Departmentally Related Standing Committees

LOK SABHA

DEPARTMENTALLY RELATED STANDING COMMITTEES

SUMMARY OF WORK SIXTEENTH LOK SABHA 1st September, 2014 to 31st August, 2015

(Laid on the Table on 26.07.2016)

LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT, NEW DELHI

May, 2016/Vaisakha, 1938 (Saka) LOK SABHA

DEPARTMENTALLY RELATED STANDING COMMITTEES

SUMMARY OF WORK

(SIXTEENTH LOK SABHA)

1st September, 2014 to 31st August, 2015

LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI

May, 2016/Vaisakha, 1938 (Saka)

Cte. Coord. Br. No. 51

Published under Rule 382 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha (Fifteenth Edition).

PREFACE

This brochure attempts to present in a concise form information about the activities of the 16 Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSCs) during the year 2014-15 serviced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. The main functions of DRSCs are to consider the Demands for Grants of the concerned Ministries/Departments, to examine such Bills pertaining to the concerned Ministries/Departments as are referred to the Committee, to consider any aspect of the annual reports of Ministries/Departments and to consider National Basic Long Term Policy Documents presented to the Houses and referred to the Committee. The Committees make report to the Houses on each of the matter referred to them.

2. For the sake of convenience, the information has been arranged in two parts. Part I gives a resume of the work done by each DRSC and Part II contains Appendices regarding composition of the Committees, sub-Committees, details of sittings of Committees/sub-Committees, attendance of Members and Study Tours etc. With a view to have information regarding action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committees in their reports at one place, a statement showing analysis of the action taken by the Government on the recommendations of each Committee, has also been compiled and is given in Part II. 3. For ease of reference, the statistical data regarding the work done by the DRSCs is also given in the brochure.

New Delhi; ANOOP MISHRA 12 May, 2016 Secretary-General 22 Vaisakha, 1938 (Saka)

CONTENTS PAGE

PART-I

RESUME OF WORK DONE

CHAPTERS ONE Committee on Agriculture 1 TWO Committee on Information Technology 8 THREE Committee on Defence 16 FOUR Committee on Energy 23 FIVE Committee on External Affairs 28 SIX Committee on Finance 34 SEVEN Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution 42 EIGHT Committee on Labour 48 NINE Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas 54 TEN Committee on Railways 59 ELEVEN Committee on Urban Development 64 TWELVE Committee on Water Resources 69 THIRTEEN Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers 76 FOURTEEN Committee on Rural Development 81 FIFTEEN Committee on Coal and Steel 87 SIXTEEN Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment 93 SEVENTEEN Role of the Secretariat 107

PART II APPENDICES

(A) Composition of Committee

ONE Committee on Agriculture 109 TWO Committee on Information Technology 110 THREE Committee on Defence 111 FOUR Committee on Energy 112 FIVE Committee on External Affairs 113 SIX Committee on Finance 114 SEVEN Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution 115 EIGHT Committee on Labour 116 NINE Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas 117 TEN Committee on Railways 118 ELEVEN Committee on Urban Development 119 TWELVE Committee on Water Resources 120 THIRTEEN Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers 121 FOURTEEN Committee on Rural Development 122 FIFTEEN Committee on Coal and Steel 123 SIXTEEN Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment 124

(B) Statement showing the details and duration of sittings of Committees

SEVENTEEN Committee on Agriculture 126 EIGHTEEN Committee on Information Technology 130 NINETEEN Committee on Defence 133 TWENTY Committee on Energy 136 TWENTY-ONE Committee on External Affairs 139 TWENTY-TWO Committee on Finance 141 TWENTY-THREE Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution 144 TWENTY-FOUR Committee on Labour 147 TWENTY-FIVE Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas 151 TWENTY-SIX Committee on Railways 153 TWENTY-SEVEN Committee on Urban Development 155 TWENTY-EIGHT Committee on Water Resources 157 TWENTY-NINE Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers 161 THIRTY Committee on Rural Development 163 THIRTY-ONE Committee on Coal and Steel 165 THIRTY-TWO Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment 167

THIRTY-THREE Committee on Agriculture 173 THIRTY-FOUR Committee on Information Technology 174 THIRTY-FIVE Committee on Defence 175 THIRTY-SIX Committee on Energy 176 THRITY-SEVEN Committee on External Affairs 178 THIRTY-EIGHT Committee on Finance 179 THIRTY-NINE Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution 180 FORTY Committee on Labour 181 FORTY-ONE Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas 182 FORTY-TWO Committee on Railways 183 FORTY-THREE Committee on Urban Development 184 FORTY-FOUR Committee on Water Resources 185 FORTY-FIVE Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers 186 FORTY-SIX Committee on Rural Development 187 FORTY-SEVEN Committee on Coal and Steel 188 FORTY-EIGHT Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment 189

(D) Statement showing the details of Study Tours undertaken by Committees

FORTY-NINE Committee on Agriculture 191 FIFTY Committee on Information Technology 193 FIFTY-ONE Committee on Defence 197 FIFTY-TWO Committee on Energy 199 FIFTY-THREE Committee on External Affairs 201 FIFTY-FOUR Committee on Finance 203 FIFTY-FIVE Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution 205 FIFTY-SIX Committee on Labour 206 FIFTY-SEVEN Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas 208 FIFTY-EIGHT Committee on Railways 210

FIFTY-NINE Committee on Urban Development 212 SIXTY Committee on Water Resources 215 SIXTY-ONE Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers 217 SIXTY –TWO Committee on Rural Development 223 SIXTY -THREE Committee on Coal and Steel 229 SIXTY-FOUR Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment 231

(E) Statement showing analysis of action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by Committees………………………… 234

(F) Statement showing the statistical data regarding the work done by the Committees……………………………………………………………. 239

PART I

RESUME OF WORK DONE

C H A P T E R - O N E

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

I. Composition of Committee

1.1 The Committee on Agriculture (2014-2015) was constituted on 01 September, 2014 and continued in Office till 31st August, 2015.

1.2 The Committee consisted of 31 members – 21 members of Lok Sabha and 10 members of Rajya Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chairperson, Rajya

Sabha, respectively. Shri Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The Composition of the Committee is given at Appendix-One.

II. Subjects selected for examination

1.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year:

Sl. No. Ministry/Department Subjects 1 Ministry of Agriculture - (i) Availability of Agricultural Inputs – A Review. Department of (ii) Evolving a Farmer Friendly Crop Insurance Regime. Agriculture and Co- (iii) National Food Security Mission – An Evaluation. operation (iv) Scheme for Rural Godowns. (v) National Horticulture Mission. (vi) Availability of Agricultural Land - A Review. (vii) Relief Measures Relating to Damage to Rabi Crop due to Unseasonal Rain and Hailstorm - An Evaluation. 2 Ministry of Agriculture - (i) Minimising Post-Harvest Crop Losses. Department of (ii) Impact of Chemical Fertilisers and Pesiticides on Agricultural Research Agriculture and Allied Sectors in the Country. and Education 3 Ministry of Agriculture - (i) Development of Fisheries – A Review. Department of Animal (ii) National Dairy Development Board – An Husbandry, Dairying Evaluation. and Fisheries 4 Ministry of Food (i) Research and Development in Food Processing Processing Industries Sector. (ii) Mega Food Parks.

III Bills referred to the Committee

1.4 No Bill was referred to the Committee during its term.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee on Agriculture 1.5 During the period under review, no Sub-Committee was constituted.

V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee:

1.6 During the period under review, the Committee held 33 sittings lasting 62 hours and

30 minutes. A statement showing the dates of Sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the Sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed is given at Appendix Seventeen.

1.7 Another statement showing the number of Sittings attended by each member of the

Committee is given in Appendix Thirty-three. Whenever oral evidences were taken, verbatim record of proceedings of the Sittings was kept.

1.8 The subject-wise details of the material furnished by the Ministries/Departments/

Associations/ concerned Experts and other stakeholders are as follows:-

Sl Ministries/ Subject No. of No. Departments Typed/print ed pages 1 Ministry of (i) Availability of Agricultural Inputs – A Review. 30 Agriculture (ii) Evolving a Farmer Friendly Crop Insurance 50 Regime. (iii) National Food Security Mission – An Department of 40 Evaluation. Agriculture and (iv) Scheme for Rural Godowns. 30 Co-operation (v) National Horticulture Mission. 40 (vi) Availability of Agricultural Land - A Review. 35 (vii) Relief Measures Relating to Damage to Rabi 30 Crop due to Unseasonal Rain and Hailstorm - An Evaluation.

2 Department of (i) Minimising Post-Harvest Crop Losses. 50 Agricultural Research and (ii) Impact of Chemical Fertilisers and Education Pesiticides on Agriculture and Allied 200 Sectors in the Country.

3 Department of (i) Development of Fisheries – A Review. 25 Animal (ii) National Dairy Development Board – An 25 Husbandry Evaluation.

Dairying and Fisheries 4 Ministry of Food (i) Research and Development in Food 40 Processing Processing Sector. Industries (ii) Mega Food Parks. 50

1.9 No memoranda was received from non-officials on any subject.

1.10 The Committee on Agriculture undertook two study visits during the period under review. A Statement showing the composition, duration and places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Forty-nine.

VI. Reports presented

(a) Original Report(s)

1.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original

Reports to the House:-

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. No. Presentation 1. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the 18.12.2014 Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) 2. 3rd Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the 18.12.2014 Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 3. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the 19.12.2014 Ministry of Food Processing Industries 4. 5th Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the 22.12.2014 Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) 5. 8th Demands for Grants (2015-16) pertaining to Ministry 24.04.2015 of Food Processing Industries. 6. 9th Demands for Grants (2015-16) pertaining to the 24.04.2015 Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 7. 10th Demands for Grants (2015-16) pertaining to the 27.04.2015 Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) 8. 11th Demands for Grants (2015-16) pertaining to the 27.04.2015 Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries)

9. 16th Report on the Subject "Mega Food Parks" pertaining 11.08.2015 to the Ministry of Food Processing Industries

(b) Action Taken Reports

1.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period

under review:-

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. No. Presentation 1 1st Action Taken by the Government on the 18.12.2014 observations/recommendations contained in the Fifty Seventh report of the Committee on Agriculture (2013-14) on National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) pertaining to Ministry of Food Processing Industries. 2 6th Action Taken by the Government on the 17.03.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Fifty Eighth report of the Committee on Agriculture (2013-14) on National Agriculture Research System-An Evaluation.

3 7th Action Taken by the Government on the 17.03.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Sixty-First Report of the Committee on Agriculture (2013-14) on 'Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana - An Evaluation'. 4 12th Action Taken by the Government on the 29.04.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Sixtieth Report on Committee on Agriculture (2013-14) on the subject ''Pricing of Agricultural Produce'' pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 5 13th Action Taken by the Government on the 11.08.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Third Report of the Committee on Agriculture (2014-15) on "Demands for Grants (2014-15)" pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation). 6 14th Action Taken by the Government on the 11.08.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Fifth Report of the Committee on Agriculture (2014-15) on "Demands for Grants (2014-15)" pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries). 7 15th Action Taken by the Government on the 11.08.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Second Report of the Committee on Agriculture (2014-15) on "Demands for Grants (2014-15)" pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education).

1.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Agriculture made Statements under 'Direction 73A of Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee: Sl. No. Report No. Subject Date of making the Statement 1. 37th Cultivation of Genetically Modified 02.12.2014 Food Crops - Prospects and Effects pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 2. 61st Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana - An 16.12.2014 Evaluation pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 3. 10th Demands for Grants (2015-16) 04.08.2015 pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) 4. 5th Demands for Grants (2014-15) 04.08.2015 pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) 5. 3rd Demands for Grants (2014-15) 12.08.2015 pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 6. 8th Demands for Grants (2015-16) 11.08.2015 pertaining to the Ministry of Food processing Industries 7. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) 05.05.2015 pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) 8. 57th National Institute of Food Technology, 09.12.2014 Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) pertaining to the Ministry of Food processing Industries

(d) Action Taken Statements

1.14 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House:- Sl. No. Report No. Subject Date of laying

1 59th Action Taken by the Government on the 23.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Thirty-seventh Report on Cultivation of Genetically Modified Crops- Prospects and Effects of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation).

2 53rd Action Taken by the Government on the 25.02.2015 recommendations contained in the Thirty Sixth Report on "Optimization of Employment Generation Potential of Animal Husbandry Sector" of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries).

th 3 54 Action Taken by the Government on the 25.02.2015 recommendations contained in the Forty Eighth Report on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries).

4 50th Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in the 06.05.2015 Twenty-Sixth Report on Development of Aboitic Stress Resistant Crop Varieties and Dissemination of Production Enhancing Technologies- Review of R&D and Extension Efforts in the Country of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education)

5 51st Action Taken by the Government on the 06.05.2015 Recommendations contained in the Forty- Seventh Report on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education)

6 55th Action Taken by the Government on the 06.05.2015 Recommendations contained in the Forty- Ninth Report on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by Government on Recommendations

1.15 An analysis of action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-2015, is given in the following Table:-

Report Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of No. Recommenda Recommenda- Recommenda- Recommenda- Recommenda- -tions tions which have tions which the tions in r/o. tions in r/o. been accepted Committee did which replies of which final by the Govt. not pursue in Govt. have not replies of Govt. view of the been accepted were awaited Govt. Replies by Committee 1st 11 06 01 04 00 6th 38 27 00 09 02 7th 10 07 00 02 01 12th 15 08 00 04 03 13th 29 17 00 08 04 14th 32 20 00 08 04 15th 30 24 00 04 02 Total 165 109 1 39 16 Percen 100% 66.06% 00.61% 23.64% 09.7% tage

(f) Laying of Minutes

1.16 Minutes of Sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports were prepared and presented to the Parliament along with the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat 1.17 The Agriculture Committee Branch headed by a Joint Secretary constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. A Joint Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director and a Deputy Secretary remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R - T W O

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

I. Composition of Committee

2.1. The Committee on Information Technology (2014-15) was constituted on 1st September, 2014 and continued in office till 31st August, 2015.

2.2. The Committee consisted of 31 members - 21 members of Lok Sabha and 10 members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha respectively. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Two.

II. Subjects Selected for Examination 2.3. The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year: Sl. Ministry/Department Subjects No. I. Ministry of Information 1. Review of functioning of Prasar Bharati and Broadcasting Organisation. 2. Progress of Cable TV Digitization and its impact. 3. Programmes and policies for expansion of FM Radio Services. 4. Norms and Guidelines for Media Coverage.

II. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

(a) Department of 5. Progress of implementation of National e- Electronics and Governance Plan. Information Technology 6. Promotion of Electronics/IT Hardware Manufacturing Sector. 7. Cloud Computing. 8. Internet Governance. (b) Department of Posts 9. Business Development and Marketing Strategy in the Department of Posts. 10. IT Induction and Modernization in the Department of Posts. (c) Department of 11. Problems and challenges in expansion of rural Telecommunications and remote telephony. 12. Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited. 13. Issues concerning organizations under the administrative control of Department of

Telecommunications.

14. Net Neutrality.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

2.4 During the term of the Committee (2014-15), no Bill was referred to the Committee by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha/Chairman, Rajya Sabha for examination and Report thereon.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee 2.5. The following Sub-Committees of the Committee were constituted to facilitate the examination of the various subjects : Sub-Committee-I on Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for examination of subjects: (i) Review of functioning of Prasar Bharati Organization; (ii) Progress of Cable TV Digitization and its impact; and (iii) Programmes and Polices for expansion of FM Radio Services:

Sub-Committee-II on Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications) for examination of subjects: (i) Problems and challenges in expansion of rural and remote telephony; ((ii) Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited; and (iii) Issues concerning organizations under the administrative control of the Department of Telecommunications:

Sub-Committee-III on Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Electronics and Information Technology) for examination of subjects: (i) Progress of implementation of National e-Governance Plan; and (ii) Promotion of Electronics/IT Hardware Manufacturing Sector:

Sub-Committee-IV on Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Posts) for examination of subjects: (i) Business Development and Marketing Strategy in the Department of Posts; and (ii) IT Induction and Modernisation in the Department of Posts:

V. Resume of Work Done (a) Sittings of the Committee 2.6 During its term, the Committee held 24 sittings lasting for 45 hrs. Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Eighteen .

2.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Thirty Four. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b) Sittings of Sub-Committees 2.8 During the period under review no sitting of Sub-Committees was held.

(c ) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

2.9. The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry/Deptts. to the Committee are as follows :-

Sl. No. Subject No. of typed/printed pages (approax) 1. Review of functioning of Prasar Bharati Organisation. 45 2. Progress of Cable TV Digitization and its impact. 60 3. Programmes and policies for expansion of FM Radio Services. 20 4. Norms and Guidelines for Media Coverage. 20 5. Progress of implementation of National e-Governance Plan. 20 6. Promotion of Electronics/IT Hardware Manufacturing Sector. 35 7. Cloud Computing. 09 8. Internet Governance. 05 9. Business Development and Marketing Strategy in the Department 80 of Posts. 10. IT Induction and Modernization in the Department of Posts. 100 11. Problems and challenges in expansion of rural and remote 09 telephony. 12. Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited. 100 13. Issues concerning organizations under the administrative control of 53 Department of Telecommunications. 14. Net Neutrality. 220

2.10. The number of Memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below :- Sl. No. Subject No. of typed/printed pages(approx.) 1. Review of functioning of Prasar Bharati Organisation. Nil 2. Progress of Cable TV Digitization and its impact. -do- 3. Programmes and policies for expansion of FM Radio -do- Services. 4. Norms and Guidelines for Media Coverage. -do-

5. Progress of implementation of National e-Governance Nil Plan. 6. Promotion of Electronics/IT Hardware Manufacturing -do- Sector. 7. Cloud Computing. -do- 8. Internet Governance. -do- 9. Business Development and Marketing Strategy in the -do- Department of Posts. 10. IT Induction and Modernization in the Department of Posts. -do- 11. Problems and challenges in expansion of rural and remote -do- telephony. 12. Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited. -do- 13. Issues concerning organizations under the administrative -do- control of Department of Telecommunications. 14. Net Neutrality. 400

(d) Study Visits Undertaken 2.11. The Committee on Information Technology undertook two study visits during the period under review. A Statement showing the composition, duration and places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Fifty.

VI. Reports presented (a) Original Reports 2.12 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original Reports to the House : Sl. No. Report No. Subject Date of Presentation 1. 1st Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 22.12.2014 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Posts). 2. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 22.12.2014 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology(Department of Electronics and Information Technology). 3. 3rd Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 22.12.2014 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology(Department of Telecommunications). 4. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 22.12.2014 Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 5. 5th Demands for Grants (2015-16) relating to the 24.04.2015 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Posts). 6. 6th Demands for Grants (2015-16) relating to the 24.04.2015

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Electronics and Information Technology). 7. 7th Demands for Grants (2015-16) relating to the 24.04.2015 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications). 8. 8th Demands for Grants (2015-16) relating to the 24.04.2015 Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

9. 9th Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) 07.08.2015 Limited. 10. 10th IT Induction and Modernization in the 07.08.2015 Department of Posts. 11. 11th Business Development and Marketing Strategy 13.08.2015 in the Department of Posts.

(b) Action Taken Reports

2.13. The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review : Sl. Report No. Subject Date of No. Presentation 1. 12th Action Taken Report on action taken by the 13.08.2015 Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Forty-seventh Report (Fifteen Lok Sabha) on „Issues related to Paid News‟ relating to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

2. 13th Action Taken Report on action taken by the 13.08.2015 Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Fifty-third Report (Fifteen Lok Sabha) on „Norms for setting up of telecom towers, its harmful effects and setting up of security standards in expansion of telecom facilities‟ relating to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications).

3. 14th Action Taken Report on action taken by the 13.08.2015 Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their First Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on „Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Posts). 4. 15th Action Taken Report on action taken by the 13.08.2015 Government on the

Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Third Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on „Demands for Grants (2014-15)‟ of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology(Department of Telecommunications). 5. 16th Action Taken Report on action taken by the 13.08.2015 Government on the Observation/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Fourth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on „Demands for Grants (2014-15)‟ of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

2.14 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Information Technology made Statements under 'Direction 73A of Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee: Sl. Report No. Subject Date of making No. the Statement 1. 53rd (15th Norms for setting up of telecom towers, its 11.03.2015(LS) LS) harmful effects and setting up of security standards in expansion of telecom facilities relating to the Ministry of Communications and 13.03.2015(RS) Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications).

2. 1st (16th LS) Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 05.08.2015(LS) Ministry of Communication and Information 31.07.2015 (RS) Technology (Department of Posts).

3. 3rd Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 05.08.2015(LS) (16th LS) Ministry of Communication and Information 31.07.2015 (RS) Technology(Department of Telecommunications).

4. 4th (16th Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the 29.04.2015(LS) LS) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 30.04.2015(RS)

(d) Action Taken Statement 2.14 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House :-

Sl. Report No. Subject Date of No. laying 1. 49th Action taken by the Government on the recommendations 29.04.2015 (15th Lok contained in Chapter I and final replies included in Chapter V Sabha) of the Forty-ninth Action Taken Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the recommendations of the Committee contained in Forty- sixth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013- 14) in respect of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

2. 50th Action taken by the Government on the recommendations 29.04.2015 (15th Lok contained in Chapter I and final replies included in Chapter V Sabha) of the Fiftieth Action Taken Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the recommendations of the Committee contained in Forty-fifth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) in respect of the Department of Posts.

3. 48th Action taken by the Government on the recommendations 29.04.2015 (15th Lok contained in Chapter I and final replies included in Chapter V Sabha) of the Forty-eighth Action Taken Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the recommendations of the Committee contained in Forty- fourth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) in respect of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

4. 51st Action taken by the Government on the recommendations 29.04.2015 (15th Lok contained in Chapter I and final replies included in Chapter V Sabha) of the Fifty-first Action Taken Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the recommendations of the Committee contained in Forty-third Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) in respect of the Department of Telecommunications.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 2.16. The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15.

Report No. Total No. No. of No. of No. of No. of of recommen- recommen- recommen- recommen- recomm- dations dations which dations in dations in endations accepted by the Com. did respect of respect of Govt. not desire to which replies which final pursue in of Govt. have replies of view of Govt. not been Govt. were replies accepted by awaited Committee 47th 18 11 01 01 05 (15th Lok Sabha)

53rd 21 16 Nil 02 03 (15th Lok Sabha)

1st 22 15 Nil 03 04 (16th Lok Sabha)

3rd 22 22 Nil Nil Nil (16th Lok Sabha) 4th 17 10 01 01 05 (16th Lok Sabha)

Total 100 74 02 07 17

Percentage 100 74 02 07 17

(f) Laying of Minutes

2.17. Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the

House were prepared and presented to the House alongwith the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat

2.18 The Standing Committee on Information Technology Branch constitutes the

Secretariat of the Committee. An Additional Secretary, a Director, Additional Director, Deputy

Secretary and one Under Secretary remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – T H R E E

COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE

I. Composition of Committee

3.1 The Committee on Defence (2014-15) was constituted on the 1st September, 2014 and continued in office till the 31th August, 2015.

3.2 The Committee consisted of 31 members - 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha and Chairman, Rajya Sabha respectively. Maj Gen Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, AVSM (Retd.), M.P., Lok Sabha was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given at Appendix- Three.

II. Subjects selected for examination by the Committee 3.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year 2014- 15: - Ministry S.No Subject Ministry of Defence 1 State of present operational preparedness of the Defence Forces in all types of war e.g. Conventional, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Psychological, Cyber, Space, etc. 2 Provision of all weather dependable road connectivity upto international borders and strategic areas- An appraisal). 3 Major Research & Development initiatives leading to innovation and import substitution :- (a) By Defence Research and Development Organization; (b) By Defence Public Sector Undertakings; (c) By Ordnance Factories; (d) By Services 4 Proxy and postal voting by Defence Services Personnel in General Election – An evaluation. 5 An assessment of procurement policy relating to Defence Equipment for the services during last seven financial years. 6 Accidents in strategic Defence Assets - A critical review. 7 Management of Defence Land including aspects relating to Cantonments. 8 Eco Task Force System - measures to strengthen including raising of additional Territorial Army Battalion.

9 Welfare measures for serving as well as retired defence personnel and their families. 10 Training of Defence Personnel - revamping of.

11 Lateral induction of Ex-servicemen in Central Para Military Forces and State Police Forces

III. Bills referred to the Committee 3.4 No Bill was referred to the Committee.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee on Defence 3.5 No Sub-Committee was constituted during the period 1st September, 2014 to 31st August, 2015. V. Resume of work done by the Committee (a). Sittings of the Committee 3.6 The Committee held 19 sittings lasting for 49 hrs. and 5 minutes during the period under review. Statement depicting the dates of the sittings of the Committee held during the period of the review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed is given at Appendix- Nineteen. 3.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of the Committee is at Appendix-Thirty Five. Verbatim record of proceedings of the sittings of the Committee related to oral evidence was kept and maintained in the Branch. (b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee 3.8 The details of the material furnished to the Committee by the Ministry of Defence is as follows: Sl. Subject No. of No. typed/printed pages(approx.) 1. Background material on the subject "Assessment of Procurement 35 Policy relating to Defence Equipment for Services during last seven years. 2. Action Taken Report on the recommendations/observations 46 contained in the Third Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2014-15 on Army (Demand No. 22) 3. Replies on Action Taken Report on the 77 recommendations/observations contained in the Ninth Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2014- 15 on Ordnance Factories and DRDO (Demands No. 25 and 26) 4. Action Taken Report on the recommendations / observations 165 contained in the First Report of the Standing Committee on

Defence (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Action taken by the Government on the recommendations / observations contained in the Twentieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Defence. 5. Replies to the list of points on examination of the subject 'Welfare 45 measures for Serving as well as Retired Defence Personnel and their families with specific reference to Medical Services provided to Army'(in Hindi) 6. Requisite information on the subject 'Welfare measure for serving 10 as well as Retired Defence Personnel and their families' by the Standing Committee on Defence 7. Replies to the list of points and background note on examination 335 of the subject 'Proxy and Postal voting by Defence Services Personnel in General Election - An evaluation' 8. Action Taken Report on the recommendations / observations 75 contained in the Fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (Sixteenth Lok Sabha on 'Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2014-15 on Ordnance Factories and DRDO (Demands No. 25 and 26) 9. Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on 17 'Major Research & Development initiatives leading to innovation and import substitution by Ordnance Factories' 10. Replies to the list of points on the subject ' Proxy and Postal 11 voting by Defence Services Personnel in General Election - An evaluation' 11. Background note on 'Provision of all-weather dependable road 87 connectivity upto international borders and strategic areas - An appraisal 12. Background note on 'Training of Defence Personnel - revamping 32 of' 13. Background note on 'Lateral induction of Ex-servicemen in 55 Central Para Military Forces and State Police Forces' 14. Background note on ' Major Research & Development initiatives 33 leading to innovation and import substitution by Defence Research and Development Organisation 15. Background note on 'Management of Defence Land including 155 aspects relating to Cantonments' 16. Material on Demands for Grants for the year 2014-15 of the 770 Ministry of Defence 17. Annual Report 2013-14 (English version) 18. Annual Report 2013-14 (Hindi version) 275 19. Background note on 'Eco Task Force System - measures to 46 strengthen including raising of additional Territorial Army Battalion' 20. Background note on the subject ' Proxy and Postal voting by 34 Defence Services Personnel in General Election - An evaluation' 21. Material on Demands for Grants for the year 2015-16 of the 692 Ministry of Defence 22. Annual Report 2013-14 (English version) 240 23. Annual Report 2013-14 (Hindi version) 257 24. Raksha Mantri's statement on the status of implementation of 113 recommendations contained in the 22nd Report of Standing

Committee on Defence (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Threat perception and preparedness of the Forces including incursion on borders, coordination mechanism with the Central Armed Police Forces and Border Connectivity through Road, Air and Rail'. 25. Raksha Mantri's statement on the status of implementation of 132 recommendations contained in the 20th Report of Standing Committee on Defence (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Demands for Grants (2013-14)' 26. Replies to the list of points on the subject 'Proxy and Postal voting 35 by Defence Services Personnel in General Election - An evaluation'

3.9 The Committee on Defence undertook two on-the-spot study visit during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given at Appendix-Fifty one.

VI. Reports finalized and presented

(a) Original Reports 3.10 During the period under review, the following original reports were presented to Lok Sabha and laid on the Table of Rajya Sabha:- Sl.No. Report Subject Date of Nos. Presentation

1. 2nd Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 22.12.2014 Defence on General Defence Budget(Demand No. 20,21 & 27) 2. 3rd Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 22.12.2014 Defence on Army(Demand No. 22) 3. 4th Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 22.12.2014 Defence on Navy and Air Force(Demand No. 23 & 24) 4. 5th Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 22.12.2014 Defence on Ordnance Factories and Defence Research and Development Organisation (Demand No. 25 & 26) 5. 6th Demands for Grants (2015-16) on Civil Expenditure of 27.04.2015 the Ministry of Defence and Capital Outlay on Defence Services Demand No. 21, 22 and 28) 6. 7th Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 27.04.2015 Defence on Army(Demand No. 22) 7. 8th Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 27.04.2015 Defence on Navy and Air Force(Demand No. 23 & 24) 8. 9th Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry on 27.04.2015 Defence on Ordnance Factories and Defence Research and Development Organisation (Demand No. 25 & 26)

(b) Action Taken Reports 3.11. The following Action Taken Report were presented to Lok Sabha and laid in Rajya Sabha during the period under review:- Sl. Report Subject Date of No. Nos. Presentation

1. 1 1st First Report on the Standing Committee on Action Taken 16.12.2014 . by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Twentieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on `Demands for Grants (2013-2014)‟ 2. 10th Action Taken by the Government on the 13.08.2015 recommendations observations contained in the Twenty Second Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Threat Perception and preparedness of the Forces including incursion on borders coordination mechanism with the Central Armed Police Forces and Border connectivity through Road Air and Rail 3. 11th Action taken by the Government on the 13.08.2015 recommendations/observations contained in the Third Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (16th Lok Sabha) on `Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2014 15 on Army (Demand No. 22)

3.12 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Defence made Statements under 'Direction 73A of Directions by the Speaker' in the context of one Report on Demands for Grants and one Report on subject of the Committee which is given as under:

Sl.No. Report No. Subject Date of making the Statement 1 20 Threat perception and preparedness of the 08.05.2015 (LS) Forces including incursion on borders, 12.05.2015 (RS) coordination mechanism with the Central Armed Police Forces and Border Connectivity through Road, Air and Rail.

2 22 Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the 08.05.2015 (LS) Ministry of Defence 12.05.2015 (RS)

(d) Action Taken Statements 3.13 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House:

Sl.No. Report No. Subject Date of making the Statement

1. 9th Statement showing further action taken by the 07.08.2015 Government on the recommendations/observations contained in Chapters – I and V of the Nineteenth Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on „Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Fifteenth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2012-13‟ 2. 21st Statement showing further action taken by the 07.08.2015 Government on the recommendations/observations contained in Chapters– I and V of the Twenty-first Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on „Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Sixteenth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject „Critical Review of functioning of Sainik Schools'. 3. 1st Statement showing further action taken by the 07.08.2015 Government on the recommendations/observations contained in Chapters – I and V of the First Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on „Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Twentieth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2013-14‟.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in the original Reports 3.14 The following table indicates the analysis of action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15:-

Report No. Total No. Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of of Recommendati Reco. which the Reco. in respect of Reco. in Recomme on accepted by Committee did which replies of respect of ndation the Govt. not pursue in Govt have not which final view of Govt. been accepted by replies of Govt. replies Committee were awaited 1st 84 72 0 10 02

10th 41 31 5 5 - 11th 31 10 4 17 - 156 113 9 32 02 Total

100% 72.44% 5.77% 20.51% 1.28% Percentage

(e) Laying of Minutes 3.15. Minutes of the sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports were appended and presented to the House alongwith the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat 3.16 The Defence Committee Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. One Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary, Director, Additional Director and Under Secretary remained in-charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – F O U R STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

I. Composition of the Committee

4.1. The Standing Committee on Energy for the year 2014-15 was constituted on

1st September, 2014.

4.2 The Committee consisted of 21 Members of Lok Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha and 10 members of Rajya Sabha by the Chairman, Rajya Sabha. Shri Kirit Somaiya, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Four. II. Subjects selected for Examination 4.3. The Committee selected the following subjects for detailed examination during 2014-15: Ministry/Department Sl. Subjects No Ministry of Power 1. Review of Electricity Act – 2003. 2. Restructuring of State DISCOMs and financial assistance/utilities to improve their functional efficiency – A Review. 3. Measures to check AT&C losses. 4. Ensuring 24X7 power supply in India : Review of current status and planning for the future. 5. Fuel linkages and energy pricing for upcoming conventional power plants. 6. An overview of Power Generation and its comparative cost, AT&C losses, per capita consumption and viability of the sector in developed countries – Scope for cooperation with them. 7. Power Projects – Land Acquisition and Environment Clearances. 8. Viability, Performance and Status of power projects with special reference to power scenario in the country following cancellation of coal blocks. 9. Energy Conservation 10. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Jyoti Yojana Ministry of New and 11. Need for a long term Renewable Energy policy and legal reforms. Renewable Energy 12. Energy Access in India : Review of current status and role of Renewable Energy. 13. Research, Design and Development an Technological advancement – its usage in Renewable energy Sector with special reference to Solar, Wind, Tidal and Geo Thermal areas etc. 14. Tardy pace of the development of Solar Energy in the country. 15. Optimum utilization of available non-conventional sources of energy need for a thrust. 16. Encouraging local Renewable Energy manufacturing base in India.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

4.4 During the period under review 1 Bill (The Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014) was referred to the Committee on 22.12.2014.

IV. Resume of Work Done (a) Sittings of the Committee 4.5 During its term, the Committee held 32 sittings lasting for 64:35 hours. A statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Twenty.

4.6 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Thirty Six. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

Sl. Subjects No. of No. Typed/Printed pages (approx.) 1 2 3 1. Demand for Grants (2014-15) –M/o Power 825 2. Demand for Grants (2014-15) –M/o New and Renewable Energy 520 3. Demand for Grants (2015-16) –M/o Power 830 4. Demand for Grants (2015-16) –M/o New and Renewable Energy 550 5. Review of Electricity Act – 2003. 50 6. Restructuring of State DISCOMs and financial assistance/utilities to 50 improve their functional efficiency – A Review. 7. Measures to check AT&C losses. 50 8. Ensuring 24X7 power supply in India : Review of current status and 150 planning for the future. 11 Fuel linkages and energy pricing for upcoming conventional power 50 plants. 12. An overview of Power Generation and its comparative cost, AT&C 55 losses, per capita consumption and viability of the sector in developed countries – Scope for cooperation with them. 13. Power Projects – Land Acquisition and Environment Clearances. 40 14. Viability, Performance and Status of power projects with special 45 reference to power scenario in the country following cancellation of coal blocks. 15. Energy Conservation 1050 16. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Jyoti Yojana 55 17. Need for a long term Renewable Energy policy and legal reforms. 40 18. Energy Access in India : Review of current status and role of 50 Renewable Energy. 19. Research, Design and Development an Technological 40 advancement – its usage in Renewable energy Sector with special reference to Solar, Wind, Tidal and Geo Thermal areas etc.

20. Tardy pace of the development of Solar Energy in the country. 50 21. Optimum utilization of available non-conventional sources of energy 40 need for a thrust.

22. Encouraging local Renewable Energy manufacturing base in India. 55

(b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee 4.7. The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministries /

Departments to the Committee are as follows:

(c) Study Visits undertaken 4.8 The Committee on Energy undertook two study visits during the period under review. A Statement showing the composition, duration and places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Fifty Two. V. Reports Presented

(a) Original Reports

4.9. During the period under review, the Committee presented the following original

Reports to the House:

Sl. Report Subject Date of No No. presentation 1. Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Power for the year 1st 22.12.2014 2014-15 2. Demands for Grants of the Ministry of New and 2nd 22.12.2014 Renewable Energy for the year 2014-15 3. th 4 Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014 07.05.2015 4. Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Power for the year 27.04.2015 5th 2015-16 5. Demands for Grants of the Ministry of New and 27.04.2015 6th Renewable Energy for the year 2015-16 6. th 11.08.2015 7 Energy Conservation (b) Action Taken Reports

4.10. The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review: - Action Taken on the recommendations contained in the 1. 3rd 41st Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Implementation of Rajiv 22.12.2014 Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana Action Taken on the recommendations contained in the 11.08.2015 2. 8th 1st Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Power

4.11 Nil

(d) Action Taken Statements 4.12 Statements showing further Action Taken Statements.

