463 AIaIIars Under RcAe 377 MARCH 12, 1992 RIy. ~,1192-113- 464 G8n-DIscuIII; Res",. ~ of R/y. Con.. Comm.; Dam. for GtanIIs (RlySJ, '1IS2-113; lind SuppI. Dem. for ".". (RIys.), (vI) Need to formulate an In... formulates some scheme for '119'-92constructing grated National Education pucca roads, the scheme Is left hal way due Pollcytocheckthedeteriorat- to paucity of funds with the Govenment of Ing standard of hlghareduca- Bihar. The youths of both the districts are tlon. preparing themselves for taking to extrem- Ism. [ Ttanslallon) Therefore, I urge upon the Central SHRI RAM BADAN (Lalganj): Mr. Govemment to sanction an amount of Rs. Deputy Speaker, Sir. even after 42 years of 10 crore for providing roads and a building independence, our present education sys- for primary school and Irrigation facilities in tem is stiD based on the colonial approach of Buxar and Bhojpur districts so that both the British Raj. For bringing about improve- these districts may get an opportunity for ments In our education system their development. Radhakrishnan Commission was applnted in 1949, Secondary Education Commission (vIII) Need to giver clearance to the was appinted In 1958, Mudaliar Commis- propoaalto State Govemment sion in 1960 and SafrlJOomanda Education of Kerala regarding Patta Committee was appointed in 1962. Thereaf- right. to the fanners of that ter, All India Council of Secondary Educa- State. tion and Kothari Commission were consti- [English) tuted. All the Commissions submitted their reports but these were not implemented SHRI P.C. THOMAS(Muvattupuzha); even after their consideration. There is a Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to raise the continuous deterioration in the standard of following matter under Rule 377: education In nearly 150 universities and S500 coUeges in the country. The issue of Patta to Kerala farmers Is pending approval from Centre. I, therefore, Due \0 in1\\\ration mpolitics in vi\\ages request the Centra\ Govetmment \0 give etc. 50"10 mthe Students 0' higher classes 'inal sanction to It Immediately. This will save have started active participation In politics. , thousands of small farmers. woul'd like to draw the attention of the Gov- ernment towards the future of the students and would also like to emphasise that a 14.59 hrs. comprehensive education policy be framed in the Country to enable our nation to ac- RAILWAY BUDGET 1992-93-GENERAL quire r.aspectable and prestigious place In DISCUSSION-RESOLUTIONRE-RECOM· the world, as was announced by Late Prime MENDATJON RAILWAY CONVENTION Minister Shri RajivGandhi while announcing COMMITTEE DEMAND FOR GRANTS the new Education Policy during his term of RAILWAY 1992-93; AND SUPPLEMEN- office. But the Govemment did not take TARY DEMANDS FOR GRANTS (RAIL- proper steps to implement that policy. WAYS) 1991-92-CONTD.

(vII) Need for more Central fund. [English] to the State Government of Bihar for proper development MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Before we takE of Buxarand BhojpurdlBtrieta up item Nos, 12to 1S In today" order paper I have to Inform the House that some Mem· SHRI TEJ NARAYAN SINGH(Buxar): bers have desired that they may be aIIowec Sir, Buxar and Arrah are very important to move their cut motions to the Demand. places of Bihar State. Buxar Is a district now for Grants (Railways). Their request hal and Arrah is famout; as Bhopur districl been acceded to. Therefore, hon. Mamben There are so many villages in both these present In the House, whose cut motions te districts, where the people have tp cover a the Demands for Grants have been clrcu distance of 10 kms. on foOl to reach a pucca lated may, I they desire to move their cu road. If the District Planning Committee motions, send sBps to the table within 1! 465 Rty. Budget. 1992-93 PHAlGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) torGrants (RIys). 466 Gen-Dlscuss; ReB reo recommendations 1992-93; and SuDoL of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.). 1991-~2 minutes Indicating the Serial Nos. 01 the cut House by the hon. Minister 01 RaIlways wi motions they would Ike to move. Those cut put undue burden on the common man and motions only will be treated as moved. A list the weaker sections living In both rural and showing the Serial Nos. of cut motions will urbanaraas.lnadOdlon,excesslvelncraase be put on the Notice Board. In freight charges has taken place. which Is unprecedented , and no Railway Minister Hon. Members who are not prasent has done it during the last so many years. An today or whose cut motions already re- my calculations that before the initiation of celvedtoday and circulated tomorrow morn- discussion on the 'RailwayBudget' , the hon. Ing, may move their cut motions tOmoROW, Minlsterof RaIlways will make an announce- I.e. 13 March, 1992 when the discussion on ment about cut In the proposed freight hike, these Hems is resumed. have proved wrong. In all shrewdness In his Budget speech the hon. Minister of Rail- 15.00 hrs. ways stated that the maximum Incidence of hike would fallon the sections travelling In SHRI RAM NAIK (Bombay North): For higher classes in trains. Mr. Deputy Speaker, the information of the House. I have know Sir, I had heard his whole speech, He has given my Cut Motion No. 229. It is about the put a burden of Rs. 1366 erores through the failure of the Government with regard to Budget. In the outset of his speech, he has season tickets-monthly and quarterly. I would stated that there Is 20 percent hike inthellrst request my National Front friends and oth- class and airconditioned class to meet out ers to take an early decision, so that there this burden. In the speech, it was also would not be any chaos next time at the time contained that fares of second class and of voting and that would appear first. So I seasons tickets will also be Increased In the would request them to consider it right from range of 50 p and Rs. 5.25. I would like to now. so that there would not be any chaos submit that the additional mobilisation of As. at that time. 1366 erore through the 'Railway Budget' wi. have an inflationary effect. The prices are SHRI RAM KAPSE (Thane): There Is a bannd to increase and in addition to that the hike of unprecedented nature in the season common man and the people of rural and tickets. remote areas travelling by trains will face extreme hardships and especially their eco- SHRI SOMNATH CHATTERJEE nomic problems will getfurthercompounded. (Bolpur): He is agoodfriend;but he need not How shrewdly the hon. Minister of Railways advise us. We can look after ourselves. has hiked the fares of first cIass'and Aircondilionedclasses by 20% It seems that SHRI RAM KAPSE: We ara moving the hon. Minister of Finance had drawn those amendments because the hike Is Inspiration from the hon. Minister of Rail- unprecedented and very high. ways while finalising his 'Budget' proposals. Now gradually the people are realising the SHRI SOMNATH CHATTERJEE: You ramifications and adverse effects of the are moving only those amendments which General Budget they have permitted you to movel [ Translation] Mr. Deputy Speaker. Sir,ln the beglning, II was fett that the fares of higherclass of rail SHRI KASHIRAM RANA (Surat): Mr.. travel have only been hiked, but now It Is Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank becoming clear that the hike In the case of you for giving me the opportunity to initiate second class rail fares is also not less. Even discussion on the 'Railway Budget' about In the case of second class fare, the in- which I would like to say a few things. crease is to the tune of 20 percent I would like to cite an example. Fare from New Delhi It seems that the 'Railway Budget' for to Bormey Central by second class Mall the year 1992-93 presented in this august travelwasRs.147,butnowithasbeenhiked 467 RIy. Budget, 1992-93· MARCH 12.1992 torGlanIS (flIysJ 468 GBn-DIsi:uss; Res 'r,. 1IICOm·'lIMdIItIons 1992-93,' Md~ 01 Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants (RIys.J. '99T-"92 (Sh. Kashlram Rana) to submit thal1heIr contention that the Bud- get hIws wOI not prove inflationary. Is total, to RI. 172. Sir, the hike from RI. 147 to RI. wrong. this Budget does not on., misguide 172 amounts to 18 percent hike In fare. th. august House but the people 01 india Similarly, the hike In fares of suburban trains also. The han. Minister of RaDways stated in is even more than this. Everyday Iowpaid th. House that 8 months ago RI. 900 crore employees and workers travel by suburban additional burden was thrust oonn the coun- trains. They travel by these trains not for fun. .". Freights are proposed to be hiked by 7.5 but to reach their places of work to earn their percent and last year 10 percent hike In IiveUhood. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, fares of freight was announced in the Railway Bud- suburban trains to have been hiked. People get. As. 1366 emre additional burden Ia travelOng between 35 to 40 kms wiD have to Impossble for the country to bear upon. I pay Rs. 105 instead of Rs. 70 at present 1.8. would like to submit that It Is not proper that Rs. 35 more which comes to approximately burden on the people is being proposed to 50 percent increase. During the Budget be increased by 20 percent on one side speech, the han. Minister of Railways stated while relief has been extended to first class that he had kept in mind the Interests of and Ain:onditioned class passengers on the common man, low paid people and people other side. Maximum burden has been put . of rural areas while formulating the Budget on the peoptetravelling by second class and proposals. But • seems that contrary to his suburban trains (interruptions) I would like stand, he has over looked the interests of to urge upon the hon. Mlnlsterof Railways to the common man whlleformulatlngthe Bud- withdraw the proposed hike and give con- get proposals and has devoted himself to cessions tot.,. poor people of India. When· the cause of the affluent class at the cost of ever there Is any deficit and loss In the poor people. Sir, fares of suburban trains revenue, the Government always hike the have been Increased, as I have stated fares. lis not a good practice. I would like to earlier, fromRs. 70 to Rs. 105forthe journey ask the hon. Mlnisterwhetherhe is prepared of 35 to 40 kms and from Rs. 113 to Rs. 163 to resort to some other alternatives Instead for journey of 100 kms i.e. by 45 percent of hiking fares; a mention of which has been ';ares have been hiked. Sir, I would like to made In the Budget i.e. prlvatlsation. The submit that the passengers travelling in Budget mentions sorne alternatives to aug- second class and suburban trains are un- ment the resources such as leasing out the able to bear such a heavy burden of in- railway land and procurement of coaches creased fares. Therefore, these proposed from private firms. If imports are invoiv.ed in . hkes should not only be reduced but It manufacturing high quality axle wheels, then should also be withdrawn altogether. SImi- the workshop and its running maybe handed larly, 7.5 percent hke In freight charges is over to the private seelor. If Railways are to also not less. The hon. Minister of Railways funelion smoothy, resources are must. It ~ the Chairman of Railway ·Board gave must be pondered over from where to their opinion that this would not have any mobilise the resources. Is It possible to bearing on the prices. I would also like to mobilise the required resources just only by submit that freight charges are pfoposed to leasing out the railways lands? Win It be .be hiked by 7.5 pelWnt and In case of coal 'possible to redeem these lands after SO-1 00 by4percent. years? In addition, It Is also planned to privatlse the catering services of raOways. Earllerwhenthefrelghtchargesforcoal Every year. RI. 2200 crore social liabilities were hiked. powertariff rates of State Elec- are to be honoured to by the Go(f8rnment tricity Boards also accordingly went up. I but these steps will further raise these social would Ike to cite the example of Gujaral liabilities. Immediatefy after the announc,ment of enha{Icement of coal freight chfllges by 4 Privallsation wUlresul In detertoratlon percent, power and electricity tariff rates In In standiud of catering services. The dete- the State were hked. Therefore,. would like rioration In catering services has already 489 RIy. ~ 1992-G:;-PHA1 r.UNA 22. 1913 (SAKA) torGrants RIys). 470 Gen-Discussi.Res , ... recomlllandtJllons . 1992-93; _ SfiDd. of R/Y. Con. (;Omm.; Dem. • Oem. tor grants '(R1yS:,; 19fJ1-"g2 started and It wOI further deteriorate In the possible. The speed at which trains move, days to come. So some other altematives only 57 trains could be cleared on particular need to be resorted to Instead of resorting track. If we Increase speed of ourtralns, and to hiking passenger and 'raight fares to • we run them at the speed of 80 kms per make up deficits. There are other methods hour, .e can carry four times the amount of to strangthen the revenue position of the goods which we cany atpresenll know that RaIlways. I would like to cite only one ex- the Railway Minister: win say that this win llf11'Ie. AU the extravagance should be done .cause accidents and our tracks ara such away with and I would like to urge the hon. that we cannot run our trains with high Minister of Railways to take the lead In this speed. He win defiJlltely make such a ra- matter. Many a person and luggage travel sponsa.However, I would Ike to say that our with the hon. Minister (Interruptions). this goods trains have a large number of wagons way no good ideal can be set up. Mahatma and corJl)artments and these trains stop Gandhi used to travel in second class de- again and again and as a rasul their speed spite being affluent and having a large goes down. Therefore, if the speed of trains following. Since all of us proclaim to be Is increased, then 192tr~ns at the speed of followers of '.Aahatma Gandhi. the Railway 80 may run to and fro In 24 hours and ~er Minister or our officers should stop the utilizing the tracks fully, we can generate practice of using saloons. Lakhs of rupees Income on a large scale. are wasted due to use of saloons and if this practia. is stopped, it will immensely benefit Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, same Is the the railways. position In regard to passenger trains. Their average speed is 36 kilometres. On broad SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA(Bankura): guage lines the average speed Is 35.1 It is a very good suggestion. kilometres and on metreguage Dnes the average speed Is 18.2 kilometres. These SHRI KASHI RAM RANA: I would like ara the figUres for the year 1990-91. The to say something beyond this. Our effi- passenger trains are also running at a very ciency is on the decline. The use of our slow speed. This Is done so that accidents railways lines Is going down gradually. If ara avoided. I shall come to -this later on. railway lines are not utilised fully, railways Am, I would Uke to tell you that we should have to suffer a loss. That is why I would like make the maximum use of our potentiality to say that they should be utilised fully. I and we have the potentiality to use them, but . shall give only one example to show as to It Is not being utilised, but our hon. Railway what extent our goods trains ara being Mln.rhas never said In his budget speech utilised. The goods train goes at the speed that he would use railway tracks to the fullest of 26 kilometers. In 24 hours, only 57 trains capacity andgeneratemora income. He has are passed. Thus the speed of our trains is not done so. If this is done even now, the very slow. The train which runs on a steam Railways may march forward. In this way. locomotive has a speed of 10.1 kms, the Instead of resorting to any Increase In rail- train which runs on a diesel locomotive has way freight and fares, we can increase the a speed of 22.6 kms and the train which run Income of railways. on electronic locomotive has a speed of 23.1 kms. These are the figures forthe year Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thera Is one 1990-91. The trains which run on a metra mora featura towards which we should pay guage line have an average speed of 17.8 our attention and that Is that today In the kms. That Is why our railway Dnes are not entlni country the number of passengers Is utlUsed adequately. II our railway tracks are continuously Increasing. A large number of used to lis full capacity, • lot of savings rna, demandsararacelvedforthetransportatlon be achieved. There Is a lot of polentlality In of goods, but we say that we do not possess It. II all our raD tracks are used properly, we adequate number of wagons. this Is reiter- shall be able to make a lot of prot. out of I., ated time and again that due to non-avail- I would like to ten the House as to how II Is abIIIy of sufficient number of boxes and 471 f!Iy. B!J!IgeI. 1992-93-' MARCH 12.1992 fDTGtan18 ffIYs). 472 Gim-DIsi:uss; RillS 18. I8COIIItn8IIdal 1992-113; and SuDDL 01 RIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. . Oem. for grants (RIYs.). 199#-"92 ISh. Kashl Ram Rana) lion to make up for the defIcIancy In the railways and • had also suggested that short wagons.. we ara unable to transport suffl- distance lines and uneconomic should be dentquantity of goods. I would Ike to submit closed down. I ~ well racollect that when to the hon. Railway Minister that by accord- the rail budget was presented befora this Ing priority to the rollng stock and making House. one or two years back, It was stated mora provision for t. he has done a good that our development works would Include thing. Due to shortage of wagons and the laying down of new Ines In the hilly and coaches. we ara faced with difficulties In tribal areas. Just day befora yesterday. a canying luggage orpassengars. That is the question was asked In the Parlament re- raason I have said that we Bra faced with a garding unecononic lines. short distance shortage of coaches for passengers. Out of lines and mater guage and narrow guage 2B.OOOcoaches.5500Brasuchwhichshould Unes. be discarded and thera is stiR shortage of 1500 coaches. Thera ara ""ny lines which have been declared uneconomic and many lines are Hon.bla Deputy Speaker. Sir, if we In- Inoperative. Therafora, the need of the hour crease our track utDiZation as also our effI- today is to provide railway services to even ciency and avoid unnecessary expenditura. people residing In far flung and Adlvasl then thera wll not be any need to increase areas. Train services on these lines should the freight or faras for passengers. It Is be resumed for the convenience of travel- claimed that our RaHways Bra the first In Ung public and forthe development of those Asia and In the world scenario it is the areas. We should also resolve to lay down second largest organisation. This is abs0- new lines. lutely true, but we stin have to do a lot of things. We strive to COfl1)8te with other Mr. Deputy Speaker. Sir. I would like to nations. but we do not look at the shortcom- point out that a provision has been made Ings In our own country or at the facilities with ragant to doubling of new lines in this available In our country. Have you ever tried Budget. We have dearth of resources and if to look Into these things. I would like to ask we do not utilise them properly. next year or the hon. Railway Minister if he has seen the In the days to come we will have to face condition of those upon whom the burden of serious consequences on account of It. We lncreasedfralghtandfanlShasbeenplacad? make lot of provision forthe rolling stock. But Has the Minister ever tell that the Railways- this year the provision wlh ragard to guage whichclalmthe first place In AsIa has placed conversion has been raduced by As. 269 the Ileavy burden upoR the passengers. By croras and is onlY As. 131 croras.ln addition observing the passengers on the subulban to this the provision of As. 241 croras made trains an estimate can be made of how the last year for laying down new railway Unes passengers travel at the perl of their lives. has noW been cut to ~. 186 croras. What have you done forthem? You keep on Increasing the burden on them every year. You have done nothing except increasing Mr. Deputy Speaker. Sir. the passen- burden on them. Today, when we ara debat- ger and goods train ara side-tracked on Ing the rail budget, we should think that if the SUrat..Jalgaon S8GIion b8cause South bound faras ara increased continuously. it is nOl a Superfast trains pass via this araa. OWing to good thing. this the passenger trains run late and not rrIIch can be earned from fralght charges Mr. Deputy Speaker, sr,lwouId like to from good8 train.Therafora, , would like to ... you'.. mora'actaaboutthe rail budget. point out that very IitlJe provision fordoubling Very IIlI8 provision has been made for the and laying down new Unes w. have serious doubling oItha ralwav lines and laying 01 consequences In futwe. Hence. I raquest newllnes.EarllartheRailwayRalonnsCom- youlO .....thelmlol provision fordlflerant mllteewas... upwhichhad~asuggee- headIIln the Railway Budg8t. 473 Rty.811dget, 1992-93-PHAlGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) forGrants fI/ys), 474 Gelt-Oisi:uss; Res ri#. ,.commendatlons 1992>-93; and SUDDL of RIy: Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.), 19.91-92 15.27 h..... ties should be given to the passengers by providing rriore budgetary provision. ' [ MR. aw:w> DIGHE In the Chailj· The hon. Railway Minister has an- .Mr.Chairman, Sir, In the context of the nouncedthe Introduction of many new trains . railway budget I would like to point out here and I welcome It as additional raIlway ser- that eVen·todaythe passengers travelling In vices are very much required for the overall the trains and the industrialist or traders development of the country. However, I sending their goods from one place to an- regret to poInt out that whenever a new other get very poor selVices. It is as if they Railway Minister assumes power he starts are at the mercy of the railway authorities•. trains only In his own area but when other Their pleas tall on deaf ears. Even in the Members approach him or the D.R.M. and budget speech there was no mention about G.M. they are Ignored on the pretext of the deteriorating railway selVices or about tracks not being free, paucity of funds and any step being taken or proposed to be non-availability of coaches. I have obselV8d taken for Its improvement. I have a better this during the last ten to fifteen years of my experience of it. I am aware of the fact that political career that In the constituency from instead of rendering selVice, the railway where the Railway Minister hails there are authorities harass the people. The strike no impediments like shortage. of railway launched by the people in Surat went on for tracks, funds or coaches. The Railway Min- months but the railway authorities have no ister Introduces as many new trains as he alme to discuss this matter and in the pro- wishes. 'cess railways had to bear a, heavy loss of revenue. Therefore, I would like to request I welcome the stand of introducing new that this poor railway selVlce should be trains but it should not be confined to the unproved. Attention should be paid to- development of a specific area but towards wards this aspect and if we do not pay the overall development of railway selVlce in attention towards it, it will have an adverse the country. Hance. I welcome the introduc- effect on our revenue. I would like to urge tion of all the trains that have bean an- that necessary instructions should be is- nounced in the Budget throughout the coun- sued to the railway authorities to provide try. better selVices. It has often bean obselVed that when- At the same time, I would like to say ever a new train is Introduced the service of that provision made in the budget for pas. an old train Is cancelled. For Instance, sengeramenities is comparatively very less. Madhya Pradesh is the most populated For instance in 1990-91 Rs. 28 core were state of India. A unanimous decision to start allocated but only Rs. 2()"32 erora went a new train via Baster district was taken b~ spent. Subsequently In 1991-92 Rs. 30 the B.J.P. and the Congress. The proposa· crore was earmarked and in 1992-93 the was sent to the Railway Ministry for seeking budget provision for amenities was Rs. 50 .the approval of the hon. Railway Minister. crore. I think that such a meagre amount However, it was not considered In the Bud- cannot fetch any amenities for the passen- get. In addition to this the selVice of an gers. If we earnestly wantto provide amenI- intercity train running between Bhavnagar ties say for instance drinking water than As. and Ahmedabad w~ stopped. Whenever SO erore is also too little. I am aware of the we meet the authorities in this connection fact that as COrf1)ared to the Budget provi- we are given false assurance to the effect sion of Rs. 30 crores made last year the that the service wi. be' resumed in the amount has been Increased to As. SOcrores coming month but three to four years have this year, but even, that Is, very little. passed and the selVlce of the said train has Secondly, tgave you the Instance of 1990- not resumed till date. iH where In only Rs. 2D ctW8 were 5pf:Int our of Rs. 28 crora. I uJgethat more amenl- The hon. Railway Minister has ~ade an 475 Rly. Budget. 1992-93- MARCH 12, 1992 for Grants Rlys), 476 ae;"Dlscuss· Res,e recommt$ndatlons . 1992-93; and Su/JIJI. of Rly. Con. bomm.; ·Oem. Oem. for. grant~ (Rlys.), 1991-92 [Sh Kashl Ram Rana) 86, the ~Ident figure was 717 where In • 1991-92 is was only 532. However, have announcement about the Introduction of a you even seen the number oflhe deceased? new train viz., Vadodara-Valsad Inter-city In 1985-86,n persons succumbed to their Express. But the move to start it from injuries in 717 accident cases. Why does Vadodara will not be useful. H it starts from such a thing happen? Sixty five parent of Vadodra in the morning, It will be boycotted ~ident occur due to neglegence on the because the passengers travelling on this part of the railway staff and 20 percent due route hail from Valsad and Surat and not to defective equipments. In 1990-91 the from Vadodara. Perhaps, the reason for number of persons killed in 532 ~idents starting it from Vadodara is that there is no was 220. Besides, there are 37039 level yard in Surat and it lacks maintainenee crossingss but only 15704 are manned and facilities. However, I would like to pOint out the rest are unmanned. All the level cross- here that during the lastfifty years Surat has ings should therefore be manned. only one platform and nothing else although the population of this area has increased I hail from Surat. This area has always from three lakhs to twenty lakhs. Only one been neglected. like me many members platform could be constructed in Surat so are perhaps sorry to s(;e this. The G.MI far. Besides, these are no sheds or other D.R.M. visit at times and sometimes they do amenities available. We are not in favour of not come at all. They do not meet the people. such development which is only for name I would like to point out that necessary sake. Hence, I welcome the move of intro- instructions should be issued to them to ducing new trains but at the same time, I listen to the Member of Parliament and request you to resume the services of those redress the genuine grievances .. The G.M. trains which are no longer in operation. and D.R.M. consider themselves no less than the Ministers or Members of Parlia- Apart from this our representation to ment. This practice has boen continuing tor start a couple of new trains should be con- a long time. The D.R. M. pays a visit, enjoys sidered. Here, I would also like to point out and goes off but the plight of Sural remains that almost everything was settled for start- unchanged. ing Sardar Express berween Ahmedabad and Bombay. The coaches had also come In the last fifty years, development has but the service has not started till date for taken place everywhere but the condition of reasons best known to the Govemment. I Sural i!" same despite having a huge popu- urge that the Sardar Express should be lation. We demanded for a station on the started without any further delay. Eastern side. Deliberations in this regard are going on for the last three to four years Mr. Chairman, Sir. I hail from Gujarat but no action has been taken so far. The and for the last many years the people of Tapti Ganga express was proposed to be Gujarat want the headquarters of Western introduced from that plaee. Initially it was Railways to be Shifted from Bombay to saidthaithis train would start from Allahabad Ahmedabad. In the event of delay at least a and will run four days In a week Instead of Division should be set up in Ahmedabad. If two but till date no action or decision has Oivisioncould be made In BhopalandAmbala been taken In this regard. on the basis of acommittee's report it will not As a result of Industrialisation and be improper, if a Division Is made in urbanisation the left over land at Naushart Ahmedabad on the same pattem. I would will also be taken over. Then how to extend like to requeslthe hon. Railway Minister to railway facility to Ihis place? As such a at least grant Ahmedabad status of a Rail- railway station should be provided on the way DMIIDn wIlhout any delay. western side. Even today, many accidents occu~. As "., ... bon. Ralfway Minister there is de- Till date nothing has been done on the cline In the Incidence of accidents. In 1985- tTIICh publicised corf1)uterlsation of railway 4n Rly. Budget. 1991-93-PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) forGrants R1ys), 478 Gin-Discuss; Res reo f'fICOI'IIendat/ons 1992-93; and SuOIJi' . of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. for grants (Rlys.), 19Sf -92 reservation facility announced In the last inan guage line Into broad guage ones. In 'Budget'. It was assured that n per cent of the last Budget an allocation of Rs. 133crore railway reservation wHl be coq»uterlsed, had been made to convert there guage Into but till dala nothing has been done. This broad guage Hnes, but this year the alloca- work should be eXpedited. Surat-Jalgaon tion has been increased to Rs. 554 crore track should be doubled. Probably, proper which is quite praiseworthy. In our country, attention has not been paid towards provid- thereara65,367kmsOfbroadguage;23,419 Ing amenities to passengers In the Budget. kms of metreguage and 4068 kms of narrow An attempt has been made to put heavy gauge lines. The hon. Minister of Railways burden on the passengers in the Budget. I has demanded huge funds forthe proposed would like to submit that undue burden has conversion of 6,000 kms of metre guage been put on the weaker sections, rural lines into broad guage during the eighth plan people, second class passengers and sub- periodandan allocation of Rs. 554crore has urban passengers In the Budget. There was been made for this purpose In the current no objection, had the burden been put on Budget. rich people. As such burden put on the poor section should be immediately withdrawn. Conversion of one kilometre of metre guage line Into broad gauge Involves an With this I thank you and conclude. expenditure of Rs. 50 lakh and one day's work by 10,000 workers. Therefore, In the SHRI CHANDULAL CHANDRAKAR days to come a lot of employment would be (Durg): Mr. Chairman, Sir,lndian Railways generated inthe countryforcommon people are very vital for the economic, social, other than literates. industrial and agricultural development of the country. It could be seen that wherever Allocation for doubling the tracks and railways has reached, it has ensured eco- construction of new railway lines has been nomic, industrial, social and agricultural reduced in the Budget. This has been, un- development of the area but where there doubtedly, done due to paucity of funds, but are no railway lines, no development worth it must be realised that for speedy develop- the name has taken place there. ment of the country widening of rail network and doubling of ,ingle tracks are a must. Railways has not reached a major part Therefore, the Govemment should make of the country. Especially the railway net- greater allocations for railways and the Min- work has not spread fully in the Central istry of Railways should also put in greater region i.e. Madhya Pradesh and owing to funds specially for the purpose, by raiSing this Madhya Pradesh Is not developing special loans. • despite opulence of resources and avail- ability of aflfacilities. There is no denying the Allocation for rolling stock has been fact that more than one crore people travel increased from Rs. 724 crore In 1991-92 to . daily from one place to another by railways. Rs. 1180 crore in the currrent Budget. This Railways, thus has become a major means will result in decline in the train accidents, of communication i n the country. I am maJor cause of which Is lack of quality roiling happy to note that the hon. Minister of stock with the railways. The hon. Minister of Railways has with drawn freight charges on Railways has fixed a target with a view to 15 Items and the hon. Minister deserves augmenting freight traffic capacity. Earlier, applaudes for this. each wagon, on an average, used to trans- port 1410 tonnes of freight, but now the The hon. Ministerof Railways has given target has been fIXed at 1450 tonnes for a a major thrust to converting metre guage wagon. Next year, the passenger traffic is . lines into broad'9uage lines in the Budget. likely to go up by 5 per cent at the present In 40 years, it Is for the first time that an rate 01 growth of passenger traffic. Though attempt has been made In this Budget to raDways has remained quite Important for convert a ~Jor poltion Of 23,000 kms long passenger and freight movement, the road 479 RIy. Bud§et, 1991-93- MARCH 12. 1992 1orGran18 RIys), 480 Gen-DlsCuss; Res re. recomentIatIons 1992-93; and SUtiDf:/. 01 Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for f/I'IIIJIS (IJ#y8.), Ifif-92 [Sh. Chandulal ChandrakarJ because the Bhllal Steel Plant .Is llcely to be closed down by the year 1993-94 as thera transport viz bUses and trucks are also would be shortage of Iron ora. Ha raHway Ina being used In greater number day by day. Is riot laid from Dallroja to Veladaela In the Passengers In large nurmer are making use district of Baster where Iron ore Is available, of buses and trucks are also baing used for then the Bhllal Steel Plant would be closed freight movement In greater quality. We are down In the next 3-4 years for want of Iron sUa getting indications about It. ora. The situation Is so precarious. Even then the Ministry of RaIlways has not done So, far as the question of expansion of anything. I am compIet8ly distressed forthls raD network is concerned. India has the state of aflair especially because the region Iargast railway network atter Russia. As I Is pradomnatly trballnhablted. All the hon. told Just now, raUwaynetwolk Is about 62.201 Members of Partlament express their con- kms long. The railways has got 37,953 cem to do something for the Trbals and cochas; 8,590 rail enginas; 5,58, 027 rail Harljans,bultilldate nothing has been done. wagons. Dapsite all this, railway facilities, e/ntsl71lpti)ns) are not adequate. Railways should espe- cially enhance the number of rail wagons What I want to submit is there Is no eith8r by procuring them from abroad or by railway line In such a large region. On going augmenting their production indigenously. through the railway map of india, ona can On an average, 13,139 trains are run In the sea that there are 32 circles in the railways country and out of these, there are 7,428 out 01 these, maximum revenue Is earned pa.. lngertraina. Thera are approximately hom Bilaspur circle In Madhya Pradesh, 7,OOO.ralways stations. In India about Rs. which Is close 10 Basler. (/ntsmJptlons) 22.200 crora have so far been spent on the BilaspurwUI nevarbe convertacIlnto a Zonal raIways but Is total assets are 01 Rs. 16,15 railway headquarters because Madhya . COf8S only. lis for the first time In history of Pradesh Is a poor and backward state, and ralways that the Ministry of raUways has inhabited by Harljana and Tribals .• will not contrbJtacl10.9 pen::ent of Is earnings to also be made a divisional headquarters, 'GeneraJ Budger of the Union Government. desPIte repeatacl requests and maximum Earlier, It used tocontrbute at the maximum revenue earnings from the region. Nothing 6.7,7.3 and 8.3 percent only I would like to Is being done. Demand for opening of re- thank the hen. MInister 01 Railways for this cruitment office there was also made. achievement. UndoubtacII~, .. I staled just Though the foundallon Slone was laid. but now, expansion 01 raI network has not been nothing has be.n done In this just and fair in the country. TIll the regional regard.( tllIHrLfJIIons) Imbalances are removed, development 01 the country is not possible. In Madhya I would like to say that neither 1IIere Is Pradesh there Is not a single mllway line in a divisional headquarters nor a Zonal alalgearaas. As the august House Is aware, .haadqyartars at BlIaspur. We would like trI)aJs live in qultelalge numbers In Madhya Bilaspurtobe made the headquartars of the Pradesh and the Basler district which Is a Zone and. has been staled by the Govern- trIbaJ district, Is IaIgar than the Stale 01 ment time and again that a racrulment Haryana In area.. You wit be surprised to Cantrv has bllen opened there, but so far • knowthat raJlway lines are raralyseen In 1II1s has not been opaned.(tJtenuptIons) Why district. Yes,theI8lsonerailwaylnethrough ... you Interrupting? let me finish what I which Iron ore Is transported to foreign want to say. I have no objaetlon,lfthere are counII1a& lice Japan. ExcepC th.. , there Is no six racrullmantcentres In Calcutta, butthel1t rainy In8 at aI. In this connedlon al11II. should be one In BIIaspur, and I arn not bon. u.mbers 01 Partlament from ~ State bothenId _ to how you are going to do • made ,.quest to the hen. Minister of Rail- (tI,."...,., So what I rneanto say_that ..,.. n-aIIeasl one railway line should BIIaIpur Ihould be made the I-IeIIdquarIera be uncUoned for the Slate this ,_,.. I II 01 ... Zone. Nat only this •• has aIao been 481 ~ ~ ,.,-II:J.PHALGUNA 22,1813 (&VeA) tor~. 482 Gen-DlsCllss; Res tw. I8COIrJfIfJdatIns 1992-93; and • of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. tor gnJnts (Rlys.). , - observed In our area that there Is a lot of the Govemment resorts to hike passenger bungling In the racrullment to the RaIlways. ' fares andfreight charges, tocoverthedeftcll The question papers for the recently held every year. The Govemment should give a ' examination for recrullmenttothe Railways serious thought In this regard. In order to at Bhopal were available for sale at prices curb unnecessary expenditure, the 'Rail- ranging from Rs. 2,0001- to As. 80001- ways should pay more attention towards Thus, there was a lot of bungling in the maintenance which would contrbute a lot racrullment. Mr. Minister, SIr, you may be towards preventing accidents which In tum busy chatting wah someone, but It Is my would check the outflow of money In the request that you should pay special atten- fonn of coR1J8nsatlon. Similarly, It Is neces- tion towards this. Mr. Minister, Sir, kindly sary to pay attention towards the recrul- pay attention to this case of bungUng. Simi- ment and training of Railways e~. larly, there Is large-scale bungUng in the Until and unless RaIlways pays Its attention recruitment to the Railways, so much so towards these matters, It would continue to that the Ministry of Railways Inducted many Incur unnecessary expenditure. Slmllarty, people from Bhllal, but It has not provided the running tlma of many trains can be employment to the wards of those farmers, reduced and public money could be saved. whose lands were acquired there. h Is a The Chattisgarh Express takes 28 hours, I matter of deep regret that 'the Railways had can be reduced to 23 hours. Similarly, there no qualans about purchasing lands from are many other trains. It won' be possible the farmers at cheap rates, but It did not for the han. Minister to study the running deem It fit to provide jobs to their children, schedule of each and every train, but cer- who are educated and eligible. Therefore, I talnly, the offICIals of the Railway Ministry feel that grave Injustice Is being meted our should make a detailed study of all the In Madhya Pradesh. The hon. Minister trains, and make Il'Jf)rovements. The Gov- doesn't visit Harijan and Adivasl areas. If he ernment cannot escape Its responstlility by goes there, he will come to know about the saying that In the Shatabtl Express takes difficulties being faced by the people there. only very little time. I feel that the Ministry of Not a single person, who has been dispos- Railways should pay special attention ta- sessed of his land, has been provided with wards this matter, so that the ~ngers any gainful employment. The people are are able to reach their destination at the simple, they don't sit on the railway tracks shortest possible time. and press for their demands, but if they do so, the Govemment would be left with no Mr. Chairman, Sir,ourRailway...,toy- option but to succumb to their demand. aes are doing an exceUent job, and they Bhllai Is such as Important Junction that have their own Unions as weD, but the training from North to South and vice-versa Govemment should take stringent mea- have to pass through It, but because the sures to check pilferge and theft. In this people of these areas don' resort to agita- manner, wastage of resources can be tion, no attention Is paid towards their checked to a great extent. problems. It Is my hurmle request that the hon. Minister of Railways should pay atten- Mr. Chairman, Sir, It is matter of great tion towards this neglected area. pleasure that the Government has intro- duced 15 new trains, a Rajdhanl Express Mr. Chairman, ,Sir,there are three im- between Sacunclerabad and Banglore. portant fac:tOl'lIO far as the Railways are Aldngwlh thls,l would Ike to submit that the concerned. It 18 true 1hat the Govemment hke announced in second class raIIf... 1s has made an allocation of Rupees 16,000 a bI on the higher side. I request the hon. crena for the RaIlways. It means If the Mlnl8ter of rellwaya to review thII decIIIon Govemment II ... to curb unnecessary and reduce the tara hike. There cannot be npendIIurebyaven2-4pen:ent, I won' be two opinion about the fact 1hat adcIIIonaI necessaryforltto .... thapauengerf.... I8SOUR:1111 .. Rlqulrad for eIec:bIlcation of and freight ...... every ,..,. It won' do, • railway ..... the existing eIectrIIed track 483 1!Jy. ~ 199NI3- MARCH 12.1992 484 ~. Res re. f8COIf'JIHKIatlons 1992-93;forGranlafi! and • . . 01 Rly. con. bomm..~Qem. Oem. tor grants (R1ys.). 1 - .. . [Sh. Chandulal Chanclrakar) Adlvaal ..as ..the most undanleYeloped· ..... and. atI8era of ralway Ina. .. length being 10,084 kilometers. and also for proving to be IqMKllMent In their develop- laylnp new railway Unes and conversion of ment. The.. 818 two or thrae AdIvasI dIs- metra-gauge Into broad gauge lines. Iwould trIcts In Madhya Pradesh also, whera there like to submll that spacial attention should 818 no railway lnes. they Include ~arh be paid to such araas and allocation should and Bastar districts. This Is proving to be an be made in this Budget or In the Supplemen- obstacle In the path of the Country's all- tary Grants for Bhllal. If a raDway line Is not round development and Is rasponslble for laid. the Steel Plant will face closu... There- I8glonal Imbalances. The han. Minister of fOl8, a railway Ina for Bhilal should be RaIlways Is an expertencad person and he Immediately sanctioned or else It will have has presented an excellent RaIlway Budget. serious repercussions In that area. I would Ike to make a special raquestto him that a decision to construct raDway lines In Government has taken The also a de- these 8I88S should be Inmediately taken cision to privatise the catering arrangement. and a token Grant announced. With these Just now my friend Shri Rana expl8SS8d words. I conclude. Jal Hind. apprehensions that inferior q~aIitY food will be served, Ifthecatet1ngsysternlsprivatised. SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES bullslncerely hope thalthe Government wiD (Uuzaffarpur): Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I certainly pay its attention in this l8gard. now I8grat to say that I cannot support this that It has taken a decision to this enect. RaIlway Budget. The most Irr.,ortant reason Is that the decision of han. Minister for an 18.00h.... additional buy of Rupees 1366 cro18S Is excessive. My difficulty Is IhaI despite the [ MR DEPUTY SPEAKER In the ChaiJ avallablily of other ..medial measures to meet the financial regulraments of the Rail- Another excellent 8lep taken by the ways. the han. Minister has made a Budget Government Is IhaIIt has given pemisslon Speech. through which he hils very sue- to a private sec:tor COf1lNII'Y to indigenously caasfuly made a fool of the J1steners. while manufacture wheel and axle In the country. cornk1g out of the House. some han. Mem- which til now was being ~. This bers of the apposition we .. heard saying would save foreign exchange to the tune of that. As. 100 crores. TherafOl8, the Government has taken a wise decision to allow 8l»riVate (EngIsh) finn to do the job. Similar decisions should be 1aken for the manufacture of coaches He has shown a tremendous sleight of and wagons. I hope that you wiI do It to hand. Incr8a8ethe prodUcUon of theSe Items In the country. [ TtafJSIaIIoII)

