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Thirteenth Series, Vol. XIX, No. 29 Friday, August 31. 2001 Bhadn 9, 1923 (Saka) LOK SABHA· DEBATES (English Version) Seventh Session (Thirteenth Lok Sabha) Gaz~tt9S & Debates Unit Parliament Library Building Room t-..o. fB-02~ Bloc~ . .. -'G'~ (VoL XIX con"';," Nos. 21 to 29) LOKSABHASECRETAJUAT NEW DELHI Price : Rs. 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD G.C. Malhotra Secretary-General Lok Sabha Dr. P.K. Sandhu Joint Secretary P.C. Chaudhary Principal Chief Editor V.K. Abrol Chief Editor Vandna Trivedi Senior Editor Manisha Tiwari Assistant EditorlEditor [Original English Proceedings included in English Version and Original Hindi Proceedings included in Hindi Version will be treated as authoritative and not the translation thereof). CONTENTS [Thirteenth Series. 1.bI. XIX. SStIfHJth Session. 200111923 (Saka)J No. 29, Friday, August 31, 2001lBhadra 09, 1923 (Saka) SUBJECT ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS "Starred Questions Nos. 561 to 563 1·24 WRI7TEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 564 to 580 25-52 Unstarred Question Nos. 5852-6081 52-288 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 288-305 COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Minutes ... 305 COMMITTEE ON MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT SCHEME Seventh Report 306 STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENERGY Eighteenth Report 306 STATEMENT BY MINISTER Promotion of India-Pakistan relations Shn 'Jaswant Singh 306 BILLS INTRODUCED (1 ) Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Bill 309 (2) Constitution Screduled Castes Orders (Amendment) Bill 310 (3) Communication Convergence Bill ... 316 (4) Companies (Second Amendment) Bill 317 (5) Major Port Trusts (Amendment) Bill 317 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 (i) Need to set up an oil refinery in Rajasthan Prof. Rasa Singh Rawat ... 318 (ii) Need to open more DieseVLPG/Petrol outlets in Saran district of Bihar Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy ... 318 "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. SUBJECT Cot.UMNS (iii) Need.. to provide special economic package to Chhattisgarh for all round development of the State Shri Punnu Lal Mahale ... 319 (iv) Need to provide halt of Navjeewan Express at Sullurpet, Andhra Pradesh Dr. N. Venkataswamy 319 (v) Need to clear the project 'Improvement of Mother and Child Health Programme' of Kamataka seeking financial assistance from the Japanese Intemational Cooperative Agency Shri G. Putta Swamy Gowda ... 320 (vi) Need for construction of a railway 'Iyover at Parvathipuram in Andhra Pradesh Dr. D.V.G. Shankar Rao ... 320 (vii) Need to rehabilitate the Tawaria Scheduled Tribes V to ensure that they don't indulge in anti sociaV criminal activities . Shri Ravi Prakash Verma 321 (viii) Need to set up industries in Bhojpur and adjoining districts in Bihar Shri Ram Prasad Singh ... 321 (ix) Need to ensure early payment of dues to the sugarcane growers in the country particularly in Bihar Shri Ramjivan Singh 321 (x) Need to provide central funds to the Government of U.P. for providing uninterruptecl supply of electricity to Moradabad district Shri Chandra Vijay Singh 322 (XI) Need to ban private T.V. pay channels In the country Shri Prahlad Singh Patel 322 (1&11) Need to accord approval to the Revised Long Term Achon Plan for the KBK districts of Orissa 'Shri Blkram Kashari Ceo 323 (xiii)' Need to ensure early implementation of railway projects In Bikaner, Rajasthan' 'Sl:lri Rameshwar Duel _. 323 'Laid on the Table of the House. &.JeCT Ca.1.UIS (xiv) Need to provide financial assistance to Karnataka Government for anti sea-erosion work in coasIaI areas of the State ·Shri S.D.N.R. Wadiyar ... 323 (xv) Need to declare support price of miHet in Rajasthan "Shri Ram Raghunath Chaudhary 324 (xvi) Need to improve the lot of bidi workers in the country ·Shri A.P. AbduIIakutty 324 (xvii) Need to issue 8 commemorative stamp on the occasion of birth centenary of Shri Yashpal, prominent writer and freedom fighter "Shri Suresh Chandel 324 (xviii) Need 10 implement one rank one pension scheme for Defence personnel ·Shri K.P. Singh Deo 325 (xix) Need to set up an institute of Information Technology in Murshidabad district, Wesl Bengal ·Shri Adhir Chowdhary ". 325 (xx) Need to look into the difficulties being faced by agents of North Malabar Gramin Bank in Kerala ·Shri T. Govindan ... 326 (xxi) Need 10 provide financial asaisIance 10 Govemment of Andhra Pradesh 10 check the spread of Japaneee Encephalitis disease particularty in rural ard88 of the Stale "Dr. Rajeswaramma VukkaIa ... 326 VALEDICTORY REFERENCES Mr. Speaker 338 ShrimaIi Sonia GancIIi _ 340 Shri AlaI Bihari Vajpayee ... 342 NATIONAL SONG PlAYED _. 