uW3 ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS "Starred Questions Nos. 541-544 1-28 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Questions Nos. 546-580 ... 28-42 Unstarred Questlonl Nos. 5900-8079 42-186 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE ... 168-169 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 189 MESSAGE FROM RAJYA SABHA ... 170 COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Fifth Report 170 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Eighth Report ~. 170 ',- MOTOR VEHICLES (AMENDMENT) BILL 210 MATTERS UNDER RULE 3n (i) Need to declare Dumaria-AreraJ-Chhapwa State !=tOld In Bihar al National Highway Shri Radha Mohan ~ngh 210 (iI) Need to open LPG outIeta in certain TOWMIviIIageI of Gurdaspur district, Punjab Shri Vlnod Khanna ... 211 (iii) Need to accord earty sanction 10 lMhunder ..... praject of Madhya Pradelh Shri Thawar Chand GehIot 211 (iv) Need to protect the interelll ot I~ incIuItrIM Shri Bherulal Meena 211 (v) Need to advise Chancllgarh Administration for err.ctIng amendments to building byelaws aUowIng euential MInor alterations In residential units Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal 212 (vi) Need to open a Centrally-eponsored MedIcal College at Murshldabad district in West BengaJ Shri MoInui H...... 212 *The sign + rnar1<ed above the name ot a Member IndIcatee IhaI the ~ .. IICIuaIIy asked on the IIoor of the House by that Member. SuBJECT Ca.UMNS (vii) Need to re-route Hyderabad-Cochl Express via Guntakal and also to introduce a new train Between Guntakal and Trlvendurrn via Bangalore Shri Kalava Srinlvasulu ... 213 (viii) Need to review National Security Act with a view to remove defects In it Shri Oharam Raj Singh Patel ... 214 (Ix) Need to provide stoppage of Tapovan Express at Rotegaon (Valzapur) Railway Station in Aurangabad, Maharashtra Shri Chandrakant Khalre ... 214 (x) Need to mitigate hardship being cau~ to commuters due to closure of roads for construction of a new over-bridge al Tlrunelvell Railway Junction, Tamil Nadu Shrl P.H. Pandiyan ... 215 (xl) Need to run direct train between Jammu (J&K) and Haridwar (U. p.) Vaidye Vishnu Dati Sharma 215 STATEMENT BY MINISTER Situation In Sri Lanka Shri Ajit Kumar Panja ... 216-217 FINANCE BILL, 2000 Motion to Consider 217 Shrl Vashwant Sinha 218-238 Clauses 2 to 118 and 1 ... 239-270 Motion to Pass 270 LOK SABHA DEBATE LOK SABHA (c) to (e) 14 States have announced policies for power generalion from non-conventional energy sources. These States are Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradosh, Thursday, May 4, 2000Nalukha 14, 1922 (Saka) Haryana, Kamataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The policies vary from State to State. Where The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock there aro variations, the concemed States have been [MR. SPEAKER in the Cha/l1 requested to bring the policies in consonance with the Guidelines, so thai there Is uniformity throughout the ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS country. Other States have been requested to Introduce [English] policies as per the Guidelines. The policy announced by the Gujarat Government expired on 31st March, 1998, and Uniform Norma on Energy Projects is yel to be renewed. + SHRI Y.S. VIVEKANANDA REDDY : In the statement, ·541. SHRI Y.S. VIVEKANANDA REDDY : the han. Minister has stated that guidelines have been SHRI VILAS MUTTEMWAR : forwarded to all the States. But many States have been following their own poliCies for power goneration from non- Will the Minister of NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY conventional energy sources ... .(Interruptions) SOURCES be pleased to state: (a) whether the Union Government have asked the [Translation] States to avoid competitive offers on non-tradHional energy SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA : Please give us an projects such as concesslonal Infrastructure, incentives opportunity to speak. and relief In sales and other taxes; MR. SPEAKER : Today, opportunity will be given to . (b) If so, whether the Government have been those sitting on back benches would you like to sit on Issuing such guidelines earlier also; back bench. (c) the names of States which are giving such (Inte'!'llptions) incentives; (d) whether State Govemments have agreed to {English] have uniform norms on concessions to be given to energy SHRI ADHI SANKAR : Sir, it Is a serious issue projects; and affecting Tamil Nadu. Some secret dialogue is going on (e) if so, the details thereof? between Sri Lankan Government and our Govemment. .