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Eleventh Series, Vol. XV, No. 9 Monday, August 4, 1997 Shravana 13, 1919 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Fifth Session (Eleventh Lok Sabha) > ' V :. ‘ 1 PARLIAMENT L!BE.AfY v * R i t a ..... (I: I, (Vol. XV contains Nos. 1 to 10) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price : Rs. 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD Shri S. Gopalan Secretary-General Lok Sabha Shri Surendra Mishra Additional Secretary Lok Sabha Secretariat Shri P.C. Bhatt Chief Editor Lok Sabha Secretariat Shri A. P. Chakravarti Senior Editor Lok Sabha Secretariat [Original English proceedings included in English Version and O riginal Hindiproceedings included in Hindi VERSION WILL UK treated as authoritative and not the translation thereof] CONTENTS [Eleventh Series, Vol. XV, Fifth Session, (Part-1). 1997/1919 (Saka)] No. 9, Monday, August 4, 1997/Shravana 13, 1919 (Saka) bUR,,FCT Columns ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS : ‘ Starred Questions Nos. 161 — 1 6 5 ........................................................................................................ 1__ 24 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS : Starred Questions Nos. 166— 180 .......................................................................................................... 24—40 Unstarred Questions Nos. 1776 — 2005 ................................................................................................ 40— 193 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE............................................................................................................................ 194— 197 STATEMENT BY MINISTER Recommendation of the Governing Board of Rashtriya Mahila Kosh Shri Srikanta Jena...................................................................................................................................... 197— 198 RE : ENTRY OF RAILWAY MINISTER INTO MUMBAI.................................................................................... 218— 236 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377............................................................................................................................. 236— 239 (i) Need to set up an LPG outlet in Mohanlal Ganj, U.P. Shrimati Purnima Varma.......................................................................................................... 236 (ii) Need to overcome the problem of shortage of foodgrains in the drought affected districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, Rajasthan Col. Sona Ram Choudhary..................................................................................................... 236—237 (iii) Need to declare Patna-Hajipur-Muzaffarpur-Sursand - Sitamarhi-Bhithamod road as National Highway in Bihar Shri Nawal Kishore Rai........................................................................................................... 237 (iv) Need for early execution of gauge conversion work at New Jalpaiguri-Siliguri-Alipurduar Junction Prof. Jitendra Nath Das........................................................................................................... 237— 238 (v) Need to reintroduce Public Health Care Scheme in the country Kunwar Sarvaraj Singh........................................................................................................... 238 (vi) Need to provide more facilities at Dharangaon railway station, Maharashtra Shri Annasahib M.K. P atil...................................................................................................... 238—239 MOTION RE : ATROCITIES COMMITTED ON DALITS IN MUMBAI, NAGPUR AND OTHER PLACES IN THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY Contd. — Negatived ............................................................. 239—297 Shri G.M. Banatwalla................................................................................................................................. 240— 243 Shri Chitta Basu........................................................................................................................................... 243— 247 Shri Brij Bhushan Tiw ari............................................................................................................................ 248— 252 Shri Mohan Rawale 252— 260 Shri Iliyas Azmi. 260— 267 The Sign •+ marked above the name ot a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member (i) (ii) SuBJtci C olum ns Shri Bhagwan Shankar Rawat................................................................................................................... 267 _ 272 Shri K.S.R. M urthy......................................................................................................................................... 272_ 274 Shri Anant Gangaram G eete...................................................................................................................... 274 _ 285 Shri Sukaeo Paswan............................................................................. ...................................... 285 _ 287 Shri Indrajit Gupta ....................................................................... ....................................................... 288_ 297 INSURANCE REGULATORY AUTHORITY BILL Shri Basu Deb Acharia................................................................................................................................. 297__ 300 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA (c) A planned marketing and advertising strategy has been devised to increase the inflow of Gulf tourists to India utilising print and electronic media, providing publicity material in local language, targeting the Monday ; August 4, 1997/Shravana 13, potential travellers, extending support to tour operators 1919 (Saka) and travel agents and organising seminars/conferences and through participation in tourism and travel fairs etc. • - The Lok Sabha met at Three Minutes past [Translation] Eleven of the Clock. SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI : Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want your protection since my questions are related to [M r . S pe a k er in the Chair] the hon. Minister. I would like to know the number of tourists from the gulf countries to India during 1994-95 ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS and 1995-96, places they liked to visit, steps taken by tourist department for the further development of [Translation] historical, natural scenic and picturesque places of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh like Jhansi, Lalitpur, Promotion of Tourism from Gulf Countries Tikamgarh and Chanderi and the amount allocated in the current financial year for the development of these *161. SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI : Will the tourist places? Minister of TOURISM be pleased to state : (a) whether there is a wide scope for promotion of [English] tourism in the country from the Gulf countries; SHRI SRIKANTA JENA : Sir, from the Gulf countries, (b) if so, the details thereof; and the figures for 1994-95... (Interruptions) (c) the steps taken to increase the number of tourists [Translation] in the country coming from the Gulf countries and the SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI : Mr. Minister, Sir, outcome thereof? you can speek in Hindi. [English] [English] THE MINISTER OF TOURISM AND MINISTER OF MR. SPEAKER : Why do you make that suggestion PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS (SHRI SRIKANTA JENA) : when we have translation facility? (a) to (c) A statement is laid on the Table of the Sabha. [Translation] Statement SHRI SRIKANTA JENA : The number of tourists in (a) and (b) Yes, Sir. There is wide scope for 1994 is 1,31,690 in 1995, 1,30,175 and in 1996 it is. promotion of tourism in the country from the Gulf 1,02,918. The percentage of tourists decreased because countries for the following reasons :- of Ayodhya incident and Mumbai bomb blast. It is gradually picking up. So far as the promotion of Gulf is (i) Gulf tourists are traditionally fond of India. concerned, they have India as the target area because Both the countries have age-old trade, during rainy season, more and more people want to cultural and historical links. see India for shopping. They are high spenders and (ii) Gulf tourists travel mostly during summer their infrastructure is good. Besides, language-wise, they months (April-June), which, is India’s off are close to India. They have good air-link from these season. This also helps us to encourage countries. Therefore, they want to visit India, specially hotel occupancy in the off-season and Mumbai and Goa. Since they have no train service in movement of summer traffic to various their country, they are very much attracted to see and regions. travel by train. We are chalking out package for rainy (iii) Gulf tourists consider that India provides season when they have summer season in their value for their money. countries. So far one lakh...(Interruptions) (iv) The Gulf states are well connected by air SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI : Mr. Minister, please from India and the time taken to reach India consider my question. from the Gulf states is not much. SHRI SRIKANTA JENA : It was previously one lakh (v) The Gulf tourists are very fond of shopping thirty thousand, then two lakh and now we are targetting and India offers an excellent opportunity for five lakh. Therefore, detailed package and programmes purchasing goods and services. are being started from this year. 3 U ral Answers AUGUST 4, 1997 to Questions 4 SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI : Mr. Speaker, Sir, it suggestions but it has to be implemented by the local was not my question. I wanted to know names of the authority.’ places liked by them and the plans chalked out by the SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI : But what would Government for the development of historical places you like to state about the monuments under