Shrt RanajlIn his speech made many Thehon. MembenI ....takeitforaride laudaIory raferances to Mahatma GandhI. I to the eldent IhaI they we .. convtnced thai am pleased to find thai the B.JP. too has someIhlng posItMt Is going to take place. finally accepIad the greatness of Mahatma but they .....Ized the biter truth only after Gandhll am thankful to hlrn for •• they came out. In Bombay. the fa... have been hIr8d from 37'% to IS%. I .. said The ~ should also pay Is thai the 0cMNnment WU IYft1NIIhetIC to. ImmadIaI8 anentIon 10WaIds production of wardsthecommonfolc, butnosuch... mot8 coaches and wagons eith8r In the thy .. evident from this Budget. When the PlMcsectororlnthe..... MC:tor. to m8II faclacametolghl.lbacomeknownthatthe the CUI1WIllhortage. I would Ike tD submit GDwmmInlhas put as muchbu..... on the to the bon. MInIsIer of ~ th. the poaIWI, _on .... *'--BuI_11IIId. this 485 R/y. 8IJdi1et, 1991-93-PHALGUNA22, 1913 (SAKA) torGrantB RIYs}, 488 Gen-DlsCuss; Res fS. recomsndatlons 1992-93; and SutiDIY. of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. fDfgrantS (R/YS.), 199f-(J2 is the most Important raason. However, my hastrlecltopleasathepeopleofhlsPlannlng opposition tothls Budget Is rootedto a mora CommIssion through his speech. You wiD be fundamental Issue. despall'8d. TheywUlnotglveyouanychanee to ramaln happy. You should thank your Am of aD, I have come to realize that stars even If you get this amount of As. 1200 parties may come and go, but nobody has erora by the end of this year. 00 not expect been able to comfront, to challenge, to finances from them. Its other aspect Is that check the system. This system Is Inextrica- the cost of running Railways Is not borne by bly linked to the I.M.F. and World Bank. the Ministry of RaDways at pl'8Sent. Theway Governments change from time to time, but the Ministry of Railways or the Minister of the system remains Intad. It is so powerful RaIlways is used to handle the issues per- that its influence is not limited to the corri- taining to the Railways inside and outside dors of power, but the outside world as well the House does noi carry any weight. To . The powers that be, who are In control of what extent the price of on wm 90 up Is not the system have decic;ted to weaken the fOl8S8en by the Ministry of RailWays. Ine infrastrudure of the Railways to the maxi- employees of Railway 'MInistry have direct mum possible extent. It Is beyond the realms link with dearness aDowance but neither the of the hon. Minister to escape from the el1llloyee not the Railway Ministry decides clutches of this system. I am saying this the deaness allowance. The Railways Min- from my experiences. Istry does not decide the hke in the price of iron. Also, the RaIlway Ministry does not I will not go into the details of this but I decide the cost of necessary Items ranlng shall discuss in detail some of the issues. I from railway tracks to compallments. The want to place two proofs before this august burden borne by the RaIlway Ministry about House. The first proof Is from the First Five which we have been harping on since long Year Plan to the Eighth Five Year Plan. In and which we call social cost has not been these plans the priority given earlier to the mentioned by the hon. Minister In the course Railways is now only for name sake. Now of his speech. Last year RaIlway Ministry the Railways does not come under your spent As. 2225 crara to meet the social planning set up. Earlierthe development of costs and you may see the Items on which Railways, building and expanding Its infra- • was spent. A ~um of Rs. 1808 crora. strudure was sanctioned. It played an Im- portant role in the development of the coun- (Englsh) : try. No Railways Is not Important for them. [ If you analyse the funds that has been loss of coaching services, sub-urban earmarked for Railways right from the First and urban passenger, parcel, luggage etc. Five Year Plan till date, you will come to know that nothing Is left for Railways. The [ Translation) second Issue Is related to It. This year you have received budgetary support of As. II means that passengers and non- 1200crorefrom Planning Commission. Your passengers In the country are paying this Plan Is of Rs. 5500 crore but you have only amount by way of tickets, luggage, paRlel been given Rs. 1200 crore. The allocations etc. The people who have til date not seen for Railways have gone down considerably. trains are paying this amount of As. 1808 Before going to the next ,.alnt I would like to crore to meet the social cost. I mea"s thai put some Information before you. You have the citizens olinda are paying this amount given 34 per cent through budgetary sup- as passenger fare and freight on parcels, port out of the total requirement for the luggage etc. Asum 01 As. 210 crore Is being development of Railways. 72 percent was paid .. freight on food-gralns. As per my given for the Fourth five Year Plan , It was knowtedge the export of Iron Is done by 75 per cent for the fifth Five Year Plan but Government. Perhaps even some private todayltisJust21 percent. Asumof As. 1200 COfI1)IInIea might be also doing so. Apart crorel.8. just 21 percent. Thehon.Mlnl81er from S.T.C. and M.M.T.C. there are other 487 Riy. ~ 1991·93- MARCH 12. 1992 forGnuits~~. 488 ·G8n-OJsi:uss: Res re. recomendatlons 1992--93; and • of R/y. Con. Comm.; Dem. Oem. for grants (R1ys.). 1 .- [Sh. George Fema~s) probIemofthe Raow.yslmmedlately.' have said that' am opposing the Budget but I the companies too. Now the process of Government wants our support, It should liberllsation has begun. You win encourage solve this problem. Today In the morning export of Iron whose transport Is handled by there arose a question regarding the Ger- RaIlways and give money to those who man Prime Mlnsltefs visit to India and the export It and now you have made law In the discussion· held with him. He should be House for conversion Into white notoncebut . asked as to how manycrores of rupees were twice. You win collect money from the poor given bylhe Govemmentto meet the loss of people of the country. you Will co.~ As. 62 RaIlways last year which Is a Govemment crore 99 lakh from them. there was reverse department.' would like to tell you It was As. ftow last year for which a subsidy will be 30 thousand crore. Yourtotal income Is As. given by Railways -on salt. sugaroane and 15 thousand crore. The German Govern- other itan's. lUt year a sum of As. 227 erore ment has allocated Rs. 30 thousand erore was given to meetthe social costs. You also for the Railways. give a the GovemmentHow much Is to.be giVen this year. You have said that you will (English) be giving As. 1200 crore as dividend. In the course of his speech on the current year's This is to meet the social costs and to Budgetthe Finance Minister pointed outthat see that people get proper service. he would not only give As. 1200 crore as diVided but also give the pending amount ( Translation) As.460crore.lnailtheGovemmentwillgive As. 125 crore for the development of Rail- This is not the case of Germany alone. ways and in tum the Rallways·would giVe to All that we are doing here is done at the Government of India a total amount of four dictates olthe countries and the "M.F. who thousand crore as a social costs and divi- have ellen corr1)8l1ed us to withdraw sub- dend. It is a reverse flow. The Government sidy on1ertillzers. The level of poverty In the Is not helping the Railways but the Railways countries dominating the I.M.F. Is equal to Is helping the Governments to function. The the level of poverty of the Members 01 our people are not ablato understand it. Whereas Railway Board and Ministers. This is the this Is a fact. As such as are ventilating our level of poverty of common man. H In those grievances. There should be a decision on countries. namely Britain, America. Japan. It. I am not saying this in the Interest of France and many other developed coun- RaIlways nor In the Interest of the railway tries, the railways ara provided subsidy worth wokers because I believe the RaIlways is the croras of rupees and the railways is utilized leading infrastructure of the country. Once forthe service of the nation and for building In 1974 we had stopped a for the first time up the country. then why do you not want to and consequently suffered a loss of As. agree to what we say while you agree wah 3500crore. those at whose Instance you frame the Budget We would likQ the hon. Minister to (English) agree with us to bring about improvement in case he wants our support on this Budget. That Is the power of the RaHways. That is the Inftuence. slgniflcanceolthe Railways Mr. Deputy Speaker. Sir, there JS yet In so tar as infrastructure dtwe\opment of another reason for which this Budget Is this country Is concerned. being opposed tooth and nail and that a mention of the I.M.F. has been made. You (TranslatlofJ) are aware that the Railways ·Is the biggest Ministry of this country and a decision to ruin Mr. Deputy SpeatCer. Sir. In the light 01 • In a Slow ana steady manner aeem8 to this. I ulg8 the Planning CommIsaIon or In have been taken. Forlhat.1 would not spare ·OUW words the Goveminent to solve the the MInister even since he hu made a 489 f!1y. Budget, 1991-a.7-PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) IorGrants~, 490. Gin-DIsCuss; Res reo recometJdallons . 1992-93; and • of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. lor grants (Rlys.), 1 - 12 beglnlng to dismanUe it , though it will taka han. Minister of RaIlways Issued a small some tima .• do not want to say that from statement that there was no such report. next year, onwards the woJt( of removing You may ask the publk: relations depart- tracks may be takan up but the move that ment of the Ministry. They must be having has bean Inftiated for privatisation, and the the newspaper clippings In this regard. move forconservancy and sanitation started from the previous year's Budget, and in this year's Budget you have gone a step ahead [English] towards catering. I am aware that the woJt( of construction has shifted from Railways to This Is not RITES report. This is a World contractors. Bank Report in a Rites Wrapper.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir,' had gone to Official Sources have now said that:- Kota recently. When I got down from the train and asked the railway workers as to "Last year a study conducted by Rail how things were going on there, I was told India Technical and Economk: seNices, that 2000 workers have been retrenched. RITES, had recommended that the railways When I was in Mughalsarai, there too I was should stream line Its manpower by reduc- told that workers are being retrenched. Ing it by 40 per cent by the end of 2,000." P. T.I. report was published in the Economic Times of 9th Maroh and other leading news- [ Translation] papers of the country. This news-item is fraught with so many past incidents. This report appeared In September, 1991. I took strong exception to this report. [English] The Ministry of Railways denied that there was any such report. H this not RITES Railways Recruitment to be cut by report, I demand that it should be laid on the 20,000 each year -Press Trust of India. Table of the House. I am giving the history of this report. [Translation] This Is the Incident of Decermer, 1980. There are many other things also but I would not discuss aU of them. But if 2000 [English} workers are retrenched each year, one lakh workers would retrenched in five years. In David Hopper, then Vice-President, this way, It Is a strange thing. World Bank, who Is later to become Execu- tive VICe-President of the World Bank. [English] [ Translation] "The move, "they said.

They meaning official sources. This Is He came to Deihl and contacted me not a source close to the Ministry or any- through an M.P. I visited this M.P.'s resi- body. This is official source. This Is a formal dence for dinner. We held taI

[EngHsh) And the same raport Is being produced today. I wonder why thesa people did not David Hopper said that:- bring It forward and kept It pending for so manyye8l'S. Today, thel.M.F. has tightened "Mr. Fernandes, IBM Is coming back Its grip on our economy so much so that the Into India." raports 8f8 placed as per its wishes and the han. Minister does not have any knowledge I said: "No, as long as I am around of them. Though he might be knowing, he hera. " will not say anything In this regard, as It Is the duty of the Ministers to save the Govem- Then, he said: "Your Railways have ment. Even, they maintain clam on the asked for a loan of Rs. 800 crores. We have wrong deeds ofthe Government. When our told that we will sanction their loan if they Govemment Invited the Pepsi Cola, thera accept the gift of an IBM computer....•• " was verbal duel among the Council of Min- isters, both inside and outside. I did not [ Translation] support it. I opposed it tooth and nail. I banned Its entry in the Railway. Then a He said one thing to me and then the stage came when the matter was about to talks began. The other thing he said was be taken to Court. I have just made a mora Interesting, and the connected docu- mention as to what predicaments the Minis- ments -ara available with me. I wrote to ters go through. I can understand their unions at that time. Then he told me: predicament. That is why they nod their heads. But It Is the raport ot the World Bank. [Translation] I am surprised when they say-

"The World Bank ha$ prepared a Re- [EngHsh] port on the operation of the Indian Railways. Your Railways can be operated with a staff "The move, they said, "they' meaning strength of 950,000 as against the one the Railway officials sources in the Railway minion and six hundred thousand that you Board.... ls initiated to bring down the work- now have.•. " ing expenses of the Railways as nearly 52 percent of the annual expenditure Is In- -This was said by David Hopper right curred on payment of salary to staff and hera In Deihl at the horne of Member of administrative heads. Parliament. The only other person being the then Editor of "The Hlndustan Times" Shrl [ Translallon] George Verghese. It Is wrong. Han. Minister, It Is a Budget document. As such, I would like to request ( Translation] you to ask your sources In the Ministry that bafora giving final touch to the raply at night Then I asked as to when he preparad they should first raad the. the report. [English)

(English] Explanatory Memorandum on the Rail- way Budget 1992-93: Table Vilis a chart "We have a Report. We have produced showing where the rupee came from and a Report. You RaIlways can be run with 40 wheratheRupeewent.Furthermentionhas percent less staff than the present been made of staff wagee and other Allow- iSO,OOO •••• " ances. 493 /flY. ~ !991-9S-PHALGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) for~~, 494 Gim-O/Si:USs. RIM f'lI.l8CDnISIJdatJons 1992-93, and • of Rly. Con. Conm; Oem. Oem.. forgrants (R/ys.), 19 - 12 [TtanSIaIIon) (EngIsh)

• has been shown In the chart that 33 The racommendallons of the RITES paise win be spent on wages of staff 8nd on Report hadbeen acoepted In principle bylhe other aRowances. So It Is not 52 paise. Railway Ministry. These people can go to any extent to harass and defame the employees. They [TI8IJSIatton] think as • we wiD not raad anything or say anything suppose that an officer may say Hon. Mlnlster,l, therafore, request that tomorrow that 8 paise out of one rupee this report •. (/ntel'lUpt/ons) •••• Mr. Deputy would be spent on payment of penslonr to Speaker, I have just to begun. I urge upon retlrad personnel That means the Govern- you to lay that raport on the Table of the ment also wants to cause hardship to re- Hosue. I would like to state this also and It Is tired personnel. They will also be coverad my opinion thattherawill be retranchmentof under Railway Expenditure. Even if these 8 Railway e""loyee on large scale and the paise are also included, the total will come number of Railway employees will be 18- to 41 paise only. So thera Is nothing to duced to 10 lakh only In next 5 or 7 years • . surprise that 41 to 42 paise out of the total The speech of the Minister of RaIlways one rupee of the budget allocation, will be proves It and I do not wantto read It out again spent on salary and allowances of staff because you all have already heard It and I members. Railway Is not a machine for have read II twice. I have the Delhll18WSpil- further processing of raw material. per of the 29th February. Moreover, you may consult any newspaper of the 29th [EngDsh) February of the country. A beautiful adver- tisement Issued by the indian Railways has This is a service organisation. been published In almost aU the newspa- pers. The title of the advertisement Is: [Ttanslation] [English) The same is said about the municipalI- ties. The high ups generally say that 80 "Indian Railways: DevelOp a mutuaRy percent of the Budget of a Mun~1ity Is beneficial association with the Indian Rail- spent on salary and allowances of Its erri- ways." ployees. The who else would be paid? Should the funds be spent on officers or [Translation) deposited with the Government or given to money lenders or contractors? • is the I read this newspaper in Bombay also. earnings of workers who toll hard. I 80 When Iwas In Goa,lsawthat advertisement percent of rasources Is not spent on them, there also. All the newspapers In DeIhl have Then to whom should these be paid. It Is also published this advertisement You look said that: allis wordings:

[Englsh) [Engfsh) • 80 percent goes an staff charges. A task force has been set up by the Govemment of Inda, Ministry of RaIlways [TtansIation) (RaIlway Board) to idently and examine the private ownership of wagons as an .... of The Government IIndsthe employees m4ua1lybeneflclal association between the an easy target to defame them. RaI_. _ the raB users. (TIWISIaIIon) (TlansIaflon1 Therafora, the way JOU .. conduct- The matter does not end hera, rather ing, ragardng thalli Is said, the· real fact Is given In Is later part. Since 495 RIy. Budget. 1991-93- . MARCH 12,1992 forGnlnts RIys), 496 Giln-Discuss; Eles reo recomendatlons 1992-93; snd Suti/J/Y. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.). 199f-92 you have already stated in your speech that SHRIBASU DEB ACHARIA(Bankura): the Govemment is going to launch a scheme They are being privatlsed. named 'OWn your own wagon, own your own container.' That very day I wrote an SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: Every- article because one of the big newspapers thing could be taken over by the private of this city requested me to write an article sector and the only thing they will be left with Immediately on the Railway Budget. I as- Is the track. sured him to do so. I had said at that time also: Sir, mark the words: 'We ensure of a guaranteed supply 01 wagons. Here II says [English] that the private ownership of wagons through leasing companies could also be visualised OWn you own wagon, own your own by rail users who could then enter into container proposal is a precursorto handing bilateral agreements with the railways either over the entire rake. on a lurnpsum or on freight rebate basis.

THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS (SHRI In this case, the party concerned could C.K. JAFFER SHARIEF): I have conceded then have to go into a back to back arrange- to your art of presentation. ment with thaleasing companies. And then, the real punchline is this: [ Translation] "The Railways would undertake to SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: At that maintain the wagons and cover the cost time also I had pointed out that this scheme incurred, by reflecting it In the tariff." will not be restricted to container and wagon only, rather it will be extended to entire train [ Translallon] and entire rake. The Railway Budget was presented by you an the 24th or 25th Feb- The Railway is becoming the contrac- ruary, what states the advertisement? Why tor. Mr. Speaker, Sir, are those efforts being made. My article was published after the presentation of the Bud- [EngNsh] get. The Railway will become the contrac- [English] tor.

It further says: that this effort has been [Translallon] undertaken in the context of major initiatives taken bytheGovemment of India to refashion Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are the economic and trade policies under con- very much perturbed over it. I do not want to ditions of severe resource constraints. It take much of your time. I want to give proofs means the World Bank and the IMF condi- on the basis of "The payments forGrants for tionalities. expenditure of the Central Government on Railways. Part II. "This is continuous pro- They further say that one could procure cess. general service wagons to form a minimum unit 01 operation, that is, a train load for use [English] by the Indian Railways as a part of their fleet. They win buy , they will own. But It will be The Payments for Grants for expendi- used by the Indian Railways as a part of their tura of the Central Government on Rail- fleet and the existing men will go. Ultimately, ways, Part-II: We were asked now to pass aD that the Railways wID be left with is the your Budget proposals. But please under- track. Even the stations could be privatlsed. stand when I say that I am not prepared 10 Why not? support your Budget. Please understand. 497 8(y. ~ '1II1'-.ll3-PHAlGUNA 22. 1913 (StIKA) AvOnlms~) 498 06n-O/sCt/$$;RN R1. ~bR$ '99.?-~. and~ ofR/y. Con. Comm.;/Jsm. /Jsm.lorgran/s(R/ys.). 19#1-92 This Is your proposal. The Demands for (Translation] Grants Staff Statement (5.306), Demand No. 05-Repairs and Mal(ltenance of Motor Moreover, they are trying to reduce the Power. Earlier, the staff was 1,22,209. This number of casual employees. Rs. 54 crore was for the last year. This year, you have were to be paid to casual workers in Perma- brought down the staff strength only in this nent Wage and Works In 1990-91 but only one category to 1,16,352. As. 46 crore will be paid this year, i.e. As. 8 crure less than the pntvious year . , have [Translation] cHed many such examples, but I shall not take too much of your time. Here you are In his speech, he has pointed out that decreasing their salaries, you have reduced he Is reducing the number of officers. Here the number of employees but while reducing the number of officers has reached 10883 the number of staff you have done nothing from 10805 and that of staffs has reached to reduce the number of top stert. I request 1 lakh 16 thousand 322 from 1lakh 22 the hon. Minister to pay special attention to thousand 209. I will not take much time. this because the nodding of you head Indi- This is apparent from the number of Group cates that you have not been Informed "0" officers in Operating Expenses Traffic regarding these matters. Department. The number of officers has reached 21935 from 21321 and that of Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very Inter- staffs has reached 1 lakh 13 thousand 682 esting thing which needs to be pointed out. from 1 lakh 19 thousand 388. Now I can cite In every grant and demand, there Is a many such examples from the book. But I demand for 35 per cent increase in the would not like to take too much of your time. deamess allowance this year. Here, we may Whenever you want, I quote many more make out that the Chairman of the Railway such examples from this book. In this way, Boara thinks that there will be no rise in the number of staff is decreasing and that of prices due to the Railway Budget this year. officers is increasing. In oraer to make my This Is far from truth. n has been stated on argumentsunderstandtothepeople,lwould behalf of the Ministry of Finance In and like to point out that_ outside the House that prices will not in- crease.1t also bears no truth because the 35 [English] percent additional grant has been demanded in the budget for payment of deamess allow- The Demands for Grants in terms of ance to railway e1Tll10yees. Salaries, Part I; Demand No.1 Railway Board: Pay Group A & B Establishment, [English] 1990-91 : Rs. 1,89,21,000. The Budget es- timates for 1992-93: Rs. 1,95,04,000. . You are accepting that prices are going completely beyond your control because of [ Translation] which there is a demand for 35 percent increase in the dearness allowancu. n means that the nUnDer of lower grade employees has been reduced to 3 [Translation] crore 71 thousand from 3 crore 6 lakh. This time the hon. Mlnisterhas made an [EngHsh] Important announcement that a new scheme Is going to be Implemented. The new scheme This proves that you, in fact, are killing is about a unique conversion. I do not know the fellow at the bottom. In the General whether Shri Oscar Fern,andes Is present in Superintendence and Services of the Rail- the House or not. In the presence of the hon. ways, the Budget estimate for the last year Minister, he delivered a speech in the pres- was As. 251,12,11,000. It was brought ence of the Chief Minister, he delivered a down in the revised estimates to Rs. 245 speech in Bangalore on 5th in which he crores from Rs. 251 crores. And in the praised the Minister of Railways and said current Budget, you are proposing Rs. that the hon. Minister is going to materialise 252,64,00,000. the dreams of Lora Dalhousie. 499 FJIY. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12, 1992 torGtallts~ sao- G8n-Discuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and • of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants {RIys.}, 19 - [Englsh] same. It means that keeping In view the value 01 rupee pravaillng· at that time the Because Lord Dalhousie, It seems, amount has been recluced by more than 25 wanted a unl.guage of the railways. I never to 30 per cent because Some articles for the raad It anywhera while reading the history of RaIlways have to be Il1l)OrtecI by spending the Indian Railways. But obviously Mr. Os- some foralgn exchange also. By devaluat- car Femandes is a much better raad person Ing the rupee to such an extent It has than I am. He must have, in the course of become il1l)Ossible to save money. In your raadlng the history of the Indian Railways, argumeftts about gauge conversion you discovered somewhera that Lord Dalhousie have stated that it helps In economic devel- wanted a uni.guage and he says that the opment. Rail Is Rail whether it is narrow Railways Minister is fuHllling the dream of gauge or broad gauge, the Han. Prime Lord Dalhousie. Minister has also supported It In his speech. I know I, and you have also praised the Hon. [Translation] Prime Minster In your speech. We have seen that you have praised the Prime Min- And I take exception to it because ..•. isler and 'the Prime Minister have praised you. But I won' speak on it now. I won' [English) speak hera. I will speak on It later. The hon. Minister is our friend also. ' Lord Dalhousie was not building the Indian Railways for the benefit of India. Then Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, regard- ing his argument that on it depends the [ Translation] progress of the country. I would like to ask the hon. Minister and.he should think over It He Is not thinking at all as to what sort seriously and answer within 5 to 7 days, of ourraH trackS should be. They arathinking , whetherthose Who had been respoflsblefor only to exploit the country. How wiD the hon. running the railways in 'India in the past had Minister materialise the dreams of Lord never tho~ht in this direction. Is It true that Dalhousie. a convnitlee ..•

1Tianslation} [English]

THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS (SHRI by name Committee on Expansion of C.K.. JAFFER SHARIEF): I would like to pay the RaIlways Network? him" some compliments. He has ourclassed even film heroes. and heroines. He is a [TtaIIslatlon] wonderful artist. waS appointed regarding this. A former SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: it Is in- Chairman of th4t RaHway Board Shri Mlnesa justice to me. was Its Head. ~ this Committee give its complete raport? All the mermelS of the I am going to make a Significant re- Committee wera expert and thera was no quest befora the House ..1 have thought such a person who had any link with politics mlnufety overthe scheme prasented by the' or any otherflefd. They were the persons for hOn. Minister. We have come to the conclu- whom the interest of the countrY and the sion that It Is not In the Interast of the indian RaIlways has always been the supreme. lis , RaIlways. I would like to point out two or notthat this Idea nevercame Into their mind. three points. The provision of capital under Today, all of a sudden this Idea has come .otherheads has been reducecltoo much this - Into the mind of some officers as you· are year Rs. 285 crore have· been allocated for stating. You said In yourspeech that It Is the theconstructionof new RallwayUnes against biggest rnea8Ura which .1. help the country Rs.186croreaHocatedtwoyearsagoforthe to make progress and It.llba Iq)Iementecl 501 Iffy. Budget.' 1991-93- . MARCH 12, 1992 torGrants Rr.t' 502 GBn-O/scuss; Res re. I'BCOI7JBndatlons 1992-93; and ~ . 01 Rfy. Con. Comm.; Dem. DBI[I. forgrants {RIyB.}, ,gg1- '2 with full responsibility. Therefore, In the light now compare his own speech last year. of argument given by flon. Minister that . Railways help in development of the area, (interruptions) I would like to ask him whether he will give priority to the expansion of railways In those SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: My area which are not developed at all or to speech spoke about and I stili speak about those areas where already meter gauge new lines, not conversion. (Interruptions) line exists and there Is proposal to convert It into broad gauge. Hwas my first point. The SHRI C.K. JAFFER SHARIEF: You second one is that you too gave this argu- co"l'are his own speech-what he spoke as ment In yourspeech and the Prime Minister Railway Minister and what he Is speaking also elaborated It. now.