Sl. Subject Date of No. laying 1. Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter – I of the Thirty-Ninth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Energy on Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 10.12.2014 contained in the Thirty-Fourth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on “Demands for Grants (2013-14)" pertaining to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. 2. Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter – I &V of the Thirty-Eighth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Energy on Action Taken by the Government on the 10.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Thirtieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on “Functioning of CERC" pertaining to the Ministry of Power. 3. Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter – I of the Fortieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Energy on Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 10.12.2014 contained in the Thirty-Fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on “Demands for Grants (2013-14)" pertaining to the Ministry of Power. 4. Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter – I of the Forty-Fourth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Energy on Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 10.12.2014 contained in the Thirty-Seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Development of National Grid' pertaining to the Ministry of Power. 5. Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter – I of the Forty-Second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Energy on Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 27.04.2015 contained in the Thirty-Sixth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on 'International Cooperation in New and Renewable Energy Sector pertaining to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. 6. Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter – I of the Third Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Energy on Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 06.06.2015 contained in the Forty-First Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Implementation of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana pertaining to the Ministry of Power.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations

4.13 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15:

Report Total No. Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of No. of Recommendati Recommendatio Recommendati Recommen- Recommen ons accepted ns which the ons in respect dations in -dations by Govt. Committee did of which replies respect of not pursue in of Govt. have which replies view of not been of Government‟s accepted by the Government reply Committee were still awaited 03rd 16 15 00 01 00 08th 09 07 00 02 00 Total 25 22 - 3 - %age 100% 88% - 12% -

(f) Laying of Minutes

4.14 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House alongwith relevant Reports.

VI. Secretariat

4.15 The Energy Committee Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. An Additional Secretary, two Directors, and an Under Secretary remained in-charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – F I V E COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS I. Composition of Committee 5.1 The Committee on External Affairs (2014-15) was constituted on 01.09.2014 and continued in office till 31.08.2015. 5.2. The Committee consisted of 31 Members - 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairman Rajya Sabha respectively. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee as on 31.08.2015 is given in Appendix Five. II. Subjects Selected for Examination 5.3. The Committee selected the following subjects for detailed examination/briefing during the year: Sl.No. Ministry/Deptt. Subjects 1. Ministry of Subjects selected for detailed examination during the year 2014- External Affairs 2015:- 1. Recruitment, structure and capacity-building of IFS Cadre, including need for a separate UPSC examination for cadre, mid-career entry and in-service training and orientation. 2. Role, Responsibilities and Functioning of Indian Missions/Posts abroad including their role in showcasing India for tourism, medical tourism, investment etc.

3. India‟s Soft Power Diplomacy including role of Indian Council for

Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Indian Diaspora.

4. Performance of Passport issuance system and implementation of e- Passport Project for Indian citizens.

Subjects selected for briefing during the year 2014-2015:- 1. India‟s claim for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council- Possibilities ahead. 2. Impact of activities of neighbouring countries in the Indian Ocean. 3. Implications of evolving situation in West Asia and India‟s response thereto. 4. India‟s role and engagement with Afghanistan post 2014. 5. Recent developments in India-China relations and their implications. 6. Indo-Pakistan relations under the current political situation in Pakistan.

7. Issues relating to Migrants from Pakistan.

8. Creation of Think Tank for Strategic and Security Doctrine with

specific reference to China and Pakistan.

9. Problems of Indian Fishermen with the neighbouring countries and steps taken to resolve the issues. 10. Release of Indian citizens detained/imprisoned in foreign countries. 11.Institutional Coordination Mechanism amongst the Ministry of

External Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Intelligence Agencies for security and defence. 12.Need for coordination between the Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and State Governments on various issues. 13.Functioning of Policy Planning and Research Division of the Ministry of External Affairs. 14.Provisions regarding impounding of Passports and implementation thereof.

15.E-Visa Scheme and concept of Visa on Arrival.

2. Ministry of Subjects selected for detailed examination during the year 2014- Overseas Indian 2015:- Affairs 1. Problems of Indian Migrant Workers, Professionals and Students abroad. 2. Functioning of Protector General of Emigrants (PGE) and Protectors of Emigrants (PoE) Offices. Subjects selected for briefing during the year 2014-2015 1. Role of Overseas Recruiting Agencies and their regulation. 2. Reforms in Emigration and eMigrate Project. 3. Voting Rights to NRIs. 4. Creating opportunities for Global Indians in India‟s development. 5. Development of competitively skilled and qualified manpower for global supply.

III. Bills referred to the Committee

5.4. In addition to the subjects selected, the following Bills/Policies were also referred to the Committee by the Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha/Chairman, Rajya Sabha for examination and Report thereon:

Sl.No. Name of the Bill/Policy Date when referred to the Committee 1. The Constitution (119th) Amendment Bill, 2013 16.09.2014

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee on External Affairs 5.5. No Sub-Committee was constituted during the period under review. V . Resume of Work Done (a) Sittings of the Committee

5.6 During its term, the Committee held 21 sittings lasting for 32 hrs. and 55 minutes. Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Twenty One.

5.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Thirty Seven. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee 5.8. The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry/Deptts. to the Committee are as follows :- Subject No. of typed/ printed pages Subjects selected for detailed examination during the year 2014-2015(Ministry of External Affairs):- 1. Recruitment, structure and capacity-building of IFS Cadre, including need for a separate UPSC examination for cadre, mid-career entry and in-service training and orientation. 11 2. Role, Responsibilities and Functioning of Indian Missions/Posts abroad including their role in showcasing India for tourism, medical tourism, investment etc. 1 3. India‟s Soft Power Diplomacy including role of Indian

Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Indian Diaspora. 15 4.Performance of Passport issuance system and implementation of e-Passport Project for Indian citizens. 22

Subjects selected for briefing during the year 2014-2015 (Ministry of External Affairs):- 1. India‟s claim for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council- Possibilities ahead. 3 2. Impact of activities of neighbouring countries in the

Indian Ocean. 3. Implications of evolving situation in West Asia and 5 India‟s response thereto. 8 4. India‟s role and engagement with Afghanistan post 2014. 5. Recent developments in India-China relations and their 2 implications. 6 6. Indo-Pakistan relations under the current political situation in Pakistan. 4 7. Issues relating to Migrants from Pakistan. 8. Creation of Think Tank for Strategic and Security 3 Doctrine with specific reference to China and Pakistan. 9. Problems of Indian Fishermen with the neighbouring 3 countries and steps taken to resolve the issues. 2 10. Release of Indian citizens detained/imprisoned in

foreign countries. 11.Institutional Coordination Mechanism amongst the 1 Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Intelligence Agencies for security and defence. 12.Need for coordination between the Ministry of External 1 Affairs, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and State 5 Governments on various issues.

13.Functioning of Policy Planning and Research Division of the Ministry of External Affairs. 7 14.Provisions regarding impounding of Passports and implementation thereof. - 15. E-Visa Scheme and concept of Visa on Arrival.

- Subjects selected for detailed examination during the year 2014-2015 (Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs):- 1. Problems of Indian Migrant Workers, Professionals and Students abroad. 23 2. Functioning of Protector General of Emigrants (PGE) and Protectors of Emigrants (PoE) Offices. 20

Subjects selected for briefing during the year 2014-2015

(Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs):- - 3.Role of Overseas Recruiting Agencies and their - regulation. - 4. Reforms in Emigration and eMigrate Project. - 5. Voting Rights to NRIs. - 6. Creating opportunities for Global Indians in India‟s development. 7. Development of competitively skilled and qualified manpower for global supply.

5.9. No Memoranda has been received from non-officials on different subjects.

5.10. The Committee on External Affairs undertook two study visits during the period under review. A Statement showing the composition, duration and places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Fifty Three.

VI. Reports presented (a) Original Reports

5.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original

Reports to the House:

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. No. Presentation 1. 1st The Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill, 2013 01.12.2014 2. 3rd Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Overseas 22.12.2014 Indian Affairs for the year 2014-15. 3. 4th Demands for Grants of the Ministry of External Affairs 22.12.2014 for the year 2014-15. 4. 5th Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Overseas 28.04.2015 Indian Affairs for the year 2015-16. 5. 6th Demands for Grants of the Ministry of External Affairs 28.04.2015 for the year 2015-16.

(b) Action Taken Reports

5.12. The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review :

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. No. presentation 1. 2nd Action Taken Report on recommendations contained 01.12.2014 in 25th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Passport Seva Project- Targets and Achievements'.

(c) Statements made under Direction 73A 5.13 During the period under review, no Statement under 'Direction 73A of Directions by the Speaker' was made.

(d) Action Taken Statements

5.14 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House :

Sl. Report No. Subject Date of No. laying 1. 24th Action Taken Report on action taken by the 02.12.2014 (15th Lok Government on the recommendations contained Sabha) in the 19th Report on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs for the year 2013-14.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 5.15. The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15:

Report Total No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. recommenda recommend recommendations recommendation recommendations tions ations which the Com. s in respect of in respect of accepted by did not desire to which replies of which final replies Govt. pursue in view of Govt. have not of Govt. were Govt. replies been accepted by awaited Committee 2nd 23 09 - 07 07 Percent - 39.14% - 30.43% 30.43% age

(f) Laying of Minutes

5.16. Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House alongwith the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat

5.17 The Committee on External Affairs Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the

Committee. A Joint Secretary, a Director and an Additional Director remained in-charge of the

Branch.

C H A P TE R – S I X

STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

I. Composition of Committee

6.1. The Committee on Finance for the year (2014-15) was constituted on 01 September, 2014 and continued in office till 31 August, 2015. 6.2 The Committee consisted of 31 Members–21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairperson Rajya Sabha respectively. Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, MP was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Six.

II. Subjects Selected for examination

6.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year 2014-15:

S.No Ministry/Department Subjects 1. Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Inclusion - Schemes and Financial Services) Achievements. 2. Ministry of Finance (Department of Banking Sector in India - Challenges and Financial Services) Way Forward. 3. Ministry of Corporate Affairs Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes (CIS), Chit Funds, etc. 4. Ministry of Finance (Departments of Issues concerning Public-Private Economic Affairs, Expenditure, financial Partnership (PPP) Projects. Services and Disinvestment) 5. Ministry of Finance (Department of Review of measures taken for unearth Revenue) unaccounted money and curbing generation thereof. 6. Ministry of Finance (Department of Tax Reforms including simplification, Revenue) rationalization, widening / deepening of tax base, augmenting tax-GDP ratio, prevention of tax evasion, etc.

7. Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Finance Planning Process – A Review. (Departments of Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Services and Disinvestment) 8. Ministry of Finance, (Departments of Review of Performance of Select Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Regulatory Bodies – SEBI, SFIO, CCI, Services and Disinvestment) and IRDA, etc. Ministry of Corporate Affairs

9. Ministry of Finance (Departments of Creation of Alternative Assets – Emerging Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Scenario. Services and Disinvestment) and Ministry of Planning 10. Ministry of Finance, (Departments of Role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Various Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Sectors of the Economy. Services and Disinvestment)

11. Ministry of Finance, (Departments of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme – An Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Assessment. Services and Disinvestment) 12. Ministry of Finance (Departments of Centrally Sponsored Schemes – An evaluation. Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Services and Disinvestment) and Ministry of Planning 13. Ministry of Finance (Department of Role of Reserve Bank of India – Emerging Financial Services) and Reserve Bank of Challenges India 14. Ministry of Finance (Department of Framework for Regulation of Non-Banking Financial Services) and Reserve Bank of Financial Companies (NBFCs). India 15. Ministry of Finance (Department of Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial Financial Services) Institutions.

III. Bills / Policies referred to the Committee

6.4 In addition to the subjects selected, the following Bill was also referred to the Committee by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha for examination and Report thereon:

Sl. Name of the Bill Date when referred No. to the Committee 1. The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 15.05.2015 2015

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Standing Committee on Finance

6.5 The Committee did not constitute any sub-committee during the period under review. V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee

6.6 During its term, the Committee held 33 sittings lasting for 76 hrs. and 15 minutes. Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under Review, the

duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Twenty Two. 6.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Thirty Eight. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record. (b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee 6.8 The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry/Department to the Committee are as follows:- Sl. Subject No. of No. typed / printed pages (Approx) 1 2 3 Ministry of Finance (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment) 1. Financial Inclusion - Schemes and Achievements 150 2. Banking Sector in India-Challenges and Way Forward. 100 3. Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes (CIS), Chit Funds, etc. 400 4. Issues concerning Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Projects. 05 5. Review of Performance of Select Regulatory Bodies – SEBI, SFIO, CCI, IRDA, 120 etc. 6. Creation of Alternative Assets – Emerging Scenario. -- 7. Role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Various Sectors of the Economy. -- 8. Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme – An Assessment. 100 9. Role of Reserve Bank of India – Emerging Challenges. 170 10. Framework for Regulation of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs). 120 11. Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial Institutions. 175 Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) 12. Review of measures taken for unearthing unaccounted money and curbing -- generation thereof. 13. Tax Reforms including simplification, rationalization, widening / deepening of tax 57 base, augmenting tax-GDP ratio, prevention of tax evasion, etc. Ministry of Planning 14. Planning Process – A Review 53 15. Centrally Sponsored Schemes – An evaluation 04 Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 16. -- --

Ministry of Corporate Affairs 17. -- -- Bills 18. The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015 157 Demands for Grants 19. Demands for Grants (2014-15 & 2015-16) of the Ministry of Finance 1000 (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment and Revenue) 20. Demands for Grants (2014-15 & 2015-16) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs 700 21. Demands for Grants (2014-15 & 2015-16) of the Ministry of Statistics and 150 Programme Implementation 22. Demands for Grants (2014-15 & 2015-16)) of the Ministry of Planning 170 Action Taken Report 23 Action taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations 52 contained in the Thirty-eighth Report (15 Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Tax Assessment / Exemptions and Related Matter Concerning IPL/BCCI'. 24. Action taken by the Government on the Observations / Recommendations 125 contained in the Seventy-ninth Report (15 Lok Sabha) on the subject ' Policy on New Licences in the Banking Sector'. 25. Action taken by the Government on the Observations / Recommendations 250 contained in the Fifty-Ninth Report (15 Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Current Economic Situation and Policy Options'. 26. Action taken by the Government on the Observations / Recommendations 50 contained in the Seventy-fourth Report (15 Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Economic Impact of Revision of Natural Gas Price'. 27. Action taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations 125 contained in the Second Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Finance (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment). 28. Action taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations 60 contained in the Third Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014- 15) of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue). 29. Action taken by the Government on the Observations / Recommendations 40 contained in the Fifth Report (16 Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014- 15) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. 30. Action taken by the Government on the Observations / Recommendations 25 contained in the Sixth Report (16 Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014- 15) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

6.9 The number of Memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below:- Sl. Subject No. of Memoranda No. of typed / No. received printed page 1. Planning Process - A Review 05 54

2. Efficacy of Regulation of Collective 02 100 Investment Schemes (CIS), Chit Funds, etc. 3. Non -Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial 01 05 Institutions.

6.10 The Committee on Finance undertook two on-the-spot study visits during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Fifty Four. VI. Reports presented

(a) Original Reports

6.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original Reports to the House:- Sl. Report Subject of the Report Date of No. No. Presentation 1. 2 nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Finance 16.12.2014 (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment)

2. 3 rd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Finance 16.12.2014 (Department of Revenue) 3. 5 th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs 16.12.2014 4. 6 th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Statistics and 16.12.2014 Programme Implementation 5. 4 th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Planning 22.12.2014 6. 10 th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Finance 24.04.2015 (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment) 7. 11 th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Finance 24.04.2015 (Department of Revenue) 8. 12 th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Planning 24.04.2015 9. 13 th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs 24.04.2015 10. 14 th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Statistics and 24.04.2015 Programme Implementation

(b) Action Taken Reports

6.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review :-

Sl. Report Subject of the Report Date of No. No. Presentation 1. 1st Action taken by the Government on the Observations/ 16.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Thirty-eighth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Tax Assessment / Exemptions and Related Matter Concerning IPL/BCCI'. 2. 7th Action taken by the Government on the Observations / 16.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Seventy-ninth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject ' Policy on New Licences in the Banking Sector'. 3. 8th Action taken by the Government on the Observations / 22.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Fifty-Ninth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Current Economic Situation and Policy Options'. 4. 9th Action taken by the Government on the Observations / 22.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Seventy-fourth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Economic Impact of Revision of Natural Gas Price'. 5. 15th Action taken by the Government on the Observations/ 31.07.2015 Recommendations contained in the Second Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Finance (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment). 6. 16th Action taken by the Government on the Observations/ 31.07.2015 Recommendations contained in the Third Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue). 7. 17th Action taken by the Government on the Observations / 31.07.2015 Recommendations contained in the Fifth Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. 8. 18th Action taken by the Government on the Observations / 31.07.2015 Recommendations contained in the Sixth Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

6.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Finance made Statements under Direction 73A of „Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee:

Sl. Report No. Subject Date of No. making the Statement 1. 68th Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Finance 20.03.2015 (Departments of Revenue) (15th Lok Sabha) 2. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Planning (16th 24.04.2015 Lok Sabha) 3. 6th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Statistics and 31.07.2015 Programme Implementation (16th Lok Sabha) 4. 12th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Planning (16th 07.08.2015 Lok Sabha) 5. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Finance 07.08.2015 (Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Expenditure and Disinvestment) (16th Lok Sabha)

(d) Action Taken Statement

6.14 During the period under review, no Statement showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations

6.15 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15:- Report Total No. of Total no. of Total no. of Total no. of Total no. of No. recommen- recommen- recommendati recommendatio recommendatio dations dations ons which the ns in respect of ns in respect of accepted by Committee did which replies of which final Govt. not desire to Govt. have not replies of Govt. pursue in view been accepted were awaited. of Govt. by Committee replies 1st 14 09 01 04 NIL

7th 10 06 01 NIL 03

8th 20 18 NIL 01 01

9th 19 16 01 02 NIL

15th 30 29 01 NIL NIL

16th 11 10 NIL 01 NIL

17th 10 07 NIL 02 01

18th 07 05 NIL 02 NIL

Total 121 100 04 12 05 %age 82.65% 3.31% 9.92% 4.13%

(f) Laying of Minutes

6.16 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House along with the relevant Reports. VI. Secretariat

6.17 The Standing Committee on Finance Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. A Joint Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director, one Deputy Secretary remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – S E V E N

STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

I. Composition of the Committee

7.1. The Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (2014-15) was constituted on 1st September, 2014 and continued in office till 31st August, 2015.

7.2 The Committee consisted of 31 members – 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha respectively. Shri J.C. Divakar Reddy, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The Composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Seven.

II Subjects selected for examination

7.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year:- Sl. No. Ministry/Department Subjects

1. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, (i) Procurement, Storage and Distribution Food and Public Distribution of Foodgrains; (Department of Food and Public (ii) Computerization of Targeted Public Distribution) Distribution System (TPDS); (iii) Payment of sugarcane arrears to sugarcane farmers; and (iv) World Trade Organization (WTO) and Food Security in India;

2. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, (i) Programmes for Consumer Protection; Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer (ii) Regulation of packaged commodities; Affairs) and

(iii) Problem of supply and distribution of adulterated milk and measures taken to check it.

III Bills referred to the Committee

7.4 In addition to the subjects selected, the following Bill/Policies were referred to the Committee by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha for examination and report thereon.

Sl. No. Name of the Bill/Policy Date when referred to the Committee 1. The Consumer Protection Bill, 2015 25.08.2015

IV Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee

7.5 No Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted during the year 2014-15.

V Resume of work done (a) Sittings of the Committee.

7.6 During its term, the Committee held 19 sittings lasting for 20 hours. A statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Twenty Three.

7.7 Another statement showing the number of the sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Thirty Nine. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b) Material and memoranda furnished to the Committee

7.8 The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry of

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Food and Public Distribution and Department of Consumer Affairs) to the Committee are as follows:-

Sl. No. Subject Number of typed/ printed pages 1. 2. 3. Department of Food and Public Distribution

1. Procurement, storage and distribution of foodgrains 100

2. Computerization of Targeted Public Distribution 150 System (TPDS); 3. Payment of sugarcane arrears to sugarcane 300 farmers; 4. WTO and Food Security; 10

Department of Consumer Affairs 5. Programmes for Consumer Protection; 350

6. Regulation of Packaged Commodities; and 250

7. Problem of supply and distribution of adulterated 50 milk and measures taken to check it.

7.9 No memoranda have been received from non-officials on different subjects.

7.10 The Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution undertook two on- the-spot study visits during the period under Review. A statement showing the composition, duration and places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Fifty Five.

VI Reports Presented

(a) Original Reports

7.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original

Reports to the House:-

Report Subject Date of presentation number 1st Demands for Grants (2014-15) 22.12.2014 relating to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Food and Public Distribution). 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) 22.12.2014 relating to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs). 3rd Demands for Grants (2015-16) 27.04.2015 relating to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Food and Public Distribution). 4th Demands for Grants (2015-16) 27.04.2015 relating to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs).

(b) Action Taken Reports

7.12 The following Action Taken Report was presented to the House during the period under review:-

Sl. No. Report Subject Date of presentation number 1. 5th Action Taken by the Government 10.08.2015 on the observations / recommendations contained in the First Report of the Committee (2014-15) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Food and Public Distribution). 2. 6th Action Taken by the Government 10.08.2015 on the observations / recommendations contained in the Second Report of the Committee (2014-15) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) relating to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs).

7.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Minister for Food, Consumer Affairs and

Public Distribution made Statement under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee.

Sl. No. Report Subject Date of making the number Statement 1. 1st 1st Report on Demands for Grants 28.04.2015 (LS) (2014-15) relating to Department of 24.04.2015 (RS) Food and Public presented/laid in Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha on 22.12.2014 2. 2nd 2nd Report on Demands for Grants 05.05.2015(LS) (2014-15) relating to Department of 08.05.2015 (RS) Consumer Affairs presented/laid in Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha on 22.12.2014.

(d) Action Taken Statement

7.14 Statement showing Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Report of the Committee was laid in the House:-

Sl. No. Report Subject Date of laying number Department of Food and Public Distribution 1. 24th Twenty-fourth Report on Action 28.04.2015 Taken by the Government on Demands for Grants (2012-13) (15th Lok Sabha) of the Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution).

2. 32nd Thirty-second Report on Action Taken 28.04.2015 by the Government on Demands for Grants (2013-14) (15th Lok Sabha) of the Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution).

Department of Consumer Affairs 3. 22nd Twenty-second Report on Action 28.04.2015 Taken by the Government on Demands for Grants (2011-12) (15th Lok Sabha) of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution).

4. 25th Twenty-fifth Report on Action Taken by 28.04.2015 the Government on Demands for Grants (2012-13) (15th Lok Sabha) of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution). 5. 31st Thirty-first Report on Action Taken by 28.04.2015 the Government on Demands for Grants (2013-14) (15th Lok Sabha) of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution).

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations.

7.15 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Report in respect of which Action Taken Report was presented during the year 2014-15.

Report Total number of Total number of Total number of Total number of Total number of number recommendatio recommendatio recommendatio recommendatio recommendatio ns ns accepted by ns which the ns in respect of ns in respect of Govt. Committee did which replies of which final not desire to Govt. have not replies of Govt. pursue in view been accepted were awaited of Govt. replies by Committee 5th 26 12 03 Nil 11 6th 21 12 01 03 05 Total 47 24 4 3 16 %age 100% 51.06% 8.51% 6.39% 34.04%

(f) Laying of Minutes.

7.16 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports were prepared and presented to both the Houses alongwith the relevant Reports.

VII Secretariat

7.17 The Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Branch constituted the Secretariat of the Committee. An Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director and one Deputy Secretary remained in-charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – E I G H T

STANDING COMMITTEE ON LABOUR

I. Composition of the Committee

8.1. The Standing Committee on Labour (2014-15) was constituted on 1st September 2014 and continued in office till 31st August 2015.

8.2 The Committee consisted of 30 Members, 20 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairperson, Rajya Sabha respectively. Dr. Virendra Kumar, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Eight.

II. Subjects Selected for Examination 8.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year 2014- 15.

Sl. No. Ministry/Deptt. Subjects 1. Ministry of Labour & (i) Review of ILO conventions binding on Employment India and the measures taken by the Government to implement them. (ii) Working conditions of Mine workers, welfare of mine workers and review of the Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS). (iii) Deployment of Contract/ Casual Workers/Sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in Government/PSU offices/establishments including at Railway Stations. (iv)The Employees‟ State Insurance Corporation – coverage of establishments, recovery of arrears and functioning of the hospitals and dispensaries under the Scheme. (v) Welfare of Tea Plantation Workers. (vi) Regularisation of casual workers/ artists of Radio Kashmir, CBS Radio Kashmir and Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar. (vii) Employees Provident Fund Organisation- Coverage of establishments, recovery of arrears and functioning. (viii) Welfare of workers of un-organised Sector II. Ministry of Textiles (i) Development and promotion of Jute Industry.

(ii)Skill Development vis-à-vis manufacturing and Upgradation in Textiles Sector. (iii) Review of various welfare schemes of the Ministry of Textiles. (iv) Review of Urban Haats. III. Ministry of Skill Development (i) ITIs and Skill Development Initiative And Entrepreneurship Scheme. (ii) Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. (iii) National Skills Qualifications Framework.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee.

8.4 In addition to the above subjects selected, the following Government Bill was also referred to the Committee by the Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha for examination and Report thereon:

Sl.No Name of the Bill Date when referred to the Committee 1. The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 16.9.2014

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee. 8.5 No Sub-Committee was constituted.

V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee

8.6 During the term, the Committee held 30 sittings for a total duration of 39 hrs and 35 Mins. Statement showing the dates and the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given at Appendix Twenty Four.

8.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of the Committee is given at Appendix Forty. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee where evidence was taken was maintained and kept on record.

(b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee 8.8. The subject-wise detail of the materials furnished by the Ministries/ Department concerned to the Committee are as follows:-

Sl. No. Subject No.of typed/printed pages 1. Brief notes on the subjects selected (2014-15) for 60 consideration by the Committee-Ministry of Labour and Employment. 2. Brief notes on the subjects selected (2014-15) for 50 consideration by the Committee-Ministry of Textiles.

3. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Labour and 600 Employment. 4. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Textiles. 500

5. Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Labour and 600 Employment. 6. Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Textiles. 500

7. Review of Urban Haats 100 8. Action Taken replies on the Observations/Recommendations 70 of the Committee contained in their Thirty Seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Welfare of legal heirs of deceased workers of Rourkela Steel Plant - A case study'. 9. Material received from various organization examined 1000 during study tours in form of background notes on the functioning of organization concerned, replies to the list of points, representations/written memoranda etc.

8.9 The number of Memoranda received from non-officials (Trade Unions etc.) on different subjects (Bills) is given below:-

Sl. Subject No. of No. of No. Memoranda typed/ received printed page

1. The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 10 60

8.10 The Committee on Labour undertook two on-the-spot study visits during the year 2014-15. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given at Appendix Fifty Six.

VI. Reports presented (a) Original Reports 8.11 During the year 2014-15, the Committee presented the following original Reports to the House:

Sl. Report No. Subjects Date of presentation No. 1. 1st Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the 15.12.2014 Ministry of Labour and Employment. 2. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the 15.12.2014 Ministry of Textiles. 3. 3rd The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 22.12.2014 4. 4th Regularisation of Casual 18.3.2015 Workers/Artists of Radio Kashmir, CBS Radio Kashmir and Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar. 5. 7th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the 23.4.2015 Ministry of Labour and Employment. 6. 8th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the 23.4.2015 Ministry of Textiles. 7. 9th Review of Urban Haats 12.8.2015

(b) Action Taken Reports 8.12 During the year 2014-15, the Committee presented the following Action Taken Reports:

1. 5th Action Taken by the Government on the 23.4.2015 Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their First Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 2. 6th Action Taken by the Government on the 23.4.2015 Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 3. 10th Action Taken by the Government on the 12.8.2015 Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Thirty Seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Welfare of legal heirs of deceased

workers of Rourkela Steel Plant - A case study'

8.13 During the year 2014-15, the Hon'ble Ministers for Labour made Statement under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in respect of the following Original Report of the Committee:

Sl. Report No. Subjects Date of making No. the Statement

1. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the 8.5.2015 Ministry of Textiles

(d) Action Taken Statement 8.14 Statement showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter - I and Chapter - V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the Houses.

Sl. ATR No. Subjects Date of laying No.

1. 38th Statement showing further action taken 9.12.2014 by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations contained in the Forty-Sixth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Thirty-eighth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Welfare of Small Weavers of Mau and Adjoining Areas-A Case Study 2. 39th Statement showing further action taken 9.12.2014 by the Government on the Observations /Recommendations contained in Thirty-Ninth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Thirty-sixth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Textiles 3. 41st Statement showing further action taken 9.12.2014 by the Government on the Observations /Recommendations contained in the Forty-first Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Thirty-fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. 4. 43rd Statement showing further action taken 9.12.2014 by the Government on the Observations /Recommendations contained in the Forty-third Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Thirty-first Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Absorption/regularization of temporary drivers of Allahabad Bank

th 5. 45 Statement showing further action 9.12.2014 taken by the Government on the Observations /Recommendations contained in the Forty-fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Thirty-Second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Welfare of Glass and Bangle Workers of Firozabad

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations.

8.15 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15.

Report No. Total No. Total No. No. of No. of No. of of of recommen recommendatio recommend recommen recommen dations ns in respect of ations in dations dations which the which replies of respect of accepted Committee Govt. have not which final by Govt. did not been accepted replies of desire to by Committee Govt. were pursue in awaited. view of Govt. replies 5th 10 7 1 1 1 6th 11 9 NIL 1 1 10th 15 6 NIL 7 2 Total 36 22 1 9 4

Percentage 100 61.11 2.78 25 11.11

(f) Laying of Minutes 8.16 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and appended to the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat 8.17 The Labour Committee Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. An Additional Secretary, a Joint Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director and an Under Secretary remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R - N I N E

COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS

I. Composition of Committee

9.1 The Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas (2014-15) was constituted on 1st September, 2014 and continued in office till 31st August 2015.

9.2 The Committee consisted of 31 Members – 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha, respectively. Shri Pralhad Joshi, M.P. (Lok Sabha), was appointed the Chairperson of the Committee. The Composition of the Committee is given at Appendix – Nine.

II. Subjects selected for examination

9.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year.

SI. Ministry/Department Subject No. 1 Ministry of Petroleum (i) Energy Security; and Natural Gas (ii) Ethanol Blended Petrol & Bio Diesel Policy; (iii) Review of Pricing of Gas; (iv) Review of Procedure for Allotment of Retail outlets and LPG Distributorships; (v) Pricing and Supply of Petroleum Products; (vi) New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP); (vii) National Auto Fuel Policy; (viii) Exploration of Unconventional sources like Shale Gas, Coal Bed Methane, Gas Hydrates etc.; (ix) Oil Refineries- A Review; (x) Functioning and Purview of Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH); (xi) Exploration Activities in North East; (xii) Human Resource Policy of Oil PSUs; (xiii) Corporate Social Responsibility of Oil PSUs; (xiv) Production Sharing Contracts; (xv) Safety, Security & Environmental Aspects in Petroleum Sector ;

III. Bills Referred to the Committee 9.4 No bills was referred to the Committee during the period under review.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees 9.5 No Sub-Committee was constituted during the period under review.

V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee 9.6 During the term, the Committee held 20 sittings lasting for 39 hrs and 5 minutes. A statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given at Appendix Twenty-five. 9.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given at Appendix Forty-one. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken are maintained and kept for record.

(b) Materials & Memoranda furnished to the Committee

9.8 The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry to the Committee are as follows:

SI Subject No. of Typed/printed No. pages (approx.) 1. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of 1200 Petroleum and Natural Gas 2. Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of 1200 Petroleum and Natural Gas 3. National Auto Fuel Policy 800 4. Ethanol Blended Petrol and Bio-Diesel Policy 700 5. Action Taken Report on „Functioning of Oil Industry 400 Development Board‟; 6. Action Taken Report on 'Allocation and Pricing of Gas 400 7. Action Taken Report on 'Demands for Grants (2014-15) 350 8. Statement laid by the Minister, MoPNG on 15th Report 50 on „Demands for Grants (2012-13) of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas'.; 9. Statement laid by the Minister, MoPNG 17th Report on 55 „Safety of Oil installations'. 10. Statement laid by the Minister, MoPNG 21st Report on 65 „Demands for Grants (2013-14)‟.

11. Statement laid by the Minister, MoPNG 22nd Report on 45 „Long Term Purchase Policy and Strategic Storage of Crude Oil' 12. Statement laid by the Minister, MoPNG 2nd Report on 60 „Functioning of Oil Industry Development Board';

13. Review of Procedure for Allotment of Retail outlets and 200 LPG Distributorships 14. New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) 125 15. Oil Refineries- A Review 150 16. Functioning and Purview of Directorate General of 100 Hydrocarbon (DGH) 17 Safety, Security & Environmental Aspects in Petroleum 75 Sector Total No. of pages 5975

9.9 The number of Memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below: SI.No. Subject No. of Memoranda No. of typed/ received printed page 1 Ethanol Blended Petrol & Bio 03 20 Diesel Policy

9.10 The Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas undertook two on-the-spot study tours during the period under Review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given at Appendix Fifty-seven.

VI. Reports Presented (a) Original Report(s)

9.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original Reports to the House:-

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. No. Presentation 1 1st Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of 16.12.2014 Petroleum and Natural Gas 2 4th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of 27.04.2015 Petroleum and Natural Gas 3 5th National Auto Fuel Policy 07.05.2015 4 7th Ethanol Blended Petrol and Bio-Diesel Policy 13.08.2015

(b) Action Taken Reports

9.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review:- 1. 2nd Action Taken Report on „Functioning of Oil Industry 16.12.2014 Development Board‟;

2. 3rd Action Taken Report on 'Allocation and Pricing of Gas' 27.04.2015 3. 6th Action Taken Report on 'Demands for Grants' (2014-15) 11.08.2015

9.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Petroleum and Natural Gas made Statements under 'Direction 73A of Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following original Reports of the Committee-

SI. Report No. Subject Date of No. making the Statement 1 12th Safety of Oil Installations 12.08.2014 2 23rd Functioning of Oil Industry Development Board 12.08.2014 3 1st Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry 12.08.2015 of Petroleum and Natural Gas

(d) Action Taken Statement 9.14 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House:-

SI. Report No. Subject Date of laying No. 1 11th (15th LS) „Demands for Grants (2012-13) of the Ministry 11.08.2015 of Petroleum and Natural Gas' 2 12th (15th LS) „Safety of Oil Installations' 11.08.2015 3 16th (15th LS) „Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry 11.08.2015 of Petroleum and Natural Gas' 4 18th(15th LS) „Long Term Purchase Policy and Strategic 11.08.2015 Storage of Crude Oil' 5 23rd (15th LS) „Functioning of Oil Industry Development 11.08.2015 Board'

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by Government on Recommendations

9.15 The following table indicates the analysis of action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action

Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15:-

Report No. Total No. of Total no. of Total No. of Total No. of Total no. of recommendati recommen- recommendati recommendati recommen- ons dations ons which the ons in respect dations in accepted by Committee of which respect of Govt. did not desire replies of which final to pursue in Govt. have replies of Govt. view of not been were awaited Govt.‟s replies accepted by Committee 2nd 8 2 Nil 3 3 3rd 12 4 2 2 4 6th 24 10 3 6 5 Percentage 100% 37% 11% 25% 27%

(f) Laying of Minutes

9.16 Minutes of the sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House along with the relevant Reports. VI. Secretariat

9.17 The Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch provides secretarial assistance to the Committee. An Additional Secretary, a Director and an Additional Director remained in-charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R - T E N STANDING COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS

I. Composition of Committee

10.1. The Standing Committee on Railways (2014-15) was constituted on 01.09.2014 and continued in office till 31.08.2015.

10.2. The Committee consisted of 31 members – 21 members of Lok Sabha and 10 members of Rajya Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha, respectively. Shri Dinesh Trivedi, M.P., was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Ten.

II. Subject Selected for Examination

10.3. The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year:

Ministry/D Sl. No. Subjects epartment Ministry of 1. Pending Projects Railways 2. Safety and Security in Railways

3. Implementation of Dedicated Freight Corridor Projects

4. Cleanliness in Trains and Railway Stations

5. Passenger Amenities and Catering

6. Gauge Conversion

7. Introduction of high speed trains

8. Social Service obligations of Indian Railways

9. Railway Accounting System and Financial situation of Indian Railways 10 Last Mile Port Connectivity with Indian Railways

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee 10.4 The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 as introduced in Lok Sabha on 11 August, 2014, was referred by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, on 16 September, 2014 to the Standing Committee for examination and report.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committee

10.5 No Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted during 2014-15.

V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee

10.6. During its term, the Committee held 17 sittings lasting 25 hrs. and 23 minutes. A Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Twenty Six.

