Ninth Series Vol.III, No.14 Thursday, March 29,1990 Chaitra 8, 1912 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Second Session (Ninth Lok Sabha) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price: Rs., 50,00 CONTENTS [Ninth ,co 'nes, Vol 11/, Second Session, 199011912 (Saka)] No, "" ·sday, March 29, 1990/Chaitra 8, 1912 (Saka) CoLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions 1-15 *Starred Question Nos 247,248 and 251 to 253 16-29 Welcome to Speaker of Sri Lankan Parliament 15-16 Wrrtten Answers to Questions 29-285 Starred Question Nos 249, 250, 254 to 268 29-53 Unstarred Question Nos 2621 to 2636, 2638 to 53-481 2663 2665 to 2719, 2721 to 2840 Papers laid on the Table 485-500 Matters Under Rule 377 500-507 (I) Need tor taking steps tor 500-501 saving forests In Kerala Shn Mullappally Ramachandran (II) Need for converting Main Central 501 Road In Kerala Into a National Highway Shn Ramesh Chennrthala (III) Need for constructing another 501 airport near Cochln Prof K V Thomas (IV) Need to complete construction 502 of dam over the nver KosI between Dargla and Phublan In Bihar Shn Dasal Chowdhary -The Sign + marked above the name of a Member IndICates that the question was actualty asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (ii) CoLUMNS (v) Need to treat lawyers In the 502 special category in the matter of alloting telephone connections Ch. Jagdeep Dhankhar (vi) Need to take steps to revive cement 503 industry Tn Sawai Madhopur. Rajasthan Dr. Kirodi Lal Meena (vii) Need for taking over the Katihar Jute 503-504 Mill in Bihar Shn Yuvraj (viii) Need tor opening a poly-technic tor 504-507 women In Indore (Madhya Pradesh) Shrrmatl Sumitra Mahajan Commissions of InqUiry (Amendment) Bill 507--562 Motion to consider Shri Mufti Mohammad Sayeed 507-508 Shri P. Chidambaram 508-514 Shri Samarendra Kundu 514-521 Shn Guman Mal Lodha 521-526 Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz 525-531 Shri Sudarsan Raychaudhuri 531--534 Prot. K.V. Thomas 535-538 Shri Inder Jit 538-539 Shri Ram Krishan Yadav 540-541 Shri Indrajit Gupta 541-545 Shr\ A.N. S\ngh Dec (III) CoLUMNS Shn G M Banatwalla 548-552 Shn Glrdhan Lal Bhargava 552-556 Clauses 2 and 1 561-562 Motion to Pass, as amended 562 Shn Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Cnmlnal Law Amendment (AmendIng) Bill 563--581 As Passed by RaJYa Sabha Motion to consider Shn Muttl Mohammad Sayeed 563-564 Shn P Chldambaram 564-565 Shn Jagdeep Dhankhar 565 Shn Guman Mal Lodha 566-567 Shn Amal Dana 567-571 Shn P C Thomas 572-573 Shn TeJ Narayan Singh 573 Clauses 2 and 1 575-576 MotIOn to Pass, as amended 580 Shn Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Statement by Ministers 581-584 (I) Price Policy for Raw Jute for 571-572 1990-91 Season Shn Devi Lal (ii) Escape of Detenues from Central 581-684 Jail, Snnagar, on 28th March, 1990 (iv) CoLUMNS Shri Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Discussion Under Rule 193 584-652 Accident to!h, Indian Airlines Airbus A-320 at Bangalore Shn Nathu Singh 584-588 Shn Hansh Rawat 588-597 Shn Amal Datta 597--605 Shn Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav 606-610 Shn Shlklho Serna 610--611 Shn Sontosh Mohan Dev 611--619 Shn Sontosh Kumar Gangwar 620-621 Shn T eJ Narayan Singh 621--623 Shn Chitta Basu 62s--627 Prof K V. Thomas 627--629 Shrr YuvraJ 629--630 Prof Rasa Singh Rawat 630-632 Shn Surya Narayan Yadav 632-633 Shn Samarendra Kundu 633-637 Shrr Anf Mohammad Khan 637-652 Messages from RaJya Sabha 624-625 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOKSABHA such refugees are to be settled? THE MINISTER OF EXTERNAL M- FAIRS (SHRII.K. GUJRAL): (a) y .., s.. Thursday, March 29, 1990lChaitra 8, 1912 (b) 1315 refugees reached by ship on (Saka) 10.3.1990 and 277 by air on 11.3.1990. (c) After consultations with the State Governments concerned, it was decided that these refugees should be temporarily lodged The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock in camps in Koraput District, Orissa. (MR. SPEAKER in the Chair} (d) No, Sir. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS (e) Government's attempt would be to ensure that Sri Lanka refugees return to their [English] country as soon as situation there normal- ises. Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in Orissa SHRI A.N. SINGH OED: Sir, the Minis- + ter In the last part of his reply has used the *247. SHRI A.N. SINGH DEO: WOIdI to ~is effect viz. "As soon as situation SHRI CHinA BASU: there normalises." As we understand, the normal situation has already returned be- Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AF- cause the Indian Peace Keeping Force has FAIRS be pleased to state: already come back. We hear that this is 4 fight between the Eelam Peoples' Revolu- (a) whether Tamil refugees from Sri tionary Liberation Front and LTTE. So, it Lanka have reached Orissa for settlement; means that the situation there still continues to be serious. So, under the circumstances, (b) if so, the detai~s thereof including I would like to know by which date the Minis- their number and time since they landed ter expects norma'cy to return, so that the there; refugees can go back. (c) the circumstances in which they are SHRII.K. GUJRAL: Sir, my hon. friend to be settled in Orissa and whether this has would have known that the number of total approval of Union State Govemments~ refugees \0 Orissa \s about 1600-ocid. Compared to that, In Tamil Nadu we have a (d) whether they are to be settled in much larger number of refugees. And the Orissa permanently and if so, the scheme return ot \PKF was not \inked w1th the 1101'- drawn up in this regard; and malisationotthe situation. But we are hoping and wisI*1g that the situation .".,. .. (e) any other State or States where become normal enough for the refugees to 3 Oral AnsW81S MARCH 29. 1990 Oral Answers 4 feel safe in going back to their homes. In the As far as I know. the Government of late meantime, our culture demands that we treat have conveyed its willingness to the Govern- them as our honoured guests. ment of Sri Lanka to sign a Friendship Treaty with Sri Lanka in prinCiple. SHRI A.N. SINGH DEO: We agree with the Minister. Orissa is a very poor State and Now, my question is this: (1) Under the the problem of these refugees is causing new proposed Friendship Treaty with the Sri tension there. The local people are resenting Lankan Government. would there be any this because the Government have accepted obligation on the part of the Government of them. But we would like to know whether the India to provide safety and security for the Sri whr'9 cost will be borne by the Central LanKan Tamils in Sri Lanka during condition ~i!jmment. of abnormalcy there? (2) May I know whether it is a fact that the IPKF itself arranged for the Secondly, I would like to know from the transport of these refugees by two Ships of Hon. Minister the following. He said that the Indian Navy? My friend Mr. Unnikrishnan there are some refugees In Tamil Nadu. will confirm it. The Ships are M. V. Harshav~ Would it not be better if all these refugees are ardana and M.V. Tippu Sultan. shifted to Tamil Nadu, so that they will be more at home where there are more refu- May I know whether the IPKF took gees? A poor State like Orissa will be re- consent from the Government of India with lieved from this burden. if it is done. regard to these arrangements made by the IPKF forthe transport of these refugees from SHRII.K. GUJRAL: Sofarasthefinan· Sri Lanka to India? ciaI burden is concerned, it is not on the Budget of the Orissa Government. The en- SHRII.K. GUJRAL: Sir. the IPKF acted tire financial burden will be borne br the in consuttation with the Government of India. Centre. So. Orissa does not have to bear About 1600 refugees did come in the Indian this. Ships. The reasons were very simple. We apprehended that their lives were really in So far as putting them together in Tamil danger. All these years, we have been feel· Nadu is concerned. there are diffICulties. ing concerned about the safety of Tamils and we fett that they were in danger. we helped SHRI CHinA BASU: The han. Minis- them out. tt was only a humanitarian thing ter has been pleased to say that the Govern- that had been done. ment hopes that normalcy will return soon in Sri Lanka and that that will create a condition So far as the Treaty is concerned. there for the return of those refugees, who are now is no further move as yet. But I have only at Koraput in Orissa to Sri Lanka. seen in the Press that the Government of Sri Lanka is wanting to enter into a diSCUSSion with us. When it comes to us, we will deal As you know with the complete re-in- with it. duction of the IPKF only two days ago and the collapse of the Government of Mr. Pe- DR. THAMBI DURAl: lamverythankful rumal. the LTIE militants as far as I know to the Minister for giving his reply, regarding have already moved into the key locations in these Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Orissa. the North-Eastern Province. It seems that He said, in his reply. that in bringing the Sri the situation there presages a return to a pre- Lankan Tamil refugees to Tamil Nadu, there 1983 situation' meaning thereby a face to is some problem-he mentioned this.