[English] [ Translation]

how many man-years of employment SHRIGEORGEFERNANDES: I would like to say that you talk of gauge conversion [ Translation] but the English expanded railway network 1000 KM. every year and we have been would be created for the people. Now expanding the railway network by only 200 you may allege that I catch the words to kilometers every year for last 40 or 45 point outthe mistakes, But you see what the years. Therefore, In my opinion new rail- Hon. Prime Minister said on that day? way line should be laid there instead of spending money on gauge conversion so ,- [English] oppose yourdeclslon of allocating funds for this gauge conversion. I oppose It. nIs my THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS (SHRI well considered opinion. Will it help in cre- C.K. JAFFER SHARIEF): Man-days. ating employment opportunities? The amount being spent on laying new lines SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: Man- comes to about 80 per cent of the amount Days? H makes It worse. being spent on gauge conversion. Ten thousand long old railway lines require [ Translation] replacement and 2 to 2 112 thousand kilo- meters Ones are being replaced ever; year. Because you talk in terms of crores of The trains are not running atthe prescribed man-days? But when you talk In terms of speed. I was distressed to go through the persons; 5 crores persons will get employ- allocation which you may not have seen It ment. till now, but your Department might have discussed It. [English] [English] man-days perkllorneter. Now, you work out In terms of number of people, work out Now I come to Centrat Railway'sThana- In terms of number of h~man beings. What Kalyan section. Track r4!newal, sleeper Is this 'man-days'? renewal, Is very necessary. On certain sections, the anticipated cost Is rupees two [ translation] crore and sixty Iakh were as the provision for 1991-93 Is rupees two lakh. This Is a way to mlsied. [T~IaIIonJ [English] If you go through pages No. 138, 139, SHRI C.K. JAFFER SHARIEF: You 140, 141 you wUI find that only As. two Iakh 503 RIy. ~t. 1991-93 PHAlGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) for GIants R/ys), 504 Gen-DisCuss; Res te. I8COIIIefJdaIlons 1992-93; and SutiDIV. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. fOl'(/I'tIrQ {R1ys.}, t9!lf~§2 have been provld8d for the WhOle Dne likely to be spent on It, but erJl)loyment to whereas lis requirement Is As. 3.5 erare, seven orelghtlakh persons will be provided. fourerare or five erare. The provision of Rs. two Iakh win not be sutrlclent. If the wolte SHRI ck JAFFER SHARIEF: Would costs As. 5 crores and only Rs. 21akh are you like to speak on tconkan-Ral1way Une?- provldelJlortrack renewal, what sort of track .renewal can be done with this meagAt SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: I am amount? In my opinion It wlU prove only a coming to that very point. The Issue of wastage. The allocation of As. 21akh will be elactrlflcatlon of Bundel-Katwa Une has been sufficient only to meet the over head ex- lying pending for a long time. Electrification penses to be spent on engineers, supervi- . can be done only alter doubling the line. sorystalf and a jeep. Thus the amount of As. Doubling makes the 'process of electrifica- . 21akh would be spent on officials only. tion easy. The scheme undertaken by you by effecting cut in the provisions made for [English] doubling of lines. laying of new lines ortrack renewal will create more problems for us. There aAt at least hundAtd such jobs Development waite wOI be stoPP.ed and ev- wheAt the need Is anywhere Rs. 1 112 crore ery programme of work will be disturbed. to 5 112 erare. but the allocation Is only As. Therefore, I request the han. Minister of 2t051akh. Railways to pay special attention to this.

( Translation) The last issue which I wish to raiSe Is linked with two or three things. h is linked SHRI RAM KAPSE: It mean only As. 2 with the economy of the Railways and the Iakh will be provided for any job. Railway efll)loyees. One of the issues has been raised today in the morning only. The SHRI GEORGE FERNANDES: Mr. issue Is about the recognition of the R.P.F. Deputy Speaker Sir, you are ringing the bell. There are only two recognised railway I am going to conclude my speech withIn ten organisation. Rest of the organisations in minutes. I would like to urge the Minister of railways are not recognized. Some of the RaIlways to allocate some more money for cases of granting recognition have been track renewal. Though As. 1249 crOI8 have taken to Supreme Court even. Keeping all been provided tor track renewal, yet ten thesethlngs In view we took adecislon In this thousand kilometer track is stiR there for regard. I would like to request the han. renewal and every year twO or two and hal Minister to call all the concerned Members thousand kilometers track Is added to it. So of the House and discuss this issue or caR unless it is done the problem wRl not be the trade union .people and discuss It. If the solved. Just now Shri RanaJl was stating that management continues to have Its upper the number of accidents has lnc:reasedth8se hand. the problems of the labourers cannot days and many persons are being killed in be solved. H the RaIlway Board insists on accidents. The reason Is that troiCks are old only two unions which It had done in' writing and broken. We should pay attention to It. then there would be two unions which will So far the generation of efll)loyment Is COf11)ete with one and another to secure concerned, the Government should lay lines more and more facilities for the efll)loyees as many as possible. H It lays 1 000 kilometer then every thing will be set right. lines a year, seven lakh persons In India will get employment. The schemes are launched I request the Govemment not to agree in the names of the great leaders Govern- with the persons associated with the sys- ment can launch it in the name of Shri Jaffer tem. on this Issue of granting recognition. Sharief as Jaffer Sharief Rojgar Yojana and Government is not associated with the sys- can starting in1»Iementing It. (interruptions) tem. So It should not agree to their plea. Laying 1,000 kilometer tracks Is not an They should not go by our decision and take ordinary work. Rs. 1000 to 1200 erare are decision on your own but tI'I8 constitution 505 Rty. Budgst. 1991-93- MARCH 12, 1992 forGrants RIys}, 506 G8n-Discuss; Res reo recomendalions 1992-93; and SutiD/v. of Rly. Con. COtnm.; Dem. Oem. forgrants (RIp.), ,g~f-~2 has given us right to form unions on demo- Therefore, I state that all these things eratic lines. Why you people are deter- happen wHh the help of some corrupt em- mined to abolish the unions? Who has ployees. It is not a secret. (Interruptions) empowered to abolish the unions? Attempt Therefore, In my capacity of Minister of is being madeto abolish such organisations. Railways, for the first time In hiStory, I had convened the meeting of officers of RaIlway ( interruptions) and other Department of the Govemment of India and taken step to eradicate corruption. Sir, the people retrenched under 14-2 ( Interruptions) (/ntorruptions). The Govemment has kept in dark for long time and now II took a Mr. Deputy Speaker, I request the han. decision and said that nothing could be Mlnistertotake certain concrete steps In this done in this regard. But the Government connection. must do something in this regard. It must do for the cause of the e01>loyees. H we wish to run the Railway trade unions and the I would like to say one thing mora which Railway management properly, I request I have raised In this House eartier also. In the Government to come forward to settle Morac:labadcasuallabourers were removed this issue. from service and 11 00 persons were racrultted In place of them afterlaking brI)es from them. Afterthis, there started a tussal. The third issue is about corruption. You Shri ShyamBlhari Lal was the Union Leader. too have spoken on it, all will speak on it in I became the Minister of Railway In Decem- their own way. I would like to cite an ex- ber, 1989. He staged Dharna In front of my ample of corruption experienced by my own house along with 500 persons. I appointed family member just 15 days ago. My wife an Enquiry Committee of the Ministry of was going to Calcutta from Delhi by the Railway which did not comprise of Union Rajdhani A.C. Chair Car. She was going to Leaders and politicians. The officers re- Gopalpur for 5 or 7 days. She was taking a ported that money had been taken for the box with her according to carrying capacity. recruitment and all proofs were available so It contained money, documents, etc. all the they suggested to remove those recruitted important things. She kept the box in the person from service and rainstalethe casual upper berth, the box was missing after Iabourars on seniority basis. The whole some time. The behaviour of the Railway process had been started but in the mean- employee was also very Improper. I will not timethe Govemment changed and the work go into their behaviour in the House. Such came to stand still. Shri Shyam 8ihari Lal cases of thefts in air conditioned sleepers, was removed from his service, he was chair cars cannot take place without the beaten severely and now his life Is In danger. collusion of the employees. This Issue did This is the power of corruption. I request yolo not end here. She telephoned me from to find some way out and eradicate corrup- Calcutta. 1talked here with the persons with tion form the Railways. I woulD like to stata whom I could do so. But nothing was recov- that if corruption from the Railways is eradi- ered. After seven days of the incident, they cated, you will be having surplus money returned some goods through post. Since even after meeting the expenditure on con- rnail reaches our home. (Interruptions) It version atc., and the Govemment will not be means those who committed theft were not compelled to increase freight a~)ares. ordinary thelves. They were generous, be- Therefore, we should eradicate corruption cause they took away their useful things at every level from the Railways. I hope my and displayed their generosity by returning colleagues will definitely lake concrete steps the remaining things. (Interruptions). They this direction. were not along other persons were also involved In It. . With It, I conclude. 507 Rly. Bc.q,et, 1991-93 PHAlGUNA 22. 1913 (SAKA) forGrants Rlys). 508 GBn-DlsCuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and Supply. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Oem. for giants (Rlys.). 1991-92 SHRI C.1t JAFFER SHARIEF: I am the railway colJ1)8rtments in useable with you in this work. condition.1 (6)

(English] "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- SHRI JITENDRA NATH DAS vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. (Jalpaiguri): I beg to move:- 100..

"That the demand under the Head /Need To Check wid spread malprac- Railway Board be reduced by Rs. tices in He RailwaysJ (7) 100.- "That the demand under the Head lNeed to iJ11)lement the assurance General Superintendence and Ser- given by the Government to reinstate vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. the dismissed railway employees. (1 ) 100 ..

"That the clemand under the Head /Need to take up the functioning of Miscellaneous Expenditure (General) Railways.! (8) be reduced by Rs. 100.. "That the demand under the Head /Need for early sanction and con- General Superintendence and Ser- struction of railway line from Eklakshi vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. to Balurghat, West Bengal.I (2) 100..

"That the demand under the Head lNeed to effectively check the travel- Miscellaneous Expenditure (General) ling of unauthorised persons in the be reduced by Rs. 100.. reserved railway compartment.! (9)

/Need for extension of broad gauge "That the demand under the Head line from Alipurdwar Road-station to Repairs and maintenance of Perma- Alipurdwar junctionJ (3) nent Way and WorKs be reduced by Rs.100.- "That the clemand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- /Need to repair the approach road to vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. Jalpaiguri Road Station and also to 100.. repair waiting room there.1 (10)

/Need to run trains on time.! (4) "That the demand under the Head Repairs and Maintenance of Perma- "That the demand under the Head nent Way and WorKs be reduced by General Superintendence and Ser- Rs.100" vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100.. /Need to repair the approach road to Jalpaiguri town station.! (11) /Need to provide adequate security to passengers.1 (5) "That the demand under the Head Repairs and maintenance of Perma- "That the demand under the Head nent Way and Works be reducec:l by General Superintendence and Ser- As. 100.. vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100.- INeed to build a fly over on levelcrosslng al SlIIgurl town In If.Jeed to maintain the lavatories in Darjeefing, West Bengal./ (12) 509 Rly. Budget. 1991-93- MAACH 12. 1992 (OrGrants Rlys). 510 Gan-Dlscuss; Res reo recomendatlons 1992-93; and SuDply. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.). 1991-92 "That the demand under the Head vices on Railways be reduced by As. Repairs and maintenance of Penna- 100.- nent Way and Works be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to effectively check the inci- dence of theft of railway property.l /Need to build an over-bridge at the (553) Jalpaiguri town railway station.! (13) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- Miscellaneous Working Expenses be vices on Aallways be reduced by As. reduced by As. 100.- 100.-

/Need to improve catering and sani- /Need to ensure a clean and efficient tation services in the r~ilway restau- rail service to the public.! (554) rants.1 (14) SHAI SUDARASAN RAYCHUDHUAI "That the demand under the Head (Serampore): I beg to move:- Miscellaneous Working Expenses be reduced by As. 100.· "That the demand under the Head Aallway Board be reduced by As. !Need to provide at least minimum 100.- facilities and amenities to the railway passengers travelling by 2nd classJ /Need to avoid prlvatisation of the (15) different sectorS ofthe Aailways.1 (16)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- Railway Board be reduced by As. vices on Railways be reduced by As. 100.- 100.- /Need to provide more passenger !Need to operate the proposed tri amenities to the Second Class rail- weekly train trom Haldibari to way passengers.! (17) Sehaldah daUyJ (550) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Aailway Board be reduced by As. General Superintendence and Ser- 100.. vices on Aailways be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to ensure punctuality of the passenger trains on Howrah-Bandel /Need to make the proposed trl section of the Eastem Aailway J (18) weekly train from Coach Behar to Sehaldah dallyJ (551) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by As. "That the demand under the Head 100.. General Superintendence and Ser- vices on Aallwaysbe reduced by As. /Need 10 stop retrenchment of the 100.- raHway efl1)loyees In the name of modemlsatlon.! (19) !Need to effectively check ticketless travelling.! (552) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by As. General Superintendence and Ser- 100.- 511 ~. B~ 1991-9.'J.PHALGUNA 22.1913 (SAKA) IorGrants Rlys}. 512 Gen-DisCuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and SuPply. ofRIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Dem.lorllrants (R1ys.). 199f-§2 /Neact to construct a flyover at Assets-Acquisition. Construction and Dankuni Railway Station at Eastern Replacementbel'8ducadbyAs.100." Railway for facilitating traffic.1 (20) /Need to construct new lines and "That the demand under the Head provide newpassengertrains forWest Assets-Acquisition. Construction and Bengal.! (27) Replacement be raducadbyAs. 100." "That the demand under the Head /Need to Introduce a Shatabdi Ex- Assets-Acquisition. Construction and press between Howrah and New Replacement be rec:lucedby As. 100." Delhi.! (21) /Need to have double-track facilities "That the demand under the Head at Sheorafuli-Tarakeswar section of Assets-Acqulsltion. Construction and Eastern Railway.! (28) Replacement be raducedby As. 100." "That the demand under the Head INead to provide acomputerised res- Assets-Acquisition. Construction and ervation facilily at Dankuni Railway Replacement be raducedby As. 100: station of Eastern Railway: (22) INeed to run Rajdhani Express daily "ThaI the demand under the Head between Howrah and New Delhi.! Assets-Acquislion. Construction and (29) Replacement be I8ducedby As. 100." SHRI PURNA CHANDRA MALIK /Need to construct B.G. line in the (Durgapur): I beg to move:- Howrah Amta-Chafl1)8-Danga sec- tion of the S.E. Railway.l (23) 'ThaI the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by As. "That the demand under the Head 1001" Assets-Acquisition. Construction and Replacemantberaducedby As. 100." INead to reinstate immediately the dismissed railway Employees.! (30) /Need to provide more passenger trains on Howrah-Bargachia line of "That the demand under the Head the S.E. Railway.l (24) RaIlway Board be reduced by As. 1001" "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition. Construction and INead to grant license to Railway RepIacenaItberaducedby As. 100." hawkersJ (31)

/Need to have a COfI1)uterised reser- "That the demand under the Head vation facility at SeraJ11)Or& station of Miscellaneous Expenditure be re- Eastern Railway.l (25) duced by Rs. 100:

"That the demand under the Head INead forextending E.M.U. services Assets-Acquisition. Construction and from Burdwan to Asansol.I (32) ReplacementberaducedbyAs.100." "That the demand under the Head /Need to incraase the number of Miscellaneous Expendlure be re- passenger trains at Howrah-Bandel duced by As. 100'- section 01 Eastem RailwayJ (26) JNeed to InIroduc:e mora passenger tralnl betw.en Surdwan and "That the demand under the Head AsansolJ (35) 513 RIy. Budget. 1991-93 MARCH 12. 1992 torGrants RIys). 514 Gen-Discus,; RBI re.I8COfI'I8IIdat/ons 1992-93; and SutiDI'I. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Oem. forgrants (R"'.), '.f-~ "That the demand under the Head Bihar. particularly In the North Bihar In MlsceUaneous Expenditure be re- matlers of providing railway networkJ duced by Rs. 100.- (63)

/Need to provide more train services "That the demand under the Head on the Bankura·Damodar railway RepaIrs and Maintenance of Perma- Dnes.! (38) nent way and Works be reduced to Re.l." "That the demand under the Head Assets Acquisition. Construction and /Failure to construct broad gauge rail Replacement.- line from Muzaffarpurto Narkatiaganj./ (64) lI'Jeed to provide improve train ser- vices on Burdwan Kalwa section of "That the demand uncler the Head Eastern Railway.1 (41) Repairs and Maintenance of Perma- nent way and Works be reduced to "That the demand under the Head Re.1.- Assets Acquisition. construction and Replacement.· /Failure to make any provision for the construction of Chhitol Bridge con- /Need to develop Durgapur railway necting UltarPradesh and BiharJ (65) station as a model station.! (42) "That the demand under the Head SHRI KAMLA MISHRA MADHUKAR Repairs and Maintenance of Perma- (Motihari): I beg to move:- nent way and Works be reduced to As. 100.. "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced to Re.1 .• lNeed to open a branch rail line on North-East Railway from Hajipur to /Failure to reduce the Government Sangll or Betla via Hajipur Vaishal~ expenditure by reducing the number Sahabganj. Kesaria. Sangral\'1)ur. of high officials in the Railways.! (60) Auraj and Paharpur.l (66)

"That the demand under the Head "ThSt the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced to Re.1" Repairs and Maintenance of Motive Power be reduced to Rs. 100: /Failure to put forward any proposal of austerity in the expenditure of /Need to replace the rail engines of Railway Board.! (61) passengers and goods trains running between Muzaffarpur and "That the demand under the Head Narkatiaganj by diesel engines.! (67) Railway Board be reduced to Re.1.· "That the demand under the Head IF allure to make any concrete provi- Repairs and Maintenance of Plant sion for providing basic public ameni- and Equipment be reduced by As. ties by the Railways.! (62) 100:

"That the demand under the Head /Need to provide public amenities like Repairs and Maintenance of Perma- eIadrIcIIy. fan. lavatory facility and nent way and Works be reduced to proper cleanliness in the trains run- Re.1." ning between Muzaffarpur and Narkatiaganj on North-Eastern Rail- lFallure to safeguard the Interest of wayJ (68) 515 Rly. Budget, 1991-93-PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) forGrants RIys}, 516 Gen-Dlsi;uss; Res 1'8. recomendaIlons 1992-93; IIIJd SuDDfv. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (R1ys.), f~f-~ "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the head Stan Welfare and Amenities be re- Railway Board be I8duced by As. duced by Rs. 100.- 100.-

/Need to review the working 01 rail- /Need 10 entrust railway catering ser- way school at Motlhari, N. E. Rail- vice to the cooperative or way1(69) comnmission vendors on Eastern and South Eastern Railways.! (75) "That the demand under the Head Staff Welfare and Amenities be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 100.- Railway Board be l8udced by As. 100.- JNeed to repair staff quarters and ensure electricity and water facilities JNeedtopnMde licence to unllcenced al MOlihari railway station of North- venc:lorsand hawkers at Howrah Sta- Eastern Railway.! (70) tion and other stations of South East- ern and Eastern Railways.! (76) "That the demand under the Head Staff Welfare and Amenities be "That the demand under the Head re~ by Rs. 100.- RaIlway Board be l8udced by As. 100.- /Need to open a railway hospital at Motiharistation of N.E. rallwaysJ (71) /Need to Increase EMU local trains between Howrah and Kharagpur J SHRI HANNAN MOlLAH(Uluberia): I (77) beg to move:- "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be l8udced by As. Railway Board be reudced by As. 100.- 100.- JNeed to Incntase nurrixtrofc0ach8s /Need to introduce Indentlly cards to In EMU local train on Kharagpur Divi- unliscensed railway hawkers to en- sion on South Eastern RailwayJ (78} able them to hawk in local and maD trains, In Eastern, S.E. and other "That the demand under the Head RailwayJ (72) Railway. Board be l8udced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reudced by As. JNeed to incI8ase the nurrixtr of 100.- EMU local trains between Howrah and Bargachla on Eastern RailwayJ /Need 10 stop harassment of railway (79) hawkers by RPF on South Eastern and Eastern Railways.1 (73) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be l8udced by As. . "That the demand under the Head 100.- Railway Board be l8udced by As. JNeed to run EMU local trains on time 100.- In Kharagpur DivIsion on South East- ern Railway.! (SO) /Need to absorb commission van- dors In South Eastern Railway and "ThaI the demand under the Head Eastern Railway as l8gular employ- Railway Board be l8udced by As. ees 01 Ralways.! (74) 100.- 517 Rly. 8Iqe~ 1991-93 MARCH 12, 1982 Io'CJtlItD~, 518 Gen-DIsCU8S; Res te. recomenclat/ons 1992-93; and • '. tJI Rly. Con.. Comm.; Oem. Oem. lor".",. (RIys.), 1 - 12 /Need to Introduce -men fecattralns Asaets-Acqulsilion and Replacement from Bagnan Station on South East- be I8ducad by Rs. 100.- ern Railway.1 (81) /Need to construct a w~ on "That the demand under the Head Gauri Ganga Canal on S.E. RallwayJ RaIlway Board be reudced by· As. (88) 100 .. "That the demand under the Head JNeedtostoponeOrtssa-boundMaUl Asaets-Acqulsilion and Replacement Express train at 8aurla station on be raduced by As. 100.· South Eastern Aallway.1 (82) JNeed to compteta the broad gauge "That the demand under the Head line between Howrah and Arrta.1 (89) Assets-Acquisition andRepI~ment be reduced by As. 100.. "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisltion and Replacement /Need to construct a fly-over at the be raduced by Rs. 100.- Eastern side at Bagnan station on S.E. Aailway.! (83) INeed to complete Howrah- CharJ1)adanga-5hlakhala BG lineJ "That the demand under the Head (90) Assets-Acquisition and Aeplacement be reduced by As. 100.. "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acqulsilion and Replacement /Need to construct a fly-over at the be raduced by Rs. 100.. westem side of Maurlgram station on S.E. Aailway.1 (84) INeed to construd a flag station at Chaclcasl on S.E. RailwayJ (91) "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition and Aeplacement "That the demand under the Head be reduced by As. 100.. Assets-Acquisilion and Replacement· be raduced by As. 100.· /Need to construct platform sheds at Ghoraghata station on South East- JNeed to construct a second over- ern Aallway.! (85) bridge at ChengaH station at the &ast- ern end of the platform on S.E. Rail- "That the demand under the Head wayJ (92) Assets-Acquisition and Aeplacement be reduced by As. 100.. "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acqulsllion and Aeplacement /Need to construct a link-road be- be raduced by As. 100'- tween Uluberla and Baurls on South Eastern Aallway.! (86) JNeed to extend the over-brldge at Bauna station on S.E. Rallwpv) (93) "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition and Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the' Ht:..id RaIlway BQ;Jfd be raduced by As. /Need to construd fourth line be- 100.. tween Howrah and Kharagpur on S.E. Railway.1 (87) INeed to raduce season ticket fares for the bene,. of the urban and sub- "That the demand under the Head urban COrJ1)utersJ (679) 519 Rly. Budget. 1991-93-PHALGUNA 22,1913 (S4KA) torGrants Rlys). 520 Gim-Discuss; Res reo recomendatlons 1992-93; and SupplY. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. tor grants (Rlys.). 1991-g2 ·"That the demand under the Head construction of Digha Tamuluk rail Railway Board be reduced by As. line.! (104) 100.. "That the demand uncler the Head /Need to continue and strengthen General Superintendence and Ser- railway catering under the Indian vices on Railways be reduced by As. Railway Authorlty.1 (680) 100..

"That the demand under the Head !Need to check malpractices prevail- Railway Board be reduced by As. Ing in the Railways resulting in losses.! 100.. (105)

/Need to reduce railway 2nd class "That the demand under the Head fare for all distances by MaillExpress General Superintendence and Ser- trains.! (681) vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. !Need to pay attention to the com· 100.. plaints of passengers relating to non· availability-of amenities.! (106) /Need to improve in passengers, amenities.! (682) "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser· "That the demand under the Head vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.. 100.. /Need to check the increase in rail !Need to reinstate all the retrenched accidents.! (107) railway efT1)loyees.l (683) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser· Railway Board be reduced by As. vices on Railways be reducedby As. 100.- 100..

/Need to cofT1)Jete railway projects in /Need to maintain punctuality of West Bengal on time.! (684) trians.! (108)

SHRI Sl,IDHIR GIRl (Contai): I beg to "That the demand under the Head move:- Operating Expenses·Traffic be reo duced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. /Need to stick to the scheduled time 100.. for running of the prestigeous trains like Rajdhani" Express.! (109) /Need for early completion of con· struction of Digha Tamuluk railline.1 "That the demand under the Head (103) Railway Board be reduced to Re. 1.- .

"That the demand under the Head !Failure to abandon the policy of Railway Board be reduced by As. privat. ')ation ofthe catering service In 100.- the Ra Iways.! (380)

/Need to provide more funds for the "That the demand under the Head 521 Rty. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12.1992 farGrants R~~. 522 G8n-Discuss; Res reo recomendatlons 1992-93; and SuP. • af Rly. Con. Camm.; Dem. Dem. forgrants (Rlys.). 1991- '2 Railway Board be reduced to Re. 1." vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Failure to provide sufficient funds for uneven regional Railway line con- /Need to provide emergency light at struction and servicesJ (381) Stations) (114)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be l'8duced to Re.l .• General Superintendence and Ser- vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. /Increase In freight and fare leading 100: to inflation.! (382) /Need to construct rest house for SHRIMATI KRISHNANDRA KAUR porters at Gangapur Railway Sta- (DEEPA) (Bharatpur): I beg to move:- tion.! (115)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- General Superintendence and Ser- ·vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100." 100:

/Need to Immediately provide reser- !Need to remove unauthorised shops vation facilities at Bharatpur Railway buiH on the Railway Platform.! (116) Station.! (110) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- Gneral Superintendence and Ser- vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100: 100." !Need to construct one more over /Need to provide dormitory accom- bridge at the Gangapur Railway Sta- modation for passengers at tion) (117) Bharatpur Railway Station.! (111) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- General Superintendence and Ser- vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100: 100: /Need to construct an additional plat- !Need to attach air-conditioned form at Bharatpur Railway Station in coaches in Jaipur-Agra super fast view of incresead numters of trains) train.! (112) (118) . .. "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- Repairs and Maintenance of Perma- vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. nent Way and Works be reduced by 100: Rs.tOO: INeed for Immediate repairs of /Need to instal generators forprovid- Bharatpur Railway yard,! (119) ing electricity at Bharatpur Railway Station) (113) "That the demand under the Head Repairs and Maintenance of Perma- "That the demand under the Head nent Way and Works be reduced by General Superintendence and Ser- Rs.l00: 523 Rly. Budget, 1991-93PHALGUNA22.1913 (SAKA) forGrants Rlys). 524 Gen-Disc4iss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and Supply. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. for grants (RIYS.J, 199f-$J2 /Need for aar!) completion of railway lege forthe wards of Railway erJ1)loy- line from Mathura to Alwari (120) ees of Bharatpuri (121)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Repairs and Maintenance of Penna- Assets Acquisitions, Construction and nent Way and Works be reduced by Raplacementbe reduced by As. 100.- As. 100.- /Need to manufacture more wagons /Need forel8ctrificatlon of Jalpur Agra in the Simco Wagon Factory.! (128) railway line.! (121) "That the demand under the Head. "That the demand under the Head Assets Acquisitions, Construction and Operating Expenses Traffic be re- Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.- duced by Rs. 100.- /Need to introduce new trains from /Need to speedy renovation of plat- Agra-Mathura-Jaipur in view of the forms at Bharatpur station.! (122) increasing number of passengers.! (129) "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses Traffic be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 100.- Assets Acquisitions, Construction and Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to improve the quality of food being served in trains.! (123) /Need to construct an overbridge at Sewar near Bharatpur Railway sta- "That the demand under the Head tion of Northern Railway.! (130) Operating Expenses Traffic be re- duced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Assets Acquisitions, Construction and /Need to Improve the catering ser- Raplacementbe reduced by As. 100.- vice and to maintain proper cleanli- ness at Railway restaurants.! (124) /Need to construct an overbridge at Bharatpur-Alwar Railway line.! (131) "That the demand under the Head Staff WeHare and Amenities be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 100. - • Assets Acquisitions, Construction and Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to provide first-aid facilities at Bharatpur Railway Station.1 (125) /Need to convert the Jaipur-Agra rail- way line into broad-gat.ge line.ll132) "That the demand under the Head Staff WeHare and Amenities be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 100.- General Superintendence and Ser· vices on Railways be reduced by As. JNaad to Improve the overall stan- 100.- dard of Bharatpur Railway Schoo!.1 /Need to construct a waiting hall for (126) porters at Gangapur railway station.1 (318) "ThaI the demand under the Head Staff Wenare and Amenities be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 100.· General Superintendence and Ser- vices on Railways be reduced by As. JNaad to open a Railway Inter Col- 100.. 525 Rty. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12.1992 forGrants Rlys). 526 Gen-Discuss; Res reo recomendatlons 1992-93; and Supply. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. for grants (Rlys.). 1991-92 /Needto remove unauthorised shops "That the demand under the Head constructed at the railwaypiatformsJ RaIlway Board be reduced by As. (319) 100..

"That the demand under the Head !Need to provide railing around General Superintendence and Ser- Gangapur city railway station'" (449) vices on Railways be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Sar- /Need to construd one more over- vices on Railways be reduced by As. bridge at Gangapur City railway sta- 100.. tion.! (320) INeedtoattach an A.C. SleeperCoach "That the demand under the Head In MarudharExpress running between General Superintendence and Ser- lucknow and Jodhpur.! (450) vices on Railways be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Sar- /Need to construct an additional plat- v.ices on Railways be reduced by Rs. form at Bharatpur railway station.! 100.. (321) /Need to increase sitting capacity at "That the demand under the Head platform and waiting hall at Bharatpur Repairs and Maintenance ot Perma- railway station.1 (451) nent Way and Works be reduced by As. 100.. "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- /Need to convert Ahmadabad-Deihl· duced by Rs. 100.. metre gauge line Into broad gauge line.! (322) INeed to check frequent incidents of robberies, thefts and dacoities in the "That the demand under the Head trains running between Mathura and Railway Board be reduced by As. Kasganj./ (452) 100.. "That the demand under the Head /Need to provide· railing around Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- Bharatpur railway station.! (446) duced by Rs. 100..

"That the demand under the Head INead to check frequent railway aoci- Railway Soard be ·reduced by As. den\sbatweenMathuraandKasganiJ 100." (453)

/Need to provide hab of Pasch 1m "That the demand under the Head Express at Shri Mahabirji Railway Assets Acquisition Construdion and Station} (447) Replacement be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the Head INeed to Introduce an Express train Railway Board be reduced by As. from Agra to Jaipur for promoting 100.. tourism.! (454)

/Need to enhance reservation quota "That the demand under the Head from sawai Madhopurto Bombay In Assets Acquisition Construdion and aft trains.! (448) Replacement be raducedby As. 100.- 527 fPy. BLldget. t991-93PHALGUNA 22.1913 (SAKA) torGrants RIys). 528 Gim-Discuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and SUpplY. ofRIy. Con. Comm.;Dem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.). t99t-~ INeed to provide double railway line running between lMathura and Agra} between Jaipur and Sawal (470) lMadhopur} (455) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand uncler the Head Railway Board be reduced by As. Assets Acquisition Construdlbn and 100.. Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- lNeed to increase reservation quota /Need to Introduce a direct train be- from Bharatpur railway station In tween Jaipur and Bombay.! (456) IMarudhar Express} (471)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Assets Acquisition Construdion and Railway Board be reduced by As. Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- 100.. I /Need to Introduce a new train be· /Need to provide better sanitary ser- tween Agra and Kotal (457) vices at Bharatpur railway station.! (472) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. "That the demand under the Head 100.- Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.. /Need to check unauthorised entry in the reserved bogies.1 (466) /Need to provide stoppage of Rajdhani Express at Bharatpurto promote tour- "That the demand under the Head Ism.1 (473) Railway Board be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Repairs and Maintenance of Car- /Needto build a new residential colony riages and Wagons be reduced by for railway ef11)loyee in Bharatpur} As. 100.. (467) INeed to supply comfortable "That the demand under the Head matresses in the trains running on Railway Board be reduced by As. Jodhpur-Agra line.1 (474) 100,- "That the demand under the Head /Need to ensure safety of passen- Railway Board be reduced by Rs. gers at Bharatpur railway station} 100.. (468) /Need to provide cold drinking water "That the demand under the Head at Bharatpur railway station.! (548) Railway Board be reduced by As. 100.. "That the demand uncler the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. lNeed to provide television at 1oar Bharatpur railway station.1 (469) /Need to develop Sawal lMadhopur "That the demand uncler the Head railway station as a model railway Railway Board be reduced by As. station} (549) 100.. ~IHARIN PATHAK (Ahmedabad): I JNeed to SlOp chalnpuUlng In trains beg to move:- :)29 RIy.8udgat, 1991-93- MARCH 12. 1992 forGrants Rlys}. 530 Gen-Discuss; Res reo recomendatlons 1992-93; and SuPtJIY. of Rly. COli Comm.; Dem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.). 19!Jf-!J2 "That the demand under the Head /Need to extend the broad gauge line General Superintendence and Ser- upto Kodinar.l (166) vices on Railways be reduced by As. 100." "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition, construction and /Need to shift headquarters of West- replacement be reduced by As. 100.· ern Railway from Bombay to Ahmedabad or Gandh inagar.! (160) INeed to electricity Ahmedabad- Bombay broad gauge line.1 (167) "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and Ser- "That the demand under the Head vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. Assets-Acquisition, construction and 100." replacement be reduced by As. 100.·

/I-Jeed to start a new railway division /Need to construct an over-bridge at at AhmedabadlGandhinagar.f (161) Sabarmati railway crossing near Ahmedabad.! (168) "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 1DO. " Assats-Acquisition, construction and replacement be reduced by As. 1 00." ,'Need to computerlse reservation facility at Maninagar railway station.! !Need to provide broad gauge line (162) from Rajkot to VerawaV (169)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- Assets-Acquisition. construction and duced by Rs. 100.· replacement be reduced by As. 100."