10.7. Another Statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of the Committee is given in Appendix Forty Two. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

10.8. The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the Ministry of Railways to the Committee are as follows: Sl. No. Subject No. of typed/printed pages 1. Pending Projects 200 2. Safety and Security in Railways 45 3. Implementation of Dedicated Freight Corridor Projects 20 4. Cleanliness in Trains and Railway Stations 20 5. Passenger Amenities and Catering 50 6. Gauge Conversion 20 7. Introduction of high speed trains 20 8. Social Service obligations of Indian Railways 20 9. Railway Accounting System and Financial situation of 20 Indian Railways 10. Last Mile Port Connectivity with Indian Railways 20

10.9. The number of memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below:

Sl. No. Subject No. of typed/printed pages 1. The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 300

(c) Study Visits Undertaken 10.10. The Committee on Railways undertook two on-the-spot study visits during the period under review. A Statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Fifty Eight.

VI. Reports Presented

(a) Original Reports

10.11. During the period under review, the Committee presented the following original Reports to the House:

Sl. Report Subject Date of presentation No. No. 1. 3rd Demands for Grants - 2014-15 of the Ministry of 18.12.2014 (LS) Railways 19.12.2014 (RS) 2. 4th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of 20.04.2015 (LS) Railways 23.04.2015 (RS) 3. 5th The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 on 05.05.2015

(b) Action Taken Reports

10.12. The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review:

Action Taken by Government on the 18.12.2014 (LS) 1. 1st recommendations/observations of the Standing Committee 19.12.2014 (RS) on Railways contained in their 21st Report (15th Lok Sabha) on “Major Railway Accidents during the last five years – Causes and Remedial Measures”

Action Taken by Government on the 2. 2nd recommendations/observations of the Standing Committee 18.12.2014 (LS) on Railways contained in their 25th Report (15th Lok Sabha) 19.12.2014 (RS) on “Ongoing and Pending Railway Projects, with special emphasis on Projects in the Northeast Region” 3. 6th Action Taken by Government on the recommendations/ 05.05.2015 observations of the Standing Committee on Railways

contained in their 23rd Report (15th Lok Sabha) on “Suburban Train Services of Indian Railways, with particular emphasis on security of women passengers” 4. 7th Action Taken by Government on the 11.08.2015 recommendations/observations of the Standing Committee on Railways contained in their 3rd Report (16th Lok Sabha) on “Demands for Grants - 2014-15 of the Ministry of Railways”

10.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Railways made Statements under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee: Sl. Report No. Subject Date of making the Statement No. 1. 23rd Suburban Train Services of Indian Railways, 01.12.2014 with particular emphasis on security of women (15th LS) passengers 2. 3rd Demands for Grant -2014-15 of the Ministry of 03.08.2015 Railways (16th LS)

(d) Action Taken Statement

10.14. Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter-I and Chapter-V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House:-

Sl. Report Subject Date of laying No. No. 1. 22nd Statement on Action Taken by Government on the 18.12.2014 (LS) (15th LS) recommendations contained in 22nd Report of the Standing 19.12.2014 (RS) Committee on Railways (15th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in their 20th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on „Demands for Grants-2013- 14 of the Ministry of Railways‟

2 24th Statement on Action Taken by Government on the 18.12.2014 (LS) (15th LS) recommendations contained in 24th Report of the Standing 19.12.2014 (RS) Committee on Railways (15th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in their 19th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on „Passenger Amenities and Passenger Safety in Indian Railways‟ 3 1st Statement on Action Taken by Government on the 13.08.2015 (16th LS) recommendations contained in 1st Report of the Standing Committee on Railways (16th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in their

21st Report (15th Lok Sabha) on „Major Railway Accidents during the last five years – Causes and Remedial Measures‟

4 2nd Statement on Action Taken by Government on the 13.08.2015 (16th LS) recommendations contained in 2nd Report of the Standing Committee on Railways (16th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in their 25th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on „Ongoing and Pending Railway Projects, with special emphasis on Projects in the Northeast Region‟.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations

10.15 The following Table indicates the analysis of the action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15:-

Report No. Total no. No. of recomm. No. of No. of recomm. No. of recomm. of accepted by recomm. which in which in respect of recomm. Govt. which the replies of Govt. have which final Committee did not been accepted replies of Govt. not desire to by Committee were awaited pursue in view of Govt. replies 21st (15th 16 9 NIL 7 NIL LS) 23rd (15th 40 32 3 5 NIL LS) 25th (15th LS) 16 12 2 2 NIL 3rd (16th LS) 23 16 3 4 NIL Total 95 69 8 18 NIL Percentage 72.63% 8.42% 18.95% -

(f) Laying of Minutes

10.16. Minutes of the sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House along with the relevant Reports.

V. Secretariat

10.17. The Standing Committee on Railways Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. An Additional Secretary, a Joint Secretary, a Director, and a Deputy Secretary remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R - E L E V E N

COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT

I. Composition of Committee

11.1. The Committee on Urban Development for the year (2014-15) was constituted on 1st September, 2014 and continued in office till 31th August, 2015.

11.2. The Committee consisted of 31 Members - 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairman Rajya Sabha respectively. Shri Pinaki Misra, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix-Eleven.

II. Subject Selected for examination

11.3. In addition to the examination of Demands for Grants for the year 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 of the Ministry of Urban Development and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, the Committee selected the following subjects for detailed examination for the year 2014-15:-

Sl. No. Ministry/Department Subjects

1. Ministry of Urban 1. Development of Smart Cities Development 2. Developmet of Public Spaces and Public & Conveniences in Cities Ministry of Housing and 3. Urban Transport Urban Poverty Alleviation 4. Timely and effective implementation of various schemes of M/o Urban Development by Government Agencies – An evaluation 5. Solic Waste Management 6. Urban Water Supply and Sanitation 7. Rainwater Harvesting in Metropolitan Cities 8. National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) 9. Low Cost Housing 10. Development of Urban Infrastructure in Satelite Towns of Metropolitan cities 11. Management of excessive migration of people to Urban Areas 12. Modernisation of Directorate of Printing, Government of India's Stationery Office and Department of Publication 13. Functioning of Directorate of Estates

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

11.4. No Bill was referred to the Committee by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha/Chairman,

Rajya Sabha for examination and Report thereon.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee

11.5 No Sub-Committees of the Committee were constituted to facilitate the examination of the various subjects: V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee

11.6 During its term, the Committee held 16 sittings lasting for 33 hours and 45 minutes.

Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix – Twenty Seven.

11.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of

Committee is given in Appendix-Forty three. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee relating to evidence on various subjects under their consideration was maintained and kept for record.

(b ) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

11.8. The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry /

Departments to the Committee are as follows:

Sl. Subject No. of typed/printed pages No. 1. Timely and effective implementation of various 150 schemes of M/o Urban Development by Government Agencies – An evaluation

2. Modernisation of Directorate of Printing, Government 130 of India's Stationery Office and Department of Publication

3. Solid Waste Management 15 3. Demands for Grants (2014-15) M/o Urban 180 Development 4. Demands for Grants (2014-15) M/o Housing and 170 Urban Poverty Alleviation

5. Demands for Grants (2015-16) M/o Urban 180 Development 7. Demands for Grants (2015-16) M/o Housing and 170 Urban Poverty Alleviation 5. Action Taken Replies on Demands for Grants (2014- 100 15) of Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 6. Action Taken Replies on Demands for Grants (2015- 125 16) of Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 7. Action Taken on Demands for Grants (2014-15) M/o 120 Urban Development 8. Functioning of Directorate of Estates 275

11.9 The Committee number of Memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below:-

Sl. Subject No.of Memoranda No. of typed/printed No. received page 1. Modernisation of Directorate of Printing, 4 20 Government of India's Stationery Office and Department of Publication

1 Solid Waste Management 3 15

11.10. The Committee on Urban Development undertook two study visit on-the-spot study visits during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix –Fifty nine.

VI. Reports finalized and presented (a) Original Reports 11.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original Reports to the House:-

S.No Report Subject of the Report Date of No. presentation 1 1st Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of 12.12.2014 Urban Development 2 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of 12.12.2014 Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 3 5th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of 27.04.2015 Urban Development 4 6th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of 27.04.2015 Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

(b) Action Taken Reports

11.12. The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review :-

S.No Report Subject of the Report Date of No presentation 1 3rd Action Taken by the Government on the 12.12.2014 Recommendations contained in the Thirty- First Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Urban Development on “Functioning of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) particularly with reference to affordable houses in Delhi and its role in regularization of unauthorized colonies in Delhi and matters connected thereto.” of the Ministry of Urban Development 2 4th Action Taken by the Government on the 27.04.2015 Recommendations contained in the Second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Urban Development on Demands for Grants (2014- 2015) ) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban PovertyAlleviation 3 7th Action Taken by the Government on the 31.07.2015 Recommendations contained in the First Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Urban Development on Demands for Grants (2014- 2015) of the Ministry of Urban Development 4 8th Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/ 10.08.2015 Recommendations contained in the Sixth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Urban Development on Demands for Grants (2015- 2016) ) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

11.13 During the period review, the Hon'ble Ministers of Urban Development did not make any

Statement under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the Context of the following

Original Reports of the Committee.

(d) Action Taken Statement

11.14 Statement showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter-I and Chapter V of the following Action Reports of the Committee were laid in the House:

Sl. Report No. Subject Date of making the No. Statement 1. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of 31.7.2015 the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

(D) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations

11.15. The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action

Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-2015.

Report Total No. of Total no. of Total no. of Total no. of Total no. of No. recommend- recommend- recommend- recommend- recommend- dations dations dations which dations in dations in accepted by the Com. did not respect of respect of Govt. desire to pursue which replies which final in view of Govt. of Govt. have replies of Govt. replies not been were awaited accepted by Committee 3rd 26 09 02 15 0 4th 20 12 00 08 00 7th 24 18 02 02 02 8th 22 19 00 03 00 Total 92 58 04 28 02 %ages 100% 63% 4.4% 30.43% 2.17%

(E) Laying of Minutes

11.16. Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the

House were prepared and presented to the House alongwith the relevant Reports.

VI. Secretariat

11.17 The Committee on Urban Development Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the

Committee. A Joint Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director, a Deputy Secretary and an

Executive Officer remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – T W E L V E

STANDING COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES

Composition of Committee

12.1 The Standing Committee on Water Resources for the term 2014-2015 was constituted

on 1 September 2014 and continued in office till 31 August, 2015.

12.2 The Committee consisted of 31 Members - 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10

Members of Rajya Sabha - nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chairman, Rajya

Sabha, respectively. Shri Hukum Singh, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the

Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix- Twelve.

II. Subjects selected for examination 12.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year :

Sl.No. Ministry/Deptt. Subjects 1. Ministry of Water Resources, (i) Conservation, Development, Management River Development and and Abatement of pollution in river Ganga Ganga Rejuvenation. and its tributaries.

(ii) Issues concerning Flood Management, Compensation and Status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to

disposal of the sand left in the fields of farmers.

(iii) Review of Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the country with particular reference to 'Dark Blocks'.

(iv) Review of Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP).

(v) Issues relating to sharing of river waters in the country.

(vi) National Projects – concept and achievement. Indigenous and Modern forms of Water

(vii) Indigenous and Modern forms of Water Conservation – Techniques and Practices.

(viii) Review of subordinate offices/attached offices/authorities under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation particularly Brahmaputra Board.

Rivers of the country : their present health, (ix) status, purity and maintenance.

Review of Inter-Linking of Rivers (ILR). (x)

Dams and Barrages : their present status, (xi) safety and security.

(xii) River Valley Projects : their present status including issues of submergence, resettlement and rehabilitation.

(xiii) Review of National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC).

(xiv) National Water Policy, 2012 and its Implementation.

(xv) Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

12.4 No bills/policies were referred to the Committee.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee

12.5 No Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted during the period under review.

V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee:

12.6 During its term, the Committee held 17 sittings lasting for 23 hours and 15 minutes.

12.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of the

Committee is given in Appendix Forty Four. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee - at which evidence was - taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee: 12.8 The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned

Ministry/Departments to the Committee are as follows:

Sl. No. Subject No. of Typed/Printed pages (approx)

1. Background Material, replies to List of Points, supplementary 500 List of Points on Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

2. Action Taken Replies on the recommendations/observations 150 contained in the Twenty First Report on "Review of Ganga Flood Control Commission".

3. Action Taken Replies on the recommendations/observations 250 contained in the First Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

4. Background Material, replies to List of Points, supplementary 250 List of Points on 'Demands for Grants (2015-2016) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

5. Further Action Taken Statement by the Government on 21st 50 Report. 6. Minister's Statement under Direction 73 - A on implementation of 50 the recommendations made by the Standing Committee in their 21 st report on "Review of Ganga Flood Control Commission".

7. Conservation, Development, Management and Abatement of 09 pollution in river Ganga and its tributaries.

8. Issues concerning Flood Management, Compensation and 12 Status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to disposal of the sand left in the fields of farmers. 9. Review of Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive 15 policy and measures to address problems in the country with

particular reference to 'Dark Blocks'.

10. Review of Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP). 02

11. Issues relating to sharing of river waters in the country. 04

12. National Projects : concept and achievements. 01 13. Indigenous and Modern forms of Water Conservation – 04 Techniques and Practices.

14. Review of subordinate offices/attached offices/authorities under 51 Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation particularly Brahmaputra Board.

15. Rivers of the country : their present health, status, purity and 21 maintenance.

16. Review of Inter-Linking of Rivers (ILR). 06 17. Dams and Barrages : their present status, safety and security. 03

18. River Valley Projects : their present status including issues of 08 submergence, resettlement and rehabilitation.

19. Review of National Projects Construction Corporation Limited 07 (NPCC).

20. National Water Policy, 2012 and its Implementation. 34

21. Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies. 23

12.9 The number of Memoranda received from the non-officials on different subjects is given below:

No such memoranda were received.

(c) Study Visits undertaken 12.10 The Committee on Water Resources undertook two on-the-spot Study Visits during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Sixty .

VI. Reports presented (a) Original Reports 12.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original

Reports to the House :

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. No. Presentation

1. 1st Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of the 23.12.2014 Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. 2. 3rd Demands for Grants (2015-2016) of the 27.04.2015 Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. 3. 4th Issues Concerning Flood Management, 13.05.2015 Compensation and Status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the Country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to disposal of the sand left in the fields of the farmers.

(b) Action Taken Reports 12.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review :

1. 2nd Action Taken by the Government on the 23.12.2014 Observations / Recommendations contained in the Twenty-First Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Water Resources

(c) Statements made under Direction 73A 12.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Water Resources made Statement under Direction 73-A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Report of the Committee Sl. Report No. Subject Date of making No. the Statement

1. 21st Twenty First Report on "Review of Ganga 23.06.2015 Flood Control Commission".

(d) Action Taken Statement 12.14 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House :

Sl. Report Subject Date of laying No. No.

1. 19th Further Action Taken by the Government on the 26.11.2014 Observations /Recommendations contained in the 19th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the Observations /Recommendations contained in the Sixteenth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on "Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies". 2. 20th Further Action Taken by the Government on the 26.11.2014 Observations /Recommendations contained in the 20th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the observations/recommendations contained in 17th Report on Demands for Grants (2013-14).

3. 2nd Further Action Taken by the Government on the 27.04.2015 observations / recommendations contained in their 2 Report (16th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the 21st Report (15th Lok Sabha) on "Review of Ganga Flood Control Commission."

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on Recommendations: 12.15 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-2015 : Report Total No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. Recomme- Recomm- Recomm- Recomm- Recomme- ndations endations endations endations in ndations in accepted by the which the respect of respect of which Govt. Committee did which replies final replies of not desire to of Govt. have Govt. were pursue in view not been awaited of the Govt. accepted by Replies Committee 2nd 36 19 08 02 07 %age 100% 52.78% 22.22% 5.56% 19.44%

(f) Laying of Minutes:

12.16 Minutes of the sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the

House were prepared and presented to the House along with the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat

12.17 The Standing Committee on Water Resources Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. A Joint Secretary, a Director, and an Additional Director remained in charge of the Branch.

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C H A P T E R - T H I R T E E N

COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS I. Composition of the Committee

13.1. The Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers (2014-15) was constituted on 1st

September, 2014 and continued in office till 31st August, 2015.

13.2 The Committee consisted of 31 Members - 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10

Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairman Rajya Sabha, respectively. There was 1 vacancy of Rajya Sabha Member as on 1.9.2014. Shri

Anandrao Adsul MP was appointed as Chairperson of the Committee w.e.f 1.9.2014. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Thirteen.

II. Subjects Selected for Examination 13.3. The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year.

S.No Ministry/Department Subjects 1 Ministry of Chemicals and 1.Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Fertilizers Regions (Department of Chemicals (PCPIRs) and Petrochemicals) 2. Demand and Availability of Petrochemicals including imports and exports 3. National Chemical Policy 2 Ministry of Chemicals and 1. Movement of Fertilizers and Monitoring System Fertilizers 2. Evaluation of Performance of Fertilizers Industry (Department of Fertilizers) 3 Ministry of Chemicals and 1. Jan Aushadhi Scheme Fertilizers 2. Functioning of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education (Department of and Pharmaceuticals) Research (NIPER) 3 Pricing of Drugs with special reference to Drug (Prices Control) Order 2013

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

13.4 No bills/policies were referred to the Committee.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee

13.5 No Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted during the period under review.

V. Resume of Work Done (a) Sittings of the Committee

13.6 During its term, the Committee held 21 sittings lasting for 26 hrs. and 40 minutes.

Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under

Review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Twenty Nine.

13.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of

Committee is given in Appendix Forty Five. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee in which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b ) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

13.8. The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned Ministry/Deptts. to the Committee are as follows :-

Sl. Subject No. of typed No (Department wise) /printed pages 1 2 3 A. Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals 1. Demands for Grants 2014-15 450 (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals) 2. Demands for Grants 2015-16 500 (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals) 3. Action Taken by the Government on the 150 recommendations/observations contained in the First Report ( Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals B Department of Fertilizers 1. Demands for Grants 2014-15 500 (Department of Fertilizers) 2. Demands for Grants 2015-16 512 (Department of Fertilizers) 3. Action Taken by the Government on the 160 recommendations/observations contained in the Third Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Fertilizers 4. Report on the subject Movement of Fertilizers and Monitoring 140 System of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) C Department of Pharmaceuticals 1. Demands for Grants 2014-15 425

(Department of Pharmaceuticals) 2. Demands for Grants 2015-16 450 (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 3. Action Taken by the Government on the 130 recommendations/observations contained in the Second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Pharmaceuticals 4. Report on the subject Jan Aushadhi Scheme of the Ministry of 140 Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 5. Report on the subject Functioning of National Institutes of 140 Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals)

13.9. The Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers undertook two on-the-spot Study tour during the period under Review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Sixty One. VI. Reports presented (a) Original Reports

13.10 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original Report to the House :- Sl.No Report Subject Date of Presentation No. 1 1st Demands for Grants 2014-15 10.12.2014 (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals) 2 2nd Demands for Grants 2014-15 10.12.2014 (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 3 3rd Demands for Grants 2014-15 18.12.2014 (Department of Fertilizers) 4 4th Report on the subject Jan Aushadhi Scheme 04.03.2015 (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 5 5th Demands for Grants 2015-16 20.04.2015 (LS) (Department of Fertilizers) 23.04.2015 (RS) 6 6th Demands for Grants 2015-16 20.04.2015 (LS) (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 23.04.2015 (RS) 7 7th Demands for Grants 2015-16 20.04.2015 (LS) (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals) 23.04.2015 (RS) 8 11th Report on the subject Movement of Fertilizers 31.07.2015 (LS) and Monitoring System (Department of 24.07.2015 (RS) Fertilizers) 9 12th Report on the subject Functioning of National 12.08.2015 Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) (Department of Pharmaceuticals)

(b) Action Taken Reports

13.11. The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review :-

SL. Report Date of Subject No. No. Presentation Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Third Report 1. 8th (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of 22.07.2015 the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Department of Fertilizers Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the Second 2. 9th Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014- 22.07.2015 15) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Department of Pharmaceuticals Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the First Report 3. 10th (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of 22.07.2015 the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals

(c) Statement made under Direction 73A 13.12 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Chemicals & Fertilizers made

Statements under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following

Original Reports of the Committee:-

Date of SL. Report Subject making the No. No. Statement

1 39th Report on Pricing of Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) 28.04.2015

(d) Action Taken Statement 13.13 Statement showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House :-

Sl. Subject Date of No laying 1 Action Taken Statement on 40th Report on Action taken by the 23.12.2014 Government on the recommendations contained in the 34th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants 2013-14 , Department of

Chemicals and Petrochemicals. 2 Action Taken Statement on 41st Report on Action taken by the 23.12.2014 Government on the recommendations contained in the 35th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants 2013-14, Department of Pharmaceuticals. 3 Action Taken Statement on 42nd Report on Action taken by the 23.12.2014 Government on the recommendations contained in the 33rd Report (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants 2013-14, Department of Fertilizers. 4 Action Taken Statement on 43rd Report on Action taken by the 23.12.2014 Government on the recommendations contained in the 36th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject Production and Availability of Pesticides, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 13.14 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action

Taken Reports were presented during the year (2014-15):-

Report No. Total No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of recommend- recommend- recommend- recommend- recommendations ations ations ations which ations in respect in respect of which accepted by the Com. did of which final replies of Govt. Govt. not desire to replies of Govt. have not been pursue in view were awaited accepted by of Govt. replies Committee 8th 10 8 Nil 1 1 9th 7 6 Nil Nil 1 10th 10 8 Nil Nil 2 Total 27 22 Nil 1 4 %age 100 81 Nil 4 15

(f) Laying of Minutes 13.15. Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House along with the relevant Reports.

V. Secretariat

13.16 The Chemicals and Fertilizers Committee Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. A Joint Secretary, an Additional Director, a Deputy Secretary and an Under Secretary remained in charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R – F O U R T E E N

COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT

I. Composition of Committee

14.1. The Committee on Rural Development for the year (2014-15) was constituted on

1.09.2014 and continued in office till 31.08.2015.

14.2 The Committee consisted of 31 Members - 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10

Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha, and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha respectively. Dr. P. Venugopal, M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Fourteen.

II. Subjects selected for examination

14.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year.

Sl.No. Ministry/Department Subjects 1. Ministry of Rural Development BPL Survey (Department of Rural Development)

2. Ministry of Rural Development Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (Department of Rural Development) (PMGSY)

3. Ministry of Rural Development Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) (Department of Rural Development)

4. Ministry of Rural Development National Institute of Rural Development (Department of Rural Development) (NIRD)

5. Ministry of Rural Development Impact and effectiveness of Watershed (Department of Land Resources) Development Programmes

6. Ministry of Drinking Water and Implementation of National Rural Drinking Sanitation Water Programme (NRDWP) [with special reference to quality of Drinking Water] and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA)

7. Ministry of Panchayati Raj Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) 8. Ministry of Rural Development, Implementation of Central Sponsored Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation Schemes in Andaman & Nicobar Islands and and Ministry of Panchayati Raj other Union Territories.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

14.4 In addition to the subjects selected, the following Bill was also referred to the Committee by the Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha for examination and Report thereon: Sl.No. Name of the Bill/Policy Date when referred to the Committee 1. The Registration (Amendment) 16.09.2014 Bill, 2013

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee

14.5 No Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted during the term of the Committee. V. Resume of Work Done

(a) Sittings of the Committee

14.6 During its term, the Committee held 24 sittings lasting for 39 hrs. and 35 minutes. Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under Review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein are given in Appendix Thirty. 14.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Forty Six. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee was maintained and kept for record. (b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

14.8 The subject-wise details of the material furnished by the concerned Ministry/Departments to the Committee are as follows:- Sl. Subject No. of typed/ No. printed pages (approx.) 1. BPL Survey 35 2. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) 25 3. Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) 30 4. National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) 35

5. Impact and effectiveness of Watershed Development 60 Programmes 6. Implementation of National Rural Drinking Water Programme 10 (NRDWP) [with special reference to quality of Drinking Water] and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) 7. Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) 14 8. Implementation of Central Sponsored Schemes in Andaman 200 & Nicobar Islands and other Union Territories. TOTAL 409

14.9 The number of Memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below:- SI. Subject No. of Memoranda No. of No. received typed/printed page 1. The Registration 42 207 (Amendment) Bill, 2013 TOTAL 207

14.10 The Committee on Rural Development undertook two Study Visits and one half day local tour during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Sixty Two.

VI. Reports presented (a) Original Reports 14.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following original

Reports to the House:

Sl. No. Report Report Number and Subject Date of No. Presentation 1. 1st Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of the Ministry of 19.12.2014 Rural Development (Department of Rural Development)

2. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of the Ministry of -do- Rural Development (Department of Land Resources)

3. 3rd Demands for Grants (2014-2015) of the Ministry of -do- Panchayati Raj.

4. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of -do- Drinking Water and Sanitation. 5. 5th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of 20.04.2015 Drinking Water and Sanitation.

6. 6th Demands for Grants (2015-2016) of the Ministry of 23.04.2015 Rural Development (Department of Rural Development)

7. 7th Demands for Grants (2015-2016) of the Ministry of -do- Rural Development (Department of Land Resources) 8. 8th Demands for Grants (2015-2016) of the Ministry of -do- Panchayati Raj.

9. 9th The Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013 08.05.2015

(b) Action Taken Reports 14.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review:- Sl. Report No. Subject Date of No Presentation 1. 10th Action taken by the Government on the 12.08.2015 recommendations contained in the First Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Rural Development) 2. 11th Action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Second Report -do- (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Land Resources) 3. 12th Action taken by the Government on the -do- recommendations contained in the Third Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.

4. 13th Action taken by the Government on the -do- recommendations contained in the Fourth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

5. 14th Action taken by the Government on the -do- recommendations contained in the Forty-Second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. 6. 15th Action taken by the Government on the -do- recommendations contained in the Forty- Fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Capacity Building of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs).

14.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Rural Development made

Statements under Direction 73A of „Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following

Original Reports of the Committee:

Sl.No. Report Subject Date of making No. the Statement 1. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the 03.08.2015 RS Department of Land Resources (Ministry of 06.08.2015 LS Rural Development).

2. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry 08.05.2015 LS of Drinking Water & Sanitation. 11.05.2015 RS

(d) Action Taken Statement 14.14 No statement showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the Action Taken Report of the Committee was laid in the House during the period under review.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations

14.15 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action

Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15.

Report Total No. of No. of No of No. of No. of No. recommenda recommendation recommendatio recommendatio recommendatio tions s accepted by ns which the ns in respect of ns in respect of Government Committee did which replies of which final not desire to Government replies of pursue in view have not been Government of Government accepted by were awaited replies Committee 10 26 16 2 7 1 11 10 5 0 2 3

12 17 7 3 5 2 13 17 14 0 0 3 14 27 22 0 5 0 15 23 13 5 4 1 Total 120 77 10 23 10 Percent 64.17 8.33 19.17 8.33 age

(f) Laying of Minutes

14.16 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the

House were prepared and presented to the House alongwith the relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat

14.17 The Committee on Rural Development Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the

Committee. The Branch was headed by a Joint Secretary further a Director, an Additional

Director and a Deputy Secretary remained in charge of the Branch during the term of the

Committee.

C H A P T E R - F I F T E E N

COMMITTEE ON COAL & STEEL (2014-15)

I. Composition of Committee

15.1. The Committee on Coal and Steel for the year 2014-15 was constituted on 01.09.2014 and continued in office till 31.08.2015

15.2 The Committee consisted of 31 Members. 21 Members of Lok Sabha and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha nominated by the Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha respectively. Shri Hansraj G. Ahir M.P. was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee. Subsequently, on being appointed as a minister in Union Council of Minister, Shri Ahir ceased to be Member and Chairperson of the Committee. Shri Rakesh Singh, M.P. was appointed as Chairperson of the Committee w.e.f. 27.11.2014. The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Fifteen. II. Subject selected for examination 15.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year 2014-15:-

Sl. Ministry/Department Subjects No. 1 Ministry of Coal (i) Safety, health and education facilities for inhabitants/workers in Coal/Lignite Mining areas. (ii) Land Acquisition and issues of rehabilitation & resettlement in Coal/Lignite Mining Areas. (iii) Performance of Coal Controller's office. (iv) Production of Lignite – Projections and Planning. (v) Production, Marketing and Distribution of Coal. (vi) Illegal Coal Mining and Theft of Coal. (vii) Compliance of Environment Norms by Coal Companies.

2 Ministry of Mines (i) Self Reliance in Minerals and Mineral based products. (ii) Mineral Exploration Activities in the Country. (iii) Development of Aluminium & Copper Industries in India. (iv) Organizational Structure and Performance of Geological Survey of India (GSI) – A Review. (v) Organizational Structure and Performance of Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) – A Review.

3 Ministry of Steel (i) Safety Management & Practices in Steel PSUs. (ii) The Indian Steel Sector : Development and Potential. (iii) Development of Manganese Ore Industry in India. (iv) Research and Development in Iron and Steel

Sector. (v) CSR Activities in Steel PSUs. (vi) Modernization and Expansion Plans of Steel Sector.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

15.4 No Bill/Policy was referred to the Committee by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha/Chairman, Rajya Sabha for examination and Report thereon.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committees of the Committee

15.5 No Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted during the year 2014-15.

V. Resume of work done

(a) Sittings of the Committee

15.6 During its term, the Committee held 17 sittings lasting for 36 hours and 30 minutes. Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Thirty One. 15.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of Committee is given in Appendix Forty Seven. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record. (b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

15.8 The subject-wise details of the material furnished by the concerned Ministry to the

Committee are as follows:-

Sl. Subjects No. of typed/ No. printed pages Ministry of Coal

1 Background material on Demands for Grants(2014-15) and (2015- 1058 16), Replies to the List of Points on Demands for Grants (2014-15) & (2015-16), Background Notes on the subjects selected by the Committee (2014-15), Statements made by the Minister Under Direction 73A on the implementation status on the recommendations contained in the Reports.

Ministry of Mines

2 Background material on Demands for Grants(2014-15) and (2015- 998 16), Replies to the List of Points on Demands for Grants (2014-15) & (2015-16), Background Notes on the subjects selected by the Committee (2014-15), Statements made by the Minister Under Direction 73A on the implementation status on the recommendations contained in the Reports. Ministry of Steel

3 Background material on Demands for Grants(2014-15) and (2015- 1204 16), Replies to the List of Points on Demands for Grants (2014-15) & (2015-16), Background Notes on the subjects selected by the Committee (2014-15), Statements made by the Minister Under Direction 73A on the implementation status on the recommendations contained in the Reports.

15.9 The number of Memoranda received from non-officials on Bill given below:-

Sl.No. Subject No. of Memoranda No. of typed/printed received page 1. The Mineral Development and 1 23 Regulation Framework in India

15.10 The Committee on Coal and Steel undertook two on-the-spot Study visits during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Sixty Three.

VI. Reports presented

(a) Original Reports

15.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original

Reports to the House:-

Sl. Report Subject Date of No No. Presentation 1 1st Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry of Coal 22.12.2014 2 2nd Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry of Mines 3 3rd Demands for Grants(2014-15) of the Ministry of Steel 4 7th Demands for Grants(2015-16) of the Ministry of Coal 24.04.2015 5 8th Demands for Grants(2015-16) of the Ministry of Mines 6 9th Demands for Grants(2015-16) of the Ministry of Steel

7 14th Safety, Health and Education Facilities for 12.08.2015 Inhabitants/Workers in Coal/Lignite Mining Areas of the Ministry of Coal

(b) Action Taken Reports

15.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review.

Sl. Report Subject Date of No No. Presentation 1 4th Action Taken Report on 50th Report of the 22.12.2014 Committee(15th Lok Sabha) on "Service Conditions of Workers including Contract Workers in Coal India Ltd. and its subsidiaries" pertaining to Ministry of Coal" 2 5th Action Taken Report on 51st Report of the Committee(15th Lok Sabha) on "Service Conditions of Workers in Public Sector Steel Companies" pertaining to the Ministry of Steel 3 6th Action Taken Report on 52nd Report of the Committee(15th Lok Sabha) on "Marketing and Transportation of Steel by Public Sector Steel Companies" pertaining to the Ministry of Steel 4 10th Action Taken Report on 49th Report of the Committee 24.04.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) on "Coal Pricing and Issues Relating to Coal Royalty" pertaining to the Ministry of Coal 5 11th Action Taken Report on 1st Report of the Committee 06.05.2015 (16th Lok Sabha) on "DFG(2014-15) pertaining to Ministry of Coal" 6 12th Action Taken Report on 2nd Report of the Committee (16th Lok Sabha) on "DFG(2014-15) pertaining to Ministry of Mines" 7 13th Action Taken Report on 3rd Report of the Committee (16th Lok Sabha) on "DFG(2014-15) pertaining to Ministry of Steel"

15.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Coal and Steel made Statements under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee:- Sl. No. Report No. Subject Date of making the Statement 1 38th (15th L.S.) Review of Export of Iron Ore Policy 11.08.2014 relating to the Ministry of Steel 2 39th (15th L.S.) Promotion of Steel Usage relating to the Ministry of Steel

3 40th (15th L.S.) Functioning of MSTC Ltd. relating to the Ministry of Steel 4 51st (15th L.S.) Service Conditions of Workers in 22.04.2015 Public Sector Steel Companies relating to the Ministry of Steel 5 52nd (15th L.S.) Marketing and Transportation of Steel by Public Sector Steel Companies relating to the Ministry of Steel 6 3rd (16th L.S.) Demands for Grants (2015-16) relating 11.08.2015 to the Ministry of Steel

(d) Action Taken Statement

15.14 Statements showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and V of the following Action Taken Reports (15th Lok Sabha) of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House:-

Sl. No. Report No. Subject Date of Laying

1 44th Action Taken Report on 33rd Report of the 12.08.2015 Committee on "DFG(2013-14) pertaining to Ministry of Coal" 2 45th Action Taken Report on 34th Report of the Committee on "DFG(2013-14) pertaining to Ministry of Mines" Action Taken Report on 34th Report of the Committee on "DFG(2013-14) pertaining to Ministry of Mines" 3 51st Service Conditions of Workers in Public Sector Steel Companies relating to the Ministry of Steel 4 52nd Marketing and Transportation of Steel by Public Sector Steel Companies relating to the Ministry of Steel

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations

15.15. The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports (15th Lok Sabha) were presented during the year 2014-15.

Report No. Total No. of No. of Rec. No. of Rec. No. of Rec. in No. of Rec. in Rec. accepted by which the r/o which r/o which final Govt. Committee replies of replies of did not desire Govt. have govt. were to pursue not been awaited accepted by Committee 4th 21 14 02 03 02

5th 14 06 02 06 00

6th 14 08 00 06 00

10th 18 09 02 02 05

11th 17 13 03 01 00

12th 11 06 00 01 04

13th 19 16 01 01 01

Total 114 72 10 20 12

Percentage 63.16% 08.77% 17.54% 10.53%

(f) Laying of Minutes

15.16 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports presented to the House were prepared and presented to the House alongwith relevant Reports.

VII. Secretariat

15.17 The Committee on Coal and Steel Branch constitutes the Secretariat of the Committee. A Joint Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director and an Under Secretary remained in-charge of the Branch.

C H A P T E R - S I X T E E N

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

I. Composition of Committee

16.1 The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2014-15) was constituted on 1st September, 2014 and continued till 31st August, 2015.

16.2 The Committee consisted of 31 members – 20 members of Lok Sabha and 10 members of Rajya Sabha nominated by Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chairman, Rajya Sabha respectively. Shri Ramesh Bais, MP was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee.

The composition of the Committee is given in Appendix Sixteen.

II. Subjects Selected for Examination

16.3 The Committee selected the following subjects for examination during the year :

Sl. Ministry/Department Subject No. 1. Ministry of Social Justice and Impact analysis of the micro-credit finance Empowerment (Department of scheme of the National Scheduled Castes Social Justice and Finance and Development Corporation Empowerment). (NSFDC).

2. -do- Rehabilitation/treatment of persons affected by substance, liquor and drug abuse.

