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Supply of Defective Bread in Delhi. ... 153—55 Papers laid on the Table ... 155 Demands for Grants, 1971-72— Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ... 156-76 Shrimati Nandini Satpathy ... 157—72 Ministry of Defence ... 176-276 Shri Samar Mukherjee ... 178—84 Shri Nimbalkar ... 184-88 Shri Indrajit Gupta ... 193—205 Shri B. V. Naik ... 205-08 Shri G. Viswanathan ... 208— 16 Shri Inder J. Malhotra ... 216-19 Shri Brij Raj Singh-Kotah ... ... 219-26 Shri Raja Ram Shastri ... 226-32 Shri D. D. Desai ... ... 232-36 Shri Priya Raojan Das Munsi 236-40 Shri S. A. Shamim in in 240-43 ♦The sign + marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. ( « ) C olumns Shri Chandulal Chandrakar ... ... 244—48 Shri Birendar Singh Rao ... ... ... 248—53 Prof. Narain Chand Parashar ... ... 253—59 Prof S. L. Saksena ... ... ... 259-62 Shri M. Ram Gopal Reddy ... ... 262—66 Shri Shankarrao Savant ... ... ... 266—69 Shri S. M. Banerjee ... ... ... 269—72 Shri Pratap Singh Negi ... ... ... 272 - 74 Shri N. Sreekantan Nair ... ... ... 274—76 LOK SABHA DEBATES 1 2 LOK SABHA We have depots at several places. Therefore, we have to collect the Thursday, July 8, 197J/ information from several depots and sub* 77, 7595 (Sato) depots. However, I have some information and if the hon. membei is interested, I would like to share it with the House. T/r* Lo& Sabha met a Eleven of the Clock. For West Bengal, the total requirement of rice, as reported by the West Bengal [ Mr. Speaker in the Chair] Government, for the current crop year commencing 1st Nov. 1970 is as follows : ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 5,25,000 metric tonnes for normal requirement, 3,00,000 metric tonnes for refugees—total Food Supplies for Bangla Desh Refugees requirement 8,25,000 metric tonnes. Against by Centre this, an allocation of 8,07,000 metric tonnes has so far been made. But as I said, this + is not up-to-date information. *991. SHRr S. C. SAMANTA : SHRI TRIDIB CUAUDHUR1 : According to the information received fiom the Government of West Bengal, upto Will the Minister of LABOUR AND the 26 June 1971, a quantity of 47,233 metric REHABILITATION he pleased to state : tonnes was issued from the FCI depots for some of the refugees. Wheat is issued, as (a) what quantities of rice and wheat usual, to millers and fair price shops. These are not up to date. have been supplied from the Central Store for relief work among the cvacuecs from Bangla Desh ; and Regarding Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura, the total requirement of rice from the central (b) whether the demand made by the pool for 1971, as estimated by the Govern* Government of West Bengal in this behalf ment of Assam, was a little more than 75,000 has been entirely met ? metric tonnes. So far an allotment of 27,000 metric tonnes of rice has been made to the THE DEPUTY MINISTER IN THE Government of Assam, in addition to 1,000 tonnes of basumati rice. About Meghalaya MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND REHABILI TATION (SHRI BALGOVIND VERMA) : also I have some information ...... (a) and (b). Necessary information is being collected and will be laid on the Table of the MR. SPEAKER : It may be laid on Sabha. the Table. SHRI S C. SAMANTA : If this is the SHRI R. K. KHADILKAR : As I said, state of affairs, 1 wonder how the Government we will collect it from the various depots and is running. jFood is to be supplied to the then lay it on the Table. refugees. Some quantity has been sent. May we at least know the approximate quantity SHRI BHAGWAT JHA AZAD : To that has been supplied ? the original question asking for information, the reply is that it is not readily available. THE MINISTER OF LABOUR AND But in -reply to a supplementary, so much REHABILITATION (SHRI R. K. KHADIL- information has been given. How do we KAR)May I inform the hon. member reconcile the original reply with this ? You that this information is available with the may kindly order Government to give us the Food Corporation, that is the Food Ministry ? full information. 