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DEBATES (English Ve~~Ion) £i;lthSeries, Vol. XXXIII, No. 13 Tueaday,November24,1987 Agrahayana 3, 1909 (Saka) LOKSABHA..'~ ...·DEBATES (English Ve~~ion) Ninth Session .(Eighth Lok Sabha) (Vol. XXXIII contains Nos. II 1020) LOK SABIIA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI ""< ;:, • Price: Rs. 6.00 CONTIN.TS (fiBhth Series, Volume JODCIII, Nnth Session, 1987/1909 (Saka)] No.13, Tuesday, November 24, 1987/~ 3, 1909 ($aka) COWMNS Oral AnsMrs to Questions: • Starred Questions Nos. 249 to 251 and 255 to 258 ... 1-27 Short Notice Question No.1 ... 27-29 Written AnsweIs to Questions: Starred Questions Nos. 248, 252 to 254 and 259 to 267 ... 30--50 Unstaned Questions Nos. 2502 to 2518, 2520 to 2541,2643 to 2702, 2704 to 2721 and 2723 to 2735 ... 50--314 Papers Laid on the Table ... 321-324 Business Advisory Committee ... 325 Forty-fourth Report - adopted Matters Under Rule 377- 325-330 (i) Need to set up rubber based industries in Kanyalcumari Shri N. Dennis ... 325 (ii) Need to reduce the air fare by Air India in CuIf-sector Shri V.s. Vijayaraghavan ... 326 (iii) Demand for providing financial assistance for desilting Chillca lake of Orissa and developing it ~ a tourist centre Shri Brajarnohan Mohanty ... 326 iv) Need to fill up the vacancies reserved for Ex-serviceman particularty in 8.S.F. by amending the rules suitably ShriAjayMushran ... 327 • The sip + marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (;) (ii) COLUMNS (v) Demand for more Central assistance to Orissa in a view of recent damap by cydone and rains Shri Japnnath Pattnaik ••. 327 (vi) Need to sandion special ad hoc grants for the development of Konlcan region of Maharashtra Shri Hussain DaIwai ••• 328 (vii) Need to convert the existing unmanned railway crossing gate at Jatlakanupur village in Nellore district, of Andhra Pradesh into a manned level aossing Shri P. Penchalliah ... 329 (viii) Need to complete the Geruknunkh Project to control floods and supply power to Assam Shri CoIcuI Sailcia ... 329 Constitution (Fifty-sixth Amendment BilI)- ... 330-471 Motion to consider- Shri Chintamani Panigrahi .•. 330 Shri Ie. Ramachandra Reddy ... 332 Shri Naresh Chandra ChabJrvedi ... 335 Shri Somnath Chatterjee ... 344 Shri ZainuI Basher ... 349 Shri V.S. Krishna lyer ••. 356 Shri BaIkavi Bairasi .•• 359 Shri P. KoIandaivelu .•. 364 Shri Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh ... 370 Shrimati Ceeta Mukherjee ..• 372 Shri Bhadreswer Tanti .•• 373 Shri C. Janp Reddy .•. 375 Prof. Saifuddin Soz ••• 376 Shri G.M. BanatwaIIa ••• 378 (Iii) COLUMNS Clauses 2, 3 and 1 ... 456 MotlOil to pass. as arnended-· ... 456 Shri Chintamani Panigrahi ... 456 Discussion Re. Situation arising out of natural calamities with particular reference to drought, ftoods and cyclone- ... 471-512 Shri Dinesh Goswami ... 472 Shri M. Rapuma Reddy ... 482 Shri Manoj Pandey ... 488 Shrimati Prabhawati Gupta ... 492 Shri Thampan Thonaas ... 497 Shri Somnath Rath ... 504 Shri Madan Pandey ... 508 Shri Vijoy Kumar Yadav ... 511 WK SABRA DEBATES 1 2 , LOKSABHA May I know from the hon. Minister whether the criterion for detennination of Tuesday, November 24, 1987/ABrahayana industrially backward areas, that is, in terms 3, 1909 (Saka) of blocks or taluks could be taken as a unit instead of district for industrial backward- The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of ness. the Oock SHRI M. ARU~ACHALAM: I accept the [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair] hon. Member'S views that the policy we have followed earlier is a little outdated. An inter- ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ministenal committee was appointed under the chairmanship of the Planning Commis- [English] sion secretary. The committee has submitted its report to the Government. The Govern· Revised guidelines for Industrially ment is still considering it. The committee backward areas has gone in detail into the ecological aspect referred to by our fnend. I hope that the Gov .. *249. SHRI N. DENNIS: Will the Mimster ernment will be taking a decision shortly on of INDUSTRY be pleased to state: that and other things. (a) whether Government have formu- PROF. N. C. RANCA: When that report lated revised gUidelines for industrtally back- would be available? ward areas; and THE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY (SHRI J. (b) if so, the details thereof? VENGAL RAO): Let me answer Rangaji's question. THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE DE- PARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP- MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER: You can add any- MENT IN THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY thing to what your colleague, the Minister (SHRI M. ARUNACHAlAM): (a) and (b). The has already said In reply to Mr. Dennis's report of the anter-minlStenal committee on question. revision of guidelines