3. Ministry of Social Justice and Schemes for empowerment and Empowerment (Department of rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Disability Affairs). (PwDs) – An overview.

4. -do- Reservation in education and jobs for people with different abilities. 5. Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Implementation of educational schemes for Tribal people. 6. -do- Review of the functioning of the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED).

7. Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Implementation of schemes for Socio- economic upliftment of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). 8. -do- Displacement of Tribal People due to Developmental Projects and their rehabilitation. 9. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Educational schemes for Minorities.

10. -do- Schemes for development of linguistic Minorities.

11. -do- Review of the functioning of the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC). 12. -do- Evaluation of scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women.

13. Ministry of Social Justice and Priority Sector lending by Banks to SCs, Empowerment (Department of STs, OBCs, differently abled persons and Social Justice and the Minorities. Empowerment and Department of Disability Affairs), Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Ministry of Minority Affairs and Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services).

14. Ministry of Social Justice and Implementation of schemes/Acts for the Empowerment (Department of welfare of SCs, STs, OBCs, differently Social Justice and abled persons and the Minorities. Empowerment and Department of Disability Affairs), Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Ministry of Minority Affairs. 15. -do- Grants-in-aid to NGOs working for social welfare and evaluation of their functioning.

III. Bills/Policies referred to the Committee

16.4 In addition to the subjects selected, the following Bills/Policies were also referred to the Committee by the Hon‟ble Speaker, Lok Sabha/Chairman, Rajya Sabha for examination and Report thereon : Sl. Name of the Bill/Policy Date when No. referred to the Committee

1. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014. 16.9.2014.

2. The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders 16.9.2014. (Amendment) Bill, 2014.

3. The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized 16.9.2014. Occupants) Bill, 2014.

4. The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes 16.9.2014 (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2014.

IV. Constitution of Sub-Committee of the Committee

16.5 During the period no Sub-Committee of the Committee was constituted.

V. Resume of work Done

(a). Sittings of the Committee

16.6 During its term, the Committee held 28 sittings lasting for 50 hours and 20 minutes.

Statement showing the dates of sittings of the Committee held during the period under

Review, the duration of the sittings, the number of Members present and the subjects discussed therein is given in Appendix Thirty Two.

16.7 Another statement showing the number of sittings attended by each Member of

Committee is given in Appendix Forty Eight. Verbatim record of the proceedings of the sittings of the Committee at which evidence was taken was maintained and kept for record.

(b) Material and Memoranda furnished to the Committee

16.8 The subject-wise details of the materials furnished by the concerned

Ministry/Departments to the Committee are as follows :-

Sl. Subject No. of typed/ No. printed pages (Approx.)

1. Impact analysis of the micro-credit finance scheme of the 30 National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC). 2. Rehabilitation/treatment of persons affected by substance, 300 liquor and drug abuse. 3. Schemes for empowerment and rehabilitation of Persons with 20 Disabilities (PwDs) – An overview. 4. Reservation in education and jobs for people with different 15 abilities. 5. Implementation of educational schemes for Tribal people. 20 6. Review of the functioning of the Tribal Cooperative Marketing 100

Development Federation of India (TRIFED).

7. Implementation of schemes for Socio-economic upliftment of 15 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).

8. Displacement of Tribal People due to Developmental Projects 60 and their rehabilitation.

9. Educational schemes for Minorities. 300 10. Schemes for development of linguistic Minorities. 20 11. Review of the functioning of the National Minorities 200 Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC). 12. Evaluation of scheme for Leadership Development of Minority 20 Women.

13. Priority Sector lending by Banks to SCs, STs, OBCs, 25 differently abled persons and the Minorities. 14. Implementation of schemes/Acts for the welfare of SCs, STs, 20 OBCs, differently abled persons and the Minorities. 15. Grants-in-aid to NGOs working for social welfare and 100 evaluation of their functioning.

16. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014. 500

17. The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) 200 Bill, 2014.

18. The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) 3000 Bill, 2014.

19. The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention 200 of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2014.

20. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social 2000 Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment). 21. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social 1000 Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

22. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Tribal 1200 Affairs.

23. Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Minority 1200 Affairs.

24. Action taken by the Government on the 75 observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty-ninth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Implementation of schemes for Welfare of Senior Citizens" pertaining to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and

Empowerment).

25. Action taken by the Government on the 50 observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-fifth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Review of the functioning of National Institutes working in the field of disability" pertaining to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

26. Action taken by the Government on the 60 observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-fourth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas" pertaining to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. 27. Action taken by the Government on the 70 observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-sixth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Implementation of Prime Minister‟s New 15 Point Programme" pertaining to the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

28. Demands for Grants (2015-15) of the Ministry of Social 2000 Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

29. Demands for Grants (2015-15) of the Ministry of Social 1000 Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

30. Demands for Grants (2015-15) of the Ministry of Tribal 1200 Affairs.

31. Demands for Grants (2015-15) of the Ministry of Minority 1200 Affairs.

32. Action taken by the Government on the 70 observations/recommendations contained in the First Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

33. Action taken by the Government on the 50 observations/recommendations contained in the Second Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

34. Action taken by the Government on the 25 observations/recommendations contained in the Fourth

Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs. 35. Action taken by the Government on the 60 observations/recommendations contained in the Third Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

36. Action taken by the Government on the 35 observations/recommendations contained in the Fourteenth Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

37. Statement showing final action taken by the Government on 30 the observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty- eighth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Twenty-seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Scheme of Multi-sectoral Development Programme" of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

38. Statement showing final action taken by the Government on 20 the observations/recommendations contained in the Fortieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants, 2013-14 of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

39. Statement showing final action taken by the Government on 30 the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty- first Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-sixth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants, 2013-14 of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

40. Statement showing final action taken by the Government on 25 the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty- third Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-fourth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants, 2013-14 of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

41. Statement showing final action taken by the Government on 20 the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty- second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Minority

Affairs.

42. Statement showing final action taken by the Government on 70 the observations/recommendations contained in the Ninth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Forty-fourth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas" of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

43. Minister‟s statement under direction 73A regarding status of 30 implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty-fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

44. Minister‟s statement under direction 73A regarding status of 55 implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject "Review of the functioning of National Institutes Working in the field of disabilities" of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

45. Minister‟s statement under direction 73A regarding status of 35 implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in Forty-fourth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject “Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas” pertaining to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

46. Minister‟s statement under direction 73A regarding status of 80 implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in Forty-sixth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject “Implementation of Prime Minister‟s New 15 Point Porgramme” of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

47. “Implementation of Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional 50 Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006”.

16.9 The number of Memoranda received from non-officials on different subjects is given below :- S. Subject No. of No. of typed/ No. Memoranda printed page received (Approx.) 1. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 500 (Approx.) 4000 2014. 2. The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized 4 200 Occupants) Bill, 2014.

3. Rehabilitation/treatment of persons affected by 5 100 substance, liquor and drug abuse.

16.10 The Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment undertook two on-the spot Study

Visit during the period under review. A statement showing the composition, duration and the places visited by the Committee is given in Appendix Sixty Four.

VI. Reports presented

(a) Original Reports 16.11 During the period under review, the Committee presented the following Original

Reports to the House :

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. Number Presentation st 1. 1 Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and 19.12.2014 Empowerment). 2. 2nd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry 19.12.2014 of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

3. 3rd Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry 19.12.2014 of Tribal Affairs.

4. 4th Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry 19.12.2014 of Minority Affairs.

5. 5th The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders 19.12.2014 (Amendment) Bill, 2014.

6. 6th The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled 19.12.2014 Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2014.

th 7. 11 Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry 28.4.2015 of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

th 8. 12 Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry 28.4.2015 of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

9. 13th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry 28.4.2015 of Tribal Affairs. 10. 14th Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry 28.4.2015 of Minority Affairs.

th 11. 15 The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 7.5.2015 2014.

12. 20th The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorised 12.8.2015 Occupants) Bill, 2014.

(b) Action Taken Reports

16.12 The following Action Taken Reports were presented to the House during the period under review :

Sl. Report Subject Date of No. Number Presentation

th 1. 7 Action taken by the Government on the 13.3.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty-ninth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Implementation of schemes for Welfare of Senior Citizens" pertaining to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

th 2. 8 Action taken by the Government on the 13.3.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-fifth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Review

of the functioning of National Institutes working in the field of disability" pertaining to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

3. 9th 13.3.2015 Action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-fourth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas" pertaining to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

th 4. 10 Action taken by the Government on the 13.3.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-sixth Report of the Committee (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Implementation of Prime Minister‟s New 15 Point Programme" pertaining to the Ministry of Minority Affairs. th 5. 16 Action taken by the Government on the 10.8.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the First Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

6. 17th Action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Second Report of the Committee 10.8.2015 (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants

(2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities). th 7. 18 Action taken by the Government on the 10.8.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Fourth Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

th 8. 19 Action taken by the Government on the 10.8.2015 observations/recommendations contained in the Third Report of the Committee (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

16.13 During the period under review, the Hon'ble Ministers for Social Justice and

Empowerment made Statements under Direction 73A of 'Directions by the Speaker' in the context of the following Original Reports of the Committee :

Sl.No. Report Number Subject Date of making the Statement 1. 34th Minister‟s statement under direction 73A 8.12.2014 (15th Lok Sabha) regarding status of implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in Thirty-fourth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

2. 35th Minister‟s statement under direction 73A 2.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) regarding status of implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty-fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities). 3. 45th Minister‟s statement under direction 73A 5.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) regarding status of implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject "Review of the functioning of National Institutes Working in the field of disabilities" of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

4. 44th Minister‟s statement under direction 73A 13.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) regarding status of implementation of the observations/recommendations contained in Forty-fourth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject “Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas” pertaining to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

5. 46th Minister‟s statement under direction 73A RS – 11.8.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) regarding status of implementation of the LS – 12.8.2015 observations/recommendations contained in Forty-sixth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject “Implementation of Prime Minister‟s New 15 Point Porgramme” of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

(d) Action Taken Statements

16.14 Statement showing further action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter I and Chapter V of the following Action Taken Reports of the Committee were laid on the Table of the House :- Sl. Report Subject Date of laying No. Number 1. 38th Statement showing final action taken by 7.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty-eighth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Twenty-seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Scheme of Multi-sectoral Development Programme" of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

2. 35th Statement showing final action taken by 7.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Fortieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants, 2013-14 of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

3. 36th Statement showing final action taken by 7.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-first Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations

contained in the Thirty-sixth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants, 2013-14 of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment). 4. 34th Statement showing final action taken by 7.5.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-third Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-fourth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants, 2013-14 of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

5. 37th Statement showing final action taken by 10.8.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Forty-second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Thirty-seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

6. 44th Statement showing final action taken by 10.8.2015 (15th Lok Sabha) the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Ninth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the Action Taken by the Government on the observations/ recommendations contained in the Forty- fourth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas" of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

(e) Analysis of Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations 16.15 The following table indicates the analysis of the action taken by Government on the recommendations made by the Committee in their Reports in respect of which Action Taken

Reports were presented during the year 2014-15 :-

Report No Total No. of Rec. No. of Rec. No. of Rec. in No. of Rec. No. of accepted which the respect of in respect of Rec. by Govt. Committee did which replies which final not desire to of Govt. have replies of pursue in view not been Govt. were of Govt. replies accepted by awaited Committee

7th 31 16 2 4 9

8th 23 17 0 4 2

9th 21 9 0 2 10

10th 17 11 1 3 2

16th 6 5 0 0 1

17th 14 11 0 3 0

18th 8 8 0 0 0

19th 10 8 1 0 1

Total 130 85 4 16 25

Percentage 100% 65.39 3.08 12.30 19.23

(f) Laying of Minutes

16.16 Minutes of sittings of the Committee relating to various Reports were prepared and appended with the Reports which were presented to the House.

VII. Secretariat

16.17 The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment Branch constitutes the

Secretariat of the Committee. One Additional Secretary, a Director, an Additional Director and one Under Secretary remained in-charge of the Branch.

CHAPTER- SEVENTEEN

ROLE OF THE SECRETARIAT

According to the provision of rule 2 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha Secretariat to the Standing Committees working under the Directions of Speaker, Lok Sabha is provided by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. To provide secretarial assistance to the Standing Committees, separate Branches have been created in the Secretariat. Each Branch is catering to a particular Standing Committee.

2. The Committee Branches assist the committee in their work; to study the material received from the Ministries / Departments / various non-official organizations and individuals; study the published material like Parliamentary Debates, Answers to Parliamentary Questions, press reports and other published material for framing Questionnaire for preliminary information / evidence / post-evidence information for use of the Committee; prepare memoranda, minutes and the draft reports for the consideration and approval by the Committee; handle all the works involving presentation, printing and distribution of Reports. The Branches also deal with work relating to the scrutiny of action taken notes received from the Government on the recommendations contained in their earlier Reports and preparation of draft Action Taken Reports etc.

PART II

APPENDICES

(A) COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEES

APPENDIX-ONE (Vide Para 1.2)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

Shri Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav - Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri Sanganna Amarappa 3. Prof. Ravindra Vishwanath Gaikwad *4. Prof. Richard Hay 5. Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel 6. Md. Badaruddoza Khan 7. Shri C. Mahendran 8. Dr. Tapas Mandal 9. Shri Janardan Mishra 10. Shri Ajay Nishad 11. Shri Dalpat Singh Paraste 12. Shri Nityanand Rai 13. Shri Mukesh Rajput 14. Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao 15. Shri C.L. Ruala 16. Shri Arjun Charan Sethi 17. Shri Satyapal Singh 18. Shri Virendra Singh 19. Shri Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav 20. Shri Dharmendra Yadav 21. Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri A.W. Rabi Bernard 23. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury 24. Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa 25. Shri Janardan Dwivedi 26. Shri Vinay Katiyar 27. Shri Mohd. Ali Khan 28. Shri Rajpal Singh Saini 29. Shri Ram Nath Thakur 30. Shri Shankarbhai N. Vegad 31. Shri Darshan Singh Yadav ______*Nominated as a Member of Committee on Agriculture vide Lok Sabha Bulletin Part-II No. 2303 dated 17.08.2015 vice Shri Kadiyam Srihari who ceased to be the Member of the Committee on his resignation from Lok Sabha w.e.f 11.06.2015 vide Notification No. 21/1/2015/T(B) dated 15.06.2015

APPENDIX - TWO (Vide Para 2.2)

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Shri Anurag Singh Thakur - Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha 2. Shri L.K. Advani 3. Shri Prasun Banerjee 4. Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad * 5. Dr. K.C. Patel 6. Shri Hemant Tukaram Godse 7. Dr. Anupam Hazra 8. Dr. J. Jayavardhan 9. Shri P. Karunakaran 10. Shri Virender Kashyap 11. Shri Harinder Singh Khalsa 12. Smt. Hema Malini 13. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya 14. Ms. Mehbooba Mufti 15. Shri Paresh Rawal 16. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben Dhirubhai Shiyal 17. Shri Abhishek Singh 18. Shri D.K. Suresh 19. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas 20. Smt. R. Vanaroja @21. Shri Raosaheb Danve Patil Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Javed Akhtar 23. Shri Salim Ansari 24. Smt. Jaya Bachchan 25. Shri Vijay Jawaharlal Darda 26. Shri Santiuse Kujur 27. Shri Derek O‟Brien 28. Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao 29. Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar 30. Mahant Shambhuprasadji Tundiya # 31. Shri Meghraj Jain

* Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 11.09.2014 vice Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi, M.P., vide Bulletin Part – II w.e.f. 11.09.2014 @ Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 15.07.2015 vide Bulletin Part – II dated 17.07.2015. # Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 14.01.2015 vide Bulletin Part – II dated 16.01.2015.

APPENDIX - THREE (Vide Para 3.2)

COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE

Maj Gen B C Khanduri, AVSM (Retd)-Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri Suresh C. Angadi 3. Shri Shrirang Appa Barne 4. Shri Dharambir 5. Shri Thupstan Chhewang 6. Col Sonaram Choudhary(Retd) 7. Shri H.D. Devegowda 8. Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 9. Shri G. Hari 10. Shri Ramesh Jigajinagi 11. Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 12. Km. Shobha Karandlaje 13. Shri Vinod Khanna 14. Dr. Mriganka Mahato 15. Shri Tapas Paul 16. Shri Malla Reddy 17. Shri Rajeev Satav 18. Smt. Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah 19. Capt Amarinder Singh(Retd) 20. Shri A.P. Jithender Reddy 21.* Shri Hemendra Chandra 22.** Shri Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 23.$ Smt. Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh

Rajya Sabha 24. Shri K. R. Arjunan 25.# Shri Anand Sharma 26. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar 27. Shri A.U. Singh Deo 28. Shri Harivansh 29. Shri Vinay Katiyar 30. Shri Hishey Lachungpa 31. Shri Madhusudan Mistry 32. Smt. Ambika Soni 33. Shri Tarun Vijay 35.@ Shri Narendra Budania

* Sad Demise on 05.09.2014 ** Ceased to be Member of the Committee on 09.11.2014 $ Nominated w.e.f. 22.12.2014 # Nominated w.ef. 08.10.2014 @ Ceased to be Member of the Committee on 08.10.2014

APPENDIX - FOUR (Vide Para 4.2)

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

Dr. Kirit Somaiya, Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri Om Birla 3. Shri M. Chandrakasi 4. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey 5. Shri Harish Chandra alias Harish Dwivedi 6. Shri Deepender Singh Hooda 7. Shri Saumitra Khan 8. Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari 9. Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar 10. Dr. Arun Kumar 11. Shri R.P. Marutharajaa 12. Dr. Pritam Gopinath Munde 13. Shri Jagdambika Pal 14. Shri Ravindra Kumar Pandey 15. Shrimati Krishna Raj 16. Shri M.B. Rajesh 17. Shri Vinayak Bhaurao Raut 18. Shri Gutha Sukender Reddy 19. Shri Purno Agitok Sangma 20. Shri Malyadri Sriram 21. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma Rajya Sabha

22. Shri V.P. Singh Badnore 23. Shri Oscar Fernandes 24. Shri Ram Jethmalani 25. Shri Pyarimohan Mohapatra 26. Shri S.Muthukaruppan 27. Shri Javed Ali Khan 28. Dr. K.P. Ramalingam 29. Shri Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu 30. Dr. Anil Kumar Sahani 31. Shrimati Viplove Thakur

APPENDIX-FIVE (Vide Para 5.2)

COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha 2. Shri Sirajuddin Ajmal 3. Prof. (Dr.) Sugata Bose 4. Shri Ranjit Singh Brahmpura 5. Shri Arka Keshari Deo 6. Shri Rahul Gandhi 7. Shri Anantkumar Hegde 8. Shrimati Rakshatai Khadse 9. Shri Raghav Lakhanpal 10. Shri Jose K. Mani 11. Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi* 12. Shri A. Anwhar Raajhaa 13. Shri Magantti Venkateswara Rao (Babu) 14. Md. Salim 15. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita 16. Shri P.R. Senthilnathan 17. Shri Ram Swaroop Sharma 18. Shrimati Supriya Sule 19. Shri Sharad Tripathi 20. Shri Chhedi Paswan^ 21. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram# Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Satyavrat Chaturvedi 23. Shri H.K. Dua 24. Shri Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel 25. Shrimati Kanimozhi 26. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap 27. Dr. Karan Singh 28. Shri D. P. Tripathi 29. Shri Pavan Kumar Varma 30. Shri C.M. Ramesh@ 31. Vacant## ------*Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha has been nominated w.e.f.11.09.2014 vice Dr. K.C. Patel, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha who has been nominated to the Committee on Information Technology.

^ Shri Chhedi Paswan, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha has been nominated w.e.f .25.03.2015.

# Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha has been nominated w.e.f. 25.03.2015.

@ Shri Y. S. Chowdhary ceased to be Member of the Committee consequent upon his appointment as Minister w.e.f. 09.11.2014 and Shri. C.M. Ramesh has been nominated w.e.f. 28.11.2014.

# # Shri Murli Deora, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha had been nominated vice Shri Anand Sharma, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha who had been nominated to the Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers w.e.f. 25.09.2014. Vacancy arose w.e.f. 24.11.2014 due to his sad demise.

APPENDIX – SIX (Vide para 6.2)

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Dr. Veerappa Moily - Chairman MEMBERS

Lok Sabha

2. Shri S.S. Ahluwalia 3. Shri Venkatesh Babu T.G. 4. Shri Sudip Bandyoypadhyay 5. Shri Nishikant Dubey 6. Shri P.C. Gaddigoudar 7. Dr. Gopalakrishnan C. 8. Shri Shyama Charan Gupta 9. Shri Prataprao Jadhav 10. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria 11. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 12. Shri Prem Das Rai 13. Shri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao 14. Prof. Saugata Roy 15. Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia 16. Shri Gajendra Singh Sekhawat 17. Shri Gopal Shetty 18. Shri Anil Shirole 19. Shri Shivkumar Udasi 20. Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki 21. Dr. Kirit Somaiya

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri Naresh Agrawal 23. Shri Naresh Gujral 24. Shri A. Navaneethakrishnan 25. Shri Satish Chandra Misra 26. Dr. Mahendra Prasad 27. Shri K.N. Balagopal 28. Shri C.M. Ramesh 29. Shri Ajay Sancheti 30. Shri Digvijaya Singh 31. Dr. Manmohan Singh

APPENDIX – SEVEN (Vide para 7.2)

COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

Shri J.C. Divakar Reddy - Chairperson MEMBERS Lok Sabha 2. Shri Anto Antony 3. Shri Babu Lal Choudhary 4. Shri Sanjay Jadhav (Bandu) Haribhau 5. Shri Dinesh Kashyap 6. Shri Dharmendra Kumar 7. Shri Ravinder Kushawaha 8. Smt. Sakuntala Laguri 9. Dr. Sakshi Maharaj 10. Shri R. K. Bharathi Mohan 11. Shri Sunil Kumar Mondal 12. Shri Kamlesh Paswan 13. Shri Ram Chander Paswan 14. Shri C.S. Putta Raju 15. Smt. Priyanka Singh Rawat 16. Shri P.V. Midhun Reddy 17. Shri Bhola Singh 18. Shri Brij Bhusan Sharan Singh 19. Shri Shibu Soren# 20. Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava 21. Shri Nandi Yellaiah

Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Shadi Lal Batra 23. Shri Pankaj Bora 24. Shri Mithun Chakraborty 25. Dr. Bhushan Lal Jangde 26. Dr. Prabhakar Kore** 27. Ms. Rekha 28. Dr. K. Keshava Rao* 29. Shri K.K. Ragesh@ 30. Shri Dhiraj Prasad Sahu 31. Shri Veer Singh$ ______# Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 7.10.2014. * Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 08.10.2014 from the Standing Committee on Water Resources. ** Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 19.12.2014 vice Shri Amar Singh MP (RS) retired from the membership of Rajya Sabha w.e.f. 25.11.2014. $ Shri Veer Singh, MP (RS) ceased to be a member of the Committee upon his retirement from the membership of Rajya Sabha w.e.f. 25.11.2014 and re-nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 19.12.2014. @ Shri K.K. Ragesh, MP (RS) nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 06.05.2015 vice changed of nomination of Shri Ritabrata Banerjee to the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture w.e.f. 06.05.2015.

APPENDIX –EIGHT (Vide Para 8.2)

COMMITTEE ON LABOUR

Dr. Virendra Kumar, M.P – Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar 3. Shri Ashok Dohare 4. Shri Satish Chandra Dubey 5. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara 6. Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud 7. Shri Rama Chandra Hansdah 8. Shri C.N. Jayadevan 9. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli 10. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar 11. Shri Hari Manjhi 12. Shri R. Parthipan 13. Shri Hariom Singh Rathore 14. Shri YS Avinash Reddy 15. Shri Naba Kumar Sarania (Hira) 16. Shri Kodikunnil Suresh 17. Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav *18. Chh. Udayan Raje Bhonsle **19. Dr. Arun Kumar ***20. Shri Satish Kumar Gautam ****21. Vacant

Rajya Sabha 22. Shri P. Kannan 23. Shri Aayanur Manjunatha 24. Haji Abdul Salam 25. Shri Tapan Kumar Sen 26. Shri R.K. Sinha $ 27. Shri Rajaram @ 28. Shri Ravi Prakash Verma @@ 29. Shri P.L. Punia #30. Shri Nazir Ahmed Laway ##31. Ms. Dola Sen ______* Nominated w.e.f. 7th October, 2014. ** Nominated w.e.f. 25th March, 2015. *** Nominated w.e.f 23rd July, 2015 **** Vacancy occurred vice Shri Kapil Krishna Thakur expired on 13.10.2014. $ Re-nominated w.e.f. 8th January, 2015. @ Nominated w.e.f.29th January, 2015. @@ Nominated w.e.f 12th March, 2015. # Nominated w.e.f 7th May, 2015 ## Nominated w.e.f. 13th May, 2015

APPENDIX –NINE (Vide Para 9.2)

COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS

Shri Pralhad Joshi - Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2 Dr. Ravindra Babu 3 Shri P. K. Biju 4 Shri Kalikesh N. Singh Deo 5 Shrimati Rama Devi 6 Shri Elumalai V. 7 Shri Naranbhai Kachhadiya 8 Dr. Thokchom Meinya 9 Shrimati Pratima Mondal 10 Shri Ashok Mahadeorao Nete 11 Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel 12 Shrimati Anupriya Patel 13 Shri Arvind Sawant 14 Shri Raju Shetti 15 Dr. Bhola Singh (Begusarai) 16 Shri Ravneet Singh 17 Shri Kamakhya Prasad Tasa 18 Shri Rajesh Verma 19 Shri Om Prakash Yadav 20 Shri Laxmi Narayan Yadav 21 Shri A.T. Nana Patil* Rajya Sabha 22 Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar 23 Shri Ishwarlal Shankarlal Jain 24 Shri Prabhat Jha 25 Shri Bhubaneshwar Kalita 26 Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya 27 Shri Ahmed Patel 28 Shrimati Gundu Sudharani 29 Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav 30 Shri Sharad Yadav 31 Shri Praful Patel#

------* Nominated to this Committee w.e.f. 25th March, 2015. # Nominated to this Committee w.e.f. 2nd March, 2015.

APPENDIX –TEN (Vide Para 10.2)

COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS

Shri Dinesh Trivedi - Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri E. Ahamed 3. Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel 4. Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary 5. Shri Sanjay Dhotre 6. Shri Gourav Gogoi 7. Shri Rajen Gohain 8. #Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi 9. Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik 10. Shri Gajanan Kirtikar 11. Shri Balabhadra Majhi 12. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal 13. Shri K.H. Muniyappa 14. Shri Thota Narasimham 15. Shri A.T. Nana Patil 16. Shri R. Radhakrishnan 17. Shri Mekapati Raja Mohan Reddy 18. Shri Lakhan Lal Sahu 19. Shri Ganesh Singh 20. Shri Uday Pratap Singh 21. Shri S.R. Vijayakumar

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri A.K. Antony 23. Shri Mukut Mithi 24. Shri Dilipbhai Pandya 25. $Shri Parimal Nathwani 26. Shri Ambeth Rajan 27. Shri T. Rathinavel 28. Shri Bashistha Narain Singh 29. Shri Devender Goud T. 30. Shri Alok Tiwari 31. Shri Motilal Vora ------* Constituted vide Lok Sabha Bulletin Part II No.623 dated 01.09.2014 # Sh. Bandaru Dattatreya ceased to be a Member on his appointment as Minister w.e.f. 09.11.2014. Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi was nominated as Member vide LSS Bulletin Part No.783 dt.14.11.2014 $ Smt. Kusum Rai retired on 25.11.2014 vide R.S.S. I.d. No..1(2)2014-coord. dt.20.11.14 Shri Parimal Nathwani nominated as Member w.e.f. 19.12.2014 vide LSS Bulletin Part II No.1212 dated 31.12.2014

APPENDIX –ELEVEN (Vide Para 11.2)

COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Shri Pinaki Misra - Chairperson

Members

Lok sabha 2. Shri Rajendra Agrawal 3. Shri Ramesh Bidhuri 4. Shri Ram Charan Bohra 5. Shri Dushyant Chautala 6. Shri Ashok Chavan 7. Shri Dilip Kumar Gandhi 8. Shri Maheish Girri 9. Shri R.Gopalakrishnan 10. Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua 11. Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi 12. Smt. Poonam Mahajan 13. Shri P.C. Mohan 14. Shri Kesineni Nani 15. Shri K. Parasuraman 16. *Shri Alok Sanjar 17. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil 18. Shri Rahul Ramesh Shewale 19. Prof. K. V. Thomas 20. Shri Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma 21. Dr. Dharam Vira Rajya Sabha

22. Smt. Vandana Chavan 23. Shri Husain Dalwai 24. Shri Anil Desai 25. Shri Parvez Hashmi 26. Shri Mukul Roy 27. Shri Rangasayee Ramakrishna 28 Shri Satish Sharma 29. Shri C.P. Thakur 30. Shri S.Thangavelu 31. Shri Khekiho Zhimomi

------* Shri Alok Sanjar, MP (Lok Sabha) has been nominated as Member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development in place of Shri C.R. Patil, MP Lok Sabha who has been nominated to the Committee on Health and Family Welfare w.e.f. 11.8.2015.

APPENDIX - TWELVE (Vide Para 12.2)

COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES

Shri Hukum Singh - Chairperson

Members

Lok sabha

2. Shri Radheshyam Biswas 3. Shri Devusinh Chauhan 4. Shri Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria 5. Shri Tariq Hameed Karra 6. Shri Vinod Kumar B. 7. Shri Murali Mohan Maganti 8. Shri Sidhant Mohapatra 9. Shri Abhijit Mukherjee 10. Shri Rodmal Nagar 11. Shri Subhash Patel 12. Shri Sanjay Kaka Patil 13. Shri Vijaysinh Shankarrao Mohite Patil 14. Smt. Aparupa Poddar 15. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram 16. Shri S. P. Y. Reddy 17. Shri Ram Prasad Sarmah 18. Smt. Sathyabama V. 19. Shri Lallu Singh 20. Shri L.K. Vaghela 21. Smt. Dimple Yadav

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri Balwinder Singh Bhunder 23. Shri Anil Madhav Dave 24. Smt. Naznin Faruque 25. Shri Mir Mohammad Fayaz 26. Shri Sanjiv Kumar 27. Prof. Mrinal Miri 28. Shri V. Hanumantha Rao 29. Shri Amar Shankar Sable 30. Shri A.V. Swamy 31. Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia

APPENDIX - THIRTEEN (Vide Para 13.2)

COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS

Shri Anandrao Adsul - Chairperson

Members

Lok sabha

2. Shri Idris Ali 3. Smt. Anju Bala 4. Shri B.N. Chandrappa 5. Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 6. Smt. Veena Devi 7. Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 8. Shri K. Ashok Kumar 9. Shri Kamalbhan Singh Marabi 10. Shri Chhedi Paswan 11. Smt. Kamala Devi Patle 12. Shri Rajendran S. 13. Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 14. Dr. Kulamani Samal 15. Dr. Uma Saren 16. Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 17. Shri Taslimuddin 18. Smt. Rekha Arun Verma 19. Shri Innocent @ 20. Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy^ 21. Vacant # Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Biswajit Daimary 23. Dr. M.S. Gill 24. Shri Sanjay Dattatraya Kakade 25. Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya 26. Shri K. Parasaran 27. Shri Garikapati Mohan Rao 28. Dr. Sanjay Sinh 29. Shri Palvai Govardhan Reddy* 30. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya% 31. Vacant + ------@ Nominated w.e.f. 22-12-2014 vice Adv. Joice George, on account of his nomination to the Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice. ^ Nominated w.e.f. 22-12-2014 vice Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya on account of his nomination as Minister of State. #Shri Satish Kumar Gautam, Member Lok Sabha ceased to be a member of this Committee w.e.f. 23.07.2015 on account of his nomination to the Committee on Labour. * Nominated w.e.f. 08-10-2014 % Nominated w.e.f. 31-12-2014 vice Shri Brijlal Khabri, whose term expired on 25.11.2014 + Dr. Chandrapal Singh Yadav, Member of Rajya Sabha replaced Shri Murli Deora, Member Rajya Sabha on accont of his nomination to the Committee on External Affairs w.e.f. 25.9.2014. Further Dr.Chandrapal Singh Yadav ceased to be a member of this Committee w.e.f. 7.5.2015 upon his nomination to the Committee on Industry.

APPENDIX- FOURTEEN (Vide Para 14.2)

COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Dr. P. Venugopal -- Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha 2. Shri Sisir Kumar Adhikari 3. Shri Kirti Azad 4. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan 5. Shri Biren Singh Engti 6. Shri Jugal Kishore 7. Shri Manshankar Ninama 8. Shrimati Mausam Noor 9. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey 10. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel 11. Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank” 12. Shri Gokaraju Ganga Raju 13. Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss 14. Shrimati Butta Renuka 15. Dr. Yashwant Singh 16. Shri Naramalli Sivaprasad 17. Shri Balka Suman 18. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain 19. Shri Ajay Misra Teni 20. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga 21. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak*

Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Munquad Ali 23. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi 24. Shri D. Bandyopadhyay@ 25. Shri Ram Narain Dudi 26. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra 27. Shri Ranvijay Singh Judev** 28. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho$ 29. Shri A. K. Selvaraj 30. Shrimati Kanak Lata Singh 31. Shri Ashwani Kumar# ______

* Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 07.10.2014. @ Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 13.05.2015. ** Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 25.09.2014 vice Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya. $ Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 28.11.2014 vice Shri Jairam Ramesh # Nominated to the Committee w.e.f 16.07.2015.

APPENDIX-FIFTEEN (Vide Para 15.2)

COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL

Shri Rakesh Singh* - Chairperson Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri A Arunmozhithevan 3. Shri Kalyan Banerjee 4. Shrimati Jyoti Dhurve 5. Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste 6. Shri Shailesh Kumar 7. Dr. Banshilal Mahato 8. Shri Godam Nagesh 9. Shri Devji M. Patel 10. Shrimati Riti Pathak 11. Shrimati Ranjit Ranjan 12. Dr. Ravindra Kumar Ray 13. Shri Neiphiu Rio 14. Shri Tamradhwaj Sahu 15. Shri Tathagata Satpathy 16. Shri Janardan Singh "Sigriwal" 17. Shri Pashupati Nath Singh 18. Shri Sunil Kumar Singh 19. Shri Sushil Kumar Singh 20. Shri Rama Kishore Singh 21. Shri Krupal Balaji Tumane

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri Ali Anwar Ansari 23. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu 24. Shri Md. Nadimul Haque@ 25. Shri B.K Hariprasad 26. Shri Jugul Kishore 27. Shri Avinash Pande 28. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya # 29. Shri Sanjay Raut 30. Shri Nand Kumar Sai 31. Shri Dilip Kumar Tirkey ______* Shri Rakesh Singh appointed w.e.f. 27.11.2014 vice SHri Hansraj G. Ahir appointed Minister. # Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya nominated w.e.f. 25.09.2014 vice Shri Basawaraj Patil. @ Shri Md. Nadimul Haque nominated w.e.f. 08.01.2015 vice Shri Srinjoy Bose.

APPENDIX – SIXTEEN (Vide Para 16.2)

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

Shri Ramesh Bais - Chairperson

Members

Lok Sabha

2. Shri Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor 3. Kunwar Bharatendra 4. Shri Santokh Singh Chaudhary *5. Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 6. Shri Jhina Hikaka 7. Shri Prakash Babanna Hukkeri 8. Shri Bhagwant Khuba 9. Shri Sadashiv Lokhande 10. Smt. Maragatham K. 11. Shri Kariya Munda 12. Prof. A.S.R. Naik 13. Shri Asaduddin Owaisi 14. Sadhvi Savitri Bai Phule 15. Dr. Udit Raj 16. Smt. Satabdi Roy 17. Prof. Sadhu Singh 18. Smt. Neelam Sonkar *19. Smt. Mamta Thakur #20. Shri Tejpratap Singh Yadav **21. Vacant

Rajya Sabha

22. Smt. Jharna Das Baidya ##23. Dr. Tazeen Fatma 24. Shri Ahamed Hassan 25. Smt. Sarojini Hembram 26. Shri Prabhat Jha 27. Smt. Mohsina Kidwai 28. Shri Praveen Rashtrapal 29. Shri Nand Kumar Sai 30. Smt. Vijila Sathyananth 31. Smt. Wansuk Syiem

# Nominated w.e.f. 22.12.2014 ## Nominated w.e.f. 29.1.2015 * Nominated w.e.f 25.3.2015 ** Shri Dilip Singh Bhuria expired on 24.6.2015

(B) STATEMENT SHOWING THE DETAILS AND

DURATION OF SITTINGS OF COMMITTEES

APPENDIX-SEVENTEEN (Vide Para 1.6)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No. Sitting Hrs Mnts Members present

1. 08.09.2014 01 15 23 Consideration of Memorandum Number 1 regarding Selection of Subjects for Examination during 2014-15. 2. 19.09.2014 03 00 25 Oral Evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Agriculture(Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants(2014-15). 3. 26.09.2014 03 25 26 Oral Evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15) 4. 09.10.2014 02 45 24 National Dairy Development Board - An Evaluation. , 5. 17.10.2014 03 00 24 Evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Food Processing Industries in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15) 6. 31.10.2014 03 00 18 Evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15). 7. 07.11.2014 00 30 20 Future programme of the Committee.