(Interruptions) THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES (SHRI M. MR. SPEAKER : We will take up this matter during KANNAPPAN) : (a) to (e) A Statement is laid on the Table Zero Hour, not now. of the House. (Interruptions) Statement MR. SPEAKER : Please unde/'ltand. You came to me (a) and (b) A set of Guidelines was forwarded to all and I told you about this. the States In 1993-94 and 1994-95 towards a uniform policy to encourage private sector participation In power (Interruptions) generation from non-conventional energy sources such as wind electric generators, small hydro plants, biomass MR. SPEAKER : You can raise this matter after combustion and cogeneration, etc. The Guidelines Included Question Hour, not now. aspects of grid Interfacing and provision of facilities for (Interruptions) such projects by State Electricity Boards including wheeling, banking, purchase of electricity by the Electrtclty MR. SPEAKER : Nolhing should go on record. Boards or a third party, annual escalation in purchase price, etc. The Guidelines also sugg8sled sales .tax (Interruptions)" benefits and other concession., and provision of suitable Infrastructural facilities for such projects. ·Not Recarded 3 Oral AnswetS MAY 4. 2000 to Questions 4 MR. SPEAKER : I will permit you In lhe Zero Hour. MR. SPEAKER : Now the hon. Minister will reply. not now. SHRI M. KANNAPAN : The supplementary question (Interruptions) is not yet completed. MR. SPEAKER : Nothing will go on record. SHRI Y.S. VIVEKANANDA REDDY : I want to bring this matter to your kind notice. (Interruptions) • I want to draw the attention of the hon. Minister to 11.03 hours the fact that the Tata Energy Research Institute has At this stage. Shri Adhi Sankar and some other developed a high rate digester. .(Interruptions) hon. MembetS came and stood on the THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND noor near the Table MINISTER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI (Interruptions) PRAMOD MAHAJAN) : Sir. I appreciate the concern of the hon. Members of the House. .(Interruptions) MR. SPEAKER : Not now. Please go to your seats. DR. S. JAGATHRAKSHAKAN : We do not want any 11.04 hours appreciation. At this stage. Shrl Adhl Sanlcar and some other SHRI PRAMOD MAHAJAN : If you do not want aRY hon. MembetS went back to their seats appreciation. it Is all right. (Interruptions) DR. S. JAGATHRAKSHAKAN : You may please MR. SPEAKER : Hon. Members. please understand. continue. .(Interruptions) There is a procedure in the House. You cannot talk like SHRI PRAMOD MAHAJAN : Sir. I have to phrase a this and do anything you like. Please go to your seats sentence. I cannot say 'Yes' and sit down. first. I appreciate the concern of the hon. Members about (Interruptions) the situation In Sri Lanka and the talks between our Prime MR. SPEAKER : Nothing should go on record except Minister and the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister. Today, during Shri Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy's supplementary. the course of the day, the Minister of External Affairs will make a statement. which the hon. Members are asking (Interruptions)" for. on the situation. .(Interruptions) SHRI Y.S. VIVEKANANDA REDDY : The State MR. SPEAKER : Mr. Minister. he has already asked Governments have been agitating for providing concessional the Supplementary. infrastructure. .(Interruptions) SHRI M. KANNAPAN : No. Sir. The Supplementary MR. SPEAKER : Shri Adhi Sankar. you have not given is not over. any notice also. Please understand. Please go to your seats. You are asking me to suspend the Question Hour. SHRI Y.S. VIVEKANANDA REDDY : Besides all the incentives and lower taxation. some investors are being SHRI ADHI SANKAR : We have already given the protected from the foreign exchange variations. notice. .(Interruptions) Non-conventional energy has a lot of potential. Even MR. SPEAKER : Please go to your seats. It is too the Tata Energy Research Institute has developed a high much on your part. rate digester for semi-solid municipal waste with the SHRI Y.S. VIVEKANANDA REDDY : The incentives promise of revolutionlsing the waste disposal industry. The which are given in the form of relief from sales tax and bio-gaa generated from these .units, which has a methane other taxes show that there are no concrete guidelines content of about 70 per cent, could be used either for adopted by the Union Government. Besides this. they are thermal application or for power generation. Apart from also offering to protect the investors from foreign exchange this, the National Institute of Secondary Steel Technoiogy variations or inputs. organised a Workshop on _Conservation of Power Requirement In the Re-roIHng MUll. The US Trade and 'Not Recorded Energy Development Directorate has also identified forty 5 VAISAKHA 14, 1922 (Saka) to Questions 6 proJects In South Asia, of which 24 projects belong to supplies from the State Electricity Boards 1 May I also India.