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Tentb Series, Vol, XLV No. l Tuesday, ~ovember 28, 1995 Agrabayana 7, 1917 (Saka) LOt( SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Fifteenth Session (Tenth Lok Sabha) . I , (Vol. XLV contains Nos. I-lO) LOK SARHA SECRET ARIA T NEW DELHI Price : Rs. 50.00 {ORIGINAL ENGLISH PRocEEDINGS lNCLUDED IN ENGLISH VERSION AND ORIGINAL HINDI' PROCI!ED'HGS ,"CLUDED, . IN HINDI VERSION WIll ISIF'TREATED AS AUTH.:>RITATIVE. AND .NOT THE T~ANSLATtON THEREOF.] Corritenda to Lok 'Sab~a Debates ,Rti1j...Y&.7"""........ o·.L-va1 ) Tuesday, lIoveaber 28, 1995/It.grahayana 7, 1317, (Saka) Col/Line For Read Page (i)/6 *Starred Questions Nos Starred Questions Nos 21-25 26/28 mony is being by money is being given by. 75/2 SHRI THAVIL JOHN ANJALOSE SHRI TBAxIL JOHN ANJALOSE 82/18(from beow) (SHRI AYAB KHAN) (SHRI AYUB KHAN) 121/30(from below) (SaRI AYUR h3AN 128 saRI JANMEET SINGH BRAR SHRI JAGMEET SINGH BRAR 267/17 (from below) SHRIMATI GEETA MUKBJERJEE SHRIMATI GEETA MUKHERJEE 268/17 SHRI SOMNATH CHAH~TERJEE SBRI SOMNATB CHATTERJEE 315/2 SHRI HANNA MOLLAH SHRI HANNAN MOLLAH 335/29 SBRI YAIMA SING YUMNAM SHRI YAIMA SINGH YUrlNAl': CONTENTS [Tenth Series, Vol. XLV, Fifteenth Session 1995/1917 (Saka)] No.2, Tuesday, November 28, 19951Agrahayana 7, 1917 (Saka) SUBJeCT CoLUMNS ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS : ·Starred Questions Nos. 1-26 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Questions Nos. 26 to 40 26-60 Unstarred Questions Nos. 183 to 384 60-246 INTRODUCTION OF MINISTERS 246-247 RE : MOTIONS FOR ADJOURNMENT 247-276 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 277-288 ASSENT TO BILLS 288 PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES Summary of work 288 OBSERVATION - by Speaker Notice from Registrar Delhi High Court 289 VACATION OF SEAT BY MEMBER 289 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Fifty-fifth Report - Presented 289 COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Reports - Laid 289-290 STATEMENT BY MINISTER RE : JAMMU AND KASHMIR Shri S.B. Chavan 290-295 SUPPLEMENTARY DEMANDS FOR GRANTS - GENERAL Statement showing the supplementary Demands for grants - 1995-96 - Laid 295 BILL INTRODUCED Depositories Bill 295 DEPOSITORIES ORDINANCE Explanatory Statement giving reasons for immediate legislation by the Depositories Ordinance - Laid 296 ANNOUNCEMENT BY SPEAKER RE: COPIES OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION AND GOVERNOR'S REPORT IN RELATION TO THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH 296 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 (i) Need to expedite the setting up of a high power T.V. Transmitter at Cannanore, Kerala Shrl Mullappally Ramchandran 296 • The Sign t marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the IIoor of the House by that Member. SUBJECT COLUMNS (ii) Need for early settlement of the problems of people custed as a result of acquisition of their land by West,tlm Coalfields Limited in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra Shri Shantaram Potdukhe 297 (iii) Need to set up a full-fledged circle office of Archaeological Survey of India in Kerala Prof. Savithri Lakshmanan 297 ' (iv) Need to withdraw move to shift Directorate of Regional Publicity from Ranchi, Bihar Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary 298 (v) Need to augment crushing capacity of Sugar mills Shri Amar Pal Singh 298-299 (vi) Need to improve postal services in different parts of West Bengal particularly in Calcutta Shri Anil Basu 299 (vii) Need to have a Central Flood Control Programme for Bihar Shri Nawal Kishore Rai 299 STATUTORY RESOLUTION RE : APPROVAL OF PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY PRESIDENT IN RELATION TO THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH (Not concluded) 300-338 Shri S.B. Chavan 300-301 Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 302-306 Shri Salman Khursheed 306-313 Shri Hannan Mollah 314-320 Dr. S.P. Yadav 320-323 Shri Sharad Dighe 323-325 Maj. Gen. (Retd). Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri 325-334 Shri Vishwanath Shastri 332-334 Shri Ramsagar 334-335 Shri Yaima Singh Yumnam 335-338 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA Irteracy are Kerala, Goa and Mizoram (States) and Chandigarh, Lakshadweep and Pondicherry (UTs). This is Tuesday, November 28, 19951Agrahayana 7, 1917 (Saka) based on available figures but a final picture will only emerge after the decennial census of 2001. The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock (d) A State-wise statement of the amount spent by the Government for achieving total literacy, since [MR. SPEAKER in the Chai~ the inception of the National Lrteracy Mission, is at ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Annexure-II. The scheme of Education Technology does not pertain to literacy but seeks to improve utilisation of Literacy Drive the media through radio and TV for the