/Need to construct high level plat- /Need to provide sufficient funds for form at Charodiya station (~estern broad gaugeline from Nadiad to Railway).1 (163) Kapadvauj. 1(170)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be ..... Assets-Acquisition, construction and duced by Rs. 100: replacement be reduced by As. 100.·

/Need to start suburban train from !Need to provide sufficient funds for Ahmedabad to Mehsana and extension of broad gauge line upto Ahmedabad to Rajkot./ (164) MadasaJ (171)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- Assets-Acquisition. construction and duced by Rs. 100: replacement be reduced by Rs. 100."

/Need to provide facility to the Sea- !Need to provide more EMU subur- son ticket holders to travel In ban trains on Ahmedabad-Baroda- Karnavatl Express upto Baroda.1 Surat Broad gauge section.! (172) (1"65) . SHRI SUBRATA MUKHERJEE "That the demand under the Head (Rajganj): I beg to move:- Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- duced by Rs. 100: "That the demand under the Head 531 Rly. Budget, 1991-93PHAlGUNA22, 1913 (SAKA) to,Grants Rlys). 532 G8n-Discuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and Supply. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Clem. Oem. fo, grants (Rlys.), 1991-92 General Superintendence and ser- /Need to provide stoppage of Awadh vices on Railways be reduced by As. Assam express at Dalkolha and 100'- Alubarl Road.! (202).

/Need to reinstate the dismissed rail- "That the demand under the Head way employees.! (196) Operating Expenses Fuel be reduced by As. 100'- "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and ser- INeed to make the proposed vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. Haldibari-Sealdah Express daily in- 100 .. stead or tri-weeklyJ (203)

/Need to ensure punctuality in trian "That the demand under the Head services.! (197) Assets-Acquisition, construction and replacement be reduced by Rs. 100'- "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and ser- JNeed to construct fly-over at Dalkolha vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. and Kishanaganj over the railway 100.. tracks.! (204)

/Need to stop malpractices in railway "That the demand under the Head booking offices.! (198) Assets-Acquisition, construction and replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head General Superintendence and ser- /Need to convert metre-gauge rail- vices on Railways be reduCed by As. way line into broad gauge from Barsoi 100." to Radhikapur.! (205)

INeed to ensure punctuality of "That the demand under the Head Darjeeling Mail.! (199) Assets-Acquisition, construction and replacement be reduced by Rs. 100." "That the demand under the Head General SUperintendence and ser- /Need to extend the Metro railway vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. system from Tollygunj to GariaJ(206) 100." "That the demand under the Head /Need to provide stoppage of North- Assets-Acquisition, construction and East Express at Dalkolhaand Alubari replacementbereducedbvRs. '00." Road.l (200) /Need to make adequate funds avail- "That the demand under the Head able for completion of Baraset- General Superintendence and ser- Bongaon railway double line.l (207) vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. 100 .. "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition, construction and INeed to provide stoppage of replacement be reduced by As. 100." Kanchanjungha Express at Dalkolha, /Need for conversion of Burdwan- Alubari and Harishchandrapur.l (201) Kalwa railway line Into a broad gauge li08.1 (208) "That the demand under th~ Head General Superintendence and ser- "That the demand under the Head vices on Railways be reduced by Rs. ~sets-Acquisltlon, construction and 100.. replacement be reduced by R,. 100.. 533 Rly. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12. 1992 for Grants Rlys). 534 Gen-Discuss; Res re. recomendations 1992-93; and Supply. of Rty. Con. Comm.; Dem. Oem. for grants (Rtys.), 1991-92 INeed to undertake Dankuni- lNeed to provide 5 per cent quota of Siakhala project immediately. (209) jobs for sportsmen and handicapped.! (216) "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition, construction and "That the demand under the Head replacement be reduced by As. 100." Railway Board be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to complete the work on Howarh-Amta railway line.1 (210) /Need to lay new railway line between lalitpur and Singrauli.l (217) "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition, construction and "That the demand under the Head replacement be reducedbyRs. 100." Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- INeed to have a rail link upto Balurghat.l (211) !Need for electrification and doubling of railway track fromJhansi to Kanpur ·That the demand under the Head and Manikpur on the Central Rail- Assets-Acquisition, construction and way.! (218) replacement be reduced by Rs. 100." "That the demand under the Head /Need to connect west Dinajpur dis- Operating Expenses Traffic be re- trict with other parts of the State of duced by Rs. 100." West Bengal by raiLI (212) /Need to withdraw disproportionate, "That the demand under the Head unbearable and illogical hike in the Assets-Acquisition, construction and fares of season tickets.! (227) replacementbereducedbyRs.100." "That the demand under the Head lNeed to construct Bulurghat-Eklaksi Staff Welfare and Amenities be re- railway line immediately.! (213) duced by Rs. 100.·

"That the demand under the Head !Need to provide accommodation ta- Assets-Acquisition, construction and cilities for all railwayel1l>loyeesJ (228) replacementbereducedbyRs.100." SHRI M. RAMANNA RAI (Kasaragod): /Need to construct the railway line I beg to move:- trom Budge Budge \0 Nam\l.hana.l (2"\4) "1"ha\ the demand under the \-\ead Railway Boardbe reduCEld by Rs. "\ 00.- "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition, construction and !Need to provide one more line and replacement be reduced by Rs. 100." platform to the west end of platform !Need to construct Tamluk·Digha No. 1 at Kasaragod station.! (219) broad gauge railway line within the specified period.! (215) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by As.l 00.· SHRI RAJENDRA AGNIHOTRI Jhansi): I beg to move:- /Need for improvement of sanitation of Kasaragood railway station.! (220) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. "That the demand under the Head 100." Railway Board be reduced by Rs.l 00 .• 535 Rly.8udg9t, 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) forGrants Rlys), 536 Gen-Discuss; RBs reo I8COITI8ndations 1992-93; and SuDD/Y. of R/y. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. for grants (RIYS.J, 19!J(-92 lNeed to construd an over-bridge at INeed to Introduce iralns from Neeleshwar railway gate.! (221) Trivandrum, Mangalore and Banga- lore like Rajdhani Express.! (688) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reducedbyRs.1 00.- "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced byRs. 100 .. lNeed to construa a railway gate at Berke to the south of uppala station lNeed to run inter city express trains in Southern Railway.! (222) In Kerala.! (689)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by RS.1 00.- Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.-

lNeed to widen the tunnel at Bekalfor INeed to give concession to passen- laying double line.! (223) gers-going to Kerala during Onam period from all parts of India and to "That the demand under the Head run special trains.! (690) RailwayBoardbereducedbyRs.100.- "That the demand under the Head lNeed to construd latrines and bath Railway Board be reducedby Rs. 100. - rooms at Kasaragod railwaystationJ (224) lNeed to give concession to passen- gers travelling to Bangalore from all "That the demand under the Head over India during Dussehara and to Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- run special trains from all over India) (691) lNeed to for doubling the line from Sharanoor to Mangalore ImmedI- "That the demand under the Head ately) (225) RailwayBoardbereducedbyRs.1oo.-

"That the demand under the Head lNeed to increase reserved berths Railway Board be reducedbyRs.1 00.- quota at Kasaragod, Kanhangad, and Payyanur railway stations in Malabar lNeed to construct bridge IDetween Express, West East Express and Mangalore and Sharanoor as part of Madras Mail) (692) Konkan railway.1 (226) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100 .. Railway Board be reduced by re.1" lNeed to replace old and womout lFailureto reinstate aUthe retrenched railway coaches in all the trains run- employees.1 (686) ning to Managalore side of Southern Railway) (693) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by re.1'- "That the demand under the Head RailwayBoardbereducedby~s.100" lFailure to withdraw railway fare hike in rasped of 2nd class passengersJ lNeed to construct more level cross- (687) Ing wIthout-

/Need for providing more second lNeed to start construcllon of Mysore- class berths In the trains running Tenichery railway ._, (704) between Ahmadabad and CochinJ (697) "Thai the demand under the Head RailwayBoardbe reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head . Railway Board be reduced by INeedto rescind the enhancement of As. 1 00.- season ticket fares to studants.1 (705)

INeed to run more inter city trains to "That the demand under the Head reduce traffic congestions In smaH RaIlway Board be reduced by Rs.100.· towns of KeralaJ (898) /Need to construct more laval cross- "That the demand under the Head Ings in Kasaragad dIsIrIclI (706) Railway Board be reduced by RS.l00.- "That the demand under the Head repairs and maintenance of perma- /Need for providing electrification In nent way and works be reduced by Karalatoprovidespaedymovemants As. 100.- of trainsJ (899) INeed to construct ovar-brldges In "That the del'i1and under the Head Mangalore Cannanont section of Railway Board be reduced by Southem RallwayJ (707) As. 1 00.- "ThaI the demand under the Head INeed for reducing 2nd class faresJ rapaIr8 and maintenance of perma- (700) nent way and works be raduced"ttr As. 1 00.-

"That the demand under the Head INeed to convert u.ng...... n Railway Board be reduced by Metnt-guage Ina to broad gauge 1m- . As. 100.- . medlatelyJ (708) 53t I!IY, ~ 1991-13PHALGUNA22, 1913(SAKA) torGranls RIys), 540 G8it-Disi:us.; AN nt. l8COtrteIJCIatioM 1992-93; and SutiPIY. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dam. Oem. for grants (RIp.). 199f-g2 "1'fi8t 1he demand u ...... the Head INeedto construct retiring rooms and repairs and maintenance of Motive other passenger amenities at Power be raduc:M by As.100.- Kasaragod railway station.1 (715)

/Need to establish repairs sheds for "That the demand under the Head desel locomotives in Malabarregion.l Staff Welfare and Amenities be ra- (709) ducec:l by As.1 00.-

"That the demand under the Head /Need to arrange vegetarian canteen Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- to serve meals at Kasaragod railway duced by As. 100.- station} (716)

INeed to provide adequate security "That the demand under the Head to passengers in long, distance Miscellaneous Working Expenses be trains.1 (710) reducec:l by As. 1 00.-

"Thai the demand under the Head /Need to stop the supply of substan- Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- dard food in long distance tnans.l duced by As. 100.- (717)

INeec:I to stop Parasuram express at "That the demand under the Head Manjeshwar Kumbla: Kotikulam and Miscellaneous working Expenses be Charvattur.l (711) reducec:l by As.1 00.-

"That the demand under the Head /Need to supplying south Indian food Staff WaHare and Amenities be re- in South bound trains.! (718) d~ by As.1 00.· SHRI RAM NAIK (Bombay North): I beg !Need to provide drinking water in to move:- long distance trains during summer) (712) "That the demand under the Head Operating Expanses Traffic: be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Re.1.- Staff WeHare and Amenities be re- ducec:l by As. 100.- /Disproportionate, unjustified and un- bearable increase in monthly and JNeed to provide adequate number quarterly season ticket fares. (229) of bed rolls in second class sleeper co~ntsjn long distance t rainsJ "That the demand under the Head (713) General superintendence and Ser- vices on Railways be reducec:l to Re. "Thai the demand under the Head ,'- SIaff WaHare and Amenities be re- duced by As. 100. - lRefusal of Mumbai commuters' de- mand to form a separate zone for INeedtoprovidelnsurancecoverage suburban railway.1 (615) to the property Gf_ passengers against theft and. daltlages of their "That the demand under the Head personal belongings.! (714) General Superintendence and Ser- vices on Railways be reduced to Re. "Thai the demand under the Head ,'- Staff Welfareand Amenities be ..... ICommM:iaI expIoItaIlon of· surplus duced by As.1 00.- railway lind In MumbalJ (616) 41 R/y. ~ 1991-93- ~H 12. 1992 forG""~ Giln-DisCUss; Res I'fI. I'fICOfI'rBndatlOns 1M2-93; IIIId . -542 01 Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (R1ys.). 1 - "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head General superintendence and Ser- Operating Expenses-Traffic be vices on Railways be reduced to Re. 18udced to Re. 1 .• 1.- lFaHwa to provide adequate station lFallul'8 to constitute zonal and DlvI- amenities to Mumbal suburban rail- sional Railway Consultative Com- wayJ(623) mlttees.1 (617) "ThaI the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Staff Wella.. and Amenities be 18- I'8pairs and maintenance of perma- cIuced by As. 100.- nent way and wortcbe l'8duc:edto Re. 1.- /Need to Maintain clean and hygenlc various railway colonies in MubalJ lFailul'8 for non-inclusion of project (624) for quadruplicating rail track from Borivlito Virar on westem Railway In , "That the demand under the Head suburban section.1 (618) AsseIs-Acquisition. Construction and Replacement be raduced to Re. 1.- "That the demand under the Head I'8pairs and maintenance of perma- /Non-purchasing of EMU coaches for nent way andwortc be reduced to Re. Mumbal suburban section.1 (625) 1.- "That the demand under the Head lFaHul'8 to construct foot over bridge AsseIs-Acqulsition. Construction and in Mimbai subulban section to en- Replacement be l'8udced to Re. 1.· aul'8 smooth and unllerruptedflow of commputers.1 (619) Cmtinuous neglacl of Mumbal sub- urban railway system and fallunt to "That the demand under the Head sanction adequate funds for the I'8pairs and maintenance of Motive projeclsJ (626) Power be reduced to Re. 1.- "That the demand under the Head lFailul'8 for no making optimum Assets-Acquisition. ConstNCtion and utilisation of diesel In Nnning the Replacemantbe l'8udcedto As.. 100:* IocomotlvesJ (620) /Need to compIetII construc:tton of "That the demand under the Head Bandfa railway terninus II Western Operating expenses-Roiling Stock RaIlway In MumbalJ (627) ~ Equipment be raudcedto Re. 1. SHRI KASHI RAM RAffA: (SUral): Ibeg to move:- lNon-provision of 12 car-rakes in- stead of gin MumbailUburban sec- "ThaI ... demand under the Head tIonJ (621) RaJMay Board be raduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head /Needtolhlt MadquarlerofWesI8m Operating Expens.s-Traffic be _.' RallwayflDmBombaytoAtifn8dal:,lwj I reudced to Re. 1. • ' (230&) -'

IF.... to ...... ~ "That the demand und8r the Head sUburban aervtce-- tram Viral' to RaIlway Board be reciuC6d by As. Dahanu !'Qadin ~ l00~ INead to replace steam engN by "That 1M demand under 1M Head cIasaIenglneon SUrat-BhusavalIneJ RaIlway Board be raduced t-y As. (243) 100.- "ThaI lie demand under the Head INead to constIute Zonal form Rai1- Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- way Advisory ComniIIee under lie duced by As. 100.- chairma~ of concerned M.PJ (236) INead to provide tea staI, boc* stall. fruilandrnilkstaUonpialformNo."at "That lie demand under the Head Sural. MaroII and Navasarl sIattonJ Operating Expenses-Traffic be 1'8- (243) duced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head JNeedto appoint tan &elVica boc*Ing Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- agent to maet the needs 01 the pas- clucadbyRs.100.- sengers at SuralJ (231) INaed to construct two mora plat- "ThaI lie demand undar the Head forms and A.C. maintenance yard at Operating expenses-Traffic be re- SuratJ (244) duc8d by Ra. 100.· "ThaI"" demand under the Head JNaedto construct spacious building Operating Expenses-Traffic be 1"8- UIg8ntIy far ~ Reserva- duced by Rs. 100.. Ian at SuratJ (238) INead to stan new fast train between "That the demand under the Head Sural and AhmadabadJ (245) Operating ExpeMes-Traffic be ,... duc8d by As. 100.- "ThaI the demand under the Head Operating EJfP8f'S8S-Traffic be 1'8- /Need 10 join two A.C. sleeper duced by Rs. 100.. coaches wIh pantry car in A.C. Ex- rnssJ (239) INead 10 incf8ase the l'8S8IVatlDn quota (berth and silting) in A.C. Ex- "ThaI'" demand under the Head press~ Rajdhani Express. Paschlm OperatIng Expenses Traffic be 1"8- Exprass. Fran1Ier Mal. Kutch Ex- ducad by As. 100.- rnss for Sural statIonJ (246)

INead 10 shit exI8IkIg small booking "That lie demand under the Head oIIicato welecM*llfNIC'OYS build- 0pandIng Expenses-Traffic be 1'8- Ing .. SUnIU (240) duced by As. 100.·

"ThaI'" demand under the Head JNeed 10 run TapIi-Ganga E.... opending Expansas-Trafflc be 1"8- four days • week via AllahabadJ duced by As. 100.- (24n .

INead to 1liiie .. ...,.. of platfomw -nJM"1he demand under the Head ..UIran.C3cIIMn.KG88dandBhastan ~ ExpenIes-Tralfic be,...· IIaIIonsJ (2"1) duced by As. 100.- 545 .111}'. ~ 1991-93- MARCH 12. 1992 IDrGlants~. 546 Giln-IJIsi.:ua; Res 18. tfICOtneIJdatlons 1992-93; and • III RIy. ColI. Comm.; Dam. Dam. kK".",. (Rip.}. 1 - Meed to provide IItopage 01 OUjand JNeedto double the broad gauge Ine a.en. Sayan (W8It8m Railway) tram Udhanaa to JaJgaon Irnnadi- StatIon 1mmedIate.,.1 (248) ...,J (257) "ThaI the demand under the Head "ThaI the demand under the Head OpendIng Expenses-Traffic be re- Assats-Acqulsltlon. construc:tlon and duced by As. 100.- I8p1acementbe I8duced by As. 100.-

!need to provide stopage of Kutch INeed to construct an CMtr-brldge Express at Navsari.l (249) near Navsari and UaroIi stations to ralnDve hardships 01 peopIe.l (258) "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- "ThaI the demand under the Head duced by As. 100.- Assets-Acquisltlon, construc:tlon and replacamentbe raduced by As. 100.- JNeed to extend the existing plat- forms at Maroilltatlon.l (250) JNeed to construc:t OV8r-bridge on SUrmui Dairy road near SUral sta- "ThaI the demand under the Head tionJ (259) Operating ExpenseS-Traffic be re- duced by As. 100.- DR. LAXMINARAIN PANDEY (Mandsour): I beg to move:- ".. to construct and extend the yard at Surat invnadiatelyJ (251) "That the demand under the Head railway Board be I8ducadby Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- INeedtoaaale the post 01 a Marmer duced by As. 100.- (stores) while reorganising railway boardJ (260) /Need toconstruc:t a n ..full-fledged station on eastern side at SuraLl "That the demand under the Head (252) RaIlway Board be raducad by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acquisition. construction and INeed to reorganise existing Zones raplac8rnentberaducedbyAs.100.- and DivIsIons in view of expansloi'l of RallwaysJ (261) JNeed to convert meter gauge line fonn Rafud to Veraval and Rajkot to "ThaI the demand under the Head Bhavnagar Into broad gaugeJ (255) Railway BoaId be reduced by As. 100.- "ThaI the demand under the Head Meed to establish h8Iidquarters of Auets-AcqIIisItIotI.constructJon and Weslern RaIlway at RaIIam so as to raplacalnentbe I8ducedbyRs. 100.- make railway administration mora effediV8.1 (262) INeed to widen the existing gamala on OIftdoI-NavagamnearSuratsta- "That the demand under the Head tIonJ(258) 0pendIng Expanses-Tralfic be re- duced by As. 100.- "ThIll the dema.. d under the Head INeedlOexlendrallway'acII... to .. "llI'-AaqIllllllan.cansIrUC:tion and ... tor ramovIng ragional IrIDal- ...... ltbeMducec:lbyRs.100.- atrrM.I (265) 547 ~. Budget, '99'-93PHALGUNA22,1913 (SAKA) forGrants Rlys), .548 Gen-Discuss; Res te. recomendations 1992-93; and Supply. ofRIy. Con. Ctxnm.; Oem. Dem.lorgrants (RIys.), 1991-92 "That the demand under the Head -That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- RaIlway Board be reduced by As. duced by Rs. 100.- 100.-

/Need to extend Kota-Neemuch /Need to provide halt .or A.C. Super- broad gauge raD lina on Western fast train at Rallam for providing fa- Railway upto Ratlam with a view to cilities to the passengers.! (435) providing transportation ofgoods and passengers.! (266) "That the demand under the Head RaIlway Board be reduced by As. -That 1he demand under the Head 100.- Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- duced by Rs. 100.- INeed to extend Kachiguda~aipur train upto Delhi.! (436) /Needto layDaIU-Rajhara~agdalpur railine 'or the development of tribal -That the demand under the Head area./(26n Railway Board be raduced by As. 100.- -That 1he demand under the Head Railway Board be raduced by As. /Need to construct over-bridges on 100.- Ratlam, Jaora and Mandsourrallway stations keeping in view the heavy /Need to extend Chatalk Express rush of passangers and trafficJ (437) running on AJmer-Khandwa Section upto RatlamJ (431) -That the demand under the Head Railway Boara be raduced by As. -That the demand under the Head 100: Railway Board be reduced by As. 100.- INaad to allocate AC " Sleeper's quota .rom Ratlam In Rajdhani Ex- /Need to provide halt 'or SUperfast press (Delhi-Bombay).! (438) trains (Jammu-Tawi-Bombay, Jammu-Tawi·Ahmadabad and -That the demand under the Head Jummu-Tawi-Hapa) at ShamgarhJ Railway Board be I'8duced by As. (432) 100.-

-That the demand under the Head /Need to I'8SIOI'8 the departure time Railway Board be reduced by As. of Awadh Express running 'rom 100.- Ratlam on Westem Railway.! (439)

/Need to restore train No. 111-112 -That the demand under the Head running between Ratlam-Bhopal.l Railway Board be raduced by As. (433) 100.-

-That the demand under the Head JN8tId to construct platform sheds at Railway Board be reduced by As. Mandsour, Jauraand Neamach Rail- 100.- way atatlons for providing faciUties to the passengersJ (440) Meed to post gatemen round the clock at various railway crossings -That the demand under the Head between Chittaur and Ratlam such Railway Board be reduced by As. as Daru-Oudarsl near Neamach rail- 100.- way track and at Sindpan near !Need to run a superfast train be- MandsourJ (434) tween Khandwa and AjmerJ (441) 549 Rly. Budget, 1991-93- MARCH 12,1992 forGrants Rlys), 550 Gen-Discuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and SutiPIY. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. forllrants (RIYS.), 19§f-1}2 "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- 100." duced by Rs. 100."

lNeed to connect Guna-Etawah rail lNeed for posting a gateman for 24 line with Malanpur.l (442) hours aI railway crossing nearSindpan railway station, between Ratlam, "That the demand under the Head Neemach ahead of Mandsaur.1 (888) Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100." "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be ,... lNeed to provide new passenger duced by Rs. 100." coaches in Kachguda.Jalpur Express running on Ajmer-Khandwa Section.! lNeed to extend Mathura-Baroda 10- (433) cal trains upto Ahmedabad.1 (889)

"That the demand under tne Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by As. Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- 100." duced by Rs. 100."

lNeed to provide more facilities to lNeed to extend Agra-Kota passen- passengers at Nee mach , Mandsour, ger train upto Ratlam via Shamgarh- Jaura, Shamgarh and Suwasara Sta- Nadga.! (890) tions of Western Railway.1 (444) "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- Railway Board be reduced by Rs. duced by Rs. 100." 100." !Need to provide steppage of Holiday /Need to constitute the Advisory Com- Express running between Bombay- mittees at all stations to co nsider the Delhi via Kola at Shamgarh and grievances of passengers under Suwasra under Western Railway.1 Westem Railway.l (445) (891)

"That the demand under the Head OpItrating Expenses-Traffic be re- "That the demand under the Head duced by Rs. 100." Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- duced by Rs. 100.- !Need to provide one coach from Bombay to Jabalpur In Dehradun /Need to change the arrival timings of Express having 50 per cent seats for Raldhani Express Bormay-New Delhi 1st Class and 50 per cent in lind reaching New Delhi either at 8.30 Class equally which maybe detached A.M. org.30 A.M. fortheconvenience at Nagda and attached to Narmada of passengers. (892) Express at Unain.l (886)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- duced by Re. 100." duced by Rs. 100.-

!Need to introduce more trains be- /Need 10 utilize the modem base tween Ratlam and Ujjaln keeping in kachen set up at Shamgarhto pIOVide view the Singhusht.1 (887) food for the passengersJ (893) 551 f!/y. B~ 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) ""Grants RIys}, 552 Gen-DisCuss; Res /fl. I8COIJ'J8ndations 1992-83; and SutidV. ofRIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. torgrants (R1ys.), 1991-92 SHRI RATILAL VARMA (Dhanduka): I AsIaIs-Acqulstlion construction and beg to move:- raplacemant beraducedbyRs.1oo:

"That the demand under the Head Meed to co,..,._. the work of the Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- Shalimar Coaching Complex. duced by Rs. 100.- Howarah.! (279) .

/Need to increase reservation quota "That the demand under the Head at Dhaulka, Dhanduka, Botad, Assets-Acqulstltion construction and Viramgarn and Savala.! (268) replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.-

"That the demand under the Head INeed to maka adequate provision Operating Expenses-Traffic be 1'8- for the construction of the Howarh- duced by Rs. 100.- Amta railway line.l (280)

INeed to rastart Ahmedabad·BOIed "That the demand under the Head local train.! (269) Assets-Acquistitlon construction and replacement bereducedbyRs. 100: "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be 1'8- /Need to provide an overbridge at duced by Rs. 100.- LOuah, HowarahJ (281)

INeed to restart Ahmedabad "That the demand under the Head Bh,vnagar Interstate trainJ (270) Assets-Acqulstltlon construction and replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head Operating Expenses-Traffic be re- /Need to construct an ovelbrldg. at duced by As. 100.- Mourlgram railway station. HowamJ (282) INeed to appoint fuD time employees at every railway crossing of "That the demand under the Head Bhavnagar and Baroda divisionsJ Assets-Acquistltion construction and (271) replacement be raducedby Rs. 100.-

"That the demand under the Head INeed to construct an overbrldge be- Operating expenses-Traffic be re- tween plat form No. 6 and 19 at duced by As. 100.- Howarh station.! (283)

/Need to construct over-bridge or "That the demand under the Head subway at Bavala-Ohaulaka line.! Assets-Acqulstltion construction and (272) raplacementberaducedbyRs.100.-

PROF. SUSANTA CHAKRABORTY INeed to Introduce a passenger train (Hawra): I beg to move:- service between Kharagpur and sealdah via DankunlJ (284) "That the demand under the Head RaIlway Board be l'8duced by Rs. "That the demand under the Head 100.- Auets-AcquistlUon construction and replacement beraducedbyRs. 100: lFaliure to abandon prIvatIsation of railway catering aenricesJ (277) INeed to operate more trains In the Howarh Belyachia I8CtIon of South "That the demand under the Head Eastem RallwayJ (285) 553 FJIY. ~ 1991-93- MARCH 12. 1992 tor~Q 554 Gen-Dlsi:usa; Res re. recomendat/ons 1992-93; 8IId • of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. tor (Itants (R1ys.). 1 - 12 "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Assets-Acqulstilionconatruction and ReDway Board be reduced by Re. 1.- replacement be reduced by As. 100.- lFallul'8 to electrlly Andal-satnthla section of Eastem RaHwayJ (353) INeed to arrange for proper draln- age toprevent water-logging at Belur "That the demand under the Head Station. Howarh.1 (286) RaIlway Board be reduced by Re. 1.-

"That the demand under the Head lFailul'8 to provide a super fast train Assets-Acqulstllion constNction and from Howrahto New DeIhl to eaaethe replacement be reduced by As. overcrowding Intralns.1 (354) 100.- "That the demand under the Head /Need to reduce the hike In lind RaIlway Board be reduced by Re. 1: Class passengerfares and seasonal tickets.! (287) . lFailure to Introduce a new train be- tween Botpur.and Howrah on Eastern SHRI SOMNATH CHATTERJEE RallwayJ (355) (Bolpur): I beg to move:- "That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be raduced by Re. 1.- Railway Board be reduced by Re. 1: lFailure to Introcluce a new train ba- IFailure to reinstate the dismissed tween Howrah and Suri. district head- railway employees.1 (278) quarter of Blrbhum dlstrlctJ (358)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the head Railway Board be reduced by Re. 1.- Assets-Acquisition. Construction and Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- /Failure to provide stoppage of Darjeellng Mail at Guskara Both /Need to COfI1)Iet8 double line ba- waysJ(349) tween Khana and Salnthla within 1992-93J (378) "That the demand under the Head RaIlway Board be reduced by Re. 1.- "That the demand under the head Assets-Acquisition. Construction and IFailureto provide passenger ameni- Replacementbe reduced by As. 100.- ties In the trains In Sahebgaflj loop on Eastem Railway.! (350) /Need to provide passenger facilities In the trains In SahebganJ loop on "That the demand under the Head Eastern RaHwayJ (379) RallwayBoardbereducedbyRe. ,.. "That the demand under the Head Rall- lFallul'8toconstruct double line from way Board be reduced by As. 100.- AndaJ to Salnthla on Eastern Rail- _yJ(3S1) /Needto Intraduce more trains In AndaJ- AllmganJ sectlonJ (759) "That the demand under the Head RaJlway Board be raducec:I by Re. 1.- "Thatthedamand underthe Head Rall- way BoaId be reduced by As. 1.00.- lFailure to eledrify from Khana to SaInthIa on Eastern Railway.! (352) INeed for every dle.. llsatlon of 555 Rly. Budget, 1991-93PHAlGUNA.22. 1913 (SAKA) for~rants Rlys), 556 GBn-Discuss' Res,. recomendations 1992-93, IIIJd SutiP/Y. of Rly. Con. Comm.: Oem. D6m. forgrants (Rlys.). 199f-!J2 MayurakshiFastPassengertralnJ(760) !Need for conversion of Katwa- Ahmedpurllne with extenslop upto suri.! "That the demand underthe Head Rail- (767) way Board be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head As- /Need to Introduce a daUy super fast sets Acquisition Construction and Re- express train from SaaldaMiowrah to placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- New DelhilDelhl via SahebganJ loop section} (761) INeedfordoubiing and electrHlcation of Andal-AJlmganj section of Eastem Rall- "That the demand under the Head As- wayJ(768) sets Acquisition Construction and Re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition Construction and Re- /Need to extend railway line from placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- Sainthia to Panchmi-Hatgacha via Mohammad BazarJ (762) /Need for upgradatlon of Muri station . which is the distrid headquarter of "That the demand under the Head As- Blrbhum district.! (769) sets Acquisition Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition Construction and Re- /Need to modemise the Railway Insti- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- tute at Rampur-haU (763) /Need to upgrade Ahmedpur station "That the demand under the Head As- and to provide drinking water there at sets Acquisition Construction and Re- Sahebganj loop section.! (nO) placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head Rail- /Need to Introduce more passenger way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- trains in Sabebganj loop section during day time.! (764) /Failure to abandon the policy of privI1isatlon of Railway catering ser- "That the demand under the Head As- vice} (80S) _. sets Acquisition Construction and Re- " . placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head Rail- . way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- /Need to construd fly-over at railway crossing of MaHapur. Nalhatl. Muraral IFallure to withdraw the proposed hike stations of Sahebganj loop sectlonJ in 2nd class fareJ (806) (765) "That the demand underthe head Rail- ·That ~ demand under the Head As- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- sets Acquisition Construction and Re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- lFailure to withdraw the proposed hike In season tickets.1 (807) /Need to declare Yurt and Bolpur as Model statlonsJ (766) "ThaI the demand under the head Rail- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- "That the demand under the Head As- lFaHUftI to construct double like .,.,- sets Acquisition Construdlon and Re- tween Bandel and Katwa and etec:trify pIilcement be Nduced by As. 100.- the sectlonJ (808) 557 Rly. Budget. 199HJ3- MARCH 12,1992 , forGrants RIys), 558 Gen-Discuss; Res reo rtICOtn8fJdations . 1992-93; and SutitJIy. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants (Rtys.), IS9f-U SHRI RUPCHANO PAL (Hooghly): I natad under Rule 14(iI) of the Railway beg 10 move: ServanIs (DIscIplIne and Appeal) RuIes.I (512) "Thai the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition Construcllon and Re- "That the demand under the head Gen- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- eral SUperintendence and Services on RaIlways be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to construd wider shed in the eastern side of the platform at Hooghly INeed to crecruit more people In dmer- rallwayslation in Howrah DIvIsion.! (288) ant categOries to Improve the railway S8fYicesJ (513) "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition Construction and Re- "That the demand under the head Re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- pairs and Maintenance of permanent way and works be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Needto Introducecomputel'ised reser- vation facilities at Bandel railway sta- INeedforpropermaintenance of Bandel tion.! (289) SUbway (near Bandel Bazar) and to stop waler logging thereJ (514) "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition Construction and Re- "That the demand under the head Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- pairs and Maintenance 01 Motive Power be reduced by As. 100.- JNaedto convert Bandel-Katwa railway line (Eastern Railway-Howrah Division) JNeedtoragularisetheservicesofwork- into double Ilne.1 (290) elS Who have been working in Bandel Railway Loco Shed for ten to twenty "That the demand under the Head As- yearsJ (515) sets Acquisition Construction and Re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- "Thai the demand under the head Re- pairs and Maintenance 01 Motive Power /Need to electrify the railway Une be- ·be reduced by Rs. 100: tween Bandel and KaIWaJ (291) /Need to provide allamative permanent "That the demand under the Head As- jobs to workers of Bandel Loco Shed sets Acquisition Construction and Re- who may become surplus after intro- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- duction 01 diesel engines In place of steam englnesJ (518) /Need to construct a foot overbridge from the eastem side to the western "Thalthedemandunderthe headOper- side of Bandel JunctionJ (292) atIng Expenses-Tranic be raducad by Rs.100: "That the demand under the Head As- JNeadto run rnoratralnsbetwaan Bandel sets AcqUisition Construdlon and Re- and HowrahJ (517) placement be reduced by As. 100.- "ThaIthe demand underthe headOper- /Need to stop water logging In Bandel atIng Expenses-Tninlc be raduced by subway near BandelBazarJ (293) Rs.100: "That the demand undertheheadGan- . JNeadto run rnoratrainabetwaan8andal erat Superintendence and Services on and. NalhatlJ (518) Railways be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand underthe headOper- /Need to ralnstate aI the railway em- alIng Expenses-TndIIc be reduced by ployees whose services .... term!- Rs.100.- 559 ~. Budget. 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) forGnints RIys}, 560 Giln-Disi:uss; Res te. l'fICOtnIIfJdaIiDns 1992-93; and SutiIlIY. oIRIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants {R1ys.}, 199t-12 /Need to run Rajdhanl Express dally ordinary and sacond ctass MaIllEx- betWeen New Delhi and Howrah. (519) pressJ (295)