8. 13.11.2014 02 15 16 (i) Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No.2 on the subject “Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana – An Evaluation” (ii) Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on the Subject “Availability of Agricultural Land – A review” 9. 26.11.2014 01 30 13 (i) Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No. 3 regarding Draft Action Taken Report on the recommendations contained in the 57th Report on the subject „National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Managemnet‟ (NIFTEM); and (ii) Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on “Scheme for Rural Godowns”. 10. 10.12.2014 02 00 22 i) Draft Report on examination on Demands for Grantd (2014-15) of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) ii) Draft Report on examination on

Demands for Grantd (2014-15) of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation). iii) Briefing by the representatives of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) on the subject 'Impact of Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides on Agricultural and Allied Sectors in the Country'. 11. 16.12.2014 02 00 19 i) Consideration and Adoption of Draft Report on Examination of Demand for Grants (2014- 15) of Ministry of Food Processing Industries; and ii) Evidence of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture & Cooperation) and Agricultural & Proceed Food Product Export Development Authority(APEDA) on " Impact of Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides on Agriculture and Allied Sectors in the Country". 12. 19.12.2014 00 30 13 Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on Demands for Grants 2014-15 of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) 13. 05.01.2015 01 45 16 Evidence of Representatives of Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals and Department of Fertilizers). Impact of Chemicals Fertilizers and Pesticides on Agriculture and Allied Sectors in the Country 14. 15.01.2015 00 40 18 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) and Evidence of representatives of Government of Haryana on the subject Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana - An Evaluation 15. 27.01.2015 02 00 20 Briefing by the Representative of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries on the subject of "Research and Development in Food Processing Sector" 16. 16.02.2015 02 20 17 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on the subject "National Horticulture Mission". 17. 26.02.2015 01 50 15 Oral Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries on the subject "Research and Development in Food Processing Sector". 18. 04.03.2015 00 30 17 Consideration for Adoption of Memoranda:(i) Memorandum No.4 on Draft Action Taken Report on Action Taken by the Government on Recommendations.Observations contained in 58th Report (15th Lok Sabha) on 'National Agricultural Research System An Evaluation' and (ii) Memorandum No.5 on Draft Action Taken Report on Action Taken by the

Government on Recommendations.Observations contained in 61st Report (15th Lok Sabha) on 'Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana An Evaluation'. 19. 20.03.2015 01 20 14 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2015-16) 20. 25.03.2015 02 40 18 Evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2015-16) 21. 26.03.2015 02 25 19 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2015-16) 22. 15.04.2015 02 50 18 i) Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No.6 on the subject 'Pricing of Agricultural Produce'. ii) Evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2015-16). 23. 22.04.2015 00 30 14 Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on Examination of Demands for Grants (2015-16) of Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation). 24. 24.04.2015 00 45 17 Consideration and Adoption of Draft Reports of Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) and Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal, Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) 25. 18.05.2015 02 30 23 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on "Relief Measures Relating to Damage to Rabi Crop due to Unseasonal Rain and Hailstorm - An Evaluation". 26. 29.05.2015 01 50 15 Briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries on the subject 'Mega Food Parks' 27. 08.06.2015 02 00 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on the subject 'Evolving a Farmer Friendly Crop Insurance Regime' 28. 18.06.2015 02 40 18 Briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on the Subject 'National Food Security Mission - An Evaluation' 29. 26.06.2015 02 15 23 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries) on the

Subject "Development of Fisheries - A Review". 30. 09.07.2015 01 50 17 Briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) on the Subject "Minimizing Post-Harvest Crop Losses" 31. 06.08.2015 00 40 13 (i) Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No. 7 regarding Draft Action Taken Report on the recommendations contained in the 3rd Report on 'Demands for Grants (2014-15)' pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation); (ii) Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No. 8 regarding Draft Action Taken Report on the recommendations contained in the 5th Report on 'Demands for Grants (2014-15)' pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries); (iii) Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No. 9 regarding Draft Action Taken Report on the recommendations contained in the 2nd Report on 'Demands for Grants (2014-15)' pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education); and (iv) Consideration and Adoption of Draft Report on the subject 'Mega Food Parks' pertaining to the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. 32. 20.08.2015 02 00 19 Evidence of the Representatives of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution (Department of Food & Public Distribution), Food Corporation of India and Central Warehousing Corporation on the Subject "Minimizing Post-Harvest Crop Losses". 33. 26.08.2015 02 00 23 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Department of Health Research) on the Subject "Impact of Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides on Agricultural and allied sectors in the country".

APPENDIX -EIGHTEEN (Vide Para 2.6)

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Sl.No Date of Duration No. of Subject Sitting Members present Hrs Mnts 1. 16.09.2014 01 00 18 Consideration of Memorandum No. 1 regarding selection of subjects for examination during the year 2014-15.

2. 29.09.2014 02 35 12 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Telecommunications.

3. 29.09.2014 01 45 13 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Posts) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Posts.

4. 30.09.2014 02 45 13 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Electronics and Information Technology) in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

5. 30.09.2014 02 40 13 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in connection with examination of Demands for Grants (2014-15).

6. 27.10.2014 02 15 22 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Department of Telecommunications and Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited in connection with examination of the subject Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited.

7. 11.11.2014 02 25 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Posts on the subject IT Induction and Modernization in the Department of Posts and briefing by the representatives of the Department of Telecommunications on the subject Issues

concerning organizations under the administrative control of Department of Telecommunications. 8. 17.11.2014 02 00 20 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on the subject Review of Functioning of Prasar Bharati Organisation.

9. 27.11.2014 01 00 15 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on the subject Progress of Cable TV Digitization and its impact.

10. 18.12.2014 1 20 15 Consideration and adoption of draft reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15).

11. 09.01.2015 02 15 10 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Issues regarding Net Neutrality and Cloud Computing.

12. 22.01.2015 01 30 13 Briefing by the representatives of Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications, Department of Personnel and Training and Ministry of External Affairs on the subject Internet Governance.

13. 06.02.2015 02 15 16 Briefing by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 'Norms and Guidelines for Media coverage'.

14. 06.04.2015 01 30 21 Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Posts) on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

15. 06.04.2015 01 55 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications)on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

16. 08.04.2015 02 10 19 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Electronics and Information Technology) on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

17. 08.04.2015 01 45 11 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

18. 20.04.2015 00 30 16 Consideration and adoption of two Draft Reports on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Department of Posts and Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

19. 22.04.2015 00 25 14 Consideration and adoption of two Draft Reports on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Department of Telecommunications and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

20. 21.05.2015 00 30 09 To hear the views of Private Service Providers viz. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India Limited and Idea Cellular Limited on 'Net Neutrality' and 'Call Drop'.

21. 02.06.2015 02 45 15 'Net Neutrality' and 'Call drop' - to hear the views of Telecom Service Providers viz. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India Ltd. and Idea Cellular Ltd.

22. 01.07.2015 03 30 19 To hear the views of some Civil Society Organizations, Media Group.Legal Experts and Academicians on the subject 'Net Neutrality'.

23. 05.08.2015 01 45 17 To hear the views of TRAI on the subject Net Neutrality and to consider and adopt two Draft Reports on Revival of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Ltd. and IT Induction & Modernisation in Department of Posts.

24. 11.08.2015 02 30 14 To hear the views of 1. Four OTT Service Providers viz Facebook, Flipkart, Microsoft and Cleartrip 2. One Civil Society Organization i.e. Software Freedom Law Centre 3. Shri Vishal Misra, Associate Professor, Columbia University, USA on the subject Net Neutrality and consider and adopt six Draft Reports.

APPENDIX -NINETEEN (Vide Para 3.6)

COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE

Sl.No Date of Duration No. of Subject Sitting Members present Hrs Mnts 1 15.09.2014 01 15 21 Draft Memorandum No. 1 regarding selection of subjects for examination by the Committee during the year 2014-15; and Future programme of the Committee 2 22.09.2014 05 25 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on General Defence Budget, Civil, Army, NCC, Procurement Policy, Capital Outlay on Defence Canteen Stores, Coastal Guard and Sainik Schools 3 23.09.2014 02 05 20 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on Air Force, Navy and Joint Staff 4 08.10.2014 05 45 17 Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Defence on OFB, DGQA & DPSUs, Ex-Servicemen Welfare and Ex- Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) 5 09.10.2014 01 50 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on Ex-servicemen Welfare, Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) 6 10.11.2014 02 30 22 Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Defence on the subjects MES, MAP and BRO 7 25.11.2014 00 40 16 Consideration and adoption of draft report on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations.observations contained in the 20th Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (2013-14) on Demands for Grants 2013-14. 8 17.12.2014 00 50 12 Consideration and adoption of the following draft Reports on Demands for Grants 2014 15 of the Ministry of Defence i. General Budget (Demand No. 20, 21 and 27), ii Army (Demand No. 22), iii Navy and Air Force (Demand No. 23 and 24) and iv Ordnance Factories and Defence Research and Development (Demand No. 25 & 26)

9 29.12.2014 02 15 14 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on the subject Provision of all weather dependable road connectivity upto international borders and strategic areas an appraisal. 10 23.01.2015 01 10 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on the subject Major Research and Development initiatives leading to innovation and import substitution by Ordnance Factories 11 13.02.2015 01 45 16 Proxy and Postal Voting by Defence Ministry of Home Affairs, Election Commission, Ministry of Law 12 09.03.2015 00 40 15 To discuss future programme for the sittings to examine DFG (2015-16) 13 23.03.2015 07 00 15 General Defence Budget, Procurement Policy, Capital Outlay on Defence Services Demand No.28. Army, Directorate General of Quality Assurance, National Cadet Corps and Sainik Schools Demand No.23, Navy and Joint Staff Demand No.24 and Air Force Demand No.25. 14 24.03.2015 06 00 19 Defence Research and Development Demand No. 27. Coast Guard Organization Demand No.21. Ministry of Defence Civil Demand No.21, Directorate General Defence Estate Demand No. 21, Military Engineer Services, Married Accommodation Project Demand No.28 and Border Roads Organization . 15. 25.03.2015 05 00 19 Oral Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on Ex Serviceman Welfare and Ex Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme Demand No.22 and 23. Ordnance Factories Demand No.26. Defence Public Sector Undertakings Demand No.21. 16. 06.04.2015 01 30 16 Sitting of the Committee to consider views expressed by representatives of the Ministry of Defence and exchange of ideas among the Members to be incorporated in draft reports. 17. 24.04.2015 01 10 16 Consideration and Adoption of draft Reports on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2015-16. 18. 08.07.2015 01 30 21 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on the subject 'Proxy and postal voting by Defence Services Personnel in General Election - An evaluation. 19. 10.08.2015 00 45 14 Consideration and adoption of draft report on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations.observations contained in the 22nd report(15th Lok Sabha) of the

Standing Committee on Defence and Consideration and adoption of draft report on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations.observations contained in the 3rd report(16th Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Defence

APPENDIX -TWENTY (Vide Para 4.6)

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

Sl.No Date of Duration No. of Subject Sitting Members present Hrs Mnts 1. 10.09.2014 01 15 21 Consideration and Adoption of Memorandum No. 1 for Selection of Subjects

2. 22.09.2014 02 30 23 To have briefing.presentation by the representatives of the Ministry of Power in connection with examination of Demands for Grants for the year 2014-15 3. 23.09.2014 02 10 22 To have briefing.presentation by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in connection with examination of Demands for Grants for the year 2014-15 4. 16.10.2014 02 00 23 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the subject Tardy pace of the development of Solar Energy in the country 5. 27.10.2014 01 15 21 To have briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Power on the subject Power Projects Land acquisition and Environmental clearances with special reference to hydro projects 6. 03.11.2014 02 00 20 Briefing by the representatives of teh Ministries of Power, Coal and Association of Power Producers on the subject Viability Performance and Status of Power Projects with special reference to Power Scenario in the country following cancellation of coal blocks 7. 04.12.2014 01 30 15 Briefing on the subject Encouraging local Renewable Energy manufacturing basei n India with specific reference to solar energy 8. 17.12.2014 02 00 21 Consideration and adoption of three draft reports of the Committee and Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Power on the subjects: Deen Dayal Upadhayay Gram Jyoti Yojana and Review of Functioning of Power Exchanges 9. 22.01.2015 02 15 17 Briefing on the subject Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014

10. 06.02.2015 06 30 19 Views of State Governments on Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014

11. 12.02.2015 02 00 18 Briefing on the subject Energy Conservation by the representatives of the Ministry of Power

12. 18.02.2015 05 00 16 Views of CERC and SERCs on Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014

13. 27.02.2015 01 30 16 Briefing on the subject Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Jyoti Yojana by the representatives of the Ministry of Power 14. 11.03.2015 02 15 20 Views of Industry Associations on Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014

15. 17.03.2015 01 45 15 Discussion on the subject Energy Conservation

16. 27.03.2015 03 00 24 Discussion on Electricity Amendment Bill 2014 with PSUs and State Governments

17. 07.04.2015 01 50 25 Evidence on DFG by the representatives of the Ministry of Power for the year 2015-16

18. 07.04.2015 01 15 25 Evidence on DFG by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for the year 2015-16 19. 17.04.2015 02 15 18 Discussion with the representatives of the Ministry of Power on Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014

20. 24.04.2015 00 30 16 Consideration and adoption of 5th and 6th Reports of the Committee

21. 28.04.2015 00 30 16 Consideration on draft Report on Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014

22. 05.05.2015 20 35 18 Adoption of 4th Report on Electricity Amendment Bill 2014

23. 20.05.2015 01 10 17 To have briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the subject Need for Long Term Renewable Energy Policy and Legal Reforms 24. 28.05.2015 02 30 19 Briefing with the representatives of the Ministry of Power & NTPC on the subject Ensuring 24X7 Power Supply in India Review of current status and planning for the future 25. 17.06.2015 01 30 20 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Power on the subject 'Energy Conservation'

26. 25.06.2015 02 10 19 Discussion with the representatives of FICCI, CII, TATA Power, BSES and Indian Captive Power Producers Association 27. 01.07.2015 02 30 21 Discussion with the representatives of the State Governments of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, DERC, CERC BEE on the subject Energy Conservation 28. 07.07.2015 01 45 19 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry

of Power, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation on the subject Energy Conservation 29. 14.07.2015 01 40 20 Evidence on the subject Energy Conservation by the representatives of the Ministry of Power

30. 05.08.2015 00 40 16 Consideration and adoption of two draft Reports of the Committee i) ATR on DFG (2014-15) of the Ministry of Power and Energy Conservation 31. 20.08.2015 02 00 19 To have briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the subject Energy Access in India: Review of Current Status and Role of Renewable Energy 32. 26.08.2015 01 50 17 To have further briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the subject Energy Access in India: Review of Current Status and Role of Renewable Energy

APPENDIX-TWENTY-ONE (Vide Para 5.6)

COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Members Subject No. Sitting Hrs Mnts present 1. 23.9.14 02 00 20 First sitting of the Committee for consideration of Memorandum No. 1 regarding selection of subjects for examination during the year 2014-15. 2. 7.10.14 01 30 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of External Affairs on 'The Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill, 2013'. 3. 08.10.14 02 15 14 Evidence of the Representatives of the (Forenoon) Ministry of External Affairs on Demands for Grants for the year 2014-15. 4. 08.10.14 01 45 10 Evidence of the representatives of the (Afternoon) Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs on Demands for Grants for the year 2014-15. 5. 29.10.14 02 15 23 Oral evidence by representatives of MEA, MHA, MHRD and Government of West Bengal for examination of 'The Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill, 2013'. 6. 25.11.14 01 10 18 Consideration and adoption of the following:

(i) Draft Report on 'The Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013'. (ii) Draft Action Taken Report on the recommendations contained in the Twenty Fifth Report (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Passport Seva Project-Targets and Achievements' 7. 3.12.14 02 20 14 Briefing by Secretary (East) on the subject – „Implications of evolving situation in West Asia and India‟s response thereto‟. 8. 9.12.14 01 10 18 Briefing by Joint Secretary (East) – to meet and interact with Parliamentary Delegation from Romania. 9. 16.12.14 01 10 14 Consideration and adoption of the following: (i) Draft Report on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Overses Indian Affairs (2014-15) (ii) Draft Report on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of External Affairs (2014-15) 10. 29.01.15 01 00 15 Briefing by Foreign Secretary on the subject 'Recruitment, structure and capacity-building of IFS Cadre, including need for a separate UPSC examination for cadre, mid-career entry and in- service training and orientation.'

11. 17.02.15 01 45 11 Briefing by the Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs to meet and interact with Delegation of the German-India Parliamentary Group of the German Parliament. 12. 26.02.15 01 30 11 Briefing by Foreign Secretary on the subject 'Indo-U.S. relations.' 13. 27.02.15 01 30 8 Further briefing by Foreign Secretary on the subject 'Recruitment, structure and capacity- building of IFS Cadre, including need for a separate UPSC examination for cadre, mid- career entry and in-service training and orientation.' 14. 16.03.15 01 30 13 Briefing by the Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs - To meet and interact with European Parliament Delegation for Relations with India. 15. 24.03.15 01 45 12 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of External Affairs on the Demands for Grants of the Ministry for the year 2015-2016. 16. 25.03.15 02 15 13 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs on the Demands for Grants of the Ministry for the year 2015-2016. 17. 23.04.2015 00 45 19 Consideration and adoption of the following: (i) Draft Report on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs for the year 2015-16. (ii) Draft Report on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of External Affairs for the year 2015-16. 18. 27.04.2015 01 15 12 To meet and interact with Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic. 19. 12.05.2015 01 30 13 Briefing by Foreign Secretary on the subject 'India's relations with Pakistan and India's role and engagement with Afghanistan post-2014'. 20. 18.06.2015 01 20 14 Evidence on the subject 'Recruitment, structure and capacity-building of IFS Cadre, including need for a separate UPSC examination for cadre, mid-career entry and in-service training and orientation.' 21. 30.07.2015 01 15 10 Briefing by representatives of Ministry of External Affairs on the subject 'Performance of Passport issuance system and implementation of e-passport project for Indian citizens'.

APPENDIX TWENTY-TWO (Vide Para 6.6)

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No. Sitting Hrs. Mins. Members present 1. 11.09.2014 2 5 26 Consideration of Memorandum No. 1 regarding selection of subjects for examination during 2014-15. 2. 18.09.2014 3 0 22 Briefing by the representatives of Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on the subject „Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes, Chit Funds, etc.‟ 3. 25.09.2014 2 30 18 Briefing by the representatives of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on the Subject „Banking Sector – Challenges and the Way Forward‟. 4 09.10.2014 2 30 16 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Departments of Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Services and Disinvestment) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 5 09.10.2014 1 30 19 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 6 09.10.2014 2 40 19 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Planning on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 7 16.10.2014 4 15 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Departments of Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Services and Disinvestment) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 8 16.10.2014 1 30 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 9 30.10.2014 3 0 24 (i) Briefing by the Governor, Reserve Bank of India on the Subject 'Banking Sector - Challenges and the Way Forward' (ii) Consideration and Adoption of draft Action Taken Report 10 07.11.2014 3 0 17 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services) on the Subject „Financial Inclusion – Schemes and Achievements‟ 11 13.11.2014 2 0 17 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on the Subject „Review of measures taken for unearthing unaccounted money and curbing generation thereof.‟ 12 20.11.2014 2 35 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Planning on the Subject „Planning Process – A Review‟. 13 11.12.2014 1 30 13 Presentation by the representatives of Association of Power Producers on the Subject „Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial Institutions‟. Tea Break

Consideration and adoption of draft Report(s) 14 18.12.2014 2 10 16 (i) Briefing by the representatives of the Reserve Bank of India on the Subject “Role of Reserve Bank of India – Emerging Challenges” (ii) Consideration and Adoption of Report(s) 15 02.01.2015 1 40 14 Planning Process - A Review 16 08.01.2015 1 35 15 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services) on the Subject „Non- Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial Institutions‟ 17 28.01.2015 2 50 16 Hearing of the views. suggestions of experts on the Subject „Planning Process – A Review‟. 18 05.02.2015 2 15 18 Hearing of the views. suggestions of experts on the Subject „Planning Process – A Review‟. 19 12.02.2015 2 0 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of NITI Aayog on the Subject „Planning Process – A Review‟. 20 18.02.2015 2 15 11 Hearing of the views. suggestions of experts on the Subject „Planning Process – A Review‟. 21 30.03.2015 4 35 23 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Departments of Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Services and Disinvestment) on Demands for Grants (2015-16). (ii) Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 22 31.03.2015 3 45 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 23 31.03.2015 3 45 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on Demands for Grants (2015-16). (iii) Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Planning on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 24 16.04.2015 2 15 17 (i) Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on the Subject “Tax Reforms including simplification, rationalization, widening . deepening of tax base, augmenting tax-GDP ratio, prevention of tax evasion, etc.” (ii) Consideration and Adoption of Report(s) on Demands for Grants. 25 14.05.2015 2 0 15 Briefing by representatives of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on the Subject „Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial Institutions‟. 26 21.05.2015 2 40 20 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services), NABARD and SIDBI on the Subject „Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of Financial Institutions‟ 27 04.06.2015 2 0 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on 'The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015 28 11.06.2015 2 50 12 Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Services) on the Subject 'Financial Inclusion - Schemes and Achievements'. 29 18.06.2015 1 50 19 Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on the „Benami

Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015. 30 25.06.2015 1 45 12 Oral hearing of the representatives of All India Association of Chit Funds on the Subject 'Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes, Chit Funds etc.' 31 16.07.2015 3 15 17 (i) Oral evidence of the representatives of Reserve Bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India on the subject 'Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes, Chit Funds etc.' (ii) Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Financial Services), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs) on the subject 'Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes, Chit Funds etc.' (iii) Adoption of Draft Report(s) 32 19.08.2015 2 15 18 (i) Briefing by Director General, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) on 'Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes, Chit Funds etc.' (ii) Consideration and adoption of draft Reports (i) Planning Process - A Review (ii) Action Taken Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of Ministry of Planning. 33 27.08.2015 1 45 21 (i) Oral hearing of the representatives of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on the „Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015' (ii) Consideration and Adoption of draft report(s) on (i) 'Planning Process- A Review' (ii) Draft Action Taken Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of Ministry of Planning. (iii) 'Efficacy of Regulation of Collective Investment Schemes, Chit Funds etc.'

APPENDIX – TWENTY-THREE (Vide Para 7.6)

Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution

Sl. Date of Duration Number of Subject No. Sitting of Sitting Members Hrs Mnts present 1 19.09.2014 01 10 1 (i) Memorandum No. I regarding selection of subjects for examination by the Committee during the term 2014-15; and (ii) Future programme of the Committee. 2 29.09.2014 01 25 15 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the functioning of the Department of Consumer Affairs and on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department. 3 10.10.2014 01 30 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the functioning of the Department of Food and Public Distribution and on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department. 4 20.10.2014 01 30 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on Demands for Grants (2014-15)of the Department. 5 05.11.2014 01 00 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on Demands for Grants (2014-15)of the Department. 6 19.11.2014 00 55 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the subject „Programmes for Consumer Protection‟. 7 18.12.2014 00 30 13 Considered and adopted two Draft Reports of the Committee (2014-15) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to (i) Department of Food and Public Distribution and (ii) Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution). 8 29.12.2014 01 30 12 Briefing by the representatives of the (i) Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs) and (ii) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on the subject „Problem of supply and distribution of adulterated milk and measures taken to check it‟

9 16.01.2015 01 30 16 Computerization of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)‟ pertaining to the Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution). 10 16.02.2015 01 20 17 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the subject „Programmes for Consumer Protection‟. 11 27.03.2015 01 45 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on Demands for Grants (2015-16)of the Department. 12 07.04.2015 01 10 17 Oral evidence of the representatives of Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on Demands for Grants (2015-16)of the Department. 13 17.04.2015 01 15 12 Considered and adopted two Draft Reports of the Committee (2014-15)on Demands for Grants (2015-16) pertaining to (i) Department of Food and Public Distribution and (ii) Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution). 14 02.06.2015 00 40 13 Considered and adopted following two Draft Reports of the Committee (2014-15) on action taken by the Government on the observations . recommendations contained in: (i) 1st Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the Department of Food and Public Distribution; and (ii) 2nd Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the Department of Consumer Affairs. 15 09.06.2015 00 50 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the subject „Computerization of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)‟. 16 17.06.2015 00 50 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Consumer Affairs (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the subject „Regulation of Packaged Commodities‟. 17 02.07.2015 01 15 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Food and Public Distribution (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution) on the subject „Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Foodgrains'. 18 10.07.2015 01 45 19 Further briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs) alongwith the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Department of Health & Family Welfare) and

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on the subject „Regulation of Packaged Commodities‟ 19 25.08.2015 01 30 21 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Food and Public Distribution) on the subject "Payment of sugarcane arrears to sugarcane farmers''.

APPENDIX –TWENTY-FOUR (Vide Para 8.6)

COMMITTEE ON LABOUR

Sl. Date of Sitting Duration No. of Subject No. Hrs. Mts. Members present 1 12.9.2014 01 15 16 For consideration of Memorandum No.1 regarding selection of subjects by the Standing Committee on Labour for examination during the year 2014-2015 pertaing to the Ministry of labour and Employment and the Ministry of Textiles. 2 19.9.2014 01 50 17 Evidence by the Officials of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Prasar Bharati Broadcasting Corporation on Regularisation of Casual workers. Artists of Radio Kashmir, CBS Radio Kashmir and Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar. 3 29.9.2014 02 30 16 (i) To hear the views of the representatives of Casual & Contract Workers Federation of BSNL on the subject Deployment of contract. casual workers. sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). (ii) To take evidence of the Officials of the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (Department of Telecommunications) along with Officials of BSNL on the subject Deployment of contract. casual workers. sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). 4 8.10.2014 01 30 14 To have a briefing by the officials of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 5 14.10.2014 01 00 14 To decide future course of action for prioritisation of subjects selected by the Standing Committee on Labour for the year 2014-15. 6 27.10.2014 02 30 17 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Textiles on Demands for Grants for the year 2014-15. 7 28.10.2014 02 30 14 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Labour & Employment on Demands for Grants for the year

2014-15. 8 7.11.2014 00 45 14 Internal discussion on The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 9 4.12.2014 01 20 12 To hear suggestions or views of the representatives of the Central Trade Unions, Hind Mazdoor Sabha, Indian National Trade Union Congress, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sabha, All India Trade Union Congress and Centre of Indian Trade Unions on The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 10. 5.12.2014 01 30 11 To take Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Labour & Employment on The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 11. 9.12.2014 01 30 10 For consideration and adoption of draft Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministries of Labour & Employment and Textiles. 12. 18.12.2014 00 30 11 For consideration and adoption of draft Report on The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014. 13. 16.1.2015 01 30 11 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Textiles on the subject Skill Development vis-a-vis manufacturing and upgradation of Textiles Sector. 14. 27.1.2015 01 30 14 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the subject Welfare of Tea Plantation Workers. 15. 2.2.2015 01 30 11 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the subject The Employees State Insurance Corporation coverage of establishments, recovery of arrears and functioning of the hospitals and dispensaries under the scheme. 16. 11.2.2015 00 30 10 For consideration and adoption of the draft Report on Regularisation of Casual workers. artists of Radio Kashmir, CBS Radio Kashmir and Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar. 17. 3.3.2015 00 40 9 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs and NDMC on 'Deployment of Contract. Casual workers. sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in NDMC'. 18. 1.4.2015 02 00 14 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Labour and

Employment on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 19. 1.4.2015 02 00 12 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Textiles on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 20. 22.4.2015 00 30 9 For consideration and adoption of the following Draft Reports: (i)Action Taken by the Government on the observations.recommendations of the Committee contained in their First Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment; (ii) Action Taken by the Government on the observations .recommendations of the Committee contained in their Second Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Textiles; (iii) Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment; and (iv) Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Textiles. 21. 19.5.2015 01 15 17 Evidence by the representatives of Ministry of Urban Development along with officials of CPWD on Deployment of Contract.Casual workers. Sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in CPWD. 22. 27.5.2015 01 30 16 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs along with the Officials of NDMC on Deployment of Contract.Casual.Sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in NDMC. 23. 4.6.2015 01 30 11 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship regarding role and functioning of the Ministry. 24. 17.6.2015 01 30 15 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Textiles on the subject 'Review of Urban Haats'. 25. 24.6.2015 01 30 16 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Textiles on the subject 'Modernisation and Skill Development Programme by National Textile Corporation (NTC)'. 26. 6.7.2015 00 45 15 Internal discussion on finalisation of the pending reports. 27. 15.7.2015 01 15 13 To take further evidence of the

representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs along with the Officials of NDMC on 'Deployment of Contract.Casual.Sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in NDMC'. 28. 10.8.2015 00 30 13 For consideration and adoption of the Draft Reports on the following subjects:- (i) Review of Urban Haats; and (ii) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations.Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Thirty Seventh Report (15th Lok Sabha) on 'Welfare of Legal Heirs of Deceased Workers of Rourkela Steel Plant - A Case Study'. 29. 19.8.2015 01 35 17 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship on the subject 'Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana'. 30. 26.8.2015 01 15 20 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas along with the officials of ONGC on 'Deployment of Contract.Casual.sanitation workers for perennial nature of jobs in ONGC'.

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COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

Sl.No Date of Duration No. of Subject Sitting Members present Hrs Mnts 1. 11.09.2014 01 00 20 To consider Memorandum No. 1 regarding selection of subjects for examination during the year 2014-15 2. 25.09.2014 02 15 23 To have a briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on 'Functioning of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas'. 3. 09.10.2014 02 45 20 Oral Evidence of the MoP&NG.PSUs in connection with examination of DFG (2014- 15) of MoP&NG 4. 27.10.2014 02. 00 25 Briefing by the representatives of MoPNG on "Review of Procedure for allotment of retail outlets and LPG Distributorships". 5 04.12.2014 01 40 16 To have a briefing by the representatives of the MoP&NG on "Ethanol Blended Petrol and Bio-Diesel Policy". 6 11.12.2014 01 00 19 Consideration and Adoption of (i) Draft Report on DFG (2014-15) OF MoP&NG (ii) Draft ATR as the recommendation contatined in 23rd report on the subject 'Functioning of Oil Industry Development Board'. 7 18.12.2014 01 40 14 To have a briefing by the representatives of the MoP&NG on „Oil-Refineries – A Review with special reference to Barauni, Digboi & Guwahati Refineries'. 8 07.01.2015 04 00 19 Briefing by the representatives of the MoP&NG on the subject „Safety, Security & Environmental Aspects in Petroleum Sector'. Oral evidence of the representatives of the MoP&NG.Sugar Mill Associations on the subject „Ethanol Blended Petrol and Bio-diesel Policy‟. Oral evidence of the representatives of the MoP&NG.Sugar Mill Associations on the subject „Ethanol Blended Petrol and Bio- diesel Policy‟ to be continued. 9 19.01.2015 02 15 17 To have a briefing by the representatives of the MoP&NG on „Functioning and Purview of Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH)'. 10 27.01.2015 01 15 20 For consideration and adoption of Draft Action Taken Report on the subject 'Allocation and Pricing of Gas'.

11 31.03.2015 01 45 21 To have a briefing by the representatives of the MoP&NG.PCRA on „Functioning of Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA)'. 12 09.04.2015 05 30 23 To take oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry.PSUs on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas 2. To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry on the subject 'New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP)' stepping up of exploratory activities. 13 23.04.2015 00 55 11 For consideration and adoption of Draft Report on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. 14 06.05.2015 01 00 16 For consideration and adoption of Draft Report on the subject "National Auto Fuel Policy". 15 11.06.2015 02 00 17 To take oral evidence of the representatives of the MoP&NG.Sugar Mill Associations on the subject „Ethanol Blended Petrol and Bio-diesel Policy‟. 16 30.06.2015 02 30 16 To have a briefing with the representatives of the MoP&NG.PSUs on the subject „Oil Refineries - A Review'. 17 14.07.2015 02 30 22 To take oral evidence of the representatives of the MoP&NG.PSUs on the subject „Review of Procedure for Allotment of Retail outlets and LPG Distributorships‟. 18 06.08.2015 00 45 17 To consider and adopt the draft Action Taken Report on the 1st Report on „Demands For Grants (2014-15) of MoP&NG‟ 19 11.08.2015 00 30 15 To consider and adopt the Draft Report on the subject 'Ethanol Blended Petrol & Bio Diesel Policy' 20 24.08.2015 02 00 17 To have a briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.PSUs on the subject "New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) - with special reference to Performance of ONGC, OIL and GAIL"

APPENDIX –TWENTY-SIX (Vide Para 10.6)

COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS

Sl Date Duration No. of Subject No. Hrs Mnts members present 1. 16.09.2014 02 20 23 To have introduction and briefing by the representatives of Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on working of the Indian Railways

2. 26.09.2014 01 15 22 Consideration of Memorandum No.1 regarding selection of subjects for examination during 2014-15 and to decide future course of action. 3. 16.10.2014 01 45 20 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on "Demands for Grants -2014-15 of the Ministry of Railways 4. 10.11.2014 00 20 22 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on "The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 5. 18.11.2014 01 30 17 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on "The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 6. 17.12.2014 00 30 24 Consideration and adoption of the draft Reports on the following subjects:- (i) “Demands for Grants - 2014-15 of the Ministry of Railways”; (ii) Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations of the Committee contained in their 21st Report on “Major Railway Accidents during the last five years – Causes and Remedial Measures; and (iii) Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations of the Committee contained in their 25th Report on “Ongoing and Pending Railway Projects, with special emphasis on Projects in the Northeast Region” 7. 07.01.2015 02 20 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on the subject Pending Projects. 8. 21.01.2015 02 30 20 (i) Oral Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on responses to the queries raised by the Members during the briefing meeting held on 07.01.2015 on the subject „Pending Projects‟; and (ii) Railways‟ proposal to raise financial resources for expeditious completion on „Pending Projects‟ in the light of resource crunch in the Railways. 9. 04.02.2015 01 00 13 Oral evidence of the non-official witnesses on 'The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014' 10. 01.04.2015 03 40 25 Briefing and oral evidence of the

representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on „Demands for Grants (2015- 16)' of the Ministry of Railways. 11 10.04.2015 01 30 13 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on „Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Railways' 12 16.04.2015 02 00 15 (i) Oral evidence of Dr. Kirit Somaiya, MP on „The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014; (ii) Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on „The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014; and (iii) Consideration and adoption of the draft report on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Railways 13 29.04.2015 00 45 19 Consideration and adoption of the following draft reports: (i) „The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014‟; and (ii) Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations. observations contained in the 23rd Report of the Standing Committee on Railways (15th Lok Sabha) on “Suburban Train Services of Indian Railways, with particular emphasis on Security of Women Passengers”. 14 01.06.2015 01 20 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on the following subjects: (i) Implementation of dedicated Freight Corridor Projects and (ii) Introduction of High speed Trains 15 22.06.2015 00 45 21 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on the subject 'Last Mile Port connectivity with Indian Railways' 16 15.07.2015 01 30 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on the subject 'Safety and Security in Railways' 17 06.08.2015 00 30 19 Consideration and adoption of draft Report on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations.observations of the Standing Committee on Railways contained in their 3rd Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on „Demands for Grants – 2014-15 of the Ministry of Railways‟

APPENDIX – TWENTY-SEVEN (Vide Para 11.6)

COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No Sitting Members present Hrs. Mts. 1. 19.09.2014 1 30 27 Consideration and adoption of Memorandum No.1 for selection of subjects. 2. 25.09.2014 2 00 17 Oral evidence of representatives of M.o Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation on DFG-2014-15 3. 17.10.2014 2 30 19 Oral evidence of representatives of M.o Urban Development on DFG-2014-15 4. 12.12.2014 1 00 12 Consideration and adoption of Report on DFG- 2014-15 both Ministries Urban Development and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 5. 09.1.2015 3 45 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development, Home Affairs, DDA, NDMC & MCDs on the subject "Timely and effective implementation of various schemes of M.o Urban Development by Government Agencies – An evaluation" 6. 3.2.2015 1 30 17 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development on the subject "Modernisation of Directorate of Printing, Government of India's Stationery Office and Department of Publication"

7. 12.2.2015 2 00 15 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development on the subject "DDA on the subject "Timely and effective implementation of various schemes of M.o Urban Development by Government Agencies – An evaluation" 8. 27.3.2015 2 00 21 Oral evidence of the M.o Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation on DFG-2015-16 9. 30.3.2015 3 30 17 Oral evidence of the M.o Urban Development on DFG-2015-16 10. 10.4.2015 1 30 19 Consideration and adoption of the following Draft Reports (i) ATR on observations.recommendationsby the Govt.on 2nd Report on DFG 2014-15. (ii)DFG-2015-16 M.o Urban Development (iii) DFG-2015-16 M.o Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 11. 22.5.2015 2 15 21 Oral evidence of representatives of M.o Urban Development, DDA, Delhi Govt., Registrar Cooperative Society on the subject "Timely and

effective implementation of various schemes of M.o Urban Development by Government Agencies – An evaluation" 12. 24.6.2015 1 30 16 Oral evidence of the office bearers of Employees Association of "Modernisation of Directorate of Printing, Government of India's Stationery Office and Department of Publication" 13. 03.7.2015 1 30 16 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development on the subject "Functioning of Directorate of Estates" 14. 13.7.2015 1 15 19 (i)Consideration and adoption of draft report on Action Taken by the Govt. on the observations.recommendations contained in the 1st Report on (16th Lok Sabha) on DFG-2014-15 of the M.o Urban Development. (ii)Briefing by the representatives of M.o Urban Development, Chairpersonof NDMC, all Commissioners of MCDs on the subject"Solid Waste Management" 15. 04.8.2015 2 00 19 (i)Consideration and adoption of draft report on Action Taken by the Govt. on the observations.recommendations contained in the 6th Report on (16th Lok Sabha) on DFG-2015-16 of the M.o Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. 16. 20.8.2015 1 30 16 Oral evidence of representatives of M.o Urban Development on the sunject "Functioning of Directorate of Estates"

APPENDIX-TWENTY-EIGHT (Vide Para 12.6)

COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No. Sitting Members present Hrs Mnts 1. 12.09.2014 00 45 14 Consideration of Memorandum No. 1 regarding Selection of Subjects for examination during the year 2014-15.