344 "laid on the Table of the HouSe. LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA Office Name Validated IEC 2 Friday, August 31, z0011BMdra 01, 1823 (SIIka) 1. CaJcutta 7434 2. Mumbai 37701 The Lole Sabhs met at Eleven of the CIocIc 3. Chennai 11322 (MA. SPeAKER in the Chailj 4. Kanpur 2217 ORAl ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 5. CLA, New Delhi 32282 [Translation) 6. Bangalore 5924 Mlauee of facilities .. Export Firma 7. Ahmedabad 4319 + 8. Hyderabad 3301 *561 SHRIMATI SANGEETA KUMARI SINGH DEO : 3091 SHRI A. VENKATESH NAIK : 9. Emakulam - Cochin 10. Bhopal 1113 Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY be pleased to state : 11 . Amritsar 1194 (a) whether the Government are maintaining the 12. Jaipur 4138 State-wise data of export firms availing the benefits of 13. Guwahati 355 various export promotion schemes being run by the Union Government; 14. Varanasi 1096 (b) if so, the details of such export firms, State-wise; 15. Shillong 443 (c) if not, the reasons therefor; 16. Panaji. Goa 405 17. Jammu 532 (d) the manner .in which the Government are ascertaining the information about the misuse of these 18. Pondicherry 231 facilities by export firms in various States; 19. Patna 537 (e) the details of export firms against whom 20. Chandigarh 840 complaints have been received by the Government regarding misuse of export promotion ache,...; 21. Cuttack 246 (f) the action taken by the Government against 22. Rajkot 2334 them; and 23. Vishakapatnam 378 (g) the mechanism evolved by the Government to 24. Moradabad 1401 check misuse of these facilities in future? 25. Ludhiana 3784 (English) 26. Pune 3333 THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF 27. Coimbatore 4411 COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (DR. RAMAN) : (a) to (g) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. 28. Panipat 1364 St8tement 29. Baroda 1029 Madurai 1494 (a) to (c) The Government is having separate importer- 30: exporter code wise data in respect of all the 32 offices 31. Sural 959 of DGFT and 7 offices of Development Commissioner 53 spread over the country. As on date, the total validated 32. Gandhidham Importer Exporter Code holders are 139889. The office 33. SEEPZ, Mumbai 81 wise detail of the same are as follows : to Questions 4 3 Oral Answers AUGUST 31,.2001· 96 penalty of Rs. 68.21 erore was imposed, in 1996-97 2 penalty of Rs. 32 crore, in 1997-98 Rs. 85 crore and in 34. Kandla Free Trade Zone 137 1998-99 penalty of Rs. 20 crore was imposed. During 1995- 96 we have referred 15 cases to CBl.ln 1996-97 ~i different 35. Chennai Export Processing Zone 131 level eight and two cases were referred to CBI and 36. Cochin Export Processing Zone 83 debarment order was passed. In 1995.96, 37 cases, in 1996-97, 66 cases, in 1997-98, 60 cases in 1998-99, 7 37. Falta Export Processing Zone 53 cases and in 1999-2000, 3 cases were given. Action is 38. Noida Export Processing Zone 117 taken on the basis of the complaint received in this regard. A huge network of DGFT has been esta'blished wherein 39. Vlsakhapatnam Export Processing Zone 26 32 offices are functioning, 7 Development commissioners are there and as on date approximately 1,39,879 persons Total: 139889 have been registered for export and import a.od are working (d) to (g) Each of the export promotion schemes is through it. After registration, the exemption given to them being implemented through the mechanism of licence and the exemption given to exporters under Export Promotion Scheme is closely monitored. The case wise issued under Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) monitoring is being done in 32 DGFT offices which are Act, 1992. Each licence contains various conditions spread all over the country. These are gillen exemption from including fulfillment of export obligation. In case of violation duty while importing input and it is obligatory for them to of any condition, suitable action is taken by the respective export the goods accordingly against the import of inputs. licensing authority against the licence holder though quasi- It is almost fixed. On the basis of figures given by them. judicial proceedings leading to imposition of fiscal penalty it is calculated as per the standard input and output norms, and denial of further licences to such licence holder. More thus final record is maintained. Separate aelion is taken than 100000 such licences are issued every year and each if misuse is found. The method of action depends on such licence has to be accounted for at the time of closure seriousness of the case. I would like to tell that the before the Customs and DGFT authorities. In addition to Department is taking action in this regard continuously on such cases of misuse of the scheme, cases of fraud, the basis of case... (lnterruptions) forgery, misdeclaration etc. are also looked into by the investigating agencies like the Directorate of Revenue MR. SPEAKER : The hon'ble Member has asked as Intelligence and others. to whether the .Government is giving some incentives .to the good exporters or not? SHRIMATI SANGEETA KUMAR I SINGH DEO : Sir, I am sorry to say that the reply of the hon.