"That the demand under the head 0p- "That the demand underthe head Rail- erating expenses-Traffic be reduced way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- by As. 100.- IPrivatIsatIonoicataringservlces.l(296) INeedto run moratralnsbalwaen Nalhati and Sealdah.! (520) "That the demand undert" head Rail- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.· "That the demand under the head Stan Welfara and Amenities be reduced by /Retrenchment of work force In the As. 100.- name of management ofchangeJ (297)

!Needto upgrade the railway hospital at "That the demand under the Head Rail- Bandel by providing modern medical way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- facUities.! (521) !Need to construct railway line from "That the demand under the head Staff Tarakeswar to Arambagh Town In Wenara and Amenities be reduced by Howrah DJvIsIon of Eastern RallwayJ As. 100.- (304)

/Need to provide better accommoda- "Thatthademand under the Head Rail- tion facHltles at Bandel railway stationJ way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.· (522) INaad to construd double lina between "That the demand under the head Mis- Shaorafuayand Tarakeswar Station in cenaneous working expenses be re- Howrah Division of Eastern RailwayJ duced by As. 100.- (305)

!Need to expand and strangt~en the "That the demand undarthe Head Rail- railway catering serviceJ (523) way Board be raduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand underthe head Mis- INeed to construd double line betWeen cellaneous working expenses be re- Bandel and Kalwa station in Howrah duced by As. 100.- DIvIsion of Eastern RallwayJ (306)

/Need to continue ~mental cater- "That the demand undarthe Head Rail- Ing services.! (524) way Bo8ld be reduced by Rs. 100.-

SHRI ANIL BASU (Arambagh): I beg to INaed to carry out electrification In move: Bandel-Katwa section of Eastern RaIl- wayJ(307) "That the demand under the head Rail- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- "Thatthedemand under the Head RaIl- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Proposal to Increase freight rates for aD commodities by 7 .• pre centJ (294) /Need to conStruct flyover bridge at KamalkWldu In Howrah OIvIsJonofEast- "That the demand under1he heed Rail- em RaHwayJ (308) way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- "Thatthedemandunderthe Heed RaIl- IIncI8ase In the faras of sacond class way Board be reduced by As. 100.· 561 RJy. 8rMtget 1991-93- MARCH 12, 1992 forGlants RIys}, 562 GiltHJIsi:ussi.. ~_IfI. I'8COIn8ndatIDns 1992-93; and SutiDIY. of RIy. Con. (jQffJffJ.; Oem. Oem. for grants (R/ys.), 1~f-42 /Need to construct • foot bridge con- INeed to sal up a computerised railway nectIng-plallorm No. 3 TarakeswarSla- reservation oftlce at Oehradun.! (298) lion with bus stand.! (309) "That the demand under the Head Rai1- "That the demand under the Head way Board be reduced by As. 100: Railway Board be reducedbyRs. 100.- /Need to Construct new rail line from /Need to Introduce more local trains In Rishlkash to Karan prayag.l.(299) Howrah - Bandel subarban sectionJ (310) "That the demand under the Head RaIl- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100: /Need to Introduce direct rail service from Koidear to DelhiJ (300) /Need to Introduce more local trains in Howrah-Bardharnan chord section.! "That the demand under the Head Rail- (311) way Board be reduced by Rs. 100:

"That the demand under the Head /Need to provide various facilities to the Assets Acquisition Construction and passengers at KotcIwar railway station) Replacement be reduced by As. 100.· (301)

/Need to complete construction of "That the demand under the Head Rail- Howrah-Amta-Champadanga Broad way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.· gauge line) (312) /Need to ragularise the trains running "That the demand under the Head twice a week via Haridwarand Oehradun Assets Acquisition Construction and keeping in view the demand of tourists) Replacement be reduced by As. 100.· (302)

/Need to complete construction of "That the demand under1he Head Rail- Digha-Tamluk railway Hne) (313) way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.·

"That the demand under the Head /Need to open railway out-agencies at Assets Acquisition Construction and Paurl, Gopeshwar Srinagar, Dugadda Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- Deval in Gamwal.! (303)

/Need to improve passenger ameni- SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA (Bankura): ties.! (314) I beg to move:

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head As- Assets Acquisition Construction and sets Acquisition, Construction and·Re- Replacement be reduc::edby As. 100: placement be reduced by Rs. 100.·

/Need to Improve safely measures.! /Need to replace fOOl over-bridge near (315) Purulla statlon.1 (335)

"That the demand under the Head As- SHRI BHUWAN CHANDRA sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- KHANDURI. (Garhwal): I beg to move: placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head INaedtodeclare Purulastatlonasmodel Railway Boardbe reduced by As. 100.- station on South Eastem Rallway.1 (336) . 563 FJIY. ~ 199'-93 PHALGUNA 22.1913 (SAKA) forGrants RIys). S64 Giln-Dlsi:uss; Res reo reoornendatlons 1992-93; and SuIiDIY. ofRIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. '«grants (RIp.). '.f~2 "That the demand under the Head As- "That the demandunderthe head Rail- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- . JFallure to relnstalethe dismissed rail- /Need to provide a road over-bridge way employeesJ (582) near Adra station on South-Eastem RailwayJ (33n "That the demand underthe head Rail- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- JFallure to recognise All India Railway o placement be reduced by As. 100.- Ert1)Ioy8es' Confederation.1 (583)

INeed to covert Purulia Kotshila narrow "That the demand under the head Rail- gauge line Into broad gauge In South- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- E_ern RailwayJ (338) lFailure to accord recognition to RPF "That the demand under the Head As- association.1 (584) setS Acquisition. constructiori and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head Rail- way Board be Reduced 10 Re. 1.- INeed to take up electrification, programme In Adra Midnapur section JFailuretoprovidejobsonco~ion­ under South-Eastem Railway.1 (339) ate groundsJ (585)

"That the demand under the Head As- "That the demand under the head RaIl- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- placement be reduced by As. 100.- JFaBuretodec:lare Asansol-Bardhaman /Need to construct an additional line . section 01 Eastem Railway as suburban" between Bumpur station and Asansol sectIonJ (586) station to make It a double line sectionJ (340) "That the demand under the head Rail- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1,- "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition. Construction and Re- lFailure to drop the proposal 01 Nnnlng placement be reduced by RI. 100.- of station by Contractors) (589)

lNeed to provide a halt station between "That the demand under the Head As- Kush\nar and Baga\la station on South- sets Acqu\sltlon Construction and Re- Eas\em Ra\\wayJ \34', p\aceman\ be reduced by Re. '.- "lFailUle todroptha proposal 01 handing "That the demand und8rlhe head RaIl- over Nashlbpur Road nag alation on way Boald be Reduced to Re. 1.- Sealdah-Lalgola Udlon locontractorJ (590) lFalul'8 to pvvtde basic amenities \0 passengers traveling In 2nd class 3 SHRlMAn MALINI BHATTACHARYA tierJ (580) (Jadavpur): I beg to rncMt:

"That the demand underlhe head Rail- "That lhedemand under the head ~ . way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1'- IFallur. to cl.a, platform. of Eallure to ""'1'8 safety 01 Passen- unaulhoriIed shacka • aubuIban sta- gers. (581, tionsln SaaIdah South SectIonJ (342) 565 f!Ii. ~ 199,'-93-. MARCH 12, 1992 tor 566 Giln-Dlscuss; ". re. I'8CtNniIndal1ons .. 1992-93;GranfSS' and • of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. tot grants (Rlys.). 1 - "llF1hedemand underthe head Rail- RaPIacament be raduced by Re. 1.- wat Bpard be Reduced to Re. 1.· ~., ._" lFaDure to Increase the nurOOer of sub- lFallui'l!l'to reinstate all dlsmisseQi urban trains In SeaIdah-South SectlonJ ~menJ~) . (363)

"That the demand under the head Rail- "That the demand under the Head As- way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Failure to abolish freight euqalisation on coalJ (344) nuactto extend metro raUfromTollygung to Garia'! (366) "That the dema~ under the head Rail- way Board be Reduced to Reo' 1.- "That the demand untier the Head As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- /Failuret~)le up privatisatlon move to placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· Railways.1 (345) lNeed to complete Circular Rail from 1'hal the demand underthe head Rail- ~Ghat to Majherhat.! (361) way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.· ~ demand under the Head As- /F ailure to abandon the privatlsation of . .~~iSition. Construction and Re- Railway catering service.1 (346) ..1Iii, dIit .... rDI1uced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the head Rail- ~~r -provision of 2 pairs shuttle way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- trains between Sonarpur-Sealdah at peak hoursJ (368) /Failure to withdraw fare-hike in 2nd class passenger train.1 (347) "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- "That the demand under the head Rail- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.· INeedtoconstruct afly-overat Sonarpur /Failure to withdraw fara-hike for seas Station In Sealdah South Section.! (369) on tickets.! (348) SHRI . SHIVAJI PATNAIK "That the demand under the Head (Bhukaneshwar): I be to move: RailwayBoardbereducedbyRs.100.- "Thatthedemand underthe headOper- /Need to check effeclively tlcketlesa aIinQ Expenses-Roling Stoc:kandEquip- \ravel\ng \n Sea\dah South Sect\onl maRt be reduced by Rs. '00.- (357) JNeed to introduce the second Ohaul Elq)rasstrainstartingfromBhubneshwal In the working for Howrah and return ill the night to BhubDeshwar.! (358)

"Thatthe dem8nd under the headOper. atlngExpenses-RoIIing Stock and Equip- mentbe~uc:edby ~.100.-

".... for IntrOductIon of a Ioca1 train to ~ ahutna between the twin ~ 567 I!IY. ~ 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) forGrllnts ~), 568 Gitn-Dlsi:uss; RIB te.l8COt7JI!HJdatlns 1992-93; II/KJ SUPPlY. 01 RIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. fOf grants (R1ys.), 191Jf42 cllla80fBttubneshwarandCUltackfrDm .weed to deWIop Sa~ ely Sta- 5 A. ... to 11 P.MJ (359) lion _ .. Modal Station with proper coaching tarmlnaU (374) OJ "Thallhe demand under the head 0p- erating Expenses-Roling Stock and "That the demand under the Head As- Equipment be raducad by As. 100.· sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- /Need for introduction of a Super fast train between Purl and Madras.1 (360) INeedtoconstructtheDailary-Banspanl railway IIne.1 (375) "Thai the demand under the head 0p- erating Expenses-Rolling Stock and "That the demand under the Head As- EqUipment be reduced by Rs. 100.· sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- placement be reduced by As. 100.· /Need to anach another A.C. Sleeper Coach in Konark Express for the pas- lNeed for sattlng up a wheel and Axle sengersfromBhubneshwarto Bormay factory and a coach factory In RourtcelaJ and Back.l (361) (376)

"That the demand under the Head As- "That the demand under the Head As- sets AcquIsition, Construction and Re- sets Acquisition. Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· placement be reduced by Rs. 100.-

/Need to construcl a new railway line lNeed to open an office of Chief Admin- from BoIang!r to Khunda Road,! (310) istrative Officer (Survey and Construc- tion) at BhubneshwarJ (3n) "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- SHRI HARADHAN ROY (Asonsol): I placement be reduced by As. 100.· beg to move:

INeed to construct a f1y-over at Khunda "That the demand under the Head As- Road from D.R."'. office to KhdIarl.1 sets Acquisition. Construction and Re- (371) placement be reduced by Re. 1.- /Failure to recognise CLW Labour "That the demand under the Head As- Union} (364) sets Acquisition. Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- INeedtoconvertthe Rupsametra gauge placement be reduced by Re. ,.. . Rne Into broad gauge.! (372) /Failure to abandon the polk:y of "That the demand under the Head As- prlvatisation of railway catering sar- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- vaJ(503) placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the headGen- INeed to convert the Nuapada eral Superintendence and Services on Panlakhenwudl-Guruspurmetragauge RaIlways be reduced by Re. 1.- line Into broad gauge Railway IlneJ /Failure to reinstate the dismissed rail- (373) way employees.1 (504)

"Thai the demand under the Head As· "That the demand underthe head 0p- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re· erating Expenses-Traffic be reduced placement be reduced by As. 100.- byRs.100.· 569 1!IY. ~ 1991-13-· . MARCH 12, 1992 "'~Q 570 Gen-D/si:USS; Res,._ I8COI'IJ8IItIaIns 1992-93; Md . of RIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for I/f'IIID (RIys.). 1 -92 /Need to Introduce more trains be- IHaed to coni'I8cI SanlInIketan (B.r) tween Dhanbad and 8iudhaman on wIIh the national capIaI by raIIJ (532) Eastern Ralway.1 (525) "ThatthedemandundertheheadOper- "That the demand under1he head 0p- dog Expenses-Traftic be raduced by erating expenses-Traffic be raduced Rs.1QO" by As. 100.. JNeed to connect al state capitals with /Need to Introduce a super taste ex- National CapIaJ by Rajdhanl ExpressJ press train between Howrah and New (533) Deihl Via Grand Chord Rne lmmedi- ately J (526) "Thatthedem8ndunderthe headOper- dog expenses-Traffic be raduced by "That the demand under the head 0p- Rs.100.- erating Expenses-Traflic be reduced by As. 100.. JNeed to run mora trains on BDR sec- tionJ (534) INeed to run Howrah-New Deihl Rajdhanl Express dallyJ (527) "Thalthedemandunderthe headOper- dog Expenses-Traffic be reduced by "That the demand under the head 0p- As. 100.. erating expenses-Traffic be raduced byRs.100.- /Need to run more trains between AsansoI and Khargapur via Adra on /Need to run 2381 Up·and 2382 Dn. South Eastern RaHwayJ (535) dally.1 (528) "That~demandunderthe headOper- "That the demand under the head 0p- . atlog Expenses-Fuelbe reduced by As. erating Expense.. Traffic be I'8duced 100.. by As. 100.. /Need to run 2381 up and 2382 On on /Need to introduce EMU coaches be- Howrah-KaIca Mall route to save fuel? . tween 8arddhaman and Asansol on (536) e.starn RallwayJ (529) "That the demand under the Head As- "That the dOmand under1he head 0p- sets AcquIsIIon, Construcllon and Re- erating expenses-TraffIC be reduced pJacement be raducad by As, 100.. by As. 100.- /Need to complete the elec:trtrlcatlon /Need to run 281512816 between New programme from Jhanjha to Moghal Deihl and Purl dallyJ (530) SaraI (MaIn line) on Eastern RallwayJ (537) . "That the demand under the head 0p- erating expenses-Traffic be reduced "That the demand under the Head As- byRs.100" 881s Acquisition,. ConstructIon and Re- pJacemenI be raduced by As. 100.- /Need to Introduce a passenger train between Asansoland Purl, South East- INeedtoconstruc:tdoubleUne at Bumpur ern Railway.1 (531) atatIonon South Easaam RaIIway./(538)

"That the demand under the head 0p- erating ExpenSes-Traffic be I'8duced byRs.100,- 571 ~.~~ 1991-93PHALGUNA22, 1813(~) 1rN~. 572 , GiM-Dl8CuiI.; Res t8. I8COI1JtIfIdaII 1__ as; and . fII Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. . . Oem. for".",. (RIys.J. 1 INf8d to ranovate DNR BrIdge over pIacen'IMl be reducedb, As. 100.- aT. AoadnearOanfan,AsansoI./(539) MeadforCXJnV8l'llon alBunSwan-Katwa "That the demand under the Head As- rallway ....lntobroadgaugeHnaJ (546) HIs Acquisition. ConstructIon and Re- p.cement be redUced .by As. 100.- "ThaI tMdlmand under the Head As- .... Acquliltlon. Construction and Re- JNeed to construd a railway station at pIac:em8nt be reduced by Rs. 100.· Asanso. Court under SOuth Eastem RalIw~J (540) /Need for doubling the Bandel-Katwa Ina on &stem RallwayJ (547) "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- "That the demand underlhe head Rail- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- way Board be Raduc:ed 10 Re. 1.·

/Need to extend suburban area upto /Failure to declare AsansoI as a Model Asansolon Eastem RailwayJ (~1) statlonJ (587)

"That the demand under the Head As- "That the demand underlhe head Rail- sets AcqUisition. Construction and Re- way Board be Reduced 10 Re. 1.· placement be reduced by Alt. 100.· lFaAure to establish a Coach Manufac- /Need 10 construct Ranlganj-Majia Une turing Factory at DurgapurJ (588) via Bankura to provide an altemate IInk./(542) SHRI ARJUN CHARAN SETHI (Bhadrak): I beg to move: "That the demand under the Head As- sets Acquisition. Construction and Re- "That the demand underlhe Head Rail- placement be recluced by As. 100.· way Board be reduced by As. 100.·

lNeed to extend computer reservation Meed to Increase the reservation quota facilities at RaniganJ. Durgapur, at Bhadrakh Railway Station on South Bardhman, Bankura, Adra and Bolpur J Eastern RaHwayJ (383) (543) "That the demand under the Head RaIl- "That the demand under the Head As- way Bon be ~ by Rs. 100.· sets Acquisition, ConstructiOn and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· INeedto prOvide acomputerlsed reser- vation faeiUties at BaIasore Station on /Need to connect West Dlnap,r district South. e.stem RaHway.1 (384) with olherpads 01 West Benglll by railJ • (544) "That1hedemand underthe Head RaIl- .r BoaId ba reduced by As. 100.· "That the demand undarthe"'ad As- sets Acquisition, Constiuc:tlon ilnd Re- . IN'ed to provide stoppage for plac:ement be reduced by RI. '100.· VlvekanandaExprasaat Bhadrakh Rail- way SbItIonJ (385) lNeed forcon~c:tOWIelinefrom Anc:taJ to Salnthia, e.m Railway,! "Thalthedemand underthe Head RaIl- (545) ~ -y ..on be ntdUc:ed by Rs. 100.· Meed to raIae Ihe _Ighl of the platform "That the demand under ... Head A1J.; No. 1 and a at Bhadrakh RaIIwIw Sta- sets Acquisition, QonIt .... and As- 1IonJ@86~ RIy. W ,.,... MARCH 12. 1992 tor~Q 574 GiJn.DIsi:uss;'" lit. recomendatlons 1992-93; and • 01 Rly. Con. CDmm.; Oem. . Oem. for grants (RIy8.). 7 - . "ThaI the demand under the Head Replacement be raduced by As. 100.-' RalIWayBoatdbe raduc8dbyRs. 100.- ·1Need for taking ~te steps for INeedto ranovaIe the station buildings construction of the Banspani-Daitarl of Bhadrakh RaHway Station on South portion of the rail line on S.E. RailwayJ Eastern Rallway.1 (387) (398)

"That the demand under the Head "Thai the demand under the Head As- Railway Board be reducadbyRs. 100.- S81S Acqulsillon. Construcllon and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100: /Need to provide ,barded fencing at Manjurl Road Markon Ranital. /Need for Il'Ml8CIlate conversion of Kendrapada. KapaII Road. Baudpur Rupsa-TaJabandha rail Rne into broad RaIlway Stations on South Eastem Rail- gauge line) (399) wayJ(388) "That the demand under the Head As- "That the demand under the head sets Acqulsllon. Construction and Re- I'8paris and maintenance of perma- placement be raducad by Rs. 100.- nentway and works be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need ·for immediate completion or the doubling of CuHack-Paradeep and /Need to C9nstrud a flyover at Randla Sambalpur rail line) (400) Railway gate on Bhadrakh-Badapada. PWD road on South Eastem RailwayJ "Thatthe demand under th8h8ad Rail- (389) . way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.-

"That the 'clnnand- under the ~ad re- lFaHure to appoint the candidates se- pal,. ~'!rl maintenance of permanent Iected'by the RaIIwa~ selVices Com- , wayandworkSbe~~Rs ..100.- mission. Bhubaneshwar In the year ~ e~g..go and 1990-91) (823) /Need to construct an overbrldg. If Ranltal Railway Station on South East- "That the demand underthe hIIId RaIJ. em RaHwayJ (390) way 80aJd be Reduced to Re. 1.,-

"That the demand under the head re- lFaHure to construct the station buDdIng pairs and maintenance of permanent at Bhadrok RaHway Station 01 South wayandworksbereducedbyRs.100: Eastem RaHway.! (824)

/Need to construct a Railway gate at "That the demand under the head Rail- Manjurl Road Station north side 01 way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- Manjuri Road Ranipada road cross- IngJ (391) . lFalure to shift the South Eastern Rail- way Headquarter to Bhubana8hwar to "That the demand under the head re- ,.... the demands 8f the people 01 pairs and maintenance of permanent . OrIssaJ (825) way and works beraduced by As. 100: "That the demand under the.head RaH- INeed to conltruct the Jlnk road at way Board be Reduced to Re. 1.- ~8tatIononltsnorth and the south sldeJ (392) . lFailure to pI'O'IIcM funds for ~ tIon of Banipanl-Daltari. Makanglrl- "That·the dInand under the Head ,JeypQIe new rat .... tor the -.rop- ~ AapsItJon. ConstructIon and tnent of tribal .... of Oriasa.'(I2I)' 575 Rly. Budget, 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) for Grants Rlys) 576 Gen-Discuss; Res re. recomendations 1992-93; and Supply' of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. for grants (Rlys.), 1991-92

"That the demand under the Head Rail- "That the demand under the Head As- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100." sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.' !Need to create the post of Chief Ad- ministrative Officer (Survey-and con- !Need to introduce double line in the structions) of the rank of Additional Bandel-katwa section of Eastern Rail- General Manager at Bhubaneshwar.! ways.! (402) (832) "That the demand under the Head As- "That the demand under the Head Rail- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.· , placement be reduced by Rs. 100.·

/Noed to sanction immediate construe !Need TO convert the Burdwan-Katwa tion of Talcher-Gopalpur Port l.ne in line into broad gauge line.! (403) Orissa,' (833) "That the demand under the Head As- "That Ire demand under the Head nail sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- w,,-y Board be reduced by Rs. 100.' placement be reduced by Rs. 100.'

ItJeod for immediate construction of !Need to convert the Ahmedpur-Katwa n

~to set up a wheel Axle factory and !Need to ir.lroduce more 10000valtrainsin a Coach building factory at Rourkela.! the Burdwan-Howrah-Mandech and (835) Saburban sections.! (405)

"That the demand underthe Head Rail- "That the demand under the Head As- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100." sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100: !Need to provide an additional 2 tier A.C. Coach in Bombay bound Konark !Need to introduce suburban service Express.! (836) upto Asansol from Howrah on the East- ern Railway.! (406) "That the demand underthe Head Rail- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.' SHRI AJOY MUKHOPADHYAY (Krishnagar): Sir, I beg to move: !Need to introduce an Express Train from Bhadrakh railway station to "That the demand under the Head As- Bhubaneshwar by extension of the sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- Bagha Jatini express.! (837) placement be reduced by Rs. 100.'

SHRI SAIFUODIN CHOUDHUROY /Need to construct double lines from (Katwa): I beg to move: Ranaghat to La!gola in Sealdah Divi- sion, Eastern Railway.! (493) "That the demand under the HE-ad As- sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head As· !Need to electrify the Bandel-Katwa sets Acquisition, Construction and Re- Section of Eastern Rai!w3yJ \.M.}i) placement be reduced by Rs. 100." 577 RIy. ~ 1SS1-93- MARCH 12, 1992 tor~5 ·578 Giltl-DlsCuss; Res til. IfICOI1J8I'IdaI 1992-93; and • III Rly. Con. Comm.; Dsm. Oem loT gtaI1tS (RIys.). 1 INeed to construct one over-bridge at "That the demand under1he head Gen- DevagramStatIon In SeaIdah DIvision, eral Superintendence and Services on Eastern RallwayJ (494) RaIlways be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the Head INeedtowllhdrawthapraposedlnclaase Assets ACquisition. Construction and In fares of season tlcketsJ (510) -Replac»rnent be reduc:ad by As. 100.- "That the demand underthe head Gen- /Needto raplacetheoutmocledcoaches eral SuperIntendence and Services on ofthetralns In Ranaghat-Gede SectIon RaIlways be reduced by As. 100.- In Sealclah DIvision. Eastern RallwayJ (495) /Need to withdraw the proposal for incl88S8 freight charges.! (511) "That the demand under the Head Assets ACqulshion. Construction and "That the demand under the head 18- Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- pairs and maintenance orcarrlagesand wagons works be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to electrify the Railway line in Ranaghat Section In Sealclah Division, !Need to have proper maintenance and Eastern Railway.1 (496) I8gular rapairs of coaches of aU the trains.! (564) "That the demand under the Head Assets Acquisition, Construction. and "That the demand under the head Mis- Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- cellaneous working expenses be 18- duced by As. 100.- /Need to construct a foot-way by the side of railway line on the bridge over INeedtoabandon theschernetoprlvalise river Pagla Chandi In Sealdah Division, raHway catering servicesJ (566) Eastern RailwayJ (497)

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand underthe head Mis- Assets ACquisition, Construction and cellaneous working expenses be 18- Replacement be reduced by As. 100.- duced by Rs. 100.-

/Need for early completion of all the on /Need to Improve the quality of food In going railwayprojec:ts In West BengalJ the railway caterlngsJ (567) (498) SHRI SYEO MASUDAl HOSSAIN "That the demand under the Head (Murshldabad): I beg to move: Assets AcqUisition, Construction and f!eplacement be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand undarthe Head RaIl- way Board be reduced by As.: 100.- /Need to raise the platforms of various stations In Ranaghat-Gede Section in INeedtoprovlde adequate drinking water Sealclah D.lvlslon, Eastern Railway J faciUties In 2nd class coachedJ (591) (499) "ThaI the demand underthe Head RaIl- "Thatthedemand underthehead Gen- way Board be reduced by As. 100.- eral SuperIntendence and Services on RaIlways be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to wIhdraw the praposed higher charges on monthly ticketsJ (592) JNeed to withdraw the hIat In railway passenger .... qf the second cIassJ "Thall.. demand under1he Head Rai1- (509). _, Board be raduced by As. 100.- 579 Rly. Budget. 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22. 1913 (SAKA) torGtanfsa~' 580 GBn-DlsCuss; Res te. I'8COtnfHJCIatJns 1992-93; and • of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. tor grants (R1ys.), f INaed for earty con.,latlon of metro rail to year baslsJ (601) In CaJcuttaJ (593) "ThaIthe demand undertha Head RaI- "That the demand undarthe Head RaIl- way Board be raducad by As. 100.- way Board be reduced by As. 100.- INead to Issue license to railway hawk- /Need to Increase the number of ers for platforms as wei as specifIC coaches In aI passenger trains.1 (594) trains YfIth a vlewto IncIaasIng rMnue and to avoid harassment of hawkers "Thal the demand undartha Head RaIl- and passengersJ (602) way Board be reducad by As. 100.- "That the demand uncferthe Head RaIl- /Need to Introduce one superfast train way Board be raduced by As. 100'- trom Hovnh to 8ont»ayJ (595) INead to chec:k unauthorised travailing "That the demand under the Head RaIl- of R.P.I. and G.RP.F. In 1st class way Board be raducad by As. 100.- specially dultng night In Sahaldah sec- tionJ (603) !Needto provide new 1stclasscoaches In Sahaldah-Lalgola sac::tionJ (596) "ThaI the demand undarthe Head RaIl- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- "Thai the demand underthe Head Rail- way Board be reduced by Rs. 1 po.- INead to construd railway line from Berhampur Court Station to F.C'!. INaed to ralnstate railway wort

