Railways) for 2002-2003
NT> 17.43 hrs. Title: Discussion on the Demand For Supplementary Grant No. 16 in respect of Budget (Railways) for 2002-2003. MR. CHAIRMAN : Now, we shall take up item no. 12 − Supplementary Demands for Grant (Railways). Motion moved: "That the Supplementary sums not exceeding the amounts shown in the third column of the Order Paper be granted to the President of India out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges that will come in course of payment during the year ending the 31st day of March, 2003, in respect of the head of Demands entered in the second column thereof- Demand No.16." MR. CHAIRMAN: Now, Shrimati Margaret Alva. SHRI P.H. PANDIAN (TIRUNELVELI): Sir, she is not speaking. ...(Interruptions) SHRIMATI MARGARET ALVA (CANARA): I am speaking of course. Shri Pandian, you are not in the Chair now. MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay, please speak now. SHRIMATI MARGARET ALVA : Mr. Chairman, Sir, I know that in spite of the fact that the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs frowns at me, this is a Supplementary Demand for an appropriation of only Rs. 25,000, and this is why I am standing up to speak. I wish he had come for Rs. 25,000 crore or something, at least Rs. 2,500 crore because there are so many pending projects for which commitments have been made by the Railways and by Shri Nitish Kumar himself, but somehow along the way he gets involved in other things, which were not so important, whether it is new zones, whether it is treading on Mamta's toes or I do not know what.
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