C O N T E N T S
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
04.01.2018 1 C O N T E N T S Sixteenth Series, Vol. XXVIII, Thirteenth Session, 2017-2018/1939 (Saka) No. 12, Thursday, January 04, 2018/Pausha 14, 1939 (Saka) S U B J E C T P A G E S ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 241 to 245 13-70 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 246 to 260 71-124 Unstarred Question Nos. 2761 to 2990 125-594 The sign + marked above the name of a Member indicates that the Question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. 04.01.2018 2 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 596-607 MESSAGE FROM RAJYA SABHA AND BILL AS PASSED BY RAJYA SABHA 608 COMMITTEE ON VIOLATION OF PROTOCOL NORMS AND CONTEMPTUOUS BEHAVIOUR OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS WITH MEMBERS OF LOK SABHA 1st to 3rd Reports 609 COMMITTEE ON ABSENCE OF MEMBERS FROM THE SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE Minutes 609 COMMITTEE ON THE WELFARE OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES 15th to 17th Reports 610 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES 67th to 72nd Reports 611 STANDING COMMITTEE ON LABOUR 33rd Report 611 STANDING COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS 18th Report 612-613 04.01.2018 3 STANDING COMMITTEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT 21st Report 613 STANDING COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL 37th Report 613 STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS 302nd to 308th Reports 614-615 STANDING COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT, TOURISM AND CULTURE 256th Report 615 STATEMENT CORRECTING REPLY TO STARRED QUESTION NO. 55 DATED 19.12.2017 REGARDING RISE IN PRICES OF PULSES ALONGWITH REASONS FOR DELAY 615-618 STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS 619-622 (i) Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 23rd Report of the Standing Committee on Labour on Demands for Grants (2017-18), pertaining to the Ministry of Labour and Employment Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar 619 (ii)(a) Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 15th Report of the Standing Committee on Urban Development on Demands for Grants (2017- 18), pertaining to the Ministry of Urban Development 620 04.01.2018 4 (b) Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 16th Report of the Standing Committee on Urban Development on Demands for Grants (2017- 18), pertaining to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri Hardeep Singh Puri 620 (iii) Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 248th Report of the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture on Demands for Grants (2017-18), pertaining to the Ministry of Tourism Shri Alphons Kannanthanam 621 (iv) Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 25th Report of the Standing Committee on Labour on Demands for Grants (2017-18), pertaining to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) Shri Anantkumar Hegde 621 (v) Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 244th Report of the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture on Demands for Grants (2017-18), pertaining to the Ministry of Civil Aviation Shri Jayant Singh 622 DEMANDS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS, 2017-18 623, 819-853 Shri Arun Jaitley 820, 848-852 Dr. Shashi Tharoor 821-826 Dr. Kirit Somaiya 827-828 Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita 829-830 04.01.2018 5 Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 831-833 Shri Jayadev Galla 834-835 Shrimati V. Sathyabama 836-837 Shri Mohammad Salim 838-841 Shri Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli 842-843 Shri Vinayak Bhaurao Raut 844 Shri Bheemrao B. Patil 845 Shri N.K. Premachandran 846-847 Demands -Voted 853 NATIONAL BANK FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2017 Amendment made by Rajya Sabha 624-625 Motion to Consider 624-625 Shri P.P. Chaudhary 625 INSOLVENCY AND BANKRUPTCY CODE (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2017 Amendment made by Rajya Sabha 626-627 Motion to Consider 626-627 Shri P.P. Chaudhary 627 SUBMISSION BY MEMBER Re: Reported mass expulsion of a section of the society from the recently published National Register of Citizens in Assam 628-630 04.01.2018 6 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 676-704 (i) Need to provide passenger amenities at Amreli Airport in Gujarat Shri Naranbhai Kachhadia 677 (ii) Need to redesign the Railway Station at Meerut reflecting its rich heritage and historic role in the First War of Independence Shri Rajendra Agrawal 678 (iii) Regarding Bodo problems in Assam Shri Ram Prasad Sarmah 679 (iv) Need to develop places of historical importance in Madhubani district of Bihar as tourist spots Shri Birendra Kumar Chaudhary 680 (v) Need to enhance Ceiling of Income Tax on retirement benefits Adv. Narendra Keshav Sawaikar 681 (vi) Need for four-laning of National Highway from Jammu to Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir Shri Jugal Kishore 682 (vii) Need to extend benefits of various public welfare schemes to all Gram Panchayats in Balaghat and Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh Shri Bodh Singh Bhagat 683 04.01.2018 7 (viii) Need to rename Karjat and Neral Railway Stations in Central Railway after Shaheed Bhai Kotwal and Shaheed Hiraji Patil who laid down their lives during Indian Freedom Struggle Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil 684 (ix) Need to repair mobile towers in Surat and Tapi districts of Gujarat Shri Parbhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava 685 (x) Need to provide uniform facilities to veterans of JP movement detained during emergency period Prof. Chintamani Malviya 686 (xi) Need to rename Bairgania railway station on Sitamarhi- Raxaul railway section in Bihar after Bansi Sah of Sitamarhi, popularly known as Banshi chacha, freedom fighter and social worker Shrimati Rama Devi 687 (xii) Need to augment production of Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited (IMPCL) to its full capacity and also fill up the vacant posts Shrimati Rakshatai Khadse 688 (xiii) Need to execute the deepening work of ponds and removal of rubble with the assistance of machinery under MGNREGA Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary 689 (xiv) Need for speedy settlement of crop insurance claims of farmers of Dharwad Shri Pralhad Joshi 690 04.01.2018 8 (xv) Need to regularise the services of Aanganwadi Sevika and Sahayika and also increase their honorarium till their services are regularised Shrimati Ranjeet Ranjan 691 (xvi) Need to increase scholarship amount of OBC students Shri Rajeev Satav 692 (xvii) Need to establish a Railway Institute in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu Shri R. Parthipan 693 (xviii) Need to create a separate Ministry for Fishermen and also take measures for welfare of fishermen Community Dr. K. Gopal 694-697 (xix) Regarding extending incentive for crop loans to medium term (conversion) loans Dr. Prabhas Kumar Singh 698-699 (xx) Need to sort out the Mahanadi river water sharing dispute Shri Nagendra Kumar Pradhan 700 (xxi) Regarding refund to the people who invested in Pancards Club Limited Shri Kunwar Haribansh Singh regarding need to set up a Mega Food Park and Food Processing Research Centre in Pratapgarh Parliamentary Constituency, Uttar Pradesh Shri Arvind Sawant 701-702 04.01.2018 9 (xxii) Need to set up a Mega Food Park and Food Processing Research Centre in Pratapgarh Parliamentary Constituency, Uttar Pradesh Kunwar Haribansh Singh 703 (xxiii) Need to implement recommendations of 45th Indian Labour Conference Shri C. N. Jayadevan 704 HIGH COURT AND THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AMENDMENT BILL, 2017 705-818 Shri Gopal Shetty 705-713 Adv. M. Udhayakumar 714-715 Shri Kalyan Banerjee 716-730 Shri Tathagata Satpathy 731-738 Shri Vinayak Bhaurao Raut 739-741 Dr. Ravindra Babu 742-748 Shri Konda Vishweshwar Reddy 749-754 Dr. A. Sampath 755-766 Dr. Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli 767-771 Shri Rajendra Agrawal 772-775 Shri Anto Antony 776-778 Shri Dharmendra Yadav 779-781 Shri Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav 782-783 Shri Rattan Lal Kataria 784-785 Shri Dushyant Chautala 786-787 Shri Kaushalendra Kumar 788 Shri Rajesh Ranjan 789-790 04.01.2018 10 Shri N.K. Premachandran 791-793 Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad 794-815 Clauses 2 to 9 and 1 816-817 Motion to Pass 818 THE APPROPRIATION BILL, 2018 854-855 Motion to Consider 854 Clauses 2, 3 and 1 854-855 Motion to Pass 855 ANNEXURE – I Member-wise Index to Starred Questions 856 Member-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 857-862 ANNEXURE – II Ministry-wise Index to Starred Questions 863 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 864 04.01.2018 11 OFFICERS OF LOK SABHA THE SPEAKER Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan THE DEPUTY SPEAKER Dr. M. Thambidurai PANEL OF CHAIRPERSONS Shri Arjun Charan Sethi Shri Hukmdeo Narayan Yadav Shri Anandrao Adsul Shri Pralhad Joshi Dr. Ratna De (Nag) Shri Ramen Deka Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao Shri Hukum Singh Shri K.H. Muniyappa Dr. P. Venugopal SECRETARY GENERAL Shrimati Snehlata Shrivastava 04.01.2018 12 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA ---------- Thursday, January 04, 2018/Pausha 14, 1939 (Saka) The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock [HON. SPEAKER in the Chair] 04.01.2018 13 … (Interruptions) ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS HON. SPEAKER: Question No. 241, Shri Nagendra Kumar Pradhan. (Q. 241) SHRI NAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN: Madam Speaker, the hon. Minister has stated in his reply that those six projects which have been constructed are minor projects and that is why permission of the Central Water Commission is not needed. But I would like to draw the attention of the Minister, through you, that these six barrages which have been constructed are on the upper side of Hirakud Dam. Even though permission of the CWC is not needed, they have been constructed very close to one another so as to intentionally give water to industries and an inter-connection canal is also there. So, will the Minister be in a position to say whether these six projects, which have been named as minor projects, are inter-linked or not.