"That the demand under the Head INeedtoconstruc:t an over-brldge on 34 Railway Board be reduced by As. 100: NalIonaJ High way near Berhan.,ore Court Station In SeaIdah LaJgola. Sec- JNeed to lnti1lduce shuttle train ba- tion. (942) tween talgOls and Ranighat In SehaIdah SectlonJ (135) . "ThaI the demand under the Head RaIl- "That the demand under the Head way Board .. reduced by As. 100.· 583 .. ~ ~ 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22. 1913 (SAKA) toIGrants RIys). 584 '. GiHfDItIi:uss; Res 18. recomendaIIDns 1992-93; IItttI Sc.IioIi'. .' of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem for".",. (RIys.). 1911f-42 /Need to appolnt~forfN8rysuper JNeedto print alp for nlservatJon In the fast trainJ (~) oftIcaIlanguages of the Stale where the station Is sltuatedJ (1233) "That the demand under1he Head Rail- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand underthe Head RaIl- way Bow be reduced by Rs. 100.- lNeed to refund at least 50 percentfara to the passengers for late running of /Need to Introduce Palace on Wheels trains speclaBy super fast traln.1 (944) for the tourists visiting. the hl$torical placesJ (1234) "That the demand underthe Head RaIl- way Board be raducecl by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Rail- way Board be reduced by As. 100.- INeed to check malpractices In rasevation of seats and booking of /Need to Introduce new train from goodsJ (1227) Howrah to New Jalpaiguri via Katwa . and AzlmganJ In Howrah diVision.! "That the demand underthe Head RaIl- (1235) way Board be raduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Rail- lNeed to stop pilferage of goods. espe- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- cially essential commodities meant for public distributlon.1 (1228) /Need to divert the route of at least on train via Katwa AzlfllJanj which runs "That the demand underthe Head Rail- between Howrah to Delhi.! (1236) way Board be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand underthe Head Rail- /Need to giVe priority fortransportatlon way Bow be reduced by Rs. 100.- of essential goods meant for public distribution.1 (1229) INeedtolncreasethespeed afBhaglrath Express or to treat the same as a tnail "That the demand underthe Head Rail- traInInSealdah-LalgoIaSectionJ(1237) way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- SHRI SRIKANTA JENA (Cuttack): I /Need to replace worn out railway beg to move: tracksJ (1230) "That the demand underthe Head Rail- "That the demand underthe Head Rail- way Bow be reduced by Rs. 100.- way Board be reduced by As. 100.- JNeed to start new trains between /Need to complete circular rail In Bhubanashwar and DeIhIJ (628) calcuttaJ (1231 ) "That the demand under the Head RaIl- "That the demand under1he Head RaIl- way Bow be ~uced by As. 100.- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- lNeed for new railway line between /Need to prepare reservation chart of Talchar and 8imlagalhJ (629) . thepassengets In the official languagas of the States from whaI'8 train staJ1.I "That the demand underthe Head RaIl- (1232) way 80anf be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand uncIar ..Head Rai1- /Need to lay new railway line between way 80aRI be Iaduced ~ Rs~ 100.- ParadIp and DaIIarlI (830) 585 fPY. ~ 1991-93- MAR9H 12.1992 forGtanls.•• 586 'Giln-DIsi:uss; Res re. ~ 1992-93; and . . Of Rly. Con. CQnmi Oem. . Oem. for IIfIII* (R/y8.). 1 "ThaI the demand under the Head /Need for construction or four Ian .. on RallwayBoardbereducedbyRs.100.- . BaIs Gadam ralway over bridge at JaIpurJ (662) . . /Need to lay new railway Una between Khurda road and BulanglrJ (631) "That the demand unclerthe Head Rall- way 80ard be racIuced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be racluced by Rs. 100.- /Need to have at least two minutes hal of super fast trains at Gandhi Nagar /Need to provide special aftocatlon for (Ja""r) stationJ (663) the development or railways In the backward regions In OrIssaJ (632) "That the demand under the Head RaIl- way BoaRf be racIuced by Rs. 100.- SHRI GIRDHARI LAL BHARGAVA: (Jalpur): I beg to move: /Need for tile hall for lMurudharExprass train at Bassi railway stationJ (664) "That the demand under the Head RailwayBoardberaclucedbyRs.100.· "That the demand under the Head RaIl- way Board, be racluced by As. 100.- /Need to provide adequate funds for Jodhpur-Veeramgaon Gauge conver- /Need for additional quota of seats and sion project.! (657) berths In trains for Bombay at Jaipur railway station.! (665) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be racluced by As. 100.· , "That the demand underthe Head RaIl- way Board be raduced by As. 100.- /Need to provide automatic signal sys- tems on broad-gauge lines in /Need to treat ticket collecting stall as Rajasthan.1 (658) running staff and to provide them aft other faclUtlesJ (666) "That the demand under the Head RailwayBoardberaclucedbyAs.100.· "That the demand unclerthe Head RaIl- way 80ard be racIuced by As. 100.- /Need for electrification of trunk routes keeping in view the shortage of dleseV /Need tor early eIecIrIIlcation of Delhi- (659) Sonepat-Panlpat section In Northern RallwayJ (667) "That the demand under the Head RailwayBoardbel8ducedbyRs.100.- "That the d8mand under the Head Rall- way Board be raduced by As. 100.- /Need to provide AC Chair Car In Pink City expreSs and other trains running JNeedformoretrains on Delhl-Sonepat- on meter-gauge Unes In RajashtnaJ Panlpat sectIonJ (668) (660) "ThaI the demand uncIetthe 'Head Rai1- "That the demand under the Head way Board be raduced by As. 100.- RaIlway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- JNeed for mora bogies In trains running /Need for providing more coaches for on Delhl-Sonepat-Panlpat section.1 trains on metre-gauge IInesJ (661) , (669)

"That the demand under the Head "ThaI the demand underthe Head Rall- RaIlway BoanSbe taduCadbyRs. 100.· way 80anI be nMlucad by Rs. 100: 587 ~. ~t. 1991-93PI'IAlGUNA22.1913(S4KA) for~~ 588 Giln-DlSi:uss; Res re. trICOtn9IJdaIIo 1892-93; and • 01 RIy. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for,.",. (R1ys.). 1 INeed for early co...-uon of bridge way Board be reduced by As. 100.- between Badli and Nap Azadpur ..... tIons a Northern RallwayJ (670) ".... to provide basic amenIIIes In aD trains running between Delhl-Sonepal:- "Thai: the demand underthe Head RaIl- Panlpat on Northern RallwayJ (678) way Bon be reduced by As. 100.- "Thai: the demand underthe Head Rail- INead to Introduce D.M.U. In Deihl- way Bow be raduced by Rs. 100.- Sonepal-Panlpat section In Northern RallwayJ (671) JNeed to alectrlly the broad gauge rail- way lina being constructed between "Thai: the demand underthe Head RaH- Sawal Madhopur and Jalpur.l (991) way Bon be raduced by As. 100.- "ThaI: the demand undartha Head Rail- /Need to check the carrying of luggage way Bon be reduced by As. 100.- without payment of charges In trains running between. Delhl-Sonepat- JNead to electrify the broad gauge rail- Panipat sectionJ (672) way Una between Deihl and Jaipur rail- way stal:ionJ (992) 'mlal:the demand undartha Head Rail- way Bon be reduced by As. 100.- "ThaI: the demand undertbe Head Rail- way Bow be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to Introduce DMU on Deihl- shamli-Saharanpur and Deihl-Meerut JNaed to ra-Instate·thosa railway em- section) (673) pIoyeea who wara dismissed due to strikeJ (993) "Thai: the demand undertha Head RaIl- way Bon be reduced bt As. 100.- "ThaI: the demand underthe Head RaIl- way Bon be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to construct an aver-brldge near West signal of SahIIIIbad railway sta- /Need to check incidence of railway tion on DaltIGhaziabad 18CIIon.l (674) accidentsJ (994)

"ThaI: the demand undertha Head RaH- "ThaI: the demand undarthe Head RaIl- way Board be ~ by As. 100.- way 80anI be reduced by Rs. 100.-

INeedto attach more boglas Intralns on /Need to provide facUlties for mora pas- Oe''''-ShamU-Saharanpur ..c\\on.1 sengers at the Jaipur Railway Stat\onJ (675) (985)

"ThaI:lhedemand under... Head Rai1- "ThaI: the demand under1he Head Rail- way Bon be reduced by As. 100.- way Board be reduced by As. 100.-

/Need to make pnwiIIDn for stoppage /Need to double theJaipur Agra railway of drains at vtvak VIIar by diverting InaJ(996) thalr routelromGazlaadtoo,tiJ (8781 "ThaI: 1Mdernand underthe Head Rail- "ThaI: the demand underlhe Head RaH- way 80anI be reduced by As. 100.- way Bon be raduced by As. 100.-· JNaed to provide 10 per cent quota fer INeed to Introduce RIng Ralway ..- sportsmen and disabled persons In vice In ~J (677) RallwaysJ (997)

"'ThII1he~.... idunclerIheHeadRall- "'ThIIlhedenandunderlhe Head RaIl- 589 FJIY.1f!Y!IgBt. 1991-93- MARCH 12.1992 S90 GBn-DlsCuss; Res re. recom8ndatlons 1tHl2-93;torGrtlntsfa' and . 01 R/y. Con. Comm.; ()em. Oem. for grants (Rlya). 1 - way Board be redIJced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the HeadRaiI- way BoanI be raduced by As. 100.- INaad to construct an over-bridge at Eastern RaIlway CI"OS8ing. Jhotawara. INaad to keep toilets clean and provide via Godown andMalvlya Nagarrallway .,... In them In upper cIasa cofl1)8l1- crossing In Jalpur.1 (998) mentsJ(7~

"That the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head RaIl- RailwayBoardbereducedbyRs.100.- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.-

/Need to withdraw the IqJrOper In- /Need to IfI1l8It training ~ the railway crease In the Railway season ticketsJ e01)lo)'888 to be coUrteous· towards (999) . passengerJ (721) .

"Tha\ the demand under the Head "That the demand under the Head RaIl- Railway Board be raduced by Rs. 100.- way Board be raduced by As. 100.-

/Need to provide housing facilities to JNaed to IfI1)I'Ove sanitary conditions at railway efJ1)loyeesJ (1000) raHway stations and platforms.1 (722)

"That the demand under the Head "ThatthedemandundertheheadOper- Railway Board be raduced by Rs. 100.- atlng Expenses·Traffic be reduced by Rs.100.- /Need to construct a broad gauge rail- way line from Rewarl junction to Jalpur JNaed to undertake further wolk on railway stationJ (1001) Nangal-Talwada rail line in Himachal PradeshJ (730) "That the demand under the Head Railway Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand underthe headOper- atlng Expenses-Traffic be l8duced by INeedto linkco~systeminstalled Rs.100.- atJalpur Railway station with BormayJ (1002) /Need to provide broad gauge line from KaIca (Haryana)to PalYanoo (Himachal SHRI RAM KAPSE (lhane): I bag to Pradesh). (731) move; "ThatthedamandundertheheadOper- "That the demand under the Head aIing Expenses-Tndflc be reduced by Railway Board be raclucad by Rs. 100.- As. 100.- INeedtopravidabetterfacllitlaslntralnsJ /N~ to make provision of fun(la for . (732) pr:ovldlng terminal facility at Dombivl railway station on Central RallwayJ "That1hedamandunder1he headOper· (~85). aIing Expenses-Tndflc be reduced bJ As. 100.- ~Of'. PREM DHUMAL (Hamlrpur): I beg t~ l1\OV8: . JNeedtoCOlMMt narrowgauge line from Pathankot to Baljnath (Himachal "That the demand under the Head Pradesh) Into metra gauge IineJ (733) RallwayBoardberaducedbyRs.100 .. "Thatthedarnandunderthe headOper· lNeeCI~provIda pasaenger.....,1Iiee IIIIng Expen..... Traftlc be l8duced bJ In ~ ~ay coachesJ (719) As. 100.- 591 R1y. Bt.qJet 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22•. 15113 (sAKA) Ior~~ 5SI2 Gfm..DIsCuss; Res Ie. I8COITI8ndaIIon 1992-9:J;_ lind • at Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. lor fII'8IIIS (RIys.J. 1 - INaedtoextendgoodstrainsuptoUnaJ ending Expenses-Traffic be raducad (734) by As. 100.-

'"That the demand under the head /Need to restore Kallhar and Unchahar Operating Expenses-TralflCbe reduced expntSS trains.! (728) byRs.1oo.- "Thal the demand under the head 0p- INaed to attach bogies for other places erating expenses-Traffic be reduced In HImachal ExpI8ss starting from Una by Rs. 100.- (Himachal Pradesh).! (735) /Need to I8StoI8 departUI8 time of "uri .DR. RAMESHa-L\N)TOMAR(Hapur): Express.! (729) I beg to move: DR. ASI .. 8ALA (N~dwip): I beg to "That the demand under the head 0p- move: erating Expenses-Rolling Stock and Equipment be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the Head RaIl- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- JNeed ~o replace old rolling stock with new in shuttle trains.! (723) /Need to construct a railway Une from Krishnagar to Karlmpur.1 (73f1) "That the demand underthe head 0p- erating expenses-Traffic be reduced "Thal the demand underthe Head Rail- by Rs. 100.- . way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.-

JNeedtoprovide essentlalarnentities at /Need for electrllicatlon of Ranaghat • Ghaziabad railway station and also In Gede and Ranaghal - Bongaon linesJ tralns.1 (724) (737)

"That 1he demand under the head 0p- . "That the demand under the Head Rail- erating Expenses-TraffIC be reduced way Board be ~ by Rs. 100.- byRs.1oo.- /Need to construct new lines from INaedto provide halt at Galanad village Kanchapara station to Bongaon under between Ghaziabad and Pilkhuwa./ SehaIdah DIvIsIOnJ (738) (725) "Thal the demand underthe Head RaIl- "Thal the demand under the head 0p- way Board be reduced by Rs. 100.- erating Expenses-Traffic be reduced by As. 100.- JNeed to expand ralway network of Eastern RaHwayJ (739) /Need to wlhdraw increase In the rail- way fare from Delhi to Ghaziabad.! "ThaI u.. demancf undarth8 h8ad mIs- (726) ceIaneous expenditure (General) be I8ducad by As. 100.- "That the demllnd Underth8 head 0p- erating Expenses-Traffic be reduced JNeedtohaveapropersurveytorlaylng byRs.1oo.- new lines on the Eastern RallwaysJ , (740) /Need to reduce running time of trains belwaen DelhI and Ghaziabad , (727) "ThaI"" demand underlhe head mil- CIIIaneou8 expendlunl (General) be "'That the demand Underth8 head Op- I8ducad by As. 100.- 593 Rty. Budget, 1991-93- MARCH 12, 1992 for Grants Rlys), 594 Gen-Discuss; Res re. recomendations 1992-93; and Supply. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. Dem. for grants (Rlys.), 199 f -92 /Need to control wasteful expenditure "That the demand under the Head As- on establishment.! (741 ) sets, Acquisition. Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100." "That the demand under the head ap- propriation to funds be reduced by Rs. /Need to raise the level of platform in 100." Ranaghat-Gede IineJ (749)

/Need to provide sufficient funds for "That the demand under the Head As- maintaining Sehaldah Division.! (742) sets. Acquisition. Construction and Re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100." "That the demand under the Head Assets. Acquisition. Construction and !Need to construct the double line from Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.· Ranaghat-Lalgola line.! (750)

/Need to provide additional rakes on "That the demand under the head as- Ranaghat-Gede line.! (743) sets, acquisition. construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.' "That the demand under the Head Assets, Acquisition, Construction and !Need to provide proper amenities at Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.' Ranaghat Station.! (751)

/Need to improve signalling system at "That the demand under the head as- Aranghota station.! (744) sets, acquisition, construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100: "Th~ me demand under the ~ad Assets. Acquisition. Construction and !Need to provide electrification on el.ec- Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100." trification on Ranaghat-Bongaon line.! (752) INeed to upgrade Aranghota and Majchia stations.! (745) "That the demand under the head as- sets. acquisition. construction and re- "That the demand under the Head placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· Assets, Acquisition, Construction and Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100." /Need to provide additional rakes on Ranaghat-Bongaon line.! (753) INeed to start new electrification projects on Eastern RailwayJ (746) . "That ttle demand under the head as- 'sets. acquisition. construction and re- "That the demand under the Head placement be reduced by Rs. 100." Assets, Acquisition. Construction and Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100." !Need to use computer in proper sec- tor.! (754) /Need to convert Santipur-Nabadwip Dham line into broad gaugeJ (747) "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.' "That the demand under the Head Assets, Acquisition. Construction and /Need to have timely track Renewals.! Replacement be reduced by Rs. 100.- (755)

/Need for early completion electrifica- "That the demand under the head as- tion works on Ranaghat-Gede line.! sets, acquisition. construction and re- (748) placement be reduced by Rs. 100." -rhaI the demand under the head as- -rhaI the demand under the head rai1- sets. acquisllon, construc:tlon and ra- way board be raduced by As. 100.- ,placement be reduced by As. 100.- JNaedto lncIease exeqJIIon limit In raI meed to stop lmagularleakage of RaIl- ..... for journey upto 30 KIll.! (787) way fund.! (757) "'ThaI the demand under the head rail- "That the demand under the head as- way board be raduced by As. 100.- sets, acquisition, construction and ra- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to give I1"IDr8 financial help and suitable jobs In Railways to the kins of INe8dfor restoration of clsmantled raH- persons killed in rail ac:c:Idents.! (788) way lnes.! (758) "ThaI the demand under the head rail- SHRI LAL BAHADUR RAWAL way board be reduced by As. 100.- (Hathras): I beg to move: INead to Increase amenities In AIC '1bat the demand under the head rail- sleeper coach commensurate wIIh the way board'b9reduced by As. 100.- Inc:ntase of ~ fara.! (789)

meed to provide adequate security ar- "'ThaI the demand under the head rail- rangements in trains,! (782) way boardbe,~ by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the head rail- INeedto Inc:ra8se passengeramenilles way board be raduced by As. 100.- at smaI RaIlway Stations.! (790)

meed to provide addIlonaI bogies In "That the demllnd under the head rail- 1raIns keeping In view the increasing way board be raducac:J by Rs. 100:- I_'lumber of passengers.I (783) JNeadto run adcIIIonaIpassengerstrains (Expr8ssIMaiI) at day time on narrow "ThaI the demand under the head rail- gauge line from Mathura to Lucknow.! way board be raduc:ed by As. 100.- (791)

/Need to provide adequate funds for "That the demand under the head rail- conversion of nanow gauge lines Into .. , way board be raduced by Rs.1oo.- broad gauge lines.! (784) JNaed to Incraase reservation quota In "That the demand under the head rai1- Marudhar Express from Hathras Fort way board be raduc:ed by As. 100.- RaIlway StatIon also from ~ RaIway SIaIion In Dahraclln-Allahabad INeedloextendA.G.N. pasaangertraInI Ink express trains.! (792) upIO Hathras Fort In Aligarh dIstttct for the convenience of passengersJ (785) "That the demand under the head rai1- way board be raduced by At. 100.· "'ThaI the demand under the head rall- way board be I8duc8d by As. 100.- INeedforproperulllsallon surplus land IyIngvacanlby1hesldlofrallwayllnes.l Meedtoprovld... c:ond"',...,.. (793) 597 •. ~ MARCH 12, tlHl2 forl1nlnlll:a 59B ~'_trI.,.,-113- ~ . tfl!l2.l13; I11III • 111 ROr. CcJn. CtImm.,' DIIm. DIIm. for,.". (RIy&J, , SHRI UDDHA8 BARMAN (8aIfceta): I ...... :qulllllon, consbUCfIon and t'8- beg to move: pIacemenI be raduced by As. 100."

"That the demand undarthe he81111 rail- INeed to construct double lines (broad way board be reduced to Re. ,. gauge)framNewJalpalpurtoGuwahati on North Frantier Ralway.l (841) J1=aIkn to NInstate the railway em- ployees ndrenched In 1981 J (827) "That the demand under the head as- ...., acquisition, construction and,. "Thafthe demand undarthe head rai1- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· way board be reduced to Re. ,. lNeed to .construct flyover at New J1=aBara to Introduce mont new train Paglasthan (80ngaigaon) and at between Guwahatl and Howrah.l(828) Pathsala on North Frontier RallwayJ (842) . "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced to Re. ,. "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction and t'8- .lFdure to proVide more facilities to placement be .reduced by As. 100.· passengers and to increase the num- ber of seats in trainsJ (829) INeed to construct a flyover at SBa near . Amingaon on North Frontier RallwayJ "That the demand under the head rail- (843) way board b8 reduced to Re. ,. SHRIZAlNALABEDIN(JangIpur): lbeg .lFailure to withdraw the hke in lind to move: class faresJ (831) "That the demand under the head t'8- "That the demand under the head as- pairs and maintenance of carriages and sets, acquisition, construction and re- wagons be reduced by As. 100" placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· INeed for proper main18nance of the JNeed forconstrucllon of broad-g~ ~ of the trains running between IlnesfromGuwahatltoDb'ugarhJ (838) SeaJdah and LalgolaJ (844)

"That the demand under the head as- "Thalthe demand under the head ,... sets, acquisition, constrUCtIon and t'8- palrs8ndmalntenance ofcanlages and placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· wagons be reduced by As. 100"

JNeedto strengthen the Rallwaytraclcs /Need for proper maintenance of from lumdlng to Sllcahar and tram coachea cf the t,... running to and Badarpur to DharmanagarJ (839) tram Howarh via Janglpur Road sta- tIonJ(845) "That the demand under the tIe~ .... sets, acqUisition, construction and ,... "ThII& the demand under the head .... placement be reduced by As. 100.· ...., acqulllllon, coRIbucIIGn·and t'8- pIac:emenI be r8duced by AL 1'00." JNeed to COnsIIUct a pool for~­ lion water logging • 0e0haII on N8w INeecfto undarlalc8 .... weft or tracks BongalgaorhloglOhopa Ina on North ren·._·...,baIh In HownIh Faraicka Frontier RallwayJ (840) . and SellldlM.ab:iI, aectIoM.I (148) the UndII ...... "That demand . ... "1'haI ... Cllemand under the tIII8CI .... 599 ~. 8&1c:tJe1.,!991-93 PHALGUNA 22. 1913 (SAKA) fDr~~RIys,.. ·600 GiHJ..DIsi:usS, Res re. f8COITI8IKIatlons 1992-93, anti • of~. Con. Comm.; Oem. .Oem. for IIfIIRIS (R1ys.). 1 sets. acqllisillon, ~ructpn and ,...... acqutsIlon. constructiOn and ,.... pIac:emenI be raduced by fts. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.-

/Need to construct a bridge over the tt4aedtolaydoubletrackbetweenKalWa river Bhaglralhi near AzimganJ Junction and New Farakka VIa Jangpur RoadJ to conned Sealdah-l.algola sections (853) . with Howrah-Azimganj sections.! (847) "That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets. acquisition. construction and re- sets. acquisilion. construction and ,.... pIacamant be raduced by As. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.- . . INeed to ensure regularity and punctu- /Need for iq)rovemenI in passenger aJity of trains like Kamrup Expr8SS and amenities in trains running on SeaJdah- others running on the Howrah-Farakka lalgola sections on the Eastem Rail- route via Jangipur Road station.! (854) wayJ(848) "That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets. acquisition. construction and re- sets. acquisition. construction and ,.... placamant ~ raduced by As. 100.- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to enhence the number of /Need to pay attention to the passen- c:ioaches In the trains running to and gers amenities in the trains running to from Howrah via Jangipur Road sta· and from Howrah via Janglpur Road tIonJ (855) SlatlonJ (849) "That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets. acquisition. construction and re- sets. acqulslion. c:onstnIC:tion and ,.... placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- placement be raducad by As. 100.- /Need to construct a waling room for /Need to Introduce a direct train from the common passengers at Sagardighl HowrahtoNaihatlvlaSagardighionthe ralwaystation onlhe Eastem RallwayJ Eastem RalwayJ (850) (856)

"That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets. acquislion. c:onstruction and ,.... sets. acquisition. constructlorl and re- placement be raduced by Rs. 100.- placement be raducec:I by Rs. 100.-

/Need to raadjust the timk1gs of the /Need to CGnslruct a waling room for trains runnlngfromHowrahvlaJanglpU' thecommonpassengersbolhatLalgola roadforthebenefilof passengers avail- and Jlaganj stationsJ (857) - IngtralnsatJangipur. Ahiran, Sujnipara and Dhulian Ganga staIionsJ (851) "That the demand under the head as- ..... acquisition. construction and ,.... "That the demand under the head as- pIacament be raducec:I by As. 100.- sets. acqulsllon. c:onstruclion and re- pIacemenI be raducad by Rs. 100.- /Need to introduce an exprassISuper- fast train between Howrah and MaIda INeed to elsc:trlfy the track between via Janglpur road station.! (858) Kalwa and New Farakka via Jang""" Road on the Eastern RaIwars.! (852) "That the demand under the head __ 18ls. acqulsllon. constNcIIon _ .. ."That the damand under the head __ pIacamenI be r8duced by As. 100,- 601 IJIY. ~ !991-93- MARCH 12; 1992 tor~~ 802 GBn-DlsCusB, Res 18. f8COtIJ8ndat1ons 1992-93, IIIJd • of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for 1IflIIIIS· (R/ya.), 1 INeedto Introduce a local (passenger) log pauengers durtng Ioad~, at train batWen Kalwa and New FaraJcka Berhampore Court SlatlonJ (865) via Janglpur road atationJ (859) "That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction and .... sets, acqulsJllon, construction and re- placement be reduced by RI. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to eIac:bify the 1iack ~ /Need to construct one side plattonn at Krlshnagarand Lalgolaon Eastern RaI- Mahipal Road station In the Howrah- wayJ(866) New Farakka section on the Eastern RailwayJ (860) "That the demand under the head as- . sets, acquisition, construction and re- "That the demand under the head as- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- sets, acquisition, construction and re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- INeedtoconstruct a road over-brldge to replace the existing IeveIcrasslng aI the /Need to construct a shed over the point where the ran track Is crossing tha plattonn at Sagardlghl station in the national highway No. 34 near Azlmganj-Nalhatl-sectlon on Eastern Bet11ampore court station on Eastern RailwayJ (861) - RailwayJ (867)

"Thai the demand under the head as- "ThaI the demand under·the head as- sets, acqUisition, construction and re- sets, acquisition. construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.·

/Need for doubling the track between /Need to construct an over-brldge attha Krishnagar and Lalgolaln the sealdah- Bhagwangola Station In the Sealdah- Lalgola, sections on the Eastern Rail- Lalgola section on Eastern RailwayJ way1(862) (868)

"That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction and re- sets, acquisition. construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.-

/Need to Introduce a shuttte train be- /Need to construct an over-brtdge at tween Krlshnagar and Lagola on East- laIgola station on Eastern RailwayJ ern RallwayJ (883) (869)

"That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction and re- sets. acquisition, construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.-

/Need to convert the Plrtal half station /Need to construct shed over the pIat- Into a flag station Inthe Sealdah-lalgola form of Lalgola RaIlway Station on East- section of the Eastern Railway.! (864) ern RallwayJ (870)

"T1)at the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction and re- seta, acquisition, construction and .. placement be I'8duoed by RI. 100.- placement be reduced by As. 100.-

JNeed to provide • generator set to INeedtopravidladaqull8dr1nk1ngwater mitigate the Inconvenience or the waR- on LaIgoIa Station on Eastern RaIlway 603 ~. ~t, 1991-93 PHALGUNA 22. 1913 (SAKA) for Grants R/~t 604 Giln-D/$i;USs; RIIII re.IfICOIIIBIJdaI/ons 1992-93; and SUPP • . alR/y. COn. Comm.; Oem. Dem. for grants (Rip.). 1991-l '2 for passengers as well as staff quar- wayandworb be reduced by Rs. 100.· tars.! (871) /Need to make arrangements formanu- "That the demand under the head as- facturlng. repairing and malntenace of sets. acquisition, construction and re- diesel engines in Barilly.1 (878) placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· "That the demand under the Head Re- !Need to replace worn out coaches in pairs and maintenance of Motive Power Trains running between Sealdah and be reduced by Rs. 100.· Lalgoal.l (872) /Need to set up a coach factory at Izzat "That the demand under the head as- Nagar. Bareilly.1 (879) sets, acquisition, construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.' ''That the demand under the Head Op- erating Expenses-Traffic be reduced !Need to increase the number of bogies by Rs.100." In trains running on Sealdat>· Lalgo!a line.! (873) !Need to provide computerised system of reservation facilitty at Bareil!y sia- SHRI RAJVEE SINGH (Anla): I beg to tionJ (882) move:- "'That the demand under the Head Op- "That the demand under the Head Re- erating Express-Traffic be reduced by pairs and maintenance of permanent As.100.- way and works be reduced by Rs. 100.· lNeed to erect a tin shed on platform INeed to convert Katl'lgccarn· A'jra Nc. 1 at Bilpur station) (883) metre-gauge line into broad·gauge Hne.! (874) "That the demand under the Head Op- erating Expenses-Traffic be reduced "That the demand under the Head Re- by Rs.100." o' pairs and maintenance of permanent way and works be .-educed by Rs. 100.· !Need to start a shuttle train between Bareilly and Delhi) (884) !Need to construct an over-bridge on Bareilly-Badaun road.! (875) 'That the demand under the Head Op- erating Expenses-Traffic be reduced "That the demand unoar the Head Re- . by Rs.100.- pairs and maintenance of permanent way and works be reduced by Rs. 100.· /Need to start an Express train from Barellly to Agra via Allgarl1.1 (885) !Need to develop New Modely Rly. Colony at Izzat Nagar (Bareilly).1 (876) SHRI SATVAGOPAL MISHRA (Tamluk): I beg to move: "That the demand under the Head Re- pairs and maintenance of permanent . "That th8 demand under Ule head rail- way andworb be reduced by Rs. 100.· way board be reduced by Rs. 100.·

Meed to construct an over-bridge on .!Need 10 provide more EMU local trains Ushat Road in Badaun.! (877) In Howrah_Mldhapore I8CtIon on S.E. RaIlway) (917) "That the demand under the Head Re- pairs and maintenance of permanent . "fhat the demand under the head rail- 605 ~. ~ 1991-93- MARCH 12,1992· 606 Giln-DisCus.; Res te. IfICOmfIndatIons 1982-93;torGranlsS' and • . of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (R1ys.), 1 way board be I'8duc8d by As. 100.- HaIdIa aeclion of S.E. RallwayJ (925)

Meed to allocate suHlcient funds to "That the demand under the head rail- complete lie construction of Tamluk- way board be raduced by As. 100.- Dlgha RaHwa11ne In tlmeJ (918) /Need to provide mo,. facDlas for the -That the demand under the head rail- booking of betel leaves Baskets at way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- Macheda, Panskura, Bagnan and Howrah RaHway StatlonJ (926) lNeed to construd 4th RaHway line from Santraghl to Panskura on S.E. "That the demand under the head rail- RallwayJ (919) way bOard be raduced by Rs. 100.-

"That the demand under the head rail- /Need to replace the old EMU coaches way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- In the calcutta Subarban area! (927)

lNeed to construd 3rd Railway line "That the demand under the head rail- from. Panskura to Kharagpur on S.E. way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- RailwayJ (920) . /Need to Introduce one fast passenger "That the demand under the head rail- train form Miclnaporeto Howrah on S.E. way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- RallwayJ (928)

lNeed to constrod 2nd Railway line "That the demand under the head rail- from Panskura to Haldla on S.E. Rail- way board be raduced by As. 100.- wayJ(921) INeedto have stoppage of some impor- -That the demand under the head rail- tanttralns Steel Express, Ispat Express, way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- . Purulla Express, P1)r1 Express etc. at MachedaStationtollnkHakfiaandDighe lNeed to provide mora local trains In with other parts of the country.! (929) the Panskura-HaJdia section on S. E. RallwayJ (922) "That the demand under the head rail- way board be raduced by As. 100'- -That the demand under the head rail- way board be raduced by As. 100.- INeed to provide sufficient passenger amenities such as catering, urinals and lNeed to Introduce SatabdI Express light at Mecheda StatlonJ (930) from Howrah to ReurkeJa on S.E. Rail- wayJ(923) "That the demand under the head rall- way board be reducac1 by As. 100.- -That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100.- JNeedto provide shed and drinking water In KaIalIwnda StatIon of S.E. RaIlway to /Need to provide a passenger Hall . t.:Jltate cement unloadlngJ (931) . Station at Ranlchak In the Panskura- HaIdIa Sedlon of S.E. RaIlway.! (924) "That the demand under the head rail- way board be raduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be raduca~ by As. 100.- INeed to upgrade Karagpur RaIlway workshopJ (~ ~ to provide .• passenger Hal SlatkIn atMahisadalBazarIn Panskura- "ThaI1he demand under the head rail- 607 ~.B"t 1991-93PHALGUNA22.1913(SAKA) for~~ 608 GiJn-DlsCuss· Res re. recotrIBndatlDns 1992-93. _IU . 01 R/y. Con. COiMi.; Oem. Oem. for,.". (RIys.J. 1 way board be ~ by As. 100.- /Needtolncntasethe .....rvafionquota for Ajrnar, Slawar and Klshangarh In lNeed to upgrade the bus stand at DeIhl-Ahmedabad MaIIJ (966) Mecheda Railway Station on S.R. Rail- wayJ(933) "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100'- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to modemlse the loco and car- riage wOlkshops at Ajmer and to start /Need to actIvIse the Aallway Users daveloprnentworkto acconvnodaIethe Committee In the Kharagpur Aailway worlutrsJ (967) DivisionJ (934) "That the demand under the head rail- PROF RASA SINGH RAWAT (Ajmer): way board be reduced by As. 100.- I beg to move:· /Need to complata the work of Sawal "That the demand under the head rail- Madhopur-Jalpur-Jodhpur-Barmer way board be reduced by As. 100.- broad gauge lines Immedlately.1 (968)

/Need to start a super fast train during "That the demand under the head rail- daytimebelw8enDelhiandAhmedabad way board be reduced by As. 100: via AjmerJ (961) /Need to lay new lines In RaJasthanJ "That the demand under the head rail- (969) way board be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under • head rail- /Need to restart the trains going to way board be reduced.., As. 100.- Ajmer-Marwad Junction.! (962) INeecI to make a survey and to c0n- ~hat the demand under the head rail- struct new Unes In Ajrner-Klshangarh, way board be reduced by As. 100.- Makranaand Ajmer-PushkarsectlonsJ (970) /Need to run the trains on Almar- vljaynagar, Ajmer-Blawar, Ajmar- "That the demand under the head rail- Klshangarh routes punctually.! (963) way board be reduced by As. 100.- -That the demand under the head rail- . JNeed to establish a new zone 0' metre way board be reduced by As. 100.- gauge line In AjmrJ (971)

/Needto Introducecomputerlsad reser- "That the demand under the head rail- vation at Ajmer station'!(964) way board be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the head rail- JNeed to provide funds for laying new way board be reduced by As. 100: rail lnes In RajasthanJ (972)

lNeed to construct new platforms and ~hat the demand under the head rail- waiting roo~ at Ajmer railway station way board be reduced by As. 100.- In viaw of Dargah and PushkBr FairJ lNeed for early lainstatment of dis- (965) missed railway efJ1)loyee8J (1136)

~hat the demand under the head rail- "ThaI the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100.- way board be raducad by As. 100.- 609 FjIy. ~ 1991-93- MARCH 12, 1992 forGtants~, 610 Giln-DIsi:us.; Res IfI. f8COIJJIHIdaIIolJ8 1992-93; IIIId • of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for,.",. (R1ys.). 1 INeed to effectively chack malprac- pIacemanI be I'8duced t»Y Rs. 100.- taB In RalwayIJocllcqJOffIcas.I (1137) /Need to constNd railway crossings on "That the demand underthe head raI .. aUraliwayrout_InAjrnerdlstrlct.l(1144) way board be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the head as- /Need for ensuring In the punctuality. sets, acquisition, construction and re- protec:tIon and safal)' In the rail ser- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- vlcesJ. (1138) /Need for early survey of railway Une "That the demand under the head rail- between Ajmer-Pushkar-Medta In order way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- to conned the famous pilgrim place Uke Pushkar by railway line.! (1145) /Need for Improvement In sannatlon and other facilities at Almer, Byawar, "That the demand under the head as- Kishangarh. Vljayanagar and sets, acquisition, construction and re- Naslrabad railway stations.! (1139) plaCement be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the head rail- • /Need to Improve the condition of ral.. way board be reduced by As. 100.· way lines between Delhi-Ahmedabad and Almer division.! (1146) /Need to remove prevalent red tapism and Improve the working of "That the demand under the head as- bureaucacyJ (1140) sets, acquisition, construction and re- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, constNction and re- /Need to make han of superfast express placement be reduced by Rs. 100.· (Ashram Express) at ByawarJ (1147)

/Need for early constNdion of bridges "That the demand under the head as- over railway UnenearJonaganJ in Almer sets, acquisition, construction and re- and over Milroadln Byawar.! (1141) placement be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the head as- /Need to provide halt of 71~Up-72 On. sets, acquisition, construction and re- train at Bandanwara station under placement be reduced by As. 100.- Ratlam dlvisionJ (1148)

/Need to early doubling of railway line "That the demand under the head rail- and converting meter gauge line Into way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- broad gauge Una between Delhi and Ahmedabad via Jalpur, Almer, Abu /Need to convert metre-gauge line of Road and Mehsana.1 (1142) DeIhI-AhmedabadvIaJalpur-Amer-Abu RoacIlnto broad gauge Une.! (1192) "That the demand under the head as- sets, acquisition, construction anci re- . "That the demand under the head rail- placement be reduced by As. 100.- way board be reduced by As. 100..