2. 19.09.2014 03 30 21 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in connection with examination of Demands for Grants 2014-2015.

3. 01.10.2014 01 45 15 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, NDMA (Ministry of Home Affairs) Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Mines on the subject "Issues Concerning Flood Management, Compensation and Status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the Country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to disposal of the sand left in the fields of the farmers."

4. 17.10.2014 01 50 09 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation on the subject "Conservation, Development, Management and Abatement of pollution in river Ganga and its tributaries."

5. 08.12.2014 1 25 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation on the subject ”National Water Policy, 2012 and its Implementation.” 6. 19.12.2014 -- 30 20 Consideration and adoption of Draft Reports on (i) Demands for Grants (2014- 2015) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and (ii) Action Taken by the

Government on the Observations . Recommendations contained in the Twenty-First Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Water Resources. 7. 27.01.2015 02 00 16 Oral evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and Central Pollution Control Board on the subject "Review of Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the country with particular reference to (i) Dark Blocks; and (ii) Contamination of underground water by certain industries".

8. 16.02.2015 01 50 18 Oral evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Rural Development on the subject "Review of Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the country with particular reference to (i) Dark Blocks; and (ii) Contamination of underground water by certain industries."

9. 27.03.2015 02 00 16 Oral evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in connection with the examination of the Demands for Grants (2015-16)

10. 16.04.2015 00 30 07 Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

11. 22.04.2015 00 30 14 Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

12. 29.04.2015 01 00 13 Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) and Ministry of Mines on the subject “Issues concerning

Flood Management, Compensation and status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to disposal of the sand left in the fields of farmers."

13. 11.05.2015 00 30 16 Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on “Issues concerning Flood Management, compensation and status of ownership of submerged and eroded land in the country, including compensation to farmers for loss of their crops destroyed by floods and right to disposal of the sand left in the fields of the farmers". 14. 26.05.2015 02 20 15 Oral evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion), Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, and Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) on the subject “Review of Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the country with particular reference to (i) Dark Blocks; and (ii) Contamination of underground water by certain industries”.

15. 26.06.2015 01 00 13 To take further evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in connection with examination of Action Taken Replies on the Observations . Recommendations contained in the First Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

16. 14.07.2015 01 40 15 To take further evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in connection with examination of Action Taken Replies on the Observations . Recommendations contained in the First Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. 17. 26.08.2015 01 30 17 Oral Evidence by the representatives of the Ministry of Water Resources, River

Development and Ganga Rejuvenation on the subject "Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies".

APPENDIX-TWENTY-NINE (Vide Para 13.6)

COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No. Sittings Members Hrs Mnts Present 1 17.09.2014 1 00 24 (i) Memorandum No. I regarding selection of subjects for examination by the Committee during the year 2014-15; and (ii) Future programme of the Committee. 2 28.10. 2014 2 00 20 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in connection with examination of „Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals 3 30.10. 2014 1 30 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in connection with examination of „Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Fertilizers 4 30.10.2014 00 30 17 Consideration of Memorandum No.2 regarding Selection of Subject Jan Aushadhi Scheme. 5 30.10. 2014 1 30 17 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in connection with examination of „Demands for Grants (2014-15) of Department of Pharmaceuticals 6 18.11.2014 1 50 16 Oral evidence of Non-officials on the subjected Jan Aushadhi Scheme. 7 19.11.2014 1 20 13 Oral evidence of Department of Pharmaceuticals regarding selection of subject „Jan Aushadhi Scheme‟. 8 08.12.2014 00 30 18 Consideration and Adoption of two Draft Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals and Department of Pharmaceuticals) 9 16.12. 2014 00 40 16 Consideration and Adoption of Draft Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) 10 02.03.2015 1 00 22 Consideration and Adoption of Draft Report on the Subject "Jan Aushadhi Scheme" of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 11 19.03.2015 1 30 18 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) in connection with examination of „Demands for Grants (2015-16)

12 26.03. 2015 2 00 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) in connection with examination of „Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Department of Pharmaceuticals 13 27.03. 2015 2 00 15 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals and) in connection with examination of „Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals 14 16.04. 2015 1 00 14 Consideration and Adoption of Three Draft Report on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers, Department of Pharmaceuticals and Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals) 15 29.04.2015 00 40 18 Briefing on the subject "Movement of Fertilizers and Monitoring System" by the representative of Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) 16 19.05.2015 2 00 11 Briefing on the subject "Movement of Fertilizers and Monitoring System" by the representative of Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers). 17 16.06.2015 1 00 14 i) Adoption of Action Taken Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers); (ii) Adoption of Action Taken Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals); and (iii) Adoption of Action Taken Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) 18 30.06.2015 2 00 17 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) in connection with "Functioning of National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)". 19 14.07.2015 1 30 19 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) in connection with "Functioning of National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)". 20 22.07.2015 00 30 14 Consideration and Adoption of Draft Subject Report on "Movement of Fertilizers and Monitoring System" of Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) 21 11.08.2015 00 40 12 Consideration and Adoption of Draft Subject Report on „Functioning of National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs)‟ of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals).

APPENDIX -THIRTY (Vide Para 14.6)

COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No. Sitting Members present Hrs Mts 1. 18.09.2014 01 00 21 To consider Memorandum No. 1 regarding Selection of Subjects for examination by the Committee during the year 2014-15 2. 24.09.2014 02 10 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 3. 24.09.2014 01 30 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj on Demands for Grants (2014-15)

4. 13.10.2014 02 25 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 5. 13.10.14 01 30 18 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development) on Demands for Grants (2014-15). 6. 11.11.2014 01 45 20 Briefing by representatives of the Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) on the Subject 'BPL Survey'. 7. 18.11.2014 02 30 14 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 8. 18.11.2014 02 35 17 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Demands for Grants (2014-15) 9. 19.11.2014 02 30 14 Evidence of the representatives of the Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) on DFG (2014-15). 10. 19.11.2014 02 15 13 Evidence of the representatives of the Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development) on DFG (2014-15) 11. 16.12.2014 01 00 13 Consideration and adoption of Draft Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the following Ministries.Departments:-(i)Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) (ii) Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural 17Development) (iii) Ministry of Panchayati Raj (iv) Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. 12. 12.02.2015 01 05 11 Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Land Resources (MoRD) on 'the Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013' 13. 27.02.2015 01 30 20 To hear the views of individuals . Organisations on 'the Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013'. 14. 25.03.2015 02 10 18 Evidence of the representatives of the Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development)

on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

15. 25.03.2015 01 45 18 Evidence of the representatives of the Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development) on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 16. 26.03.2015 02 15 17 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 17. 26.03.2015 00 30 17 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 18. 16.04.2015 01 45 15 Evidence of the Chief Secretaries. representatives of State Governments of West Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh -*and Delhi on the Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013. 19. 16.04.2015 01 40 15 (i) Evidence of the representatives of Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development) and Ministry of Law & Justice on the Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013 and; (ii) Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. 20. 21.04.2015 00 20 14 Consideration and adoption of Draft Reports on Demands for Grants (2015-16) of the following Ministries.Departments:- (i)Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) (ii) Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development) (iii) Ministry of Panchayati Raj. 21. 07.05.2015 00 20 18 Consideration and adoption of Draft Report on the Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013. 22. 09.06.2015 02 30 17 To have briefing by the representatives of Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) on the subject Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) 23. 10.08.2015 00 15 21 Consideration and adoption of the following Draft Reports action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in:- (i) First Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development); (ii) Second Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development); (iii) Third Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj; and (iv) Fourth Report on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry Drinking Water & and Sanitation. (v) Forty Second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Implementation of MGNREGA, 2005. (vi) Forty Fifth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Capacity Building of PRIs. 24. 26.08.2015 02 20 22 To have briefing of the representatives of the Department of Rural Development (Ministry of Rural Development) on the Subject 'Indira Awash Yojana (IAY)'

APPENDIX-THIRTY-ONE (Vide Para 15.6)

COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL

Sl. Date of Duration No. of Subject No. Sitting Hrs Mnts Members Present 1 11.09.2014 01 00 25 To consider Memorandum No. 1 reg. selection of subjects and to decide the future programme of the Committee. 2 01.10.2014 02 00 17 To have briefing with the representatives of the Ministry of Coal on the subject Production, Marketing and Distribution of Coal.' 3 16.10.2014 03 00 25 To take oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Steel on DFG(2014-15) 4 16.10.2014 02 00 25 To take oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Mines on DFG(2014-15) 5 03.11.2014 02 30 22 To take oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Coal on DFG(2014-15) 6 09.12.2014 02 00 16 To have briefing with the representatives of the Ministry of Steel on the subject, Safety Management & Practices in Steel PSUs". 7 19.12.2014 00 30 16 Consideration and adoption of following 6 draft Reports relating to the Ministries of Coal, Mines and Steel.

 Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the Ministry of Coal  Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the Ministry of Mines  Demands for Grants (2014-15) pertaining to the Ministry of Steel  Action Taken Report on 50th Report of the Committee(15th Lok Sabha) on "Service Conditions of Workers including Contract Workers in Coal India Ltd. and its subsidiaries" pertaining to Ministry of Coal  Action Taken Report on 51st Report of the Committee(15th Lok Sabha) on "Service Conditions of Workers in Public Sector Steel Companies" pertaining to the Ministry of Steel  Action Taken Report on 52nd Report of the Committee(15th Lok Sabha) on "Marketing and Transportation of Steel by Public Sector Steel Companies" pertaining to the Ministry of Steel 8 30.12.2014 01 30 13 To have briefing with the representatives of the Ministry of Coal on the subject "Safety, Health and Education Facilities for

Inhabitants.Workers in Coal.Lignite Mining Areas.' 9 31.03.2015 03 00 23 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Mines on DFG(2015-16). 10 01.04.2015 04 00 21 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Coal on DFG(2015-16). 11 13.04.2015 04 00 22 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Steel on DFG(2015-16). 12 22.04.2015 00 30 16 Consideration and adoption of 3 Draft Reports relating to the Ministries of Coal, Mines and Steel on DFG(2015-16) and 1 Action Taken Report on 49th Report of the Committee (15th Lok Sabha) on "Coal Pricing and Issues Relating to Coal Royalty" pertaining to the Ministry of Coal 13 05.05.2015 00 30 18 Consideration and adoption of the following 3 Draft Reports:-  Action Taken Report on 1st Report of the Committee (16th Lok Sabha) on "DFG(2014-15) pertaining to Ministry of Coal.  Action Taken Report on 2nd Report of the Committee (16th Lok Sabha) on "DFG(2014-15) pertaining to Ministry of Mines.  Action Taken Report on 3rd Report of the Committee (16th Lok Sabha) on "DFG(2014-15) pertaining to Ministry of Steel. 14 15.06.2015 02 30 17 To have briefing with the representatives of the Ministry of Steel on the subject "Research & Development in Iron & Steel Sector". 15 14.07.2015 03 00 22 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Coal on the subject, "Safety, Health and Education Facilities for Inhabitants.Workers in Coal.Lignite Mining Areas. 16 11.08.2015 02 00 17 Consideration and adoption of Draft Reports relating to the Ministries of Coal "Safety, Health and Education Facilities of Inhabitants.Workers in Coal.Lignite Mining Areas. 17 26.08.2015 03 00 23 Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Steel on the subject, "Research and Development in Iron and Steel Sector".

APPENDIX-THIRTY-TWO (Vide Para 16.6)

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

Sl. Date of Duration No. of No. Sitting Members Subject Present Hrs. Min. 1. 18.9.2014 1 15 20 Consideration of Memorandum No. 1 regarding Selection of Subjects for examination by the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment during the year 2014-2015.

2. 30.9.2014 1 50 17 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment) and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on "The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2014".

3. 9.10.2014 5 55 10 (i) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment) on Demands for Grants (2014-15).

(ii) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Disability Affairs) on Demands for Grants (2014- 15).

(iii) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on Demands for Grants (2014-15).

(iv) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Minority Affairs on Demands for Grants (2014-15).

4. 28.10.2014 2 - 22 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Minority Affairs on "The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Bill, 2014".

5. 7.11.2014 1 35 15 To hear the views of representatives of (i) Delhi Waqf Board and (ii) Waqf Tenants Welfare Association, Delhi on "The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Bill, 2014".

6. 26.11.2014 1 30 14 To hear the view of National Commission for Scheduled Castes on "The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2014"and evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment) and Registrar General of India on "The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2014".

7. 27.11.2014 1 45 14 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Disability Affairs) on "The Rights of Persons with Disability Bill, 2014".

8. 2.12.2014 2 30 14 To hear the views of NGOs.organizations.stakeholders on "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014".

9. 3.12.2014 1 50 14 To hear the views of NGOs.organizations.stakeholders on "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014".

10. 17.12.2014 1 10 14 Consideration and adoption of the following draft Reports of the Committee :- (i) First, Second, Third and Fourth Reports on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministries of Social Justice and Empowerment (Departments of Social Justice and Empowerment and Disability Affairs), Tribal Affairs and Minority Affairs respectively. (ii) Fifth Report on "The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2014". (iii) Sixth Report on "The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2014".

11. 22.12.2014 1 15 10 To hear the views of representatives of the State Governments (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat) on "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014".

12. 12.1.2015 2 15 14 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment) on the subject "Rehabilitation.treatment of persons affected by substance, liquor and drug abuse".

13. 19.1.2015 1 - 7 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on the subject "Displacement of Tribal People due to Developmental Projects and their rehabilitation".

14. 9.2.2015 1 30 9 Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Minority Affairs on the subject "Educational schemes for Minorities".

15. 10.3.2015 - 30 11 Consideration and adoption of the following draft Reports of the Committee :- (i) Seventh Action Taken Report on Thirty-ninth Report of the Committee (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject "Implementation of schemes for Welfare of Senior Citizens". (ii) Eighth Action Taken Report on Forty-fifth Report of the Committee (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject "Review of the functioning of National Institutes working in the field of disability". (iii) Ninth Action Taken Report on Forty-fourth Report of the Committee (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject "Working of Ashram Schools in Tribal Areas". (iv) Tenth Action Taken Report on Forty-sixth Report of the Committee (15th Lok Sabha) on the subject "Implementation of Prime Minister‟s New 15 Point Programme".

16 30.3.2015 5 20 15 (i) Evidence of the representatives of the & Ministry of Social Justice and 17. Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment) on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

(ii) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) on Demands for Grants (2015-16).

18 31.3.2015 5 - 18 (i) Evidence of the representatives of the & Ministry of Tribal Affairs on Demands for 19. Grants (2015-16).

(ii) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Minority Affairs on Demands for Grants (2015-16). 20. 9.4.2015 1 35 10 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) on "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014".

21. 24.4.2015 - 15 10 Consideration and adoption of draft Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Reports of the Committee.

22. 5.5.2015 - 30 10 Consideration and adoption of the draft Fifteenth Report on "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014" of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

23. 1.6.2015 2 45 16 To hear the views of NGOs working in the field of rehabilitation.treatment of persons affected by substance, liquor and drug abuse and funded by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

24. 24.6.2015 - 15 14 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Minority Affairs on "The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Bill, 2014".

25. 6.7.2015 2 15 19 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Minority Affairs on "The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Bill, 2014".

26. 6.8.2015 1 50 11 (I) Consideration and adoption of the following draft Reports of the Committee :-

(i) Sixteenth Action Taken Report on First Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment).

(ii) Seventeenth Action Taken Report on Second Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

(iii) Eighteenth Action Taken Report on Fourth Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

(iv) Nineteenth Action Taken Report on Third Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2014-15) of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

(II) Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on “Implementation of Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006” and “Displacement of tribal people due to developmental projects and their rehabilitation”.

27. 10.8.2015 - 45 10 Consideration and adoption of the draft 20th Report on "The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Bill, 2014" of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

28. 25.8.2015 2 - 15 Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment) on the subject "Rehabilitation.treatment of persons affected by substance, liquor and drug abuse".

(C ) STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER OF

SITTINGS ATTENDED

BY EACH MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE

APPENDIX -THIRTY-THREE (Vide Para 1.7)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

Total No. of sittings held– 33

Sl. No. Name of the Members No. of Sittings attended

1 Shri Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav - Chairperson - 33

Lok Sabha

2. Shri Sanganna Amarappa 12 3. Prof. Ravindra Vishwanath Gaikwad 15 *4. Prof. Richard Hay 02 5. Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel 15 6. Md. Badaruddoza Khan 21 7. Shri C. Mahendran 11 8. Dr. Tapas Mandal 24 9. Shri Janardan Mishra 21 10. Shri Ajay Nishad 20 11. Shri Dalpat Singh Paraste 31 12. Shri Nityanand Rai 19 13. Shri Mukesh Rajput 28 14. Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao 16 15. Shri C.L. Ruala 23 16. Shri Arjun Charan Sethi 12 17. Shri Satyapal Singh 26 18. Shri Virendra Singh 25 19. Shri Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav 16 20. Shri Dharmendra Yadav 04 21. Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa 11

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri A.W. Rabi Bernard 14 23. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury 20 24. Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa 17 25. Shri Janardan Dwivedi 28 26. Shri Vinay Katiyar 24 27. Shri Mohd. Ali Khan 33 28. Shri Rajpal Singh Saini 20 29. Shri Ram Nath Thakur 29 30. Shri Shankarbhai N. Vegad 21 31. Shri Darshan Singh Yadav 18 ______*Nominated as a Member of Committee on Agriculture vide Lok Sabha Bulletin Part-II No. 2303 dated 17.08.2015 vice Shri Kadiyam Srihari who ceased to be the Member of the Committee on his resignation from Lok Sabha w.e.f 11.06.2015 vide Notification No. 21/1/2015/T(B) dated 15.06.2015.

APPENDIX –THIRTY-FOUR (Vide Para 2.7)

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Total No. of sittings held - 24

Sl. No. Name of the Members No. of Sittings attended

Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Chairperson 24

Lok Sabha 2. Shri L.K. Advani 19 3. Shri Prasun Banerjee 15 4. Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad 21 *5. Dr. K.C. Patel 19 6. Shri Hemant Tukaram Godse 15 7. Dr. Anupam Hazra 16 8. Dr. J. Jayavardhan 11 9. Shri P. Karunakaran 13 10. Shri Virender Kashyap 16 11. Shri Harinder Singh Khalsa 10 12. Smt. Hema Malini 04 13. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya 23 14. Ms. Mehbooba Mufti Nil 15. Shri Paresh Rawal 04 16. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben Dhirubhai Shiyal 12 17. Shri Abhishek Singh 13 18. Shri D.K. Suresh 10 19. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas 14 20. Smt. R. Vanaroja 13 @21. Shri Raosaheb Danve Patil Nil Rajya Sabha

22. Shri Javed Akhtar Nil 23. Shri Salim Ansari 17 24. Smt. Jaya Bachchan 08 25. Shri Vijay Jawaharlal Darda 10 26. Shri Santiuse Kujur 17 27. Shri Derek O‟Brien 08 28. Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao 15 29. Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Nil 30. Mahant Shambhuprasadji Tundiya 12 #31. Shri Meghraj Jain 08 ______* Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 11.09.2014 vice Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi, M.P., vide Bulletin Part – II w.e.f. 11.09.2014 @ Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 15.07.2015 vide Bulletin Part – II dated 17.07.2015. # Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 14.01.2015 vide Bulletin Part – II dated 16.01.2015.

APPENDIX – THIRTY- FIVE (Vide Para 3.7) COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE

Total No. of sittings held -19

Sl. No. Name of the Members No. of Sittings attended

1. Maj Gen B C Khanduri, AVSM (Retd) - Chairperson 19

Lok Sabha 2. Shri Suresh C. Angadi 11 3. Shri Shrirang Appa Barne 8 4. Shri Dharambir 13 5. Shri Thupstan Chhewang 15 6. Col Sonaram Choudhary(Retd) 16 7. Shri H.D. Devegowda 11 8. Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 12 9. Shri G. Hari 11 10. Shri Ramesh Jigajinagi 6 11. Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 3 12. Km. Shobha Karandlaje 12 13. Shri Vinod Khanna 10 14. Dr. Mriganka Mahato 13 15. Shri Tapas Paul 9 16. Shri Malla Reddy 12 17. Shri Rajeev Satav 11 18. Smt. Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah 12 19. Capt Amarinder Singh(Retd) - 20. Shri A.P. Jithender Reddy 15 21.* Shri Hemendra Chandra - 22.** Shri Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 5 23.$ Smt. Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh 4 Rajya Sabha 24. Shri K. R. Arjunan 5 25.# Shri Anand Sharma 5 26. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar 15 27. Shri A.U. Singh Deo 12 28. Shri Harivansh 10 29. Shri Vinay Katiyar 13 30. Shri Hishey Lachungpa 1 31. Shri Madhusudan Mistry 12 32. Smt. Ambika Soni 14 33. Shri Tarun Vijay 9 35.@ Shri Narendra Budania 4 ------* Sad Demise on 05.09.2014 ** Ceased to be Member of the Committee on 09.11.2014 $ Nominated w.e.f. 22.12.2014 # Nominated w.ef. 08.10.2014 @ Ceased to be Member of the Committee on 08.10.2014

APPENDIX – THIRTY-SIX (Vide Para 4.6) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

Total No. of sittings held - 32

Sl No. Name of the Members No. of Sittings attended 1 *Shri Kirit Somaiya, Chairman 26 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy 06 3. Shri Om Birla 13 4. Shri M. Chandrakasi 18 5. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey 23 6. Shri Harish Chandra alias Harish Dwivedi 23 7. #Shri Deepender Singh Hooda 05 8. Shri Saumitra Khan 16 9. Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari 18 10. Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar 16 11. Dr. Arun Kumar 19 12. Shri R.P. Marutharajaa 07 13. **Dr. Pritam Gopinath Munde 00 14. Shri Jagdambika Pal 25 15. Shri Ravindra Kumar Pandey 23 16. Shrimati Krishna Raj 24 17. Shri M.B. Rajesh 24 18. Shri Vinayak Bhaurao Raut 21 19. Shri Gutha Sukender Reddy 16 20. @Shri A.P. Jithender Reddy 01 21. Shri Purno Agitok Sangma 14 22. Shri Malyadri Sriram 10 23. Shri Devender Singh alias Bhole Singh 25 24. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma 30 Rajya Sabha 25. Shri V.P. Singh Badnore 21 26. ^Shri Oscar Fernandes 23 27. Shri Ram Jethmalani 06 28. Shri Pyarimohan Mohapatra 23 29. Shri S.Muthukaruppan 21 30. ^^Shri Javed Ali Khan 17 31. Dr. K.P. Ramalingam 16 32. Shri Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu 32 33. Dr. Anil Kumar Sahani 27 34. Shrimati Viplove Thakur 19 35. Shri Rajiv Shukla 02 36. $Shri Mohammad Shafi 05 ------* Appointed as Chairman of the Committee w.e.f. 12th November, 2014 vice Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy # Nominated as member of the Committee w.e.f. 14th November, 2014

^Nominated as member of the Committee w.e.f. 9th December, 2014 vice Shri Rajiv Shukla @Ceased to be member of the Committee 19.09.2014 $ Resigned on 12.01.2015 ^^Nominated as member of the Committee w.e.f. 29.01.2015 **Nominated as member of the Committee w.e.f. 11.08.2015

APPENDIX –THIRTY -SEVEN (Vide Para 5.7) COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Total No. of sittings held - 21

Sl.No. Name No. of Sittings attended

1. Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Chairperson 20 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Sirajuddin Ajmal 1 3. Prof (Dr) Sugata Bose, 9 4. Shri Ranjit Singh Brahmpura 6 5. Shri Arka Keshari Deo 14 6. Shri Rahul Gandhi Nil 7. Shri Anantkumar Hegde 2 8. Shrimati Rakshatai Khadse 3 9. Shri Raghav Lakhanpal 7 10. Shri Jose K. Mani 12 * 11. Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi 5 12. Shri A. Anwhar Raajhaa 9 13. Shri Maganti Venkateshwara Rao (Babu) 13 14. Shri Mohd. Salim 13 15. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita 21 16. Shri. P.R. Senthilnathan 7 17. Shri Ram Swaroop Sharma 12 18. Smt. Supriya Sule 5 19. Shri Sharad Tripathi 21 ^ 20. Shri Chhedi Paswan 2 # 21. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram 4 Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Satyavrat Chaturvedi 5 23. Shri H.K. Dua 19 24. Shri Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel 14 25. Shrimati Kanimozhi 3 26. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap 14 27. Dr. Karan Singh 13 28. Shri. D.P. Tripathi 10 29. Shri Pavan Kumar Varma 13 30. Shri C.M. Ramesh@ 4 31. Vacant## -

------Shri Vijay Sampla, MP, Lok Sabha attended 5 sittings and ceased to be a Member of the Committee w.e.f. 9.11.2014. Shri Shiv Kumar Udasi, MP, Lok Sabha attended 5 sittings ceased to be a Member of the Committee w.e.f. 24.02.2015. Shri Y.S. Chaudhary, MP, Rajya Sabha attended 4 sittings and ceased to be a Member of the Committtee w.e.f. 9.11.2014. Shri Anand Sharma, MP, Rajya Sabha attended none of the sittings and ceased to be a Member of the Committee w.e.f. 25.09.2014. Shri Murli Deora, MP, Rajya Sabha attended 3 sittings and vacancy arose w.e.f. 24.11.2014 due to his sad demise. *Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha has been nominated w.e.f.11.09.2014 vice Dr. K.C. Patel, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha who has been nominated to the Committee on Information Technology. ^ Shri Chhedi Paswan, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha has been nominated w.e.f .25.03.2015. # Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha has been nominated w.e.f. 25.03.2015. @ Shri Y. S. Chowdary ceased to be Member of the Committee consequent upon his appointment as Minister w.e.f. 09.11.2014 and Shri. C.M. Ramesh has been nominated w.e.f. 28.11.2014. # # Shri Murli Deora, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha had been nominated vice Shri Anand Sharma, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha who had been nominated to the Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers w.e.f. 25.09.2014. Vacancy arose w.e.f. 24.11.2014 due to the sad demise of Shri Murli Deora.

APPENDIX –THIRTY-EIGHT (Vide Para 6.7) COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Total No. of sittings held - 33

Sl. Name of the Member No. of sitting attended No. 1. Dr. M. Veerappa Moily - Chairperson 33 Lok Sabha

2. Shri S.S. Ahluwalia 14 3. Shri Venkatesh Babu T.G. 14 4. Shri Sudip Bandyoypadhyay 04 5. Shri Nishikant Dubey 24 6. Shri P.C. Gaddigoudar 24 7. Dr. Gopalakrishnan C. 03 8. Shri Shyama Charan Gupta 22 9. Shri Prataprao Jadhav 16 10. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria 27 11. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 25 12. Shri Prem Das Rai 14 13. Shri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao 15 14. Prof. Saugata Roy 20 15. Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia 11 16. Shri Gajendra Singh Sekhawat 19 17. Shri Gopal Shetty 26 18. Shri Anil Shirole 18 19. Shri Shivkumar Udasi 08 20. Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki 11 21. Dr. Kirit Somaiya 23

Rajya Sabha

22. Shri Naresh Agrawal 11 23. Shri Naresh Gujral 20 24. Shri A. Navaneethakrishnan 03 25. Shri Satish Chandra Misra 04 26. Dr. Mahendra Prasad 18 27. Shri K.N. Balagopal 06 28. Shri C.M. Ramesh 17 29. Shri Ajay Sancheti 08 30. Shri Digvijaya Singh 15 31. Dr. Manmohan Singh 29

APPENDIX – THIRTY-NINE (Vide Para 7.7) Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution

Sl. No. Name of the Member No. of sittings attended

1. Shri J.C. Divakar Reddy, Chairperson 19 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Anto Antony 06 3. Shri Babu Lal Choudhary 17 4. Shri Sanjay Jadhav (Bandu) Haribhau 04 5. Shri Dinesh Kashyap 03 6. Shri Dharmendra Kumar 17 7. Shri Ravinder Kushawaha 17 8. Smt. Sakuntala Laguri 09 9. Dr. Sakshi Maharaj 18 10. Shri R. K. Bharathi Mohan 12 11. Shri Sunil Kumar Mondal 17 12. Shri Kamlesh Paswan 03 13. Shri Ram Chander Paswan 13 14. Shri C.S. Puttaraju 08 15. Smt. Priyanka Singh Rawat 11 16. Shri P.V. Midhun Reddy 07 17. Shri Bhola Singh 18

18. Shri Brij Bhusan Sharan Singh 13 19. Shri Shibu Soren, # NIL 20. Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava 06 21. Shri Nandi Yellaiah 12 Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Shadi Lal Batra 12 23. Shri Pankaj Bora 06 24. Shri Mithun Chakraborty NIL 25. Dr. Bhushan Lal Jangde 15 26. Dr. Prabhakar kore ** 01 27. Dr. K. Keshava Rao* 09 28. Shri K.K Ragesh @ 06 29. Ms. Rekha NIL 30. Shri Dhiraj Prasad Sahu 10 31. Shri Veer Singh$ 05 32 Shri Ritabrata Banerjee 13 33 Shri Amar Singh 01 ------# Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 7.10.2014. * Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 08.10.2014 from the Standing Committee on Water Resources. ** Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 19.12.2014 vice Shri Amar Singh MP (RS) retired from the membership of Rajya Sabha w.e.f. 25.11.2014. $ Shri Veer Singh, MP (RS) ceased to be a member of the Committee upon his retirement from the membership of Rajya Sabha w.e.f. 25.11.2014 and re-nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 19.12.2014. @ Shri K.K. Ragesh, MP (RS) nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 06.05.2015 vice changed of nomination of Shri Ritabrata Banerjee to the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture w.e.f. 06.05.2015.

APPENDIX –FORTY (Vide Para 8.7) STANDING COMMITTEE ON LABOUR

Total No. of sittings held - 30

Sl. No. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended Lok Sabha 1. Dr. Virendra Kumar 29 2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar 29 3. Shri Ashok Dohare 09 4. Shri Satish Chandra Dubey 22 5. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara 17 6. Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud 10 7. Shri Rama Chandra Hansdah 07 8. Shri C.N. Jayadevan 26 9. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli 24 10. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar 24 11. Shri Hari Manjhi 20 12. Shri R. Parthipan 09 13. Shri Hariom Singh Rathore 15 14. Shri YS Avinash Reddy 02 15. Shri Naba Kumar Sarania (Hira) 08 16. Shri Kodikunnil Suresh 15 17. Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav 02 18.* Shri Chh. Udayan Raje Bhonsle 01 19.** Dr. Arun Kumar 06 20.*** Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 02 21.**** Vacant Rajya Sabha 22. Shri P. Kannan -- 23. Shri Aayanur Manjunatha 18 24. Haji Abdul Salam 10 25. Shri Tapan Kumar Sen 23 26. Shri R.K. Sinha 02 27.$ Shri Rajaram 18 28.@ Shri Ravi Prakash Verma 14 29.@@ Shri P.L. Punia 09 30.# Shri Nazir Ahmed Laway 08 31.## Ms. Dola Sen 08 ------* Nominated w.e.f. 7th October, 2014. ** Nominated w.e.f. 25th March, 2015. *** Nominated w.e.f 23rd July, 2015 **** Vacancy occurred vice Shri Kapil Krishna Thakur expired on 13.10.2014. $ Re-nominated w.e.f. 8th January, 2015. @ Nominated w.e.f.29th January, 2015. @@ Nominated w.e.f 12th March, 2015. # Nominated w.e.f 7th May, 2015 ## Nominated w.e.f. 13th May, 2015

APPENDIX-FORTY-ONE (Vide Para 9.7) COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS

Total Number of sittings held - 20

SI. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended No. Shri Pralhad Joshi - Chairperson 19

Lok Sabha

2 Dr. Ravindra Babu 19 3 Shri P. K. Biju 13 4 Shri Kalikesh N. Singh Deo 10 5 Shrimati Rama Devi 18 6 Shri Elumalai V. 20 7 Shri Naranbhai Kachhadiya 13 8 Dr. Thokchom Meinya 16 9 Shrimati Pratima Mondal 16 10 Shri Ashok Mahadeorao Nete 5 11 Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel 17 12 Shrimati Anupriya Patel 11 13 Shri Arvind Sawant 20 14 Shri Raju Shetti 14 15 Dr. Bhola Singh (Begusarai) 17 16 Shri Ravneet Singh 10 17 Shri Kamakhya Prasad Tasa 9 18 Shri Rajesh Verma 15 19 Shri Om Prakash Yadav 16 20 Shri Laxmi Narayan Yadav 15 21 Shri A.T. Nana Patil* 2 Rajya Sabha 22 Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar 3 23 Shri Ishwarlal Shankarlal Jain 12 24 Shri Prabhat Jha 5 25 Shri Bhubaneshwar Kalita 11 26 Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya 11 27 Shri Ahmed Patel 0 28 Shrimati Gundu Sudharani 15 29 Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav 4 30 Shri Sharad Yadav 3 31 Shri Praful Patel# 5 ------* Nominated to this Committee w.e.f. 25th March, 2015. # Nominated to this Committee w.e.f. 2nd March, 2015.