for industrially back- ward areas is under consideration of the SHRI J. VENCAl RAO: I will certainly add. Government. SHRI C. C. SWELL: If a menlbershoots up SHRI N. DENNIS: The cntenon adopted a question from hiS seat by way of a casual for deterrmnat.on of backward areas is out- remark, will it entail answer from the minis- dated;.twasadoptcd in the year 1969.Now, ter? If it matches a precedent laid down, it the aaijal Committee has submitted its report should be carried out. We will go by that. on this subject and it is reported that there IS no consensus amved at on the environ- mental aspects. I would like to know whether MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER: There is no prece- the other aspects of industrial backwardness dent like that. in regard to the backward areas would be taken Into consideration at the earliest as any SHRI C. C. SWELL: No, no. the hone delay in the decision or postponement would Minister is going to answer. I am on a ~a~se difficulties. precedent. 3 Oral Answers NOVEMBER 24, 1987 4 MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER: No. There is no cpuntry. He has also pointed out about the precedent. It is not a precedent. I told the Public Sector Undertakings. Recently, I inau- hone Minister not to answer. Rangaji's ques- gurated one Public Sector Unit in Madras tion. which has been constructed by MIs. Andrew Yule's. I inaugurated it. Already there is a lot SHRI G. G. SWEll: We want it to be of Central Government investment made in accepted as a precedent. We can do that. Tamil Nadu. The other question was about MR.DEPUlY SPEAKER: I am not creating the Inter-Ministerial Committee. The Cov- any precedent like that. I only told the minis- ernment of India appointed the commission ter that he can add to the answer given to the under Shri Baijal, Secretary, Planning Com- question of Mr. Dennis. I am not allowing Mr. mission . The Baijal Committee report was Rangaji's question. submitted to the Government. It is under active consideration of the Government. I SHRI C. C. SWEll: We shall be happy think in the new year-in 1988- January or with it. February, we will take a decision to imple- ment the recommendations of that commit- SHRI J. VENGAl RAO: We would not like tee. to make you happy about this. PROF. N. C. RANCA: Sir, I am sorry that I SHRI C. C. SWELL: You cannot make me unnecessarily created that problem earlier. I happy. I know! would like to know as to how soon the con- sideration of the report would be over and SHRI N. DENNIS: Some districts which when that would be placed on the Table are classified as industrially backward, re- of this House; whether Government would main so without industrial establishments for see that those industries which have a number of years. The policy of providing already been started in the then classified fiscal and physicalencentives did not succeed- backward areas would not be, in any way, fully. The policy of the Government regarding put to disadvantageous position by the dispersal of industries away from metropoli- recommendations made by this committee. tan cities and towns also did not materialise. So, may I know from the hone Minister what SHRIJ. VENGALRAO: Regarding subsidy, concrete steps the Government is going to the industries which have been located in the take up for the emergence of industrial estab- backward areas will not get any subsidy after lishments in the backward areas? ~ per the 31 st January 1988 and we are removing that present policy of dispersal of industries, in- subsidy. For the dispersal of industries to dustries continue to emerge in towns and various parts of the backward areas in the cities which is creating problems of environ- whole of the country, th~ Baijal Committee ment and also congestion. I would also like to has recommended nearly 150 Crowth Cen- put one more question I would also like to ters. N ow that is before the Cabinet. After know whether it is a fact that in some of the that, I will place it on the Table of the House. states like Tamil Nadu, Public Sector indus- tries have not been started for the past 20 SHRI ANANDA GAJAPATHI RAJU: Mr. years or so; whether the Government would Deputy Speaker Sir, I would like to know consider to establish public sector industries from the hone Minister whether the employ- in such States to give away the disparities and ment criteria in jobs that are created will be imbalances that exist in our country. taken into consideration while deciding cer- tain areas as backward areas. Secondly, re- SH RI J. VENGAl RAO: I would like to add sarding the part (b) of the question, I \\'ould to my colleague's answer only. The last ques- like to know whether my District-Vipytl- tion which he asked was about Tamil Nadu. nagaram--in view of its huge disadvanta- Tamil Nadu IS one of the developed states in geous pOSition as far as industry is con- the country.
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