JNeadto convert meter-gauge line Into /Need to extend super fast train (Agra broad-Gauge from Fulera jundion to Fort) from Jalpur to Ajmer.! (1193) AjmerandfromChlttortoAjrnerJ (1143)

"That the demand under the head as- "That the demand under the head rail- sets, acquisition, construclIon and re- way board be I'8duced by As. 100.- 611 ~ ~ 1991-93PHALGUNA22.1913(S4IC'A) torGtatD•• 612 Gfm-Dlsi:Uss; Res re. recomendaI/DtJS 1992-93; Md • . 01 Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. tor I1fIIIIts (R1ys.). 1 - INeedlOlayanewrailwayllneofAjrnar- INead to provide joba to the depan- PustUr MerataJ (1194) dentl of clsablad ....,....) (1205)

"ThaI the demand under the head rail- SHRIDAU DAYALJOSHI (Kala): I bag way board be reduced by As. 100.- to move:-

INBadtolayarailwayline named Byavar- "That the demand under the head rail- Bhlrn-Kamllghatl (1195) way boald be raducad by As. 100.-

"ThaI the demand under the head rail- JNaed to check widespread ~ way board be raduced by As. 100.- tIces In the Railways.! (1008)

INeed to have stoppage of super fast "That the demand under the head rail- Assam Exprass at Byawar and stop- way boald be reduced by As. 100.- page of Pink City at ICIshangarh and Naslrabad) (1196) /Need to run the propos.d new NIzanutIIn-Kala-lnIb'atrainfromNew "That the demand under the Head 0p- Deihl) (1009) erating Expenses-Fuel be reduced by As.100.- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be faduc:ad by Rs. 100.- . INeed to check pI'.raga of coal and diesel In the Railways) (1201) INeed to stop the Incntaslng Incidence of theft between Kota and Anup sta- "That the demand underthe Head Staff tion) (1010) W..... and Amenities be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand under the head rail- way !Joard be reduc:ed by Rs. 100.- JNeed to maIc8 i~rnant and ex- tension of the facllitle. of education, INeed to check the harassment of the medical and wenara services and traders traveRlng between Kota and accomodatlon for railway employees) Bormay by the RallwayProtec:tlon Force (1202) personnel) (1011.)

"That the demand underth. Head Staff "That the demand under the head rail- Walfare and Amenities be reduced by way boald be reduced by As. 100.- As. 100.- /Need to extend the NeemJCh-Kota INeed to make proper Improvement In train uplO DelhI.1 (1012) RaHway Hospital and Railway Schools at A'pa) (1203) "ThaI the demand under the head rail- way boald be reduced by As. 100.- "That the demand underthe Head Staff W..... and Amenities be reduced by /Need to .lectrify Kala-Blna and Kot. As. 100.- Naamuch railway lines) (1013)

JNeed to stop retranchlng railway em- "ThaI the demand under the head rai1- ployees) (1204) way boan:I be raduced by Rs. 100.-

"That the demand unc:ler1tle Head Staff JNeed to provide computerIBed raser- Welt... and Ana1itles be raducad by valion facilities 81 Kala RaIlway Sta- As. 100.- tion) (1014) 613 RIy. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12,1992 lorGrants RIys). 614 GBn-DisCuss; Res 18. recomendatlon, 1992-93; and SuritJIy. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. . Oem. forgrants (Rlys.). 19~f-~2 "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100.- way board be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to stop Awadh Expf"l!!lss at /Need to develop Kota Railway station Keshoshyaran and Dural (1023) as a Model Railway StatIon.! (1015) "That the demand under the head rail- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to stop Dehradun Expnta at /Need to provide sheds at Indragarh KauvreJ railway stationJ (1024) railway station to protect the passen- 9:"'s from the rains and the sun.! (1016) "That the demand under the head rai1- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be redu~d by Rs. 100.- /Need to provide reservations In an the trains bound for Delhi and Bombay from /Need to stop the New A.C. Express Baran Railway Station.! (1025) bound for Bombay at Kota.! (1017) "That the demand under the head rail- ''That the demand under the head raW- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· /Need to extend the Kota-Damoh ex- /Need to attach one more coach in press train under G.R. P. Railway uplo Frontier Mall from Kota.! (1018) Jabalpur.! (1026)

"That the demand under the head rail- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· way board be reduced by Rs. 100.-

/Need to provide a regular lind Class /Need to Introduced an Exptass train A.C. sleeper Coach in the Dehradun between Kota and BombayJ (1027) ExpressJ (1019) "That the demand under the head rail- "That the demand unclerthe head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- way board be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to stop all the local trains ruMing !Need to Introduced a new train be- between Kola and Uadhopur at Ram tween Kota and New DeIhl.! (1020) NagarSlatIon fortheconvenlence of the Pilgrims of Kamleshwar Yahadav, "That the demand under the head rail- (1028) way board be reduced by As. 100.- "That tt. demand under the head rail- /Need to attach coaches for south way board be reduced by As. 100.- bound train In Kota-Bina passengers trainJ(1021) /Need to check the Incidences of pilfer- age at Kata Railway Workshop • (1029) "That the demand under the head rail- . way board be reduced by As. 100.· "That the demand under the head rai1- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- !Need to provide adequate funds foran effec:tlveschemetoexpandtheraiiway /Need to in1nWt the RaIlway catering wagon Workshop at Kotal (1022) Service.! (1030)

"That the demand under the head rail- "I'hIIt 1M demand under the head rail- 615 ~.~ 1991-I3PHALGUNA22.1913(S4KA) 818 ~. RIM re.l'8CtJI1I8(Idatlons ,_.fo1..or:3,sJi!_-_, • of RIy. Con. Comm.; DtIm. Oem. for grants (R1ys.). , n:I be reduced .... As 100· INeed for effecllvely checking the IncI- ..,boa 017 •• dence.oftheft.dacoIIJetc.lnthetratns.I' INtIIIdtDt::DlJlltnJctllnOVlllbrld/lBforthe (1069) I8l1way ~ 01 KDtIl city under W.... m Railway $0 as to provide them "That the demand under the head rail- an easy passage tothelrcolonyJ (1 031) way board be raduced by As. 100.·

"That the dilmand under the head rail- JNeed for honouring the suggestions of way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· the general consumers while fixing the rates of catering Inthe Railways! (1 070) /Need to construct an overbrldga at Rangpur village. KOla u~r Western "That the demand under the head rail- RallwayJ (1032) way board be reduced by As. 100.-

"That the demand under the head rail- INeed to co~rt Mau-Shahganj rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- way line Into broad-Gauge Una In North Eastern RailwayJ (1071) INeed to construct a fly over for the industrial area of Kota cltyJ (1033) . "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100.· "That the demand under the head rail- Way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- JNeed for laying double railway line from lucknow to Baraunl and the elec- /Need to develoP Kakaniya Talab rail- trilication the18of.1 (1072) way station to aase Nsh of passengers at Kota Railway Station of Western "That the demand under the head rail- RallwayJ (1034) way board be reduced by Rs. 100.-

"That the demand under the head raii- . JNeed to construct a new platfOrm and way board be reduced by RI. 100.- to open a booking office aI northern border of Deorla Sadar Railway Station JNaed to stop all passengers trains aI and to constNd a concrete railway Kakanlya Tallab Railway Station of road connecting the cityJ (1073) Western Railway for the convenience of passengers of Kota CIty J (1035) "Thai the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. '00.- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by RI. 100.- JNeed to Introduce direct trains be- tWeen Basharalet Bazar and Varanasl lNeed to Nn Kota to Bhopal via Blna and LucknowJ (1074) trains as Exprass tralnJ (1036) "That the demand under the head rail- SHRIMOHANSINGH (Deoria): I beg to . way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- move:- JNeed to construd goodstransporallon "Thai the demand under the head rail- shed and platform at Bahraier BazarJ way board be reduced by As. 100.· (1075)

JNaed for effecIlvelr c:heckIng the raA SHRI BHAGWAN SHANKAR RAWAT accidentsJ (1068) (AlIra): I beg to move:-

"That the demand under the head rail- "ThaI the demand under the head rail- wayboariJ·be ...... _ .... 'OO.· way board be reduced by As. 100.- 617 ~~ MARaf 12. 1992 for~5 618 ~;"'I8.~1S,.43- .' "IIINII; and . III,.,. .Con.; COmirr.; Oem. Oem. fIII'".",. (R1ys.). 1 - . Meed to InIfaduce a dlnlCl super fast way board be r8duced by As. 100.- tralnfrom Agrato Eastarn 1ndIaJ(1112) Meed to develop Idgah RaIlway SIa- "That ,he demand under the head rail- tIonJ(1120) way board be reduced by As. '90.- "That the demand under the.head rall- , /Need to introduce a super fast train way board be reduced by As. 100.- between Agra and Bombay.l (1113) /Need to provide adequate wagons for "That the demand under the head rail- Io2dlng goods at different raHway sta- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- tions of Agra./ (1121)

/Needtodevelop New Rajamandl RaIl- "That the demand under the head rail- way St~tlon In Agra.l (1114) way board be reduced by Rs. 100.-

"That the demand under the head rail- /Need to provide special facilities to the way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- tourists at Agra Railway stationJ (1122)

/Need to Introduce a shuttle passenger -That the demand under the head rail- train from Agra to'Tundla station so way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- that passengers travelling from Aligarh on Agr~-Tundla route may be ben- /Need'to Introduce a super fast train to efited.1 (1115) conned Agra to other tourist places of thecoul)try'/(1123) , -That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· -That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- /Need to stan daily laskar Express train between Gwallorto Bombay from /Need to remove the shortage of claan- Agra.! (1116) Kness and cIvU amenities In different railway colonies of AgraJ (1197) -That the demand under the head rail- way board be .reduced by Rs. 100.· -That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to 'provide seasonal tickets to the dally passengers going to Deihl Meed to construct a stadium at railway from Agra whereas this facility Is avail- maidan near Agra Cantt railway Sta- able to Bombay PassengersJ (1117) tIonJ (4198)

"That the demand under the head rail- "That the detnand under the head rai1- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· way board be reduced by As. 100.-

/Need to develop Khedasadhan rail- INeedtoprovldeCOlJ1)Ulerised reserva- way station of Westem Railway in Agra tion at Agra Fort StatlonJ (1199) dlstric:t.1 (1118) "That the demand under the head rail- "That the demand underthe head rail- way board be raduced by As. 100.- " way board be reduced by As. 100.- INeedto provide computersled reserva- INeedto developOlenda RaIlway Sta- tion at New Raja Id Mandl RaIlway St&- tIon./ (1119) .1on.1 (1200)

"That the demand undartbe head rail- "That the demand under the head ,_. 619 ~~ 1991-93PHALGUNA22,1913(SAKA) forGrants~ 620 GiHJ.CJlsi;uss· RlIs,. 18C1Hr11111dat/ons 1992-93; and • ofRIy. Con. bomm.;·Dem. Oem. forgrants(RIys.), 19 - '2 way board be reduced by RI. 100.- ..., acquisition, construcUon and re- placement be reduced by As. 100.- /Need to remoVe the shortage .of ac- conmodation and residential facilities lNeed to construct f1yovar at Sulsa and in the different railway colonies of AldraJ Tarang stations of South Eastern Rail- (1208) wayJ(1226)

"That the demand under the head rail- SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- (Barailly) I beg to move:-

lNeed to provide educational facilities "That the demand under the h8ad rail- to railway employees at AgraJ (1207) way board be reduced by Rs. 100.·

SHRI BIR SINGH MAHATO (Purlla): I lNeed to open Railway Intar College In beg to move:- Bareilly keeping in view the demand of railway employees.! (1238) "That the demand under the head rai1- way board be redUced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· . /Need to attach 3 bogies from Hatia In HalIa·Ranchl Howrah ExpressJ (1219) lNeed to Introduce a new Express train between Bareilly and Aldra.1 (1239) "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.. /Need to run Neelachal Express via Adra daily on South Eastem RailwayJ JNeed to Introduce train from Bareillyto (1220) . South India.! (1240)

"That the demand under the head rail- "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by RI. 100.- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.·

Meed to stop of AmrItsar-Tata Nagar /Need to Introduce train connecting express at Sulsa station and . BareUIy with BombayJ (1241) Tarangstatlon in South Eastern RaIl- wayJ(1221) "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100: "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100.· INeed to start catering service In trains passing through Moradabad division /Need to extend Bortca Khana Murl on Northem Railway.1 (1242) passenger train. upto Tata NagarJ (1222) "That the demand under the head rail- way board be reduced by Rs. 100: "That the demand under the head .. sets, acqulsltlqn, construction and re- INeedformodemls8tlon of BareUIyJunc- placement be reduced by Rs. 100.- tIon railway statIonJ (1243)

INeed to convert narrow gauge railway "That the demand under the head rall- Ina Into broad gauge fram puru"_ to way board be reduced by Rs. 100." Kotshila In wast BengaLI (1225) JNeed 10 open computeriaed 1'888rV• . "That the demand under the head .. don oIIIce at ~J (1244)- 621 1Jy.~ MARCH12.1992 1J)r~~ 622 Gin-DIIICIiss;"..'.,-«1-' ,., ~". 19Q2-93; IIIId • 01 Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. .oem. tor'grants (R1ys.), 1 - "Thatthademandundarthe head rail- SHRI SRIBAlLAV PAN IG RAHI way boaRI be I'8ducad by As. 100.- (Deogarh): Mr. Deputy speaker SIr, at the outaal, I would seek rour Indulgence that at ~tosel uparallwaycoachfactory leasthalofthetimeglYentoShriFemande8 at Bar8IIIy (1245) maypleasebegiventome.lntquestyou not to ring the beD before that. "That the demand under the head rail- way board be I'8ducad by AI. 100.- Sir, I rise to support wholaheartedly the RaIlway Budget for the year 1992-93 to- . JNeedtorunLlnk~vlaChandosl­ gether with the demands as well as the BaraHIy Uoradabadl (1146) supplementary budget

"That the demand under the head rail- SIr, I do not know whether. Is a p1ea- way board be reduced by As. 100.- sure ora sad experience to speak afterhon. Fernandas,. He himself was at the helm of INeed to double Moradabad-Delhl rail- the affairs of the RaIlways and thal too not way trackJ (1247) In the long past. Only two years back. he had the opportunity of presenting the ~lway "That the demand under the head rail- Budget In this august House. As we aU know, way board be reduced by Rs. 100.- this Is the budget of the largest pubic undertaking of our country. Railways Is the JNeed to electrify the railway track be- lifeline of this country and we know Is tween Lucknow and Moradabad.1 relevance and Immense Importance for the (1248) overall ..,Iopment of our country.

"That the demand under1he head rail- 17.OGh... way board be reduced by As. 100.- That Is why because of lis Importanc:e. INeed to construct a cornrnen::lal c0m- not afterthe Independence but rtghtfrom1he plex after demoUshlng BareDIy Shyam British dme, as a unique gesture the Rall- Ganj railway statIonJ (1249) way Budget is presented separately. It Is not apart oftha General Budget. The working of "That the demand under the head rall- the railways Is looked wilh such distinction way board be reduced by As. 100.- and in1XH1ance.

JNeed to construct an over-brldge on . RaIlways. as I saldearllerot1hegraater ,Nallonal HIghway No. 24balween Milk Infrastructure and Is the Hleone of the coun- and Nagatla Sadat railway statlonsJ try. However rich an area may be In indus- (1250) trial national resource but If raJlwayshava no accesatothaiaraaeven1helndustrlallstado "That the demand under the head rall- not want to go there. beslea.ln a country of way board be reduced by As. 100.- our tIze, the railways symbolises tNp nu:h needed national unity and integrity of our /Need to conSlrUct an OV8I'-brIdge on c:ountIy. the crossing of NatIonal HIghway ND. 24near Mlrora railway statIonJ (1251) Now, whatlstheeconomlcbackground. of ow country against which this JUfs "ThaI the demand undIrthe head rail- RaIlway Budget haa been .....ntad? Ev- way boatd be NduoedOy As. 100.- erybodykn0w8thatwe arepasalngttnugh • cIIIIcuI·economc aIsII. ....,..1he o.n- "...·10c:an.-uct .. IMfobrfdge on end BudgIIt and .. RaIlwar Budg8t .. Ihe CIaI8Ing or 8anIIIJ QapuIa an.' pralllnlld the cannon man:cl OUI'counby .....un fIIII*y badl' an NOIth EaIl- _ ...... _1hebudgatthilwlt em RaIwar.l (1252) be ...... wit be very hanIh and .. 623 R/y. Budget, 1991-93PHALGUNA22,1913 (SAKA) fo'GrantsS~' 624 Gen-Discuss; Res 18. recomendations 1992-93; and • of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for l1'ants (Rlys.). 1 - 12 contain drastic and stringent tax measures. RaIlway Minister. I would say art of hijacking Probably, our Opposition friends who were the House. I wPuld say he Is hlmsel a waltlngforthisopportunltyweredisappolnted derailed train all through. When he was the after seeing the Budget. Railway Minister, he devoted more time to some other Department ratherthan his own. 17.03 h .... When he was the Railway Minister, the RaIlways suffered Immensely. (SHRI P.M. SAVEED in the Cha;" SHRI SRIKANTAJENA: The only thing I will now restrict myseH to the Railway that I want to remind Shrl Panlgrahlls that, Budget by and large, as presented by Shri during his tenure as the Railway Minister, his Jaffer Sharlef. The Railway Budget is being constituency was given the maximum allo- hailed by all the people. There has been a cation. general appreciation of the Railway Budget. I am not surprised to see the sharp reaction SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: You that was there from the former Railway have your own Government in Orissa. You Minister, Shri George Fernades. I am glad have your own Chief Minister. Because of that he opposed the Budget. Had he sup- lack of Interest to get some land, you have ported It a dHferent signal would have gone failed to acquire some land for the railways to the people of the country about the . Can you deny this? So, do not provoke me. bonafides of this Budget. Shrl Fernandes did something when hewas the Minlsterand says something else when he Is now sitting SHRI SRIKANT A JENA: Sir, the only In the Opposition benches. I can come out point that I am making Is that, during the with figures to substantiate my point. tenure of Shri George Fernandes as the Railway Minister, Shri Panlgrahi's constitu- I would have bee., happy had he men- ency got the mximum amount. tioned about the punctuality or about the safety measures, the operating ratio and so on. How do you judge the efficiency of the SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: I am railway system? speaking with facts and figures. I have documents to support this. This has gone up What amentles you are giving to the very high. I would say that aU the time the passengers? When han. Shrl Fernandes ghost of the World Bank and IMF Is haunting was the Railway Minister in the year 1990- them. I know that even some of the Mem- 91, the punctuality level was 84.4 per cent. bers who are sming on the other side, even In the year 1991- April - June a part of that during their sleeps, the ghost Is haunting year,lt came down sharply to 84.4 per cent. them. Even after such a beautiful and con- This is the figure. Can you repudiate the vincing clarification given by the han. PrIme figure? Afterthe Congress Government was Minister the other day, the ghost Is stili Installed, the punctuality figure has In- haunting them. What else they want? Their creased. It is now 86.9% I have the docu- own Leader Shrl Morarji Desa~ who Is In mentary proof regardl~ this. Bormay hadwelcomedourEconomlcPoIIcy. He was our Prime Minister. AI the age of 94, SHRI SRIKANTA JENA: We recom- he 'Is welcoming our policy. Is It wrong? So mend Nobel Prize for thisl also Another Economist Shri Palklwala, Another hon. Member of the other House SHRI SRI8ALLAV PANIGRAHI: You belonging to Mr. Femandas Partytlad gone claim Nobel prtze for derailing trains. to the extent of saying that he would go on welcoming all the measures of the Govern- SIr, you were mentiolng something ment and the economic policy let any discl- about the art of presentation with particular plinary action be taken against him. Such reference to Shri Fernandes, our former type of contradictory things are coming up. 625 RJy. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12,1992 IorGrants RIys), 626 Gim-Disi:uss; Res reo recomendatJons . 1992-93; aniJ SutioIY. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. 'Mllrants (Rlys.), 19~f-sJ2 SHRI SRIKANTA JENA: Shri Ceo Is the general fund. That has also helped to also supporting It. Impove the overall economic situation of the counlry. Naturally, the Govemmenlls work- SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: What Ing as a whole and one cannot say that they Is the attitude of your Chief Minister Shrl Biju have not done anything In the Railway Min- Patnaik towards our Economic Policy? He Is Istry. supporting It wholeheartedly. They do not know what to do. They 818 all confused. I agree that there has been a drastic Now, I am coming to the operating ratio. raductlon In the budgetary support to some public sector units Including the RaIlways. What was the operating ratio In 1989- How can the budgetary support be there a" 90 during the Rajiv Gandhi's Government? the time? Wherefrom will It come? So also Itwas91.5 percenlin 1990-91,ltwas92per the coal sectorto day. The economy Is such cent; this year, It Is 90.3 per cent The main that we cannot provide as before budgetary thrust of the Railway Minister was to bring It support 'orthe working of these units. They down by2 percenl; and It has been achieved. have 10 be self-sufficient. They have to go In Congratulations to him In 1992-93, the for _"-generating finances etc. target Is 87.7. This is the way they are trying to bring down the working expenditure. That way, against heavy dds the Rail- way Ministry has prasenled this Budget. Of I congratulate the Railway Minister for course, thera has been an attelJ1)t to in- one thing. The basic performance of the crease the rav8nue by Rs. 1363 crores by Railways In the current year, In this out- way of further taxation. But who Is going 10 going Finaneial year, Is very impressive; as pay mora? The burden Ia mlnllTl.lm Qjb,.\he you know, In all sectors freight movemenl poorcomrnuters. All theessenlial commodi- and passengers traffic. In the passengers ties have been exelJ1)t8d from the purview traffic, there has been a 5 per cent growth. of the Incraased freight charges. The target of freight movement has not only been achieved but exceeded by about 3 Again, In rasped of the second class million tonnes. joumeys, as stated by the han. Minister while prasenllng the Budget, It will cost Rs. There was a surplus projected of Rs. 25 11'1019 fora passengerjoumeyfromJammu 235 crores in the last year's Budget. In the to Kanya Kumarl. In a difficult year like this, currenl year's Budget,ltwasRs. 235crores. thera has been no greater burden on the But, actually, the surplus Is mora by another poor people and 50 per cenl of the extra As. 200 crores; it Is Rs. 435 crores; In the charges will be coming from the passengers real terms, it should be Rs. 475 crores. An who can afford to pay more, the higher additional amount of Rs.4Dcrores has been class, I class and AC etc. contnbuted to the pension fund besides paying dividend, etc. Of course, there has been an Increase In the suburban passenger fares. A refer- Respectfully, I would refer to one thing. ence has been made to It. Should they not When Mr. George Fernandes was talking be Increased? How long will we be about it, he was thinking in terms of ISolation subsldlslng those whocan pay? Whenthlngs of the working of the Railway MinistrY. But as become dearar costlier. thera is an inflation- I began with the scenario of the economic ary tendency and It is being made up by situation, financial situation, the health of grant of additional dose of deadness allow- the economy and menlloned about them, ance etc. We can also compara the regular we a" know, how even then very dear gold commuter In the Metro cities with those of the counlry had to be parted with. In such travelOng by bus. For the same journey, a difficult situation, when the economic sce- even after this Increase, a bus passenger nario was almost hopeless, Rs. 200 crores has to pay more than the railwaypassenger. wera added as an additional conIfI)ution to Why shed tears for those who can pay and 627 RIy. Budget, 1991·93 PHALGUNA 22, 1913 (SAKA) for Grants RIys}, 628 Ge;,-DlsCuss; Res reo recomendations 1992-93; IItId SUtiIJIy. of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.), 1~f-92 (Sh. SribaUav Panlgrahq areas which do not have broad-gauge One and Instead have only metre-gauge line, . who are also getting additional; dearness suffer from this type 01 difficulty. Therefore, allowance, etc.? their decision to convert the narrOw-gauge, metre-gauge to broad-gauge Is highly wel- So, U1ls is the position. Just forth. sake come. And that also provides a very big 01 criticising the Budget if they criticise, who employment programme. I am not going can help It? Into the detalls now. Earlier this has been dealt WIth by Shrl Chandulal Chandrakar, Again, we know that we are suffering who pointed out as to how many man days, from inflationary pressures. etc. will be created and also the comparative allotments made on this. MR. CHAIRMAN: Please wind up now. You have taken 20 minutes now, Sir, the Railways has a very big social burden, social obligation. As has been said SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: That earlier, In 1980-81, the social cost was only time can be adjusted against our party's Rs .. 421 crores and it has risen to Rs. 2221 time. ClJll9s In 1991-92. But this Is inclusive of the payment we are making under the produc- We are suffering from inflationary pres- tivity linked bonus, which accounts, I think, sures. But the post·budgetary impact of for quite a big sum out of It. Inllatlon, has been well absorbed in the working of the Railway Ministry because of the personal attention paid by both the The ran transport Is six times more Railway Ministers. I know that they have energy efficient than the road transport. But gone round the country, talked to the Rail- I would request the hon. Minister to see that way officers, managers, etc., expenditure It becomes cost efficient and also made has been carefully curtailed, economic ~as readily available. Unless It is readily avail- been observed and therefore the Impact of abie,8a$llyavallable,formovementofgoods, the inflation is also minimum. Is has been etc. naturally the rad transport, which Is not absorbed. energy efficient, will have an edge overthls. Besides operating ratio about which I have mentioned, the retum on the net rev- In regard to electrification, I agree that enue to capital at large has also gone up. It we should have a bigger progranme. Rail- was Rs. 6.91 in 1990-91 when Shrl ways does play an important role 1n our Fernandes was the Railway Minister. But economy; It Is the main stay of our economy the same was raised to 8.3 In 91-92 and and it is the Infrastructure of our develop- expected to be 10.9 in 1992-93. Are these mental activities in the country and natutally not commedatce features and welcomefea- members would like to have Railway lines in tures? their areas. And, therefore, the task is quite challenging. We do not have money, etc. As has been stated earlier, this year's The Planning Commission should reaUse thrust is the conversion of narrow-gauge, this and make more plan allocations, not metre-gaugelnto broad gauge. Again I con- only Annual Plan but also In terms of FiVe gratulate the Railway Ministry for this decl- Year Plans. Also the external support by sion. There Is a co~IeX, Inferiority com- way of loan, etc. from world Institutions and plex, working In the minds 01 the people 01 Intematlonallnstltutlons. should be arranged those areas where there Is no broad-gauge for drawing new Ones, etc. It is quite chal- line. Is It not so? Also, the industrialists are lenging. Steam engine we can no longer reluctant to go to those areas which remain depend ujSon • Therefore, for electrification thus they neglected them." there Is no programma, there should be mora alloca- railway line,. that area is neglected. Also the tion. 629 Rty. Budget. 1991-93- MARCH 12,1992 forGrants RlysJ, 630 GEm-Discuss; Res reo recomendatlons 1992-93; and SutiDIY. of Rly. Con. Camm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants (Rlys.J, 1991-92 . As regards passengeramenltles,lthlnk, district In Orissa where there Is not an Inch there Is a very meagre provision of Rs.S of railway lina. In Kalahandl also, only a crol8S. This is not at all sufficient. If my figure small section is covered by Railway line. So, Is wrong, I stand to colT8Ct myself. This naturally there are no Industries. As stated provision of Rs.S crores for this nowhere ealier, during British days, because three near the requirement and this should be metropolitan cities were required to be linked suitably enhanced. Caluctta on the one side and Madras on the other side, and Calcutta on the one side and I agree that punctuality has Improved. Bombay on the other side and since In But in certain areas, certain trains like Utkal between Orissa was coming, so we had the Express are running chronically later. And benefit if getting some railwaylines. Other- more attention should be given to this as- wise, Orissa, which is the home of natural pect. resources, mineral resources of our coun- try, is rotting in poverty because of lack of As regards security, there Is a lurking Infrastructural facilitios, because of lack of fear, a suspicion, In the minds of even those adequate railway lines. Poverty has been who are in charge of security. Sometimes entrenched In Its soli. the situation is such that we are Inclined to believe that they are hand in glove with the MR. CHAIRMAN: Please conclude now. cnminals some of the crimes that are taking place. Therefore, we have to see that punc- SHRI SRIBAlLAV PANIGRAHI: Sir, tuality is there. At the same time, secu rity of when you look at me,l become afraid. After passengers has to be ensured, cleanlinesss the national scenario, I have already come also has to be adhered to. to Orissa. so, pleas. give me two-three minutes more. Railways have got to be more produc- tive.1t has got to be more efficient. I know the As I was saying, Orissa Is the heart of task Is quite challenging but keeping in view South ·Eastem Railway. But again the Irony the programme of spreading the network to Is that two Railway Zonal headquarters are all the areas and also the electrification located in one metropolitan city, that Is, programme, track ranewal programme, etc., Calcutta. Garden Reach happens to be the they need much more than what has been headquarters of the South-Eastem Railway provided. Irrespective of party affiliations, whose heart Is Orissa. Therefore, the whole we have 10 address ourselves to this prob- of Orissa, part of Madhya Pradesh, part of lem, this gigantic task. Bihar and part of Andhra Padesh should constitute a new Railway Zone, with head- Chandrakarjl has stated about local quarters at a suita~ place In Orissa recruitment, etc. I also agree with him and I repeat that local employment has to be Coming to construction works In Orissa, provided for at least in the matter of appoint- I was referrring to land acquistitlon a little ment of Class-III and Class-IV employees. earlier when Mr. Jena was Interrupting me. In this account also there Is lot of corruption. I would request the hon. Railway Minister to kindly visit Orissa - not to have a short visit I would new go overto my State, which but to spend two-three days there. Let him Is a neglected child of the Railways. Orissa spend one day at Bhubaneswar. Let him not continues to be a neglectedchlldand~ntln­ come back from Bhubaneswar lise •. Let ues tl) be receiving step-motheriy treat- him got to Sambalpur, the headquarters of ment. About OrIssa, as you know, Sir, a new Railway DIvision, with many pr0b- Orissa's poverty does throw a challenge to lems. From there he can also proceed to the whole ofthecountry, to the Govemment Bilaspur In Madhya Pradesh and the of india and also to the Railway Ministry. Chhatlsgarh area, which are all backward Today also there are news reports about areas. let him study the problem and Und hunger deaths In Kalahancll Phulbani Is a· out some solution to that 631 Rty. Budget, 199f-93PHALGUNA22,1913 (SAKA) forGrants Rlys), 632 Gen-Discuss; Res re. recomendalions 1992-93; and SutilJ/y. of Rly. Can. Comm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants (Rlys.), 19Sf-{J2 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yoll mention only line and Raigada-Koraput railway line should points. be completed early. There Is not an inch of railway 6ne In Phulwanl district. There Is a SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: I am need for conversion of Meter gauge Into rafrring to points only. There Is a new Divi- Broad gauge In Palasa Parlaklmldl sector. sion at Sambalpur. I salute the memory of The Rupsa-Bhadriposi line should also be our late leader Rajivji. Late Shri Rajlv Ganhi taken up. laid the foundation stoneforthe Sambhalpur Division and the Talcher railway line. He .lald MR. CHAIRMAN: Please wind up now. the foundation stone for these projects. But I regret that these are progressing at a SHRISRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI:There snail's pace without much budgetary provi- is a demand of a new speedy super-fast sions. expl8sstraln. The General Managerof South Eastern Railway has made a commitment SHRI BASUDEBACHARIA: Who sanc- about running a new train from West Orissa tioned the Division? Was it not Shri George to Delhi. I eamestly request the hon. Minis- Fernandes?( Interruptions). ter to kindly include this In the list of 15 new trains commencing from 1st July. Also the SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: No he Neelachal Exprass should be restored to Its did not sanction. He was nowhere in the former route as a super fast train. picture about Sambhalpur Division. I can emphatically say It. It was Shri A.B.A. Ghani With these words I give my whole- Khan Choudhary, as Railway Minister, who hearted support to the Budget which is very sanctioned it. Shri George Femandes can- timely and balanced one. Only the detrac- not take credit forgiving approval to this. He tors could take the liberty of criticising it from might have given one or two crores of their own point of view. Judging the present rupees more. That is all. It has been done difficur. situation there could not have been much earlier. The foundation stone ... a better Budget prasented by the hon. Rail- way Minister. Thank you. SHRIGEORGE FERNANDES: All your foundation stones are there all over the SHRIBASU DEB ACHARIA(Bankura): country. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I consider that this Is the worst Budget which was presented by the SHRI SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHI: You Govemment, not only forthe rise in fare and have the habit of taking away others' credit. freight charges but for other factors also. h You have that expertise. Hyou want to take Is unprecedented If you compare the fare credit In the present case,l think, you will be and freight charges during the last ten years. frustrated. The New Sambhalpur Division's I can say that the present Budget Is an work is to be taken up at the earliest. unprecedented one.