APPENDIX-FORTY-TWO (Vide para 10.7) STANDING COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS

Total No. of sittings held-17

Sl. No. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended

1 Shri Dinesh Trivedi, Chairperson 17

Lok Sabha

2. Shri E. Ahamed 10 3. Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel 16 4. Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary 17 5. Shri Sanjay Dhotre 16 6. Shri Gourav Gogoi 8 7. Shri Rajen Gohain 3 8. Sh. Bandaru Dattatreya 1 9. Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi 6 10. Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik 16 11. Shri Gajanan Kirtikar 8 12. Shri Balabhadra Majhi 12 13. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal 12 14. Shri K.H. Muniyappa 14 15. Shri Thota Narasimham 8 16. Shri A.T. Nana Patil 8 17. Shri R. Radhakrishnan 6 18. Shri Mekapati Raja Mohan Reddy 12 19. Shri Lakhan Lal Sahu 7 20. Shri Ganesh Singh 8 21. Shri Uday Pratap Singh 10 22. Shri S.R. Vijayakumar 7 Rajya Sabha 23. Shri A.K. Antony 7 24. Shri Mukut Mithi 11 25. Shri Dilipbhai Pandya 17 26. Smt. Kusum Rai 3 27. Shri Parimal Nathwani 2 28. Shri Ambeth Rajan 15 29. Shri T. Rathinavel 4 30. Shri Bashistha Narain Singh 11 31. Shri Devender Goud T. 9 32. Shri Alok Tiwari 7 33. Shri Motilal Vora 13

APPENDIX –FORTY-THREE (Vide Para 11.7) COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Total No. of sittings held – 16

Sl. No. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended

1. Shri Pinaki Misra, Chairperson 15 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Rajendra Agrawal 16 3. Shri Ramesh Bidhuri 11 4. Shri Ram Charan Bohra 13 5. Shri Dushyant Chautala 11 6. Shri Ashok Chavan 05 7. Shri Dilip Kumar Gandhi 08 8. Shri Maheish Girri 11 9. Shri R.Gopalakrishnan 10 10. Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua 12 11. Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi 12 12. Smt. Poonam Mahajan 05 13. Shri P.C. Mohan 07 14. Shri Kesineni Nani 09 15. Shri K. Parasuraman 07 16. *Shri Alok Sanjar 01 17. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil 12 18. Shri Rahul Ramesh Shewale 14 19. Prof. K. V. Thomas 06 20. Shri Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma 11 21 Dr. Dharam Vira 09 Rajya Sabha

22. Shrimati Vandana Chavan 09 23. Shri Husain Dalwai 08 24. Shri Anil Desai 11 25. Shri Parvez Hashmi 02 26. **Shri Mukul Roy 11 27. Shri Rangasayee Ramakrishna 12 28. Shri Satish Sharma 00 29. Shri C.P. Thakur 07 30. Shri S.Thangavelu 12 31. Shri Khekiho Zhimomi 03 ------* Shri Alok Sanjar, MP (Lok Sabha) has been nominated as Member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development in place of Shri C.R. Patil, MP Lok Sabha who has been nominated to the Committee on Health and Family Welfare w.e.f. 11.8.2015. **Shri Mukul Roy, MP nominated to Committee in place of Md. Nadimul Haque, w.e.f 09.12.2014.

APPENDIX-FORTY-FOUR

(Vide Para 12.7)

COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES

Total Number of Sittings held – 17

Sl. No. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended

Shri Hukum Singh - Chairperson 17 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Radheshyam Biswas 08 3. Shri Devusinh Chauhan 09 4. Shri Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria 09 5. Shri Tariq Hameed Karra 07 6. Shri Vinod Kumar B. 11 7. Shri Murali Mohan Maganti 12 8. Shri Sidhant Mohapatra 09 9. Shri Abhijit Mukherjee 11 10. Shri Rodmal Nagar 15 11. Shri Subhash Patel 06 12. Shri Sanjay Kaka Patil 04 13. Shri Vijaysinh Shankarrao Mohite Patil 02 14. Smt. Aparupa Poddar 09 15. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram 08 16. Shri Ram Prasad Sarmah 10 17. Smt. Sathyabama V. 10 18. Shri Lallu Singh 12 19. Shri L.K. Vaghela 06 20. Smt. Dimple Yadav 00 21. Sh. S.P.Y. Reddy 03 Rajya Sabha

22. Shri Balwinder Singh Bhunder 14 23. Shri Anil Madhav Dave 02 24. Smt. Naznin Faruque 09 25. Shri Sanjiv Kumar 00 26. Prof. Mrinal Miri 13 27. Shri V. Hanumantha Rao 04 28. Shri A.V. Swamy 16 29. Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia 11 30. Shri Mir Mohammad Fayaz 04 31. Shri Amar Shankar Sable 04

APPENDIX-FORTY-FIVE (Vide Para 13.7) COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

Total No. of sittings held - 21

Sl. No Name of Member Number of sittings attended 1 Shri Anandrao Adsul - Chairperson 21 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Idris Ali 6 3. Smt. Anju Bala 15 4. Shri B.N. Chandrappa 14 5. Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 17 6. Smt. Veena Devi 11 7. Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 15 8. Shri Satish Kumar Gautam @ 16 9. Adv. Joice George% 7 10. Shri K. Ashok Kumar 18 11. Shri Mohanbhai Kundariya^ 2 12. Shri Kamalbhan Singh Marabi 8 13. Shri Chhedi Paswan 14 14. Smt. Kamala Devi Patle 8 15. Shri Rajendran S. 15 16. Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 13 17. Dr. Kulamani Samal 17 18. Dr. Uma Saren 9 19. Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 6 20. Shri Taslimuddin 12 21. Smt. Rekha Arun Verma 11 22. Shri Innocent ^^ 4 23. Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy ^^ 10 Rajya Sabha 24. Shri Biswajit Daimary 5 25. Shri Murli Deora+ - 26. Dr. M.S. Gill 2 27. Shri Sanjay Dattatraya Kakade - 28. Shri Brij lal Khabri $ 2 29. Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya 17 30. Shri K. Parasaran 9 31. Shri Garikapati Mohan Rao 6 32. Dr. Sanjay Sinh 7 33. Shri Palvai Govardhan Reddy* 18 34. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya# 7 35 Dr. Chandrapal Singh Yadav= 2 ------@Shri Satish Kumar Gautam, Member Lok Sabha Ceased to be a member of this Committee w.e.f. 23.07.2015 upon his nomination to the Committee on Labour. %Adv. Joice George, Member of Lok Sabha Ceased to be a member of this Committee w.e.f. 24-12-2014 upon his nomination to the Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice. ^ Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya Nominated as Minister of State w.e.f. 09.11.2014 ^^Shri Innocent, and Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy, Member of Lok Sabha nominated w.e.f. 22-12-2014 +Shri Murli Deora, Member Rajya Sabha ceased to be a member of thisCommittee w.e.f. 25.9.2014 consequent upon his nomination to the Committee on External Affairs $ The term of Shri Brijlal Khabri, MP (RS) has expire w.e.f. 25.11.2014 * Shri Palvai Govardhan Reddy, Member of Rajya Sabha nominated w.e.f. 08-10-2014 # Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya, Member of Rajya Sabha nominated w.e.f. 31-12-2014 =Dr. Chandrapal Singh Yadav, Member of Rajya Sabha ceased to be a member of this Committee w.e.f. 7.5.2015 consequent upon his nomination to the Committee on Industry

APPENDIX- FORTY-SIX (Vide Para 14.7)

COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Total No. of sittings held - 24

Sl. No. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended

1 Dr. P. Venugopal - Chairperson 24 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Sisir Kumar Adhikari 13 3. Shri Kirti Azad 17 4. Shri Harishchandra Chavan 08 5. Shri Biren Singh Engti 08 6. Shri Jugal Kishore 14 7. Shri Manshankar Ninama 14 8. Shrimati Mausam Noor 05 9. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey 20 10. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel 21 11. Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank” 11 12. Shri Gokaraju Ganga Raju 12 13. Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss 02 14. Shrimati Butta Renuka 16 15. Dr. Yashwant Singh 22 16. Dr. Naramalli Sivaprasad 00 17. Shri Balka Suman 08 18. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain 13 19. Shri Ajay Misra Teni 21 20. Shri Chintaman Wanaga 19 21. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak* 16 Rajya Sabha 22. Shri Munquad Ali 05 23. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi 17 24. Shri D. Bandyopadhyay 00 Shri Srinjoy Bose$ 00 25. Shri Ram Narain Dudi 18 26. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra 23 27 Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya 01 Shri Ranvijay Singh Judev# 10 28. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho ** 10 Shri Jairam Ramesh 00 29. Shri A. K. Selvaraj 13 30. Shrimati Kanak Lata Singh 17 31. Prof Saif-ud-din Soz 04 Shri Ashwani Kumar*** 02 ------* Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 07.10.2014. $ Nominated to the Committee w.e.f 08.01.2015 vice Shri D. Bandyopadhyay who resigned from the Committee w.e.f. 11.12.2014. Shri Srinjoy Bose did not attend any meeting till 05.02.2015 (i.e. the date of resignation of his seat in the Rajya Sabha) and Shri D. Bandyopadhyay was again nominated to this Committee w.e.f 13.05.2015. # Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 25.09.2014 vice Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya. ** Nominated to the Committee w.e.f. 28.11.2014 vice Shri Jairam Ramesh. *** Nominated to the Committee w.e.f 16.07.2015 vice Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz who retired on 10.02.2015.

APPENDIX- FORTY-SEVEN (Vide Para 15.7) COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL

Total Number of sittings held– 17

Sl. Name of the Members No. of Sittings Attended No. 1. Shri Rakesh Singh – Chairperson 12 Lok Sabha

2. Shri A. Arunmozhithevan 12 3. Shri Kalyan Banerjee 6 4. Smt. Jyoti Dhurve 12 5. Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste 11 6. Shri Shailesh Kumar 10 7. Dr. Banshilal Mahato 13 8. Shri Godam Nagesh 11 9. Shri Devji M. Patel 12 10. Smt. Riti Pathak 13 11. Smt. Ranjeet Ranjan 12 12. Dr. Ravindra Kumar Ray 8 13. Shri Neiphiu Rio 10 14. Shri Tamradhwaj Sahu 11 15. Shri Tathagata Satpathy 12 16. Shri Janardan Singh 'Sigriwal' 17 17. Shri Pashupati Nath Singh 15 18. Shri Sunil Kumar Singh 12 19. Shri Sushil Kumar Singh 9 20. Shri Rama Kishore Singh 14 21 Shri Krupal Balaji Tumane 11 22. Shri Hansraj G. Ahir 5 Rajya Sabha

23. Shri Ali Anwar Ansari 10 24. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu 11 25. Shri B.K. Hariprasad 11 26. Shri Jugul Kishore 9 27. Shri Avinash Pande 14 28. Shri Sanjay Raut 12 29. Shri Nand Kumar Sai 5 30. Shri Dilip Kumar Tirkey 6 31. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya 8 32. Shri Md. Nadimul Haque 4 33. Shri Srinjoy Bose 0 34. Shri Basawaraj Patil 1

APPENDIX – FORTY-EIGHT (Vide Para 16.7)

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

Total Number of sittings held – 28

Sl. Name of Members No. of Sittings attended No. 1 Shri Ramesh Bais - Chairperson 27 Lok Sabha 2. Shri Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor 11 3. Kunwar Bharatendra 16 4. Shri Dilip Singh Bhuria 13 5. Shri Santokh Singh Chaudhary 21 6. Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 9 7. Shri Jhina Hikaka 12 8. Shri Prakash Babanna Hukkeri 3 9. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti 4 10. Shri Bhagwant Khuba 14 11. Shri Sadashiv Lokhande 16 12. Smt. Maragatham K. 19 13. Shri Kariya Munda 9 14. Prof. A.S.R. Naik 23 15. Shri Asaduddin Owaisi 11 16. Sadhvi Savitri Bai Phule 13 17. Dr. Udit Raj 10 18. Smt. Satabdi Roy 10 19. Prof. Sadhu Singh 4 20. Smt. Neelam Sonkar 18 21. Smt. Mamta Thakur 5 22. Shri Tejpratap Singh Yadav 1 Rajya Sabha 23. Smt. Jharna Das Baidya 11 24. Dr. Tazeen Fatma - 25. Shri Ahamed Hassan 20 26. Smt. Sarojini Hembram 9 27. Shri Prabhat Jha 5 28. Shri Avtar Singh Karimpuri 2 29. Smt. Mohsina Kidwai 17 30. Shri Praveen Rashtrapal 7 31. Shri Nand Kumar Sai 10 32. Smt. Vijila Sathyananth 21 33. Smt. Wansuk Syiem 15

(D) STATEMENT SHOWING THE STUDY TOURS UNDERTAKEN BY COMMITTEES

APPENDIX FORTY-NINE (Vide Para 1.10)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

I. Study visit to Delhi on 7th November 2014.

Sl. Places Visited Date of Composition No. Visit Indian 7th 1 Shri Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav- Chairperson 1 Agricultural November, Lok Sabha Research 2014. 2. Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel Institute, Pusa, Delhi. 3. Md. Badaruddoza Khan 4. Shri Ajay Nishad 5. Shri Dalpat Singh Paraste 6. Shri Mukesh Rajput 7. Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao 8. Shri C.L. Ruala 9. Shri Arjun Charan Sethi 10. Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa Rajya Sabha 11. Shri A.W. Rabi Bernard 12. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury 13. Shri Mohd. Ali Khan 14. Shri Ram Nath Thakur 15. Shri Rajpal Singh Saini 16. Shri Darshan Singh Yadav

Study visit to Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru from 29th January to 3rd February 2015.

Sl. Places Visited Date of Composition No. Visit 2. Central 29th 1. Shri Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav - Chairperson Institute of January to Lok Sabha Fisheries 3rd 2. Shri Sanganna Amarappa Education - February Mumbai 2015 3. Prof. Ravindra Vishwanath Gaikwad

4. Md. Badaruddoza Khan Central Institute of 5. Dr. Tapas Mandal Brackishwater 6. Shri Ajay Nishad Aquaculture - Chennai 7. Shri Dalpat Singh Paraste Fisheries 8. Shri Mukesh Rajput Survey of India - Chennai 9. Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao 10. Shri C.L. Ruala

11. Shri Satyapal Singh

12. Shri Arjun Charan Sethi

National 13. Shri Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav Institute of 14. Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa Animal Nutrition and Rajya Sabha Physiology, 1. Shri A.W. Rabi Bernard Bengaluru Indian Institute 2. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury of Horticulture Research - 3. Shri Mohd. Ali Khan Bengaluru 4. Shri Ram Nath Thakur

5. Shri Shankarbhai N. Vegad

APPENDIX -FIFTY (Vide Para 2.11)

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

1. Study Visit of the Committee to Hyderabad,Bengaluru,Mysore and Mumbai from 10th to 14th February 2015.

Sl. No. Organisations /Places Visited Date of Visit Composition 1. Hyderabad 10th to 11th February, Lok Sabha The Committee assembled at 2015 Hyderabad. 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Chairperson The Committee held discussion with CGM, BSNL, Andhra 2. Shri Prasun Banerjee Pradesh Telecom Circle on 3. Dr. K.C. Patel overall position of telecom 4. Dr. Anupam Hazra connectivity and DDG, 5 Shri Virender Kashyap Doordarshan Kendra, 6. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya Hyderabad and DDG, All India Radio, Hyderabad on the 7. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben problems and challenges being Dhirubhai Shiyal faced by DDK and AIR, 8. Shri D.K. Suresh Hyderabad. 9. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas

The Committee visited Microsoft Rajya Sabha and Tech Mahindra and held discussion with them on 10. Shri Salim Ansari Research and Development for 11. Shri Santiuse Kujur promotion of information Technology in the country. 12. Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao 2. Bengaluru 11th to 12th Lok Sabha February, 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, The Committee visited Wipro 2015 Chairperson and held discussion with them on Research and Development 2. Shri Prasun Banerjee for promotion of Information 3. Dr. Anupam Hazra Technology in the country. The 4. Shri Virender Kashyap Committee visited Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) 5. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya Limited and held discussion with 6. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben CMD, ITI on the subject „Revival Dhirubhai Shiyal of Indian Telephones industries 7. Shri D.K. Suresh (ITI) Limited‟. The Committee also visited TCS and held 8. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas discussion with them on Research and Development for Rajya Sabha promotion of Information Technology in the country. 9. Shri Salim Ansari 10 Shri Santiuse Kujur

11.Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao

3. Mysore 12th to 13th Lok Sabha February, 2015 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, The Committee held discussion Chairperson with CPMG, Karnataka Postal Circle on the subject „IT 2. Shri Prasun Banerjee Induction and Modernisation in 3. Dr. Anupam Hazra the Department of Posts. 4. Shri Virender Kashyap

The Committee visited Infosys 5. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya and held discussion with them 6 Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben on Research and Development Dhirubhai Shiyal for promotion of Information 7. Shri D.K. Suresh Technology in the country. 8. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas

Rajya Sabha 9 Shri Salim Ansari

10. Shri Santiuse Kujur

4. Mumbai 14th February, Lok Sabha 2015 The Committee held discussion 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, with CGM, BSNL, Maharashtra Chairperson Telecom Circle and Executive Director, MTNL on their overall 2. Shri Prasun Banerjee functioning including the revival plan and ADG, Doordarshan 3 Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad Kendra, Mumbai and ADG, AIR, 4.. Dr. K.C. Patel Mumbai on the problems and challenges being faced by DDK 5 Shri Hemant Tukaram Godse and AIR, Mumbai. 6. Dr. Anupam Hazra

7. Shri Virender Kashyap

8. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya

9. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben Dhirubhai Shiyal 10. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas

Rajya Sabha

11. Shri Salim Ansari

12. Shri Santiuse Kujur

II. Study Visit to Pune, Goa and Chennai from 24th to 28th August, 2015

Sl. No. Organisations /Places Visited Date of Visit Composition of Members who joined the tour 1. Pune 24th to 25th Lok Sabha August, 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, The Committee assembled at 2015 Chairperson Pune. 2. Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad The Committee held discussion 3. Shri Hemant Tukaram Godse with CPMG, Maharashtra Postal 4. Dr. Anupam Hazra Circle on overall performance of the Department of Posts in the 5. Dr. J. Jayavardhan State, CGM, BSNL Maharashtra 6. Shri Harinder Singh Khalsa Telecom Circle on overall 7. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya position/facilities available under 8. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben Dhirubhai Pune Telecom District and Shiyal representatives of OTTs on Net 9. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas Neutrality. 10. Smt. R. Vanaroja 11. Shri Raosaheb Danve Patil Rajya Sabha 12. Shri Salim Ansari 13. Shri Santiuse Kujur 2. Goa 25th to 27th Lok Sabha August, The Committee held discussion 2015 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, with CGM, BSNL Maharashtra Chairperson Telecom Circle regarding „Problems and challenges in 2. Shri Prasun Banerjee expansion of rural and remote 3. Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad telephony‟, CPMG, Maharashtra Postal Circle on overall 4. Shri Hemant Tukaram Godse performance of the Department of Posts in the State and 5 Dr. Anupam Hazra representatives of Department 6. Dr. J. Jayavardhan of Electronics and Information 7. Shri P. Karunakaran Technology/State Government 8 Shri Harinder Singh Khalsa of Goa on the status of 9. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya implementation of Digital India 10. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben Dhirubhai in the State. Shiyal 11 Shri Abhishek Singh 12. Shri D.K. Suresh 13. Shri Ramdas C. Tadas 14. Smt. R. Vanaroja Rajya Sabha 15. Shri Salim Ansari

16. Shri Santiuse Kujur

17. Shri Meghraj Jain

3. Chennai 27th to 28th Lok Sabha August, 2015 The Committee held discussion 1. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, with discussion with CPMG, Chairperson Tamil Nadu Postal Circle on the overall functioning of the 2. Shri Prasun Banerjee Department in the State, CGM, 3. Dr. Anupam Hazra Chennai Telephone and CGM, 4. Dr. J. Jayavardhan BSNL, Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle on the overall functioning 5 Shri P. Karunakaran of BSNL in Tamil Nadu Circle 6. Shri Harinder Singh Khalsa and the representatives of the 7. Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya Ministry of Information and 8.. Dr. (Smt.) Bhartiben Dhirubhai Broadcasting/Doordarshan Shiyal Kendra Chennai on „Progress of 9. Shri Abhishek Singh Cable TV Digitization and its 10. Shri D.K. Suresh impact. 11. Smt. R. Vanaroja

The Committee visited Post Rajya Sabha Office and BSNL facilities at 12. Shri Salim Ansari Mahabalipuram. 13. Shri Santiuse Kujur

14. Shri Meghraj Jain

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COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE

I. Study visit to Gangtok, Tezpur, Kolkata and Mumbai from 28th to 31st October 2014 (First part):-

Sl. Organisation / Date of visit Composition No. Places visited

1. Gangtok 28th to 29th October, Lok Sabha 2014 1) Maj Gen B C Khanduri, AVSM (Retd)- 2, Tezpur 29th to 30th October, Chairperson 2014 2) Shri Suresh C. Angadi 3. Kolkata 30th October, 2014 3) Shri Shrirang Appa Barne 4) Shri Ramesh Jigajinagi 4. Mumbai 30th to 31st October, 5) Col Sonaram Choudhary(Retd) 2014 6) Shri H.D. Devegowda 7) Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 8) Shri G. Hari 9) Km. Shobha Karandlaje 10) Shri Tapas Paul 11) Shri K.R. Arjunan 12) Shri A.U. Singh Deo 13) Shri Hishey Lachungpa 14) Shri Tarun Vijay 15) Shri Malla Reddy

II Study visit to Goa and Pune on 5th and 6th February, 2015 (Second part)

Sl. Organisation / Date of visit Composition No. Places visited

1. Goa 5th February, 2015 Lok Sabha 1) Maj Gen B C Khanduri, AVSM (Retd) - 2, Pune 6th February, 2015 Chairperson 2) Shri Suresh C. Angadi 3) Shri Shrirang Appa Barne 4) Shri Thupstan Chhewang 5) Shri Dharambir 6) Shri Tarun Vijay 7) Smt. Ambika Soni 8) Shri Madusudan Mistry 9) Shri A.P. Jithender Reddy 10) Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar 11) Smt. Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah 12) Shri Rajeev Satav 13) Shri Malla Reddy

14) Shri Tapas Paul 15) Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 16) Km. Shobha Karandlaje

III.Study visit to Jammu (Udhampur), Cochin, Bengaluru and Hyderabad from 30th May to 3rd June, 2015:-

Sl. Organisation / Date of visit Composition No. Places visited

1. Jammu (Udhampur) 30th to 31st May, 2015 Lok Sabha

2, Cochin 31st May to 1st June, 2015 1) Maj Gen B C Khanduri, AVSM (Retd) - Chairperson 3. Bengaluru 1st June to 3rd June, 2015 2) Shri Suresh C. Angadi 3) Shri Shrirang Appa Barne 4. Hyderabad 3rd June, 2015 4) Shri Dharambir 5) Col Sonaram Choudhary(Retd) 6) Shri H.D. Devegowda 7) Shri Sher Singh Ghubaya 8) Shri G. Hari 9) Km. Shobha Karandlaje 10) Shri Tapas Paul 11) Smt. Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah 12) Shri A.P. Jithender Reddy 13) Smt. Ambika Soni 14) Smt Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh 15) Shri K R Arjunan 16) Shri Anand Sharma 17) Shri Harivansh

APPENDIX-FIFTY-TWO

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COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

I. Study Visit to Mumbai, Bhuj and Bhubaneswar from 6th to 9th January, 2015

Sl. Organisations/Places Date of visit Composition No visited 1. PowerGrid, PFC, 6th to 9th 1. Dr. Kirit Somaiya, IREDA, NTPC January, 2015 2. Shri Om Birla, 3. Shri M. Chandrakasi, Mumbai, Bhuj, 4. Shri Harish Dwivedi, Bhubaneswar 5. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, 6. Shri Saumitra Khan, 7. Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, 8. Dr. Arun Kumar, 9. Shri Jagdambika Pal, 10. Smt. Krishna Raj, 11. Shri M.B. Rajesh, 12. Shri Vinayak Bhaurao Raut, 13. Shri Bhanu Pratap Verma, 14. Shri Gutha Sukender Reddy, 15. Shri Ravinder Kumar Pandey, 16. Shri V.P. Singh Badnore, 17. Shri Pyarimohan Mohapatra, 18. Shri S. Muthukaruppan, 19. Shri Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu, 20. Dr. Anil Kumar Sahani, 21. Dr. K.P. Ramlingam, 22. Smt. Viplove Thakur

II. Study Visit to Kolkata, Guwahati and Gangtok from 4th to 8th June, 2015

Sl. Organisations/Places Date of visit Composition No visited 1. DVC, REC, NHPC, 4th to 8th 1. Dr. Kirit Somaiya, NEEPCO June, 2015 2. Shri Harish Dwivedi, 3. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Kolkata, Gangtok & 4. Shri Saumitra Khan, Guwahati 5. Dr. Arun Kumar, 6. Shri Jagdambika Pal, 7. Smt. Krishna Raj, 8. Shri M.B. Rajesh, 9. Shri Bhanu Pratap Verma, 10. Shri Gutha Sukender Reddy, 11. Shri Ravinder Kumar Pandey, 12. Shri Devender Singh alias Bhole

Singh 13. Shri V.P. Singh Badnore, 14. Shri Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu, 15. Dr. Anil Kumar Sahani, 16. Dr. K.P. Ramlingam, 17. Smt. Viplove Thakur 18. Shri Javed Ali Khan

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COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

I. Local Study Visit to Foreign Service Institute and South Asia University, New Delhi on 28th January, 2015

Sl.No. Organizations/Places Date of visit Composition visited 1. Foreign Service Institute, 28th January, Lok Sabha New Delhi 2015 1. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson 2. Md. Salim, MP 3. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita, MP 4. Shri Ram Swaroop Sharma, MP Rajya Sabha 5. Shri H.K. Dua, MP 6. Shri Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel, MP

7. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap, MP 8. Dr. Karan Singh, MP 9.Shri Pavan Kumar Varma, MP

2. South Asian University, 28th January, Lok Sabha New Delhi 2015 1. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson 2. Md. Salim, MP 3. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita, MP Rajya Sabha 4. Shri H.K. Dua, MP 5. Shri Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel, MP 6. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap, MP 7. Dr. Karan Singh, MP 8. Shri Pavan Kumar Varma, MP

II. Study Tour to Thiruvananthapuram, Srinagar and Goa from 6th July, 2015 to 10th July, 2015

Sl.No. Organizations /Places Date of visit Composition visited 1. Thiruvananthapuram 6th July, 2015 Lok Sabha 1. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson 2. Shri Arka Keshri Deo 3. Shri Jose K. Mani 4. Shri Magantti Venkateshwara Rao (Babu) 5. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita 6. Shri Ram Swaroop Sharma 7. Shri Sharad Tripathi 8. Shri Chhedi Paswan

Rajya Sabha 9. Shri Satyavrat Chaturvedi 10. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap 11. Shri D.P. Tripathi 2. Goa 7th and 8th July, Lok Sabha 2015 1. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson 2. Shri Arka Keshri Deo 3. Shri Ananth Kumar Hegde 4. Shri Jose K. Mani 5. ShriMagantti Venkateshwara Rao (Babu) 6. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita 7. Shri Ram Swaroop Sharma 8. Shri Sharad Tripathi 9. Shri Chhedi Paswan

Rajya Sabha 10. Shri Satyavarat Chaturvedi 11. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap 12. Shri D.P. Tripathi 3. Srinagar 9th and 10th July, Lok Sabha 2015. 1. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson 2. Shri Arka Keshri Deo 3. Shri Jose K. Mani 4. Shri Magantti Venkateshwara Rao (Babu) 5. Md. Salim 6. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita 7. Shri Ram Swaroop Sharma 8. Shri Sharad Tripathi 9. Shri Chhedi Paswan Rajya Sabha 10. Shri Satyavarat Chaturvedi 11. Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap 12. Shri D.P. Tripathi

APPENDIX-FIFTY-FOUR

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COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

1. Study Visit to Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad from 16th to 21st January, 2015

Sl. Organisations / Places visited Date of Visit Composition No. 1. Mumbai Lok Sabha (a) Informal discussion with the 16th January, 2015 representatives of RBI, Small Investors 1. Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, Association, (IGF), LIC, SEBI, SBI and Chairperson, Central Bank of India 2. Shri Venkatesh Babu T.G., (b) Informal discussion with the 17th January, 2015 3. Shri P.C. Gaddigoudar, representatives of State Government of 4. Shri Prataprao Jadhav, Maharashtra and other stakeholders, 5. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and NABARD 6. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, 7. Shri Prem Das Rai, 8. Shri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, 9. Prof. Saugata Roy, 10. Shri Gajendra SIngh Sekhawat, 11. Shri Gopal C. Shetty, 12. Shri Anil Shirole, 13. Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki, 14. Shri Kirit Somaiya

Rajya Sabha

15. Shri Naresh Gujral, 16. Dr. Mahendra Prasad, 17. Shri P. Rajeeve, 18. Shri C.M. Ramesh, 19. Shri Ajay Sancheti, 20. Shri Digvijaya Singh

2. Bengaluru Lok Sabha (a) Informal discussion with the 19th January, 2015 representatives of Canara Bank, Vijaya 1. Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, Bank, State Government of Karnataka, 2. Shri Prataprao Jadhav, Corporation Bank and Syndicate Bank. 3. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, 4. Prof. Saugata Roy, (b) Visit to CPC and informal discussion with the representatives of Chief th 5. Shri Gopal C. Shetty, 20 January, 2015 Commissionerate, Bengaluru Zone 6. Shri Anil Shirole,

7. Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki, 8. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria,

9. Shri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, 10. Shri P.C. Gaddigoudar

Rajya Sabha 11. Dr. Mahendra Prasad

3. Hyderabad Lok Sabha (a) Informal discussion with the 21.01.2015 representatives of IRDA and 1. Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, representatives of State Government of 2. Shri Prem Das Rai, Telangana, Seemandhara and other 3. Shri Prataprao Jadhav, stakeholders and SBM 4. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, 5. Prof. Saugata Roy, 6. Shri Gopal C. Shetty, 7. Shri Anil Shirole, 8. Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki, 9. Shri Kirit Somaiya

Rajya Sabha

10. Dr. Mahendra Prasad

2. Study Visit to Kolkata from 7th July to 9th July, 2015.

Sl. Organistions / Places visited Date of Visit Composition No. 1. Kolkata Lok Sabha (a) Visit to ISI, Kolkata and informal 7th July, 2015 1. Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, discussion Chairperson, 2. Shri S.S. Ahluwalia, (b) Informal discussion with CMD, UCO 3. Shri P.C. Gaddigoudar, Bank, CEO & MD, United Bank of India, 4. Shri Shyama Charan CMD, National Insurance Corporation 9th July, 2015 Gupta, Limited and Chief Commissioner of Excise 5. Shri Prataprao Jadhav, and Customs and Service Tax (incharge 6. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria, of West Bengal & Sikkim). 7. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, 8. Shri Prem Das Rai, (c) Informal discussion with 9. Shri Rayapati representatives of SBI, NABARD and Sambasiva Rao, CMD, Allahabad Bank. 10. Prof. Saugata Roy, 11. Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki, 12. Shri Kirit Somaiya, 13. Shri Shivkumar Udasi, 14. Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay, 15. Shri Nishikant Dubey

Rajya Sabha 16. Dr. Mahendra Prasad

APPENDIX – FIFTY-FIVE (Vide Para 7.10)

Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution

I. Study visit to Kochi, Chennai and Port Blair from 28th January to 2nd Febuary, 2015.

Sl. No. Place of visit Date of Composition visit 1 Kochi, 28th January to 1. Shri J.C. Divakar Reddy, Chairperson Chennai and 2nd February, Lok Sabha Port Blair 2015. 2. Shri Babu Lal Choudhary, 3. Shri Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav, 4. Shri Dharmendra Kumar, 5. Shri Ravinder Kushawaha, 6. Smt. Sakuntala Laguri, 7. Dr. Sakshi Maharaj, 8. Shri R.K. Bharathi Mohan, 9. Shri Sunil Kumar Mondal, 10. Shri Ram Chander Paswan, 11. Shri C.S. Puttaraju, 12. Dr. Bhola Singh, 13. Shri Brij Bhusan Sharan Singh, Rajya Sabha 14. Shri Ritabrata Banerjee, 15. Dr. K. Keshava Rao, 16. Dr. Bhushan Lal Jangde,

II. Study visit to Leh from 18th to 19th May, 2015

Sl. No. Place of visit Date of Composition visit 1 Leh 18th and 19th May, 1. Shri J.C. Divakar Reddy, Chairperson 2015. Lok Sabha 2. Shri Anto Antony 3. Shri Babu Lal Choudhary 4. Shri Dinesh Kashyap 5. Shri Dharmendra Kumar 6. Shri Ravinder Kushawaha 7. Dr. Sakshi Maharaj 8. Shri R.K. Bharthi Mohan 9. Shri Sunil Kumar Mondal 10. Shri Ramchander Paswan 11. Shri C.S Puttaraju 12. Shri Bhola Singh 13. Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava Rajya Sabha 14. Dr. Bhushan Lal Jangde 15. Shri K.K. Ragesh

APPENDIX –FIFTY-SIX

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COMMITTEE ON LABOUR

I. Study visit to Tirupati, Hyderabad and Mangalore from 1st to 6th January, 2015.

Sl.No Organisations/ Date of visit Composition Places visited 1. Tirupati 1st January, 2015 Lok Sabha

1. Dr. Virendra Kumar, Chairperson, M.P 2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar, M.P 3. Shri C.N. Jayadevan, M.P 4. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli,, M.P 5. Shri Hari Manjhi, M.P 6. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara, M.P 7. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar, MP

Rajya Sabha

8. Shri Tapan Kumar Sen, M.P 2. Hyderabad 2nd to 4 January, Lok Sabha 2015 1. Dr. Virendra Kumar, Chairperson, M.P 2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar, M.P 3. Shri C.N. Jayadevan, M.P 4. Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud, M.P 5. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli,, M.P 6. Shri Hari Manjhi, M.P 7. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara, M.P 8. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar, MP Rajya Sabha

9. Shri Tapan Kumar Sen, M.P 10. Shri G.N. Ratanpuri, M.P 3. Mangalore 5th and 6th Lok Sabha January, 2015 1. Dr. Virendra Kumar, Chairperson, M.P 2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar, M.P 3. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli,, M.P 4. Shri Hari Manjhi, M.P 5. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara, M.P 6. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar, MP

II. Study visit to Bhubaneshwar and Kolkata from 13th February to 15th February, 2015.

Sl.No Organisations/Pla Date of visit Composition ces visited Lok Sabha 1. Bhubaneswar 13th to 14th February, 2015 1. Dr. Virendra Kumar, Chairperson, M.P 2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar, M.P 3. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara, M.P 4. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli, M.P 5. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar, M.P 6. Shri Hari Manjhi, M.P

Rajya Sabha

7. Shri G.N.Ratanpuri, M.P 8. Shri Rajaram, M.P Lok Sabha 2. Kolkata 15th February, 2015 1. Dr. Virendra Kumar, Chairperson, M.P 2. Shri Rajesh Kumar Diwakar, M.P 3. Shri Devajibhai Govindbhai Fatepara, M.P 4. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli, M.P 5. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar, M.P 6. Shri Hari Manjhi, M.P 7. Shri Kodikunnil Suresh, M.P

Rajya Sabha

8. Shri G.N.Ratanpuri, M.P 9. Shri Rajaram, M.P

APPENDIX –FIFTY-SEVEN (Vide Para 9.10)

COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

I. Study visit to Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai from 5th to 8th November, 2014

SI.No Organisations/Places Date of Composition visit/informal meeting 1 Ministry of Petroleum and 5th to 6th November, Lok Sabha Natural Gas, IOCL, HPCL, 2015 BPCL and GAIL, 1. Shri Pralhad Joshi - Bengaluru Chairman 2. Dr. Ravindra Babu 2 Ministry of Petroleum and 7th November, 2015 3. Shri P. K. Biju Natural Gas ,OIL and Balmer 4. Shri Haribhai Chaudhary Lawrie & Co. 5. Shrimati Rama Devi Hyderabad 6. Shri Elumalai V. 7. Shri N B Kachhadiya 3 Ministry of Petroleum and 7th to 8th November, 8. Dr. Thokchom Meinya Natural Gas, Ministry of 2015 9. Shri Ashok Mahadeorao Shipping, BPCL, HPCL, and Nete Mumbai Port Trust, EIL and 10. Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel ONGC 11. Shri Arvind Sawant Mumbai 12. Shri Raju Shetty 13. Dr. Bhola Singh (Begusarai) 14. Shri Kamakhya Prasad Tasa 15. Shri Om Prakash Yadav

Rajya Sabha

16. Shri Ishwarlal Shankarlal Jain 17. Shri Bhubaneshwar Kalita 18. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya 19. Shrimati Gundu Sudharani

II.Study visit to Guwahati, Kolkata, Port Blair and Chennai from 10th to 14th February, 2015

SI.No. Organisations/Places Date of visit Composition 1 Ministry of Petroleum and 10th February, 2015 Lok Sabha Natural Gas, IOCL, MoE&F, Ministry of Home, State Govt. 1. Shri Pralhad Joshi - and OIL Chairman Guwahati 2. Dr. Ravindra Babu Pandula 2 Ministry of Petroleum and 11th February, 2015 3. Shri P. K. Biju Natural Gas, Ministry of Coal, 4. Shrimati Rama Devi ONGC, CIL and ONGC 5. Shri Elumalai V. Kolkata 6. Shri Naranbhai Kachhadiya 3 Ministry of Petroleum and 12th February, 2015 7. Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel Natural Gas, IOCL, HPCL and 13th February, 2015 8. Shri Arvind Sawant DGH 9. Shri Raju Shetty Port Blair 10. Dr. Bhola Singh (Begusarai) 4 Ministry of Petroleum and 14th February, 2015 11. Shri Kamakhya Prasad Natural Gas, IOCL, BPCL and Tasa CPCL 12. Shrimati Pratima Mondal Chennai 13. Shri Laxmi Narayan Yadav 14. Shrimati Anupriya Patel 15. Shri Rajesh Verma 16. Shri Kalikesh N. Singh Deo

Rajya Sabha 17. Shri Bhubaneshwar Kalita 18. Shrimati Gundu Sudharani 19. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

APPENDIX –FIFTY-EIGHT (Vide Para 10.10)

COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS

I.Study visit to Mumbai on 12th February, 2015

Sl. Organisations/Places visited Date of Visit Composition No. 1. Mumbai 12th February, 2015 Lok Sabha 1.Shri Dinesh Trivedi- Discussion with NGOs, Zonal Chairperson, Railway Users Consultative 2.Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Committee (Passengers Chandel, Associations Nominees) and 3.Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary, General Managers, Western and 4.Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi, Central Railway]). 5.Shri Sanjay Dhotre, 6.Shri Gaurav Gogoi, 7.Shri Gajanan Kirtikar, 8.Shri Balabhadra Majhi, 9.Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, 10.Shri Thota Narasimham, 11.Shri A.T. Nana Patil

Rajya Sabha 12.Shri Dilipbhai Pandya, 13.Shri Ambeth Rajan

II. Study visit to Tirupati, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram from 19th to 24th August, 2015

SI.No. Organisations/Places Date of visit Composition 2. 1.Tirupati (Station visit and 19th to 24th August, Lok Sabha Discussion with GM, SCR), 2015 1.Shri Dinesh Trivedi- Chairperson 2.Hyderabad (Visit to IRISET 2.Kunwar Pushpendra Singh and Discussion with GM, SCR), Chandel, 3.Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary, 3.Bengaluru (Visit of Rail Wheel 4.Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi, Factory, Yelahanka)and and 5.Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Discussion with GM, SWR 6.Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik, 4.Thiruvananthapuram (Station 7.Shri Gajanan Kirtikar visit and Discussion with GM, ,8.Shri Balabhadra Majhi, SR) 9.Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, 10.Shri K.H. Muniyappa, 11.Shri Thota Narasimham, 12.Shri Mekapati Raja Mohan Reddy, 13.Shri Ganesh Singh,

Rajya Sabha 14.Shri A.K. Antony, 15.Shri Dilipbhai Pandya,

16.Shri Bashistha Narain Singh, 17.Shri Devender Goud T.