3 Oral Answers JULY 8, 1971 Oral Answers 4 MR. SPEAKER : 1 was also about to Statement say that. The procurement price of all varieties of SHRI R. K. KHADILKAR : As I said, wheat excepting the indigenous red variety is the entire information is available with the Rs. 76 per quintal throughout the country. Food Ministry We will collect it. But I The issue price fixed by Government for all am not in a position to give the correct infor imported and indigenous varieties of wheat mation up to date just now. I will lay it on including amber coloured varieties of indi genous wheat is Rs. 78 per quintal. The the Table. retail price of wheat sold through fair price shops in Delhi is Rs. 81 per quintal. There MR. SPEAKER : If that is the position, is no statutory control on open market prices this sort of piecemeal supply of information of wheat. The open market prices are held should have been avoided. in check by adequate distribution of wheat through the fair price shops. Open market SHRI S. C. SAMANTA : I would like prices of wheat during the current marketing to know whether the Central Government had season (April—June 1971) ranged between consultations with the various State Govern Rs. 80.00 and Rs. 90.00 per quintal for dara ments about the surplus of food that may be variety, and Rs. 90.00 and Rs. 100 per available with them for West Bengal, and quintal for farm variety. The prices for whether Government is going to import food these two varieties of wheat in the corres also for the refugees ? ponding period of the previous season ranged between Rs. 85.00 and Rs. 107.00, and SHRI R. K. KHADILKAR : The Rs. 100.(0 and Rs. 120 00 per quintal res question of import at the present juncture does pectively. not arise because we are drawing from our food stocks. The State Governments are in day to day contact with us about the require ments of refugees and others. Orders are t f r : there and financial arrangements have been made with the Food Corporation, and what “There is no statutory control of open ever is required is issued by the Food Corporation market prices of wheat.” Price of Wheat in Delhi * stott ^ arm r *r$<rr j f e w i *992. SHRI N. S. BISHT r Will the arrsrrr *pt% % fsnj ^ Minister of AGRICULTURE be pleased to *d£gTt *PT% 3TT $T, state : 3ftr srf? eft ; (a) whether Government are aware tftat the wheat procurement price which has been fa*[ : ^ apft ^ fixed by Government at Rs. 70/- per quintal anrovaT *T$i $ • ?Sta Tsrir % is being sold in Delhi in the retail market at fsK* ^ rrt qrrcr *¥T5r Rs. 98 to Rs. 100/- per quintal ; and fPT 11 (b) if so, the steps proposed to be taken by Government in this respect to ensure that fa ? f v a : f a middlemen do not cause an increase in the smpr v t % f^T sft«? far prices ? w 1 1 5 arw rr «rr$?rr jff% fkz&t THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE *rfourty| aftrgrnft toft? MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (SHRI SHER SINGH) : (a) The facts stated are aftr ^ facpft f ? not correct. A statement giving the correct position is laid on the Table of the Sabha. i I t 1663 f o r s r m (b) Does not arise. m w f, aftrss srrarsr# srr*s 5 O rd Answers ASADHA 17, 1893 4) Oral Answers 6 v*r d m sprra % ^ $ i sr$t inspectors. They have a watch over these f«re& t w>r 15,000 z* snrw price fluctuations and we receive reports. % *|T 3W <?P if 3,000 E?T %?t SHRI BHAGWAT JHA AZAD : This f I statement does not give a straight-forward reply to part (a) of the question. To our knowledge, the prices, especially of foodgrains, *ft TOWNI* TO*** : tfsft *$te?T % not only the wholesale prices but the retail *FfT fa afh?r mtfl $ *tg 90 % 100 *o % prices are also going up. Even from this morning’s papers, and also from our own «rrsr Sr faff w t I If 3TT5TiTr * n w ff personal experience, we have seen that they $*rr sn^T stto 3r fr?r?ft tftacr | ? are going up. We would like to know why and which prices are going up. Are there «ft 90 % 100 ^o ^rsp two prices, some for somebody and others for others, because the prices are not decreasing, <EW ^ ^TT?St WIT ST*T aRTWUrr ^ and to our knowledge they have been in STOR % 90 & 100 So cffi fircr T^T |, creasing.