About the Jurisdiction of the new In fNery paragraph of Railway Minister's Sambhalpur Division I may say that big and speech there is a reflection of Instructions serious mistake has been committed. Even from I.M.F. and World Bank. I am surprised the araa adjacent to Sambhalpur is coming that how suddenly the Railway Minister has under the old Chakradharpurdivision which discovered that there are surplus staff from is situated at a distance of about 300 top to bottom who are redundant and he kilometres. This is not acorred situation and wants to reduce their number from 16 lakhs this should be corrected; for example to 9 lakhs. When the world bank submitted Jharsiguda is under old Chakradharpurdlvl- this report ten yars ago about the require- sion. ment of manpower in Indian Railways we pointed out about it then. This report is being Then there Is the demand for new rail- gradually Implemented. Now the present way lines. I maymentionthat Khurda-Bolanglr RaIlway Minister started i.menting the 633 Rty. Budget, 1991-93- MARCH 12. 1992 tarGrants Rlys), 634 Gim-Discuss;'"Res reo recomendations 1992-93; and Suppf. of R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.), 1991-92 instrudlons of World bank and I.M.F. He has lines, In oreler to connect thoSe tow broad set up a Directorate. The name of the Direc- guage lines, the arrow guage or the anetre torate is 'Efficiency and Research Director- guage is to be converted into broad guage. ate. The purpose is not to detennine the But how suddenly the decision was taken to efficiency of the Railways, but the main convert 6000 kilometres of meterguage Into purpose of this Directorate is to find out broad guage when we can make the metre where there are surplus staff. Recently they guage system more efficent? We can elec- have issued a very secret circular. The trify the metre guage traction. So, there are reference No. of that circular is E 310- certain State capitals which are not con- 21lPC·7lMeetings II, where It has been nectedbyeailway lines. We have demanded clearly stated to find out where there are that Agartala, the capRaI of Tripura should surplus staff in diffierent Railways and in be connected with a railway line. It is a smaD order to implement the conditionalities they State in the North Eastern region and there are now gradually reducing, and already is a lot of resentament. A number of capitals and attack has been started in the Railways in the north eilStern region are not con- iirst. Recently, a former Member of Railway nected with railway lines and they should be Board I am not mentioing his name, but only connected with railway lines. A project was Tlention that a fonner Member of the Rail- sanctioned to connect one of or district IIIay Board, Member (Traffic) has wrttern an headquarters where there is no railway line lrticle. What he has said is that the exit and that is the Balurgahat project In West )olicy can be sucessfully implemented in Dimapur district. But this year you have he Railway because the railwaymen will not sandioned only Rs. One lakh and the total Bsist. As on 29th November last, when cost of the projed is Rs. 35 crores. Then, the !bout 1,SO,OO,ooOworkers struggled against project of Tamluk Digha is very important he exit policy of the Government of India, from the tourist point 0 f view. This year, you he railwaymen did not respond, they only have sanctioned only Rs. One crore for a Ixpressedtheirsoliderity. So, this exit policy project cost of Rs.45 crores. We have de- :an be successfully implemented in the manded railway conadion between two ~ailways. The former Member (Traffic) of impatient towans of 'Bihar, Dhanbad and 1e Railway Board has written a very elabo- Tata Nagar. The amount was reduced to Rs. ate article. There he clearly stated that and 1.60 crores. Last year, you have sanctioned lis is now being implemented Rs. 751akh, but this year, you have given only Rs.31 lakhs. You are not able to sanc- Sir, we discuss every year how the tion the entire amount to remodel one sta- 1I0cation in the Railways is being reduced tion at Ptharidi and to construct one platform radually. In the Second Five Year Plan 15 in South Eastern Railway at Shudambi 9r cent was allocated for the Railways and I the Sevent h Five Year Plan only 7. 06 per At present, there Is no direct train from ent was allocated. And in the current plan Dhanbad to Tata Nagar and if a train is Ie Eighth Plan will start now - this will be introduced, then that train will pass through Irther reduced because this year the bud- our district, Purulia which is one of the 3tary support has been reduced from Rs. backward districts of our country. A project 300 crores to Rs. 1200 crores and that was recommended by the Railway Board in location also, In real tenns, has been the year 1986 oteh Planning Commission duced althorugh last year, I mean. in the and the Planning Commission, at that time, Irrent year, it is Rs. 5400 crores and forthe rejadedthatprojed. New, again an updated Ixtyear it Is Rs. 5,700 crores and if you add survey was made and still for the past six e devaluation it is less than what was months the Railway Board Is examine It to located last year, and after less allocation find out whether in this narrow gauge of 31 IW the Railway Minister sudenly woke up kms, there should be some change In the Id said t hat Indian Railways should have alignment for 11 kms. and in the remaining lit·guage? We need conversion in certain 20 kms. by replacing the narrrow gauge line, rategicareas. Where\here arebroadguage broad gauge line has to be laid. But you are 635 Rly. Budget, 1992-93 PHALGUNA 2?, 1913 (SAKA) for Grants R/ys), 636 Gen-Olscuss' Res reo recommendatIOns 1992-93; and SIitJIj/. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants (Rlys.J, 1991-92 [Sh. Basudeb AchariaJ crores for electrification. Forgauge conver- sion, you have provided Rs. 554 crOI"8S. For unable to find moneyforthis small project for electrification, it Is only As. 235 crores. Last one of the backward districts where the year, you have provided only Rs. 232 crores. tribal and Scheduled Caste population is In the year 1991, you had sanctioned only about 45 per cent. But, you have money to As. 234 crores. We need electrification but convert the entrire metre guge into broad sufficient provslons have not been made. gauge. In the same way, you are not finding money to connect Amta with Howrah. it is a Our hon. friend, Shrl Salfuddln prestigious project and it was sanctioned by Choudhury along with a delegation met the late Shrimati Indira Gandhi and she had laid hon. Railway Minister and the Prime Minis- the foundation stone in 1972. It is in the ter a numberoftlmes. The Minister assured constituency of my colleague Mr. Hannan that Baindal- Katwa railway line would be Mollah and now you want to abandon that electrified. But I received a reply from you project. compny projects are pending with that this will would not be viable after electri- you. fication. I do not know, how viability is exam- ined. There are 16 volumes of the report of The Railway Convention Committee of Railway Reforms Committee. You will find In 1986 recommended that all. the pending the report, they have mentioned, there Is a projects should be completed. When one need for changing the criteria of remunera- project is sanctioned, it should be com- tive line which Is about 10 per cent or 12 per pleted. So, sufficiENIt funds should be ar- cent of retum. There is need for more allo- ranged forthat purpose. As my comrade Mr. cation of funds for electrification and more George was referring to, e.. 'ery year you are allocation for new railway lines. allotting lesser and lesser amounts, you ~re giving only Rs. Two crores Instead of Rs. 'Six The Prime Ministerwhlla replying to the per Seven crores. A token amount has been debate on the Motion of Thanks on the sanctioned. Then, Sir, about electrification, President's Address has stated that each It has been said that electric traction is the km. of gauge conversion is calculated to cheapest means of transport. In 1973, the provide employment potential of 18,000 to policy was adopted not to have steam en- 22,000 " mandays. ' gines and from 1973 onwards, not a single steam engine came out of Chittaranjan Lo- THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE comotive. Works. But how much ou have MlNISTRYOFPARLAIMENTARY AFFIARS sanctioned for electrification? It has been AND MINISTRY OF STATE IN THE MINIS- said that we have to phase out steam en- TRY OF LAIcY, JUSTICE AND COMPANY gines. I believe, still steam engines can be AFFAIRS (SHRI RANGARAJAN KUMARA- used in our country. China can use fuel- MANGALAM): Since the Chairman, Shri efficient steam engine. The former Railway P.M. Sayeed has to go, with the permission Minister, ShriGeorge Fernandes had brought of the House, may I suggest the name of • out the Status Paper, White Paper on Indian Shri Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee to take the Railways. There, the option was there chair? whether we can still continue to use steam engine or not. We could have continued steam engines at least In coal ben areas of SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: Yes. OrIssa, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and other areas. H China can continue with fuel-effi- 17.50 hn. clent steam engines, why have you stopped producing steam engines in 19731 Now we need eleclrHication. We have to depend on [SHRI NIRMAL KANT CHATTARJEE In Import of petroleum products for diesel 8n- the Chailj· .gln81. ldo not understand how this calculation You haw· sanctioned, onar As. 235 has been made and whether these con- 637 Rly.8IJdget. 1992-93- MARCH 12,1992 forGrants RIys), G38 G9n-Dlsi:uss; Res reo I'fICOInITJtIndlons . 1992-93; and SIiDDI. 01 Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. forgrants (Rlys.J. 1wf-"92 structlon worke.s are permanent workers. cation. By Changing classification of you are earring As. 230 crores-by just changing the Another aspect Is prIVotlsatlon. Last classification of the goods. This was never year, when an the Mermers opposed the done during the last ten years, If you corn- privatisatlon of safaiwort<, conservancy work, pare the freight and fare hike. Before the he stopped that. This year, he has already Budget, you have Inc:raased the rate of food started prlvatlslng the catering. Priorto 1955- articles. You have Increased the nlte of 56, this catering system was under the reservation. You have Increased the rate of private management. Who nationalised. It? bed-rolls, from RS.6 to As.10/-. Who made this departmental? The former Prime Minister and former Railway Minster, SHRI SAIFUDDIN CHOUDHARY Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri took the decision. (Katwa): What is the rate of bed~roll? He took the deciSion to departmentalise this catering system. The percentage of depart- SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA: I do not mental catering system. The percentage of know. We have to eJaculate. departmental catering is only 50 to 55 per cent. When the food articles were bad, the Government decided to Import electric service was worse and when there was locos of 6,000 horse power. We have a much complaint, then this catering service locomotive factory at Chittaranjan. This was departmentalised. Now the Railway ChittaranaJan Locmomotlve Works sur- Ministry wants to reverse It and to start passed the target. They are produced 120 privatisation with catering service locos this year, though they made no finan- cial demand. They demanded only recogni- Then the privatisatlon of railway wag- tion to their labour union. This union repre- ons. We have wagon building industry. Is sents 90 per cent of the work force and you the capacity of the wagon building Industry are not considering it. The workers are very fully utilised? I do not think so because there sincerely producing the locos more than was a crisis thrae years back in wagon your target. They can produce the locos that building Industry. Unless the capacity is you are Importing. But you have tied up with being fully utilised, there Is a need for an- a firm. You are getting loan from the Asian other coach factory. There Is a proposal to Development Bank. You have already have a coach factory at Durgapur. I have a awarded a tender to a foreign Company. letter from the former Railway Minister Shri You are not giving orderstothis Chittaranjan George Femandes. That proposal was still Locomotive Works. This Chlttaranjan Loco- thera to have a coach factory because the motive Works can produce this type of locos two factories, one at Perambur and the of 6000 H.P. They have got their capacity. other at Kapurthala were not coping up with Only a little investment is required. With a the demand requirement because from 1950- little investment, with a little expansion, our 51, the passengertraffic has been increased Railways' own indigenous industry can pro- to 175percent wheraas passenger coaches duce this type of locos. You are now produc- increased only by 125 percent and the over- ing it. But the decision was delayed. The aged coaches are being used and there is Finance Ministry are not willing to import. ov.r-crowding and still you are incraaslng When there Is so much of scaidty of our the fare of second class. It is not a joke to foreign exchange, you are Importing the exempt the second-class passenger up to electric locos. 10 KM. How much are you eaming by incraaslng second class fare? you are earn- . Sir, I have very little time. I have got four ing Rs. 470 crores from the second class or five minutes only. So, within that 4-5 and from the highercJass only As. 70crores. minutes,l will have to finish all the important From suburban traffic. you are earning As. points. The first important point is with re- 170 crores and by l'8cIassificatlon, you are gard to the reinstatement of the dismissed increasing only 7 112 per cent of the freight RaIlway workers. For the first time, I under- rate. ~ut you are just changing the classifi- stand that the Cabinet took a decision not to 839 ~.~t.1992-93PHALGUNA22.1913(SAKA) torGrants ~J. 640 Giln-Disi:uss; Res re. recommtIIIdatlons 1992-93; and SUppL of Rly. Con. Comm.; DBm. Oem. forgrants {R1ys.J. 199#-"92 (Sh. Basudeb 4\charia] a change In the recognition policy to have industrial peace In the Indian Railways? ntlnstate the dilom!ssed RaAway workers although a number of times assurances Sir. the hike In the fralght and fara has wel'8 given. The decision was taken by the aJraady shown a cascading affect in respect former Railway Mlnlst.r and approved by of a111hacommodlllas. Of course.th. Chair- the CabInet. So much hallagulla was thel'8ln man of the Railway Board may say tbat the the House. Then. announcement was an impact will be minimal. But there Is alraady made by the former Railway Minister Shrl a cascading affect. So. I demand that the Janeshwar Mishra on the floor Of the House fara which has been proposed to be In- and the prasent Railway Minister Shri C.K. craased In the case of Second-Class and Jaffer Sharlef also, not once but a nUmberof Suburban passengarsshould bewlthdrawn. times. assurad this House because this Is the demand of the entire House that the 1LOOhra workers. who wel'8 dismissed in 1981 for participating In a strike. should be rain- stated. They wel'8 participating in a strike Fl'8lght on all fommodltles should be because the agreement which was signed radUC8d. Why should the Railways pay divi- with the Loco Running Staff Association dends to the General Revenues? Why is was not Implemented. It Is was ragardlng 10 this system still continuing from pre-Inde- hours duty. Theclrcularwhlch was Issued by pendence days? By poying the dividends to the Railway Board was quashed by the the General Revenues, the Budgetary allo- Ernakulam Central Administrative Tribunal cations will be raduced. Why should the Recently. that circular of exchanging the Railways carry the social burden? duty hours of Loco Running Staff was (/ntemJptions).Why should this continue quashed. These workers have not yet been • when thel'8 Is I'8structura of Railway FI- l'8instated. Whatthe Railway Minister stated nance? In reply to our question was that the dls- . rrissed Railway employees In whose favour With theseworeSs,l oppose the Railway the Court has given the Judgement. have Budget and I conclude. Thank you. been taken back. But I can giVe the names of at least 50-55 such Railway employees in THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE whosafavourav.nth.SLPwas not allowed MINISTRYOF.PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS In the Supl'8me Court let alone the Central AND THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE AdministratiVe Trbunal and the High Court. MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COM- Those .mployees have not yet been taken PANY AFFAIRS(SHRI RANGARAJAN back. I can give the names of SO-55 such KUMARAMNANGALAM): May I make a employees. Why al'8 these • .,..,Ioyees not request to you to extend the time of the being l'8instated? Why should thera not be House by Fifteen minutes or so? There ara a change in the recognition policy in the ona ortwo Members who just want to make Railways that we have two federations. their demands to the Railway Minister and Why should there be two Federations? Why they have to go out of station today should there not be one Federation? Hthere evening.(/nterruptlons). be two Federations. why not three? Why ara you not ragognlslng such Federation which SHRI SOMNATH CHATTERJEE is an umbrella organisation of all the catego- (Bolpur): You must reciprocate later on. ries of employees? Even the RaDway offI- cials have rafusedto meet the un-l'8COgnised SHRI RANGARAJAN KUMARA- unions. The decislonwastaken by the former MANGALAM: Yes. we are always Railway Minister Shrl George Fernandes to ~Ing.(lntenuptlons). racongnlsa 1hose FederatIOns. to have one MR. CHAIRMAN: Is It the pIeas':'l'8 of Federation and that should be decided the House to extand the time by ten orflftaan through sacrat beDot. Why can there not be rrinutes to accommodate twa Merm.rs? 641 ~ ~ 1992-93- MARCH 12, 1992 forGlants fIIys). 642 GBn-DIsi:uss; Res N. I8COmfIJ8IJdalIns 1992-93; and SciDDL 01 Rly. Con. Comin.; oem. Oem. for".",. (Rtys.J, 1991-92 SOME HON. MEMBERS: Yes. • During the first plan the Expenditure on Railways In I8IaIIon to the total plan goes MR. CHAIRMAN: Shrl Vljayarahavan was 1'.07%. In the second Plan It went up to speak . to 15.48%. In the third plan It remained at 15.46%. But In the fourth plan It came down [TtanSlatlon) to 5.9%. In the 7th plan It went up slightly to 7.46% But we must remember that It was ·SHRI V.S. VIJAYARAGHAVAN 15.4% In the second plan. If II goes at this (Palakkad): Mr. Chairman, the Govt. under pace where are we going to get the money the leadership of the PrIme Minister Shrl from on to under take the development of Naraslmha Rao has put an end to the politI- RaIlway? The surplus of As. 563 croras Is cal and economic uncertainty and has given too Inadequate to meet the development a new direction to the Indian economy. The needs of the RaIlways. Therefore, you have. voting that took place In this House the other to find now sources of revenue. day Is a proof of the fact that the people accept the new economic policies adopted Anotherproblem Is the imbalance In the and being Implemented by this Govt. This Rallwaydevelopment. Railways are the most year's generat Budget as well as the Railway Important factor in th9 process of develop- Budget are manifest examples of the fact ment of the country. But, the development of that the country under the leadedrshlp of the Railways was not been uniform In all arts of Hon'ble Prime Minister is marching ahead the country. The Indian RaIlways have 62367 along the path progress. The Railway Bud- route kilometres of rail line. AsmaJl State aka get is an Important element In the total Haryana has 1500 route kilometres of railwayJlne, where as Kerala has only 984 developmental provcess. I support it whole- The National average Is 2398 Kms. heartedly. I must say at the out set that Kms. That means the total length of railway lines contrary to the fear among the people, this In Karala Is far below national average. Take year's Budget does not increase the fare thecase of our neighbouring States of Tamil and freight greatly. The Railway Minister nadu and Kamataka. They have 4012 and has sought to raise· an additional amount 01 3065 Kms. of lines respedively. So, there Is Rs. 1366 Crores without resorting to any something wrong with the whole system. . hoft increase In the ordinary fire. Similarly, The uneven development of Railways has he has exempted essential commodities adversely affected the economic develop- like rice, sugar, kerosene, vegetables etc. ment of Kerala. I wouldlherefor request the from the freight hike. We hope that this step Govt. to correct this ,Imbalance by investing will stabilise the prices of essential com- more money In undevel~ states Uke modities. I congratulate him to this. Karala.

Sir, the buget problem the Indian • Is a perennial complaints that Karata Railway'S are facing Is lack of resources. has always been neglected In the matter of How many thousand crares of rupees are Railway development. There Is a large mea- required for renewal of very old tracks? sure 01 truth In this COmplaints., When we There is no Idea as to where we are going to exari'1Ine this year's Railway Budget, we find get the money dream. If the tracks are not that the Railway Minister has tried to redeas renewed these will be mora accidents. Thent to some extent this coqJIalnt. Kerala Is one are thousands of kUmetras 01 track which cllhe new 15 trains. Similarly, the Borde shQuld have been renewed long baCk. Haw Cochln Sector Is going to be electrified. toralle monerlardthalr .~Ioak ..... There Is an indication that a Rajdhand type total IIDca1Ion lor the Rallwap linea 1M of train will be given to Karata. nis also said fourth plan, rouwllfindthat ...... that the Alleppy Kayam-Kulam line and 01 aIIocIItIon far t'IIIwa,. ~ NIIIIan to ... Trlchur- Guruvayoor line wUl be COf!1lIeted total pIIn IlaNMon haa been comng dDwft this year. These are au steps favourable to 643 Rly. Budget, 1992-93 PHALGUNA~, 1913 (SAKA) 9':'/1Tani:J :_YS,J;. 644 Gim-Discuss; Res re. recommendations Dem. for9~ts ;R/~j, 199'f-92 of Rly. Con. Comm.; Dem. I' ,- [Sh. V.S. VIJar,.ghavan] only one minute. Another point is that we need one more train to Tiruvanpanta-puram Kerala. But, If we look at the allocation for all from Deihl. There is a long waiting list for this, it does not generate much optimism. berths In the Kerala Express practically Last year Kerala' got Rs. 28 crores for everyday. Earlier there used to be heavy Railway development. This year It has come rush during vacation. But now it has become down to Rs. 15.72 crores. The total cost of a daily feature. Therefore there should be electrification of the Brode-cochin stretch Is one more train introduced to Rs. 161.30 crores, and the amount re- Triruvanathpuram. marked this year is just Rs. 3.10 crores. At this rate it will take atleast years to 50 Sir, the Kerala Express at present takes complete this project. Simliarly, Rs. one around 56 hours to reach Tiruvantapuram crores each has been provided for the When it was inroduce It used to cover this completion of the Alleppy Kayamkulam line joumey within 48 hours from a super fast and Trichur-Guruvayor line. But an amount Express it has become a super slow Ex- of Rs. crores in still requi:-ed to com- 5.26 ... press. This has happened because it has a plete these two lines. The quesion is wthther large number of stops between New Delhi he will be able to find the money. to Bhopal. this causes a lot of inconvenience to the long distance passengers. Therefore, I would now to come specific problem of Kerala express should remain a superfast Kerala First the Erode-Trivandurm sector Express. should be elecrified. The GoYl. of Kerala has been demanding it fora long time. There is Similarly, the trains which run between a heavy traffic on this route and therefore Rajkot and Tiruvanthpuram and Ahmedabad electrificatioin ofthis stretch should be taken and Cochin are weekly train. This frequency up. Secondly, the sort- Mangalore line should should be increased.(/nterruptions). be doubled. A survey as conducted, but nothing further has been done. with the MR. CHAIRMAN: Now, please con- coming of Konkan Railway, the importance clude. I am calling the next member. I have of this line will increace, as the traffic will granted you more than hundred percent increase many times over. So this line should time. be doubled.(Inte"uptions).

SHRI V.S. VLJAYARAGHVAN: I am MR. "CHAIRMAN: Pleace conclude un- concluding Sir, lastly I will say a word about less you try to conctude now, you will be my constituency Palakkad. There was a depriving another member of your party, proposal to set up coach f~ory: which was who is also leaving to-day. later set up in Kapurthala In Punjab. I would request the Minister to set up a coach SHRI V.S. VLJAYARAGHAVAN: Sir, I facotry in Plakkad., I would also request the will take only two minutes. the nrothem part Minister to reduce the hike in the seasou otKeralawhich iscal\ed Malabar has always ticket tare. 'congratulate him tor Increasing been neglected. No majortrains which goes g the pension fund. Lastly, there is a de- North starts from he. This has caused much mand for an over bridge near Palakkad resentment among the people. I am there- junction. This should be constructed. With fore making as suggestion. Anyone of the these words, I once again support the Bud- trains which go to Howra or Rajkot could be get. started"from Malabar.(/nterruptions). [English] MR. CHAIRMAN: Please permit me to call the next person. MR. CHAIRMAN: Whatever you have to say in addition, please asend a written MR. V.S. VLJAYARAGHAVAN : Sir, memo to the Minister. I am calling shrl 645 Rly. B~t. 1992-93- MARCH 12, 1992 for Grants Rlys), 646 Gen-Discuss; Res reo recommendations 1992-93; and Suppl. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rlys.), 1991-92 Ramamurth88. He has also asked for five the victim, the passenger, feel less of the minutes. H you keep on speaking I will burden. In a~ition, the increase in rates adjourn the House and you will be depriving also is graded. him and he will not have a chance. Shri Ramamurthee to speak. As forthe hike in the rates forthe I Class passenger by 20%, the House, I am sure, SHRI K. RAMAMURTHEE will agree with the han. Minister that those TINDIVANAM (Tindivanam): Thank you Mr. who require extra can afford to pay a little chairman for calling me. more.,

I stand to welcome the Railway Budget The Railway Budget does make an and congratulate the Railway Minister for increase in the freight rates. But the Minister having given a different orientation to his must be complimented for the exercise he Budget. He has presented a Budget that is made in this sphere. He has not touched the pro-poor and a soft Budget. His Budget rates forthe essential commodities. By this, gives the much needed encouragement to for his part he has seen to it that the c6mmon the small Industrial sector. I! is an impres- man does not suffer by the increase in the sive Budget which contributes to the country's price of essential commodities. Even the economic progress. freight increase announced is only to the extent of 7.5%. The inflationary pressures The Railway Budget, it must be truly are well kept under check as far as the said, is a brave effort to deal with a difficult Railway Budget is concerned. situation. This has been acheived main Iy by the hike in passengerfares. This is one area . The announcements for the future, as . which every Railway Minister and reserva- announced by the Minister indicates sharp tions to touch. But our Railway Minister has increase in the allocation for guage conver- played the trick. His is a case of higher sion for metre guage to broad guage. The pasengerfares and minmum harassmentto amount spent on this scheme jumps from the passenger concerned. Rs.133croresin 1991-92toRs.555crores in 1992-93. This is a majorthrustto progress When I mention this, I must in fairness and the scope for employment opportunity plead the case of the big traffic used by the will be high. suburban train passenger in metropolitan cities like Bombay, Madras, Calcutta etc. In the eighth plan period this conversion The ien kilometre exemption given to the" will be to the extent of 6000 kms. as against class passengers will not be of help to the the total to 10000 kms. The han. Prime middle income group, the fixed income Minister and the deputy Chairman of the group, the salaried section and the poor Planning Commission are to be congratu- section ofthe society that use the subrulba('l latedfoTthe understanding they have shown tralns .. their only available mode to trana- in thi6 matter. at course., the Rai\way Minis- pon. They travel to destinations for their ter deserves our praise for the persuasion .worttspots and trade centres. Their season he has made. Of course, the Railways Min- tickets are not for any luxury orfor any other ister has incrurred, at the same time, the purpose; but only for their eaming of liveli- displeasure of the former Railway Minister, hood. I plead with the han. Railway Minister Shri Goeorgefrnades in this way. I can very for a review of the hike in the suburban train well unundertsand the prejudice he has fares. At least the season ticket holders can towards Tamilnadu and other Southern be treated separately. States which suffer because of the metre Gauge lines. I! is not only that the traffic As forthe passenger fares, even though suffers, but it is more fel! on the economic the Increase in rates are ·high, It must be side, because the industries do not come confessed or made in such a way as to make up: I can understand the prejudice which the 647 Rly. Buoger, 1992-93 PHALGUNA 22,1913 (SAKA) iO,Grants Rip}, 648 Gen-Discuss; Res reo recommendations 1992-93; and SuDpI. of Rly. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (Rip.), 1991-92 [Sh. K. Ramutlhee lindivanm] claim of madras, though justified Is yet to tobe taken up seriously. I plead forthe same former RallwdY Minister Shrl George now. Fernades, had lorthe State because it was under him, thE: karur-Dindugal scheme did Nowthatthe conversion ~ metre Gauge not progress and it was under him the into broad Gauge is taking place, I request Madras metropolitan Railway scheme did the Railway Minister to think of doubling the not progress. Naturally, his aversion to line between chengleput and Villupuram Tamllnadu Is well seen by they In which he which means doubling a distance of about has commenled about the conversion of 160 KMs, which will cater to the needs of the metre Gauge into Broad Gauge. travelling public.

The conversion of Metre Gauge into As far as the privatisation In railway Is broad Gague is a strong and firm step concerned, the pogramme has been well- towards national integration. For the first thought of and is gently brought out under time, most parts of the Southem States are the 'Own your wagon-own your container brought into the mainstream as far as the . scheme'. It is an assurance to the industrial railways are concerned. Only hereafter, you prosperity and progress. So also, is the case can find the thrust in trade and industry in the of privatisation in catering side. This Is a States which were so far suffering for goods much needed one, I am sure that the hon. traffic because of the Metregauge. In this Minister will ensure us of price control In this regard, I am to appeal to the Railway Minis- regard. I must say that in almost all the terthat the Broad Gauge work under execu- Railway Stations, In the metre Gauge, ex- tion underthe Dindugal-Madurai line of Karur- cept of course the juctions, original bever- Dindugal-Tuticorin Project which Is nearing ages are not available and what ever is sold completion suffers for want of some more is only the poor imitations in the original funds, which is about Rs. 10 crores. Even bottles. I request that it may be looked into. less than Rs. 10 crores will hasten the work and the conmpletion of the work will be over Sir, the speech of a Member on Railway it may take As. 5 to Rs. 6 crores. 1appeal to Budget .cannot be complete without the the Railway Minister for his large- mention of the demands 01 his constitu- heartedness to allow As.S to Rs. 6 crores to ency. So, I may be permitted to dothe same. complete the project with big sucess. Villupuram Railway junction in my Tindvlanam Parliament constituency which As far as the Madras Rapid Transport handles the maximum number of passan- System which is under progress is con- cerned, I am sure the Ministerwill agree that gertrafficand trains, does not have even the It is making a very slow progress. It has been basic facilities. What for drinking senitary announced that the electrification in this and clearing purposes is not available. Just Section Is over and that the trains are run- because a pumping station would cost a few ning between Madras beach to park Twon Iakhs of rupees, the authorities are depriv- and Chepauk will not serve the prurpose. It ing the traveling public and make them must atleast be extended upto Santhome or suffer. Mylapore.

So also is the case with Rajdhani ex- The railway platforms No. 1 and 2 are . press. , am happy that Bangalore is getting short in length and do not coverthe length of It. But, I would like to remind the hon. the train as a result sufferance to the people . Minister of the assurance that Madras also during rains and summer. Such a big railway would get the next prelerence as it rightly junction does not have the cycle stand facil- deserves. Delhi-Bombay, Deihl Calcutta are ity. The condition of the Railway Hospital having the Rajdhani Expresses, but the has also to be improved. 649 FJIY. ~ 1992-93- MARCH 12,1992 torGrants RIys). &SO Giln-DIsi:uss; Res re. recommendations 1992-93; and SIippL 01 R/y. Con. Comm.; Oem. Oem. for grants (RIys.), 199#-92 finally, I appeal to the Hon. Mlnisterto other purpose. this may please be looked help In redressing the grievances of the Into. Station masters In the TifuchIrapalUOivision in particular and in other Divisions in gen- These arB smaJJ demands and wIJJ go a eral. Their demands 818: one. tlush-oUI long way in satisfying the people concemed. lavatory facilities In the wayside railway stations; two provision or a second tan In I congratulate once again the Hon. type-II quarters 01 the railway employees as Minister for his trust in the area of conver- directed by the Railay Board. This has been sion into uni-gauge, eledifiaction, technical agreed to but it Is not being i,.,.,temnted. upgradation, human resource development. Three, drinking water facility In the railway inter-modal transport and development 01 stations; and four, rest rooms for Station terminal facilities. masters at railway stations. AI some railway stations, the rest rooms have been pro- MR. CHAIRMAN : Now lhe House vided. stands adjourned to meet again tomonow- Friday, the 13th March· aI". a.m. MR. CHAIRMAN: You submit rest of the papers to the Minister. 18. 23hrs

SHRI K. RAMAMURTHEE 'The Lole Sabha then adjoumed ,. TINDIVANAM: I will Just conclude. Sir. those eleven of the Clock on Friday Man:h 13. were later withdrawn In some stations for 19921Phalguna 23. 1913 (Saka).

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