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APPENDIX –FIFTY-NINE (Vide Para 11.10)

COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT

I. Study Visit to Pune, Mumbai, Puri and Bhubaneswar from 6th to 12th November, 2014.

Sl. Organisations/Places visited Date of Composition No. visit 1 Pune: Bank of Maharashtra, Bank of 6th and 7th Lok Sabha Baroda and National Housing Bank November, in respect of credit facilities to 2015 1. Shri Pinaki Misra, projects undertaken by Ministry of Chairperson Urban Development and Ministry of 2. Shri Ramesh Bidhuri Housing and Urban Poverty 3. Shri Maheish Girri Alleviation. 4. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil Local State Authorities, Municipal 5. Shri Kesineni Nani Corporations, CPWD, HUDCO, 6. Shri K. Parasuraman NBCC on various ongoing projects of 7. Shri C. R. Patil Ministry of Urban Development and 8. Shri R.Gopalakrishnan Ministry of HUPA. 9. Shri Rajendra Agrawal Visit to projects relating to BSUP at 10. Shri Choudhury Mohan Warje, Biogas plant at Katraj and Jatua Parvati water Treatment Plant. 11. Shri Rahul Ramesh 2 Mumbai: State Government, 8th to 10th Shewale Authorities of Mumbai Municipal November, 12. Smt. Poonam Mahajan Corporation, CPWD, HUDCO, 2015 NBCC, HPL, BMTPC on ongoing Rajya Sabha projects of Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of HUPA. 13. Md. Nadimul Haque 14. Shri Husain Dalwai State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda 15. Shri Anil Desai and National Housing Bank in 16. Shri Rangasayee respect of credit facilities to projects Ramakrishna undertaken by Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. Visit to Dharavi rehabilatation project and Golibar SRA project (Santacruz East)

Bank of India in respect of credit facilities to projects undertaken by Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. 3 Bhubaneswar and Puri: Visit to 11th to 12th Rangamatia slum implementing November, agency under RAY at Godakana, 2015 Bhubaneswar and Bindu Sagar Tank

near Lingaraj Temple. State Government, CPWD, HUDCO and NBCC, HPL, BMTPC, of Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of HUPA including JnNURM.

UCO Bank and United Bank of India in respect of credit facilities to projects undertaken by Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

II. Study Visit to Chandigarh and Shimla from 26th to 29th August, , 2015.

Sl. Organisations/Places visited Date of Composition No. visit 1 Chandigarh: State Government of 26th Lok Sabha Punjab, Ministry of Urban August, 1. Shri Pinaki Misra, Development and Ministry of 2015 Chairperson Housing and Urban Poverty 2. Shri Ramesh Bidhuri, MP Alleviation and Punjab National 3. Shri Ram Charan Bohra, Bank on various schemes of the MP Ministry of Urban Development and 4. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Ministry of Housing and Urban MP Poverty Alleviation viz. , Urban 5. Shri Dushyant Chautala, Transport, Urban Water Supply and MP Sanitation, Sewerage Treatment, 6. Shri K. Parasuraman, MP Low Cost Housing, Credit Facilities 7. Shri R.Gopalakrishnan, for Housing, NULM, Housing projects M.P. under BSUP , IHSDP & etc., in each 8. Shri Rajendra Agrawal, district of Punjab and Functioning of M.P. Regional Station of Directorate of 9. Shri Choudhury Mohan Estates at Chandigarh. Jatua, M.P 10. Shri Rahul Ramesh State Government of Punjab, Shewale,M. P. Ministry of Urban Development on 11. Shri Parvesh Sahib Singh various schemes of the Ministry of Verma, M.P. Urban Development viz. HRIDAY, 12. Shri Alok Sanjar, M.P. Solid Waste Management, Swach 13. Shri Dharam Vira Gandhi, Bharat Mission. M.P.

Union Territory of Chandigarh, Rajya Sabha Municipal Corporations , CPWD , Ministry of Urban Development and 14. Shri Mukul Roy, MP Ministry of Housing and Urban 15. Shri Husain Dalwai,M.P. Poverty Alleviation and Union Bank 16. Shri Thangavelu, M.P. of India on various schemes of the Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation viz. Urban Transport, Solid Waste

Management, Urban Water Supply and Sanitation, Sewerage Treatment, Low Cost Housing, Credit Facility for Housing, NULM, Housing projects under BSUP ,IHSDP & Swach Bharat Mission etc., 2 Haryana :State Government of 27th Haryana, Local State Authorities August, /Municipal Corporations , CPWD , 2015 Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Union Bank of India on various schemes of the Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation viz. Urban Transport, Solid Waste Management, Urban Water Supply and Sanitation, Sewerage Treatment, Low Cost Housing, Credit Facility for Housing, NULM, Housing projects under BSUP ,IHSDP & Swach Bharat Mission etc., in each district of Haryana.

3 Shimla: Informal discussion with the 28th representatives of State Govt. of August, Himachal Pradesh, Local State 2015 Authorities /Municipal Corporations , CPWD , Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and State Bank of India on various schemes of the Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation viz. . Urban Transport, Solid Waste Management, Urban Water Supply and Sanitation, Sewerage Treatment, Low Cost Housing, Credit Facility for Housing, NULM, Housing projects under BSUP , IHSDP & Swach Bharat Mission etc., in each district of Himachal Pradesh.

Visit to Grand Hotel, under the domain of Directorate of Estates.

APPENDIX-SIXTY

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COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES

1. Study Visit to Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Lucknow and Haridwar from 27th to 31st October, 2014.

Sl.No. Organisations/ Places visited Date of Visit Composition 1. Central Water Commission(CWC) 27th to 28th Lok Sabha and Irrigation Department, State October, 1. Shri Hukum Singh Government of Gujarat in 2014. 2. Shri Radheshyam Biswas Ahmedabad. 3. Shri Murali Mohan th 29 Maganti Central Water Commission(CWC), October, 4. Shri Sidhant Mohapatra 5. Shri Rodmal Nagar 2. State Government of Uttar Pradesh, 2014 6. Smt. V. Sathyabama National Mission for Clean Ganga and Central Pollution Control Board 7. Shri Lallu Singh

in Varanasi .

th Rajya Sabha 30 Central Water Commission(CWC) October, 3. and Irrigation Department, State 2014 8. Shri A.V. Swamy

Government of Uttar Pradesh in 9. Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia

Lucknow. 10. Shri Liladharbhai Khodaji

Vaghela

Central Water Commission(CWC), 31th 4. Irrigation Department, State October, Government of Uttar Pradesh and 2014 National Project Construction Corporation Limited in Haridwar.

2. Study Visit to Srinagar from 2nd to 3rd June, 2015.

Sl.No. Organisations/ Places visited Date of Visit Composition Lok Sabha 1. Central Water Commission(CWC) 2nd to 3rd Central Ground Water June, 2015 1. Shri Hukum Singh Board(CGWB) and Water and Power 2. Shri Radheshyam Biswas Consultancy Limited (WAPCOS) in 3. Shri Devusinh Chauhan Srinagar 4. Shri Sidhant Mohapatra 5. Shri Rodmal Nagar 6. Smt. V. Sathyabama 7. Shri Lallu Singh 8. Shri Vinod Kumar B. 9. Shri Tariq Hameed Karra 10. Shri Ram Prasad Sarmah 11. Shri Abhijit Mukherjee

Rajya Sabha

12. Shri A.V. Swamy 13. Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia 14. Shri Mir Mohammad Fayaz 15 . Shri Amar Shankar Sable

APPENDIX –SIXTY-ONE (Vide Para 13.9)

COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

I. Study visit to Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Srisailam, Pune and Mumbai from 7th to 11th January, 2015

Sl.No. Organisations/ Places visited Date of Visit Composition 1 Field Visit To Jan Aushadhi - BPPI 7 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan Store at IDPL Complex, 2015 Reddy- Acting Chairperson Gurgaon Lok Sabha 2. Shri Idris Ali 3. Shri BN Chandrappa 4. Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5. Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6. Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7. Shri K Ashok Kumar 8. Shri Chhedi Paswan 9. Shri Rajendran 10. Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11. Dr. Kulamani Samal 12. Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13 Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 14. Shri Biswajit Daimary

2 Informal Interaction With Villagers at 7 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan Village Dindi, 2015 Reddy- Acting Chairperson Nalgonda District, Telangana. Lok Sabha 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 14.Shri Biswajit Daimary

3 Informal Discussion With Officials Of 8 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan Government Of Andhra Pradesh and 2015 Reddy - Acting Chairperson RCF Regarding Movement Of Fertilizers And Monitoring System Lok Sabha At Srisailam. 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri B.N.Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 14.Shri Biswajit Daimary

4 Informal Interaction With Villagers At 8 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan Mannanur Village, Mahabubnagar 2015 Reddy- Acting Chairperson District, Telangana. Lok Sabha 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 14.Shri Biswajit Daimary 5 Informal Discussions With Officials 8 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan Of The Department Of Chemicals 2015 Reddy - Acting Chairperson and Petrochemicals and CIPET Hyderabad. Lok Sabha 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran

10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin 14 .Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy Members of Rajya Sabha 15. Shri Biswajit Daimary 16. Shri Garikapati Mohan Rao 6 Visit to Indian Drugs & 8 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (IDPL) At 2015 Reddy –Acting Chairperson Hyderabad. Lok Sabha 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin 14 .Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy

Rajya Sabha 15.Shri Biswajit Daimary 16.Shri Garikapati Mohan Rao

7 Visit To Hindustan Fluorocarbons Ltd 9 January, 1. Shri Palvai Govardhan (HFL), A Subsidiary Company Of 2015 Reddy – Acting Chairperson Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd (HOCL) Lok Sabha At Medak. 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin 14.Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy

Rajya Sabha 15.Shri Biswajit Daimary 8 Field Visit To Hindustan Antibiotics 10 January, Shri Anandrao Adsul Limited (HAL) Plant, Pimpri and 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson Jan Aushadhi Centre Pimpri Lok Sabha Pune 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 14.Shri Biswajit Daimary 15.Shri Palvai Govardhan Reddy 9 Visit to Rashtriya Chemicals And 11 January, Shri Anandrao Adsul Fertilizers (RCF) Plant 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson At Mumbai. Lok Sabha 2.Shri Idris Ali 3.Shri BN Chandrappa 4.Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 6.Shri Satish Kumar Gautam 7.Shri K Ashok Kumar 8.Shri Chhedi Paswan 9.Shri Rajendran 10.Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 11.Dr. Kulamani Samal 12.Dr. Krishan Pratap Singh 13.Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 14. Shri Biswajit Daimary 15. Shri Palvai Govardhan Reddy

II. Study Visit to Guwahati, Shillong, Cherrapunjee, Imphal And Kolkata from 25th to 28th May, 2015

Sl.No. Organisations/ Places visited Date of Visit Composition 1 Visit To National Institute Of 25th May, Shri Anandrao Adsul Pharmaceutical Education And 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson Research (NIPER), Guwahati. Lok Sabha 2.Shri Kotha Prabhakar Reddy 3.Shri K Ashok Kumar 4.Shri Chhedi Paswan 5.Shri Rajendran 6.Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 7.Shri Biswajit Daimary 2 Informal Discussion With Officials Of 26th May, Shri Anandrao Adsul Department Of Chemicals And 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson Petrochemicals, Government Of Assam And Brahmaputra Crackers Lok Sabha And Polymers Ltd. Regarding Assam 2. Shri Kotha Prabhakar Gas Cracker Project (AGCP). Reddy Cherrapunjee 3.Shri K Ashok Kumar 4.Shri Chhedi Paswan 5.Shri Rajendran 6.Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 7.Shri Biswajit Daimary 8.Shri Narayan lal Panchariya 3 Visit To Plastic Waste Management 27th May, Shri Anandrao Adsul Centre (PWMC) Followed By 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson Informal Discussion With Officials Of Department Of Chemicals And Lok Sabha Petrochemicals And CIPET/PWMC. 2.Shri Kotha Prabhakar Guwahati Reddy 3. Shri BN Chandrappa 4. Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 5.Shri K Ashok Kumar 6.Shri Chhedi Paswan 7.Shri Rajendran 8.Shri Taslimuddin Rajya Sabha 9.Shri Biswajit Daimary 10.Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya 11.Shri Palvai Goverdhan Reddy 12.Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

4 Visit To Cipet Centre, Imphal 28th May, Shri Anandrao Adsul Followed By Informal Discussion 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson With Officials Of Department Of Chemicals And Petrochemicals and Lok Sabha CIPET. 2. Shri Kotha Prabhakar Imphal Reddy 3. Shri Sankar Prasad Datta 4. Shri K Ashok Kumar 5. Shri Chhedi Paswan 6. Shri Rajendran 7 Shri Taslimuddin

Rajya Sabha 8. Shri Narayan lal Panchariya 9. Shri Palvai Goverdhan Reddy 10.Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya 5 Informal Discussions With The 28th May, Shri Anandrao Adsul Representatives Of The Department 2015 – Hon‟ble Chairperson Of Fertilizers (GoI), Government Of West Bengal, Brahmaputra Valley Lok Sabha Fertilizer Corporation Limited 2. Shri Kotha Prabhakar (BVFCL) And Rashtriya Chemicals & Reddy Fertilizers Ltd (RCF) On The Subject, 3. Shri Sankar Prasad Datta "Movement Of Fertilizers And 4. Shri K Ashok Kumar Monitoring System". 5.Shri Chhedi Paswan Kolkata 6.Shri Rajendran 7.Shri Taslimuddin 8.Shri Idris Ali Rajya Sabha 9. Shri Narayan Lal Panchariya 10.Shri Palvai Goverdhan Reddy 11. Shri Biswajit Daimary 12. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

APPENDIX –SIXTY-TWO (Vide Para 14.10)

COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT

I. Study visit to Tirupati, Chennai, Puducherry, Thiruvananthapuram and Kanyakumari from 17th to 22nd January, 2015

Sl. Organisations/Places visited Date of visit Composition No. 1. Field visit (Chittoor District) regarding 17th January, Lok Sabha implementation of the various 2015 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, Chairperson programmes and schemes of the 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP Ministries of Rural Development, 3. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP Drinking Water & Sanitation and 4. Shri Gokaraju Ganga Raju, MP Panchayati Raj. 5. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP 6. Shri Balka Suman, MP Discussion with Officials of the different 7. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP departments of the Government of 8. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak, MP Andhra Pradesh regarding implementation of various programmes Rajya Sabha and Schemes of the Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Drinking 9. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP Water & Sanitation and Ministry of 10. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP Panchayati Raj, Andhra Bank, SLBC Convenor, Andhra Pradesh and Indian Bank, Lead Bank in Chittoor district etc. at Tirupati

2. Field visit to inspect Nemmeli Seawater 19th January, Lok Sabha Desalination Plant in Chennai district 2015 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, Chairperson and Minjur Seawater Desalination Plant 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP in Tiruvallur district of the Ministry of 3. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP Drinking Water and Sanitation. 4. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP 5. Shri Gokaraju Ganga Raju, MP Field visit (Tiruvallur District) regarding 6. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP implementation of the various 7. Shri Balka Suman, MP programmes and schemes of the 8. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP Ministries of Rural Development, 9. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak, MP Drinking Water & Sanitation and Panchayati Raj. Rajya Sabha

10. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 11. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 12. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP 13. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

3. Discussion with Officials of the different 20th January, Lok Sabha departments of the Government of 2015 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, Chairperson Tamil Nadu regarding implementation of 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP various programmes and schemes of 3. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP the Ministry of Rural Development, 4. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation 5. Shri Gokaraju Ganga Raju, MP and Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Indian 6. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP Overseas Bank, Lead Bank in Chennai 7. Shri Balka Suman, MP & SLBC Convenor, Tamil Nadu and 8. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP Indian Bank, Lead Bank in Tiruvallur 9. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak, MP district etc. at Chennai Rajya Sabha

Field visit (Puducherry District) 10. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP regarding implementation of the various 11. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP programmes and schemes of the 12. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP Ministries of Rural Development, 13. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP Drinking Water & Sanitation and Panchayati Raj [enroute to Puducherry].

4. Discussion with State Level Officials of 21st January, Lok Sabha the Ministries of Rural Development, 2015 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, Chairperson Drinking Water & Sanitation and 2. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP Panchayati Raj, Government of 3. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP Puducherry, Indian Bank, SLBC 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP Convenor, Puducherry etc. at 5. Shri Balka Suman, MP Puducherry. 6. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP 7. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak, MP

Rajya Sabha 8. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 9. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 10. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP 11. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

5. Discussion with Officials of the different 22ndJanuary, Lok Sabha departments of the Government of 2015 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, Chairperson Kerala regarding implementation of 2. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP various programmes and Schemes of 3. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP the Ministry of Rural Development, 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation 5. Shri Balka Suman, MP and Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Canara 6. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP Bank, SLBC Convenor, Kerala and 7. Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak, MP Indian Overseas Bank, Lead Bank in Thiruvananthapuram district etc. at Thiruvananthapuram Rajya Sabha

Field visit upto Kanayakumari for en- 8. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP route inspection of implementation of 9. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP various programmes and Schemes of 10. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP the Ministry of Rural Development, 11. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Panchayati Raj and on- site discussion with the concerned officials.

II. Half day local visit to Registrar Office, Kapashera on 15th April, 2015

Sl. Organisations/Places visited Date of visit Composition No. 1. Registrar Office, Kapashera 15th April, 2015 Lok Sabha

1. Dr. P. Venugopal, Chairperson 2. Shri Jugal Kishore 3. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh 5. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain 6. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga

Rajya Sabha 7. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi 8. Shri Ram Narain Dudi 9. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra 10. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho$ 11. Shrimati Kanak Lata Singh

III. Study Visit To Puri, Kolkata and Gangtok from 17th to 22nd June, 2015

Sl. Organisations/Places visited Date of visit Composition No. 1. Field visit (Ganjam District) upto Chilka 17th June, 2015 Lok Sabha Lake for en-route inspection of implementation of various programmes and Schemes of the Ministry of Rural 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, MP Development, Ministry of Drinking Chairperson Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Panchayati Raj and on-site discussion 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP with the concerned officials. 3. Shri Jugal Kishore, MP 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP 5. Shri Balka Suman, MP 6. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP 7. Shri Ajay Misra Teni, MP 8. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga,

Rajya Sabha 9. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP 10. Shri Ram Narain Dudi, MP 11. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 12. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

2. Field visit (Puri District) regarding 18th June, 2015 Lok Sabha implementation of the various programmes and schemes of the Ministries of Rural Development, 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, MP Drinking Water & Sanitation and Chairperson Panchayati Raj and on-site discussion with the concerned officials. 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP 3. Shri Jugal Kishore, MP Discussion with Officials of the different 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP departments of the Government of 5. Shri Balka Suman, MP Odisha regarding implementation of 6. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP various programmes and schemes of 7. Shri Ajay Misra Teni, MP the Ministry of Rural Development, 8. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga, Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation MP and Ministry of Panchayati Raj, UCO Bank, Lead Bank in Puri & SLBC Convenor, Odisha and Andhra Bank, Lead Bank in Ganjam district etc. at Rajya Sabha Puri. 9. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP 10. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 11. Shri Ram Narain Dudi, MP 12. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 13. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

3. Field visit (South 24 Parganas district) 19th June, 2015 Lok Sabha upto Gangasagar for en-route inspection of implementation of various programmes and Schemes of the 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, MP Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry Chairperson of Drinking Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Panchayati Raj and on-site 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP discussion with the concerned officials. 3. Shri Jugal Kishore, MP 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP 5. Shri Balka Suman, MP 6. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP 7. Shri Ajay Misra Teni, MP 8. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga, MP

Rajya Sabha 9. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP 10. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 11. Shri Ram Narain Dudi, MP 12. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 13. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP 4. Discussion with Officials of the different 20th June, 2015 Lok Sabha departments of the Government of West Bengal regarding implementation of various programmes and schemes of 1. Dr. P. Venugopal, MP the Ministry of Rural Development, Chairperson Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Panchayati Raj, United 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP Bank of India, Lead Bank & SLBC 3. Shri Jugal Kishore, MP Convenor, West Bengal at Kolkata. 4. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP 5. Shri Balka Suman, MP 6. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP 7. Shri Ajay Misra Teni, MP 8. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga, MP 9. Shri Sisir Kumar Adhikari, MP

Rajya Sabha 10. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP 11. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 12. Shri Ram Narain Dudi, MP 13. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 14. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

5. Gangtok, Sikkim 21st June, 2015 Lok Sabha

1. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP Convenor 2. Shri Harish Chandra Chavan, MP 3. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP 4. Shri Balka Suman, MP 5. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP 6. Shri Ajay Misra Teni, MP 7. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga, MP 8. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP

Rajya Sabha

9. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP

10. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 11. Shri Ram Narain Dudi, MP 12. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 13. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

6. Field visit (Gangtok) regarding 22nd June, Lok Sabha implementation of the various 2015 programmes and schemes of the Ministries of Rural Development, 1. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, MP Drinking Water & Sanitation and Convenor Panchayati Raj and on-site discussion 2. Dr. Yashwant Singh, MP with the concerned officials. 3. Shri Balka Suman, MP

4. Shri Ladu Kishore Swain, MP Discussion with Officials of the different 5. Shri Ajay Misra Teni, MP departments of the Government of Sikkim regarding implementation of 6. Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanaga, various programmes and schemes of MP the Ministry of Rural Development, 7. Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Rajya Sabha Bank of India, Lead Bank & SLBC 8. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho, MP Convenor, Sikkim at Puri. 9. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi, MP 10. Shri Mahendra Singh Mahra, MP 11. Smt. Kanak Lata Singh, MP

APPENDIX-SIXTY-THREE (Vide Para 15.10)

COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL

I. Study Visit to Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar from 7th to 12th February, 2015.

Sl. Organisations/ Date of Visit Composition No. Places Visited Lok Sabha 1. Ministry of Steel and 7th February, 2015 1. Shri Rakesh Singh– Chairperson RINL / 2. Smt. Jyoti Dhurve Visakhapatnam 3. Shri Shailesh Kumar 4. Shri Godam Nagesh 2. Ministry of Coal and 9th February, 2015 5. Smt. Riti Pathak SCCL/Hyderabad 6. Smt. Ranjeet Ranjan 7. Dr. Ravindra Kumar Ray 8. Shri Tamradhwaj Sahu 3. Ministry of Steel and 10th February, 2015 9. Shri Tathagata Satpathy NMDC/ Hyderabad 10. Shri Janardan Singh 'Sigriwal' 4. Ministry of Coal and 11th February, 2015 11. Shri Pashupati Nath Singh MCL/Talcher 12. Shri Sunil Kumar Singh 5. Ministry of Steel and 12th February, 2015 13. Shri Sushil Kumar Singh Rourkela Steel 14. Shri Rama Kishore Singh Plant/Bhubaneswar 15. Shri Krupal Balaji Tumane 6. Ministry of Mines and 12th February, 2015 Rajya Sabha NALCO/Bhubaneswar 16. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu 17. Shri Md. Nadimul Haque 18. Shri B.K. Hariprasad 19. Shri Sanjay Rout 20. Shri Dilip Kumar Tireky

II. Study Visit to Shillong, Guwahati, Kolkata and Gangtok from 26th June to 2nd July, 2015.

Sl. Organisations/Places Date of Visit Composition No. Visited 27th June, 2015 Lok Sabha 1. Ministry of Mines, GSI 1. Shri Rakesh Singh– Chairperson and MECL/Shillong 2. Smt. Jyoti Dhurve 3. Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste 2. Ministry of Steel and 27th June, 2015 4. Shri Shailesh Kumar SAIL/Shillong 5. Dr. Banshilal Mahato 6. Shri Godam Nagesh 7. Shri Devji M. Patel

3. Ministry of Coal, CIL 29th June, 2015 8. Smt. Riti Pathak and NECL/Guwahati 9. Smt. Ranjeet Ranjan 4. Ministry of Mines and 30th June, 2015 10. Dr. Ravindra Kumar Ray HCL/Kolkata 11. Shri Tamradhwaj Sahu 5. Ministry of Steel and 1st July, 2015 12. Shri Janardan Singh 'Sigriwal' MSTC/Kolkata 13. Shri Pashupati Nath Singh st 6. Ministry of Steel, RINL 1 July, 2015 14. Shri Sunil Kumar Singh and Bird Group of 15. Shri Krupal Balaji Tumane Companies/Silliguri Rajya Sabha nd 7. Ministry of Steel and 2 July, 2015 16. Shri Ali Anwar Ansari NMDC/Silliguri 17. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu 18. Shri Md. Nadimul Haque 19. Shri B.K. Hariprasad 20. Shri Jugul Kishore 21. Shri Avinash Pande 22. Shri Sanjay Rout 23. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya

APPENDIX – SIXTY-FOUR (Vide Para 16.10)

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

I. Study Visit to Bengaluru, Chennai and Panaji from 27th to 31st January, 2015.

Sl. Organizations/Places visited Date of visit Composition No. Bengaluru Lok Sabha

1. Held discussion with the 27th January, 2015 1. Shri Ramesh Bais – representatives of Government Hon‟ble Chairperson of Karnataka th 2. Heard views of the 27 January, 2015 2. Shri Kunwar Bharatendra representatives of Karnataka 3. Shri A.S.R. Naik State Waqf Board th 4. Smt. Satabdi Roy 3. Held meeting with the 27 January, 2015 5. Smt. Neelam Sonkar representatives of Vijaya Bank th 4. Held meeting with the 28 January, 2015 Rajya Sabha representatives of Corporation 6. Smt. Jharna Das Baidya Bank 7. Shri Ahamed Hassan Chennai

5. Visited National Institute for 29th January, 2015 Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD) 6. Heard the views of 29th January, 2015 NGOs/organizations (Disability Rights Alliance, Tamil Nadu) 7. Held discussion with the 30th January, 2015 representatives of Government of Tamil Nadu 8. Held meeting with the 30th January, 2015 representatives of Indian Bank Panaji

9. Held meeting with the 31st January, 2015 representatives of Dena Bank 10. Held meeting with the 31st January, 2015 representatives of Bank of India

II. Study Visit to Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad from 8th to 12th June, 2015.

Sl. Organizations/Places visited Date of visit Composition No. Mumbai Lok Sabha

1. Held discussion with the Chief 8th June, 2015 1. Shri Ramesh Bais – Secretary, Government of Hon‟ble Chairperson Maharashtra th 2. Held meeting with the representatives 8 June, 2015 2. Shri Sher Singh of Maharashtra Rajya Itar Magas Ghubaya Vargiya Vitta Ani Vikas Mahamandal 3. Shri A.S.R. Naik Ltd. th 4. Smt. Satabdi Roy 3. Held meeting with the representatives 9 June, 2015 5. Shri Jhina Hikaka of Union Bank of India 6. Shri Sadashiv Lokhande 4. Heard views of the representatives of 9th June, 2015 7. Shri Asaduddin Owaisi Maharashtra State Waqf Board 8. Smt. Mamta Thakur 5. Held meeting with the representatives 9th June, 2015 Dr. Udit Raj of Bank of Maharashtra 9.

Kolkata Rajya Sabha th Shri Ahamed Hassan 6. Held discussion with the Chief 10 June, 2015 10. Secretary, Government of West Bengal 7. Held meeting with the representatives 10th June, 2015 of UCO Bank 8. Heard views of the representatives of 10th June, 2015 West Bengal State Waqf Board 9. Held meeting with the representatives 11th June, 2015 of West Bengal SCs & STs Development & Finance Corporation Hyderabad

10. Held discussion with the Chief 12th June, 2015 Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh 11. Heard views of the representatives of 12th June, 2015 Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Waqf Boards 12. Held meeting with the representatives 12th June, 2015 of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) 13. Held meeting with the representatives 12th June, 2015 of Andhra Bank

(E) STATEMENT SHOWING ANALYSIS OF ACTION TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY COMMITTEES

STATEMENT SHOWING ANALYSIS OF ACTION TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY COMMITTEES

The following tables indicate the analysis of action taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Committees in their earlier Reports in respect of which Action Taken Reports were presented during the year 2014-15.

Report Total No. of Total No. of Total No. of Total No. Total No. of No. Recommenda- Recommenda- Recommenda- Recommenda- Recommenda- tions tions which tions which tions in r/o tions in r/o which were accepted the which replies of final replies of by Committee Govt. have not Govt. were Government did not desire been accepted awaited to pursue in by Committee view of Govt. Replies

1 2 3 4 5 6

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

1 11 06 01 04 00 6 38 27 00 09 02 7 10 07 00 02 01 12 15 08 00 04 03 13 29 17 00 08 04 14 32 20 00 08 04 15 30 24 00 04 02 Total 165 109 1 39 16 % age 100% 66.06% 00.61% 23.64% 09.7%

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

47 (15th Lok Sabha) 18 11 01 01 05 53 (15th Lok Sabha) 21 16 - 02 03 1 (16th Lok Sabha) 22 15 - 03 04 3 (16th Lok Sabha) 22 22 - - - 4 (16th Lok Sabha) 17 10 01 01 05 Total 100 74 02 07 17 %age 100% 74% 02% 07% 17%

1 2 3 4 5 6

COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE

1 84 72 0 10 2 10 41 31 5 5 - 11 31 10 4 17 - Total 156 113 9 32 2 % age 100% 72.44% 5.77% 20.51% 1.28%

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

3 16 15 - 1 - 8 9 7 - 2 - Total 25 22 - 3 - %age 100% 88% - 12% -

COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

2 23 9 - 7 7 Total 23 9 - 7 7 % age 100% 39.14% - 30.43% 30.43%

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

1 (15th LS) 14 9 1 4 - 6 (15th LS) 10 6 1 - 3 8 (15th LS) 20 18 - 1 1 9 (15th LS) 19 16 1 2 - 15 (16th LS) 30 29 1 - - 16 (16th LS) 11 10 - 1 - 17 (16th LS) 10 7 - 2 1 18 (16th LS) 7 5 - 2 - Total 121 100 4 12 5 % age 100% 82.65% 3.31% 9.92% 4.13%

1 2 3 4 5 6

COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

5 26 12 3 - 11 6 21 12 1 3 5 Total 47 24 4 3 16 % age 100% 51.06% 8.51% 6.39% 34.04%

COMMITTEE ON LABOUR

5 10 7 1 1 1 6 11 9 - 1 1 10 15 6 - 7 2 Total 36 22 1 9 4 % age 100% 61.11% 2.78% 25% 11.11%

COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS

2 8 2 - 3 3 3 12 4 2 2 4 6 24 10 3 6 5 Total 44 16 5 11 12 % age 100% 37% 11% 25% 27%

COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS

21 (15th LS) 16 9 - 7 - 23 (15th LS) 40 32 3 5 - 25 (15th LS) 16 12 2 2 - 3 (16th LS) 23 16 3 4 - Total 95 69 8 18 - % age 100% 72.63% 8.42% 18.95% -

1 2 3 4 5 6

COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT

3 26 9 2 15 - 4 20 12 - 8 - 7 24 18 2 2 2 8 22 19 - 3 - Total 92 58 4 28 2 % age 100% 63% 4.4% 30.43% 2.17%

COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES

2 36 19 8 2 7 Total 36 19 8 2 7 % age 100% 52.78% 22.22 5.56 19.44

COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

8 10 8 - 1 1 9 7 6 - - 1 10 10 8 - - 2 Total 27 22 - 1 4 % age 100% 81% - 4% 15%

COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT

10 26 16 2 7 1 11 10 5 - 2 3 12 17 7 3 5 2 13 17 14 - - 3 14 27 22 - 5 - 15 23 13 5 4 1 Total 120 77 10 23 10 % age 100% 64.17% 8.33% 19.17% 8.33%

1 2 3 4 5 6

COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL

4 21 14 2 3 2 5 14 6 2 6 - 6 14 8 - 6 - 10 18 9 2 2 5 11 17 13 3 1 - 12 11 6 - 1 4 13 19 16 1 1 1 Total 114 72 10 20 12 % age 100% 63.16% 8.77% 17.54% 10.53%

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

7 31 16 2 4 9 8 23 17 - 4 2 9 21 9 - 2 10 10 17 11 1 3 2 16 6 5 - - 1 17 14 11 - 3 - 18 8 8 - - - 19 10 8 1 0 1 Total 130 85 4 16 25 % age 100% 65.39% 3.08% 12.30% 19.23%

(F) STATEMENT SHOWING THE STATISTICAL DATA REGARDING THE WORK DONE BY COMMITTEES

STATEMENT SHOWING THE STATISTICL DATA REGARDING THE WORK DONE BY COMMITTEE DURING THE YEAR 2014-15

1 Committee on 33 - - - - 13 8 - - 1 7 2 Agriculture 2 Committee on 24 - - - - 14 8 - - 3 5 2 Information Technology 3 Committee on 19 - - - - 11 8 - - - 3 2 Defence 4 Committee on 32 - - 1 - 16 4 1 - 1 2 2 Energy 5 Committee on 21 - - 1 - 26 4 1 - - 1 2 External Affairs 6 Committee on 33 - - 1 - 15 10 - - - 8 2 Finance 7 Committee on 19 - - 1 - 7 4 - - - 2 2 FCA 8 Committee on 30 - - 1 - 15 4 1 - 2 3 2 Labour

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