Rajya Sabha —— Revised List of Business
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RAJYA SABHA —— REVISED LIST OF BUSINESS Friday, July 30, 2021 _______ 11 A.M. ——— PAPERS TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE Following Ministers to lay papers on the Table, entered in the separate list: — 1. SHRI MANSUKH MANDAVIYA for Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers; 2. SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; 3. SHRI DANVE RAOSAHEB DADARAO for Ministry of Railways; 4. SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Ministry of Rural Development; 5. SHRI PANKAJ CHAOWDHARY for Ministry of Finance; 6. SHRIMATI ANUPRIYA SINGH PATEL for Ministry of Commerce and Industry; 7. SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and 8. SHRI KAILASH CHOUDHARY for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. ———— REPORTS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON OFFICES OF PROFIT DR. SASMIT PATRA SHRI V. VIJAYASAI REDDY to lay on the Table, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the First, Second and Third Reports (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) of the Joint Committee on Offices of Profit. ———— STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS 1. SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY to make a statement regarding Status of implementation of recommendations/observations contained in the Tenth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution on Demands for Grants (2021-22) pertaining to the Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. 65 2. SHRI BHAGWANTH KHUBA to make the following statements regarding:— (i) Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Third Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers on Demands for Grants (2019-20) pertaining to the Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and (ii) Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Seventh Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers on Demands for Grants (2020-21) pertaining to the Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. 3. DR. L. MURUGAN to make a statement regarding Status of implementation of recommendations/observations contained in the Twelfth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture on Demands for Grants (2020-21) pertaining to the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. ———— STATEMENT REGARDING GOVERNMENT BUSINESS SHRI V. MURALEEDHARAN to make a statement regarding Government Business for the week commencing Monday, the 2nd of August, 2021. ———— #QUESTIONS QUESTIONS entered in separate lists to be asked and answers given. ———— (FROM 2.30 P.M. TO 5.00 P.M.) PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS (RESOLUTIONS) 1. SHRI RAKESH SINHA to move the following Resolution:- "Having regard to the fact that:- (i) demography is very critical element for a nation and the progress and prosperity of any nation is impacted by the nature and quantum of population it has; (ii) the state of either under population or over population, both hampers its social-economic progress and therefore modern nation States essentially aim to stabilise their population; (iii) India realised the need to check the unplanned growth of population as early as in 1970's and tried to set a paradigm of "hum do aur hamare do", however, despite the efforts to make people conscious of downsizing the family, population growth has been alarming; (iv) there has been fourfold increase in the population of India since 1951 ,i.e., from 361 million to 1210 million in 2011; # At 12 Noon. 66 (v) at present India is the second most populous country in the world with more than 1.3 billion inhabitants whereas India shares only 2 percent of global land but 17 percent of global population; (vi) every sixth global citizen is an Indian which puts pressure on our resources which is felt and experienced in day to day life in terms of nutritional, health and ecological problems; (vii) given the limited resources at hand, no nation can accommodate good life for every citizen, if growth of population is unchecked as merely optimism for replacement level cannot be a solution of the vexed problem; (viii) the world’s population was nearly 7.6 billion as of mid-2017, implying that the world has added approximately one billion inhabitants over the last twelve years; (ix) about 60 per cent of the world’s people live in Asia (4.5 billion), 17 per cent in Africa (1.3 billion), 10 per cent in Europe (742 million), 9 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean (646 million), and the remaining 6 per cent in Northern America (361 million) and Oceania (41 million), out of which (China (1.4 billion) and India (1.3 billion) remain the two most populous countries of the world, comprising of 19 percent and 17 percent of the global total, respectively; (x) in India, the fertility rate level varies greatly across States and districts, where the southern States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are experiencing the demographic transition well before other parts of the country, leading to widening regional inequalities in the agricultural, industrial, social and economic progress across southern and northern parts of India; (xi) the nine Empowered Action Group states (UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Odisha , Assam ) account for 48 percent of total population of the country; (xii) even in those States which has witnessed decline in the fertility rate, there is uneven growth of population in sub- regions and social groups; (xiii) in 174 districts of the country the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is 2.1 and the TFR in 72 districts is more than 4; and (xiv) to meet the challenges and problems due to uneven and unchecked growth of population, it is necessary to frame a law to control and stabilise the demography, this House resolves that a law applicable to the entire country be framed to achieve the goal of the replacement level of population and the paradigm of 'Hum do hamare do.' 2. 1SHRI SHAKTISINH GOHIL to move the following Resolution:- "Having regard to the fact that:- (i) the citizens of the country had to face a lot of hardships due to the Corona pandemic and many people lost their lives in the first and second waves; 1 Original notice received in Hindi. 67 (ii) many families were ruined after making rounds of hospitals and the finances of the middle class and poor families have been badly affected; and (iii) many experts believe that the third wave of the pandemic will also come in our country, the House urges upon the Government to:- (a) meet the shortage of vaccines and provide the vaccines free and hassle-free to all citizens; (b) issue a white paper on the production and distribution of the vaccines in our country; (c) make arrangements to ensure availability of ventilators, medicines, ICU beds, and supply of oxygen under any circumstances; (d) make provision for direct cash transfers to the accounts of poor and middle class families whose income has been severely affected due to the pandemic thereby impacting their livelihood and education of their children; (e) fill up the vacancies in the posts of doctors, para-medical staff and technicians in government hospitals by immediate recruitment ; and (f) stop the expenditure on the Central Vista project and use the money to fight against Corona." 3. DR. SASMIT PATRA to move the following Resolution:- "Having regard to the fact that:- (i) according to the Inter -Parliamentary Union, India stood 149th out of 193 countries in 2019, ranked by the percentage of elected women representatives in their national parliaments; (ii) India trails behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and has dropped three places since 2018; (iii) India had 65 women out of 545 Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 16th Lok Sabha in May 2014, recording 12 percent representation and only the 15th and 16th Lok Sabha changed a previously stagnant representation of under 9 percent recorded by Indian women MPs since Independence; (iv) currently, the 17th Lok Sabha has 78 women Members of Parliament (MPs) out of the 716 women candidates who contested elections comprising only 14 percent of the House which is a small improvement from 62 women MPs in 2014; (v) in the 17th Lok Sabha, out of a total 29 states, women MPs were elected from 22, leaving seven states, i.e., Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim with no female representation in the Parliament; (vi) according to the last census, 48 percent of India’s population is female, which makes the percentage of women representatives -- 14.36 percent -- in the Parliament abysmally low; (vii) with respect to the Rajya Sabha, the inductions made in 2020 brought the number of women MPs to 25 out of 245, just over 10 percent of the House; 68 (viii) the strength of women in the Rajya Sabha has been dismal since 1957 as average number of female Rajya Sabha members is 9.5 percent while the highest was 12.7 percent, in 2014; (ix) Odisha was the first state in India to implement the provisions of 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 by making reservation of 1/3rd seats for women and also for women belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes out of the total seats; (x) Odisha is the only state in the country to have one-third women MPs in Lok Sabha currently; (xi) the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi also believed in women empowerment; (xii) a 2018 study titled