good of the educational sector. [Translation] Annexure-I *21. tOR. P.R. GANGWAR SHRI VIJAY KUMAR YADAV State wise Statement o( illiterates o( the age-group 7 Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE and above by Male & Female - 1991 DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state : (In OOO's) (a) the number of illiterate persons in the country SI.No. State/UT Total Male Female at present, State-wise; 2 3 4 5 (b) the number of men and women among the illiterate persons at present; 1. Andhra Pradesh 31057 12641 18416 (c) the names of States where target of total literacy 2. Arunachal Pradesh 398 181 217 has been aChieved; and 3. Assam 8477 3592 4885 (d) the amount spent by the Government for achieving total literacy under Education Technology 4. Bihar 42206 17167 25039 scheme, Siale-wise ? 5. Goa 253 86 167 {English]. 6. Gujarat 13348 4787 8561 THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF 7. Haryana 5889 2214 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOP~~NT (DEPARTMENT 3675 OF EDUCATION AND DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE 8. Himachal Pradesh 1566 539 1027 (KUMARI SELJA) : (a) to (d) A statement is laid on the Table of the Sabha. 9. Karnataka 16487 6264 10223 STATEMENT 10. Kerala 2574 786 1788 (a) and (b) The literacy data in the country is collected 11 . Madhya Pradesh 29625 11460 18165 through decennial census operations. A State-wise 12. Maharashtra statement showing· the number of illrterate persons along 22985 7943 15042 with the illiterates amongst male and female in the age 13. Manipur 614 222 392 group of 7 years and above, as per the 1991 census, is enclosed at Annexure-I. 14. Meghalaya 703 332 371 (c) The expression total literacy does not signify a 15. Mizoram 100 42 58 hundred per cent literacy in terms of coverage of all age 16. Nagaland groups of the entire state/district population. The target 385 174 211 age-group under total literacy campaigns (TLC) is 15-35 17. Orissa 13397 4926 8471 years. 18. Punjab 7043 3095 3948 In the States of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, GUjarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and West 19. Rajasthan 21597 8290 13307 Bengal and in the Union Territories of Chandigarh, Dadra 20. Sikkim 141 60 81 & Nagar Haveli, Delhi and Pondicherry all the districts have been covered under the total literacy campaigns. 21. Tamil Nadu 18075 6426 11649 The states/districts achieving 80% and above of 22. Tripura 893 342 551 the total target age-group are said to be totally literate. The States and Union Territories which have achieved total 23. Uttar Pradesh 64769 26298 38471 3 Oral AnswelS NOVEMBER 28, 1995 Oral Answers 4 2 3 4 5 {Translation} DR. P.R. GANGWAR : Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. 24. West Bengal 23907 9540 14367 Minister knows that the number of illiterates in rural areas 25. A & N Islands 63 28 35 is higher than the cities because in villages, mostly farmers and agricultural labourers live whose economic condition 26. Chandigam 121 56 65 is pitiable and their children are also engaged in fields 27. o & N Haveli 65 26 39 with them. Moreover, !"'~imary Schools as well as Private Schools do not exist in each village. Besides, children in 28. Daman & Diu 25 8 17 the villages as well as their parents do not develop interest 29. Delhi 1931 777 1154 for education due to their strive for the search of a means of subsistence. I would like to know from the han. Minister 30. Lakshadweep 9 3 6 about the scheme the Government has in mind for making 31. Pondicherry 176 57 119 ali the people living in the rural areas literate and to provide them standard education. As per the reply given by the Annexure-II han. Minister, even after forty eight and half years of independence, around one lakh and 28 thousand males Statement showing amount spent by Government tor and two lakh and 10 thousand females are still deprived achieving Total Literacy of education. The han. Mi'1ister has declared that the State Amount spent (In Rupees) people of all the villages of the country will be made literate by the end of this century. I would like to know from her 1. Andhra Pradesh 64,97,72,200 about the steps the Government has taken to achieve the target of total literacy in the entire country and the 2. Assam 13,30,11,940 proposed scheme in this regard. 3. Bihar 25,51,87,409 KUMAR I SELJA : As far as the question of total 4. Chandigam 33,00,000 literacy in rural areas is concerned, I would like to state that the figures show encouraging response from the rural 5. Daman & Diu 1,40,000 areas in comparision to cities. The Government wants that 6. Delhi 1,67,08,300 literacy campaign be speeded up in rural areas as most of the population of villages is illiterate. 7. Goa 25,00,000 In ragard to second question, I would like to state 8. Gujarat 24,39,85,000 that the Government wants to achieve the target of 9. Haryana 8,07,85,440 "Education for Ali" by the turn of this century.