Eighth Series. Vol. XLIII, No. 5 Wednesday, November 16,1988 Kartika 25, 1910 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Twelfth Session (Eighth Lok Sabha) {Vol. XUI1 contains Nos. 1 to 10) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price i Rs. i 6,00 CONTENTS [Eighth Series, Volume XLIII, Twelfth Session, 1988/1910 (Saka)} No. 5, Wednesday, November 16,1988/ Kartika 25,1910 (Saka) C olumns Oral Answers to Questions: 1-33 •Starred Questions Nos. 82, 86, 87, 90 and 92 Written Answers to Questions: 34-389 Starred Questions Nos. 83 to 85, 88, 89, 91 34-48 and 93 to 101 Unstarred Questions Nos. 682 to 742, 744 to 767, 48-385 769 to 859, 861 to 863 and 865 to 907 Papers Laid on the Table 389-394 Business Advisory Committee — 394-395 Sixty-First Report — Presented Committee on Private Members’ Bills and Resolutions 396-397 Fifty-.seventh Report — Presented Matters Under Rule 377 397-407 (i) Need to clear the proposed submitted by 397-398 M/s. Century Spinning Manufacturing Company Limited for setting up ammonie and Urea project at Paradeep — Shri Lakshman Mallick (ii) Need to allocate sufficient funds for the 398-401 timely completion of Lakshmikanta-pur- Namkhana Railway Line — Prof. M.R. Haider ‘The Sign f marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (ii) C olumns (iii) Demand for reviewing the policy of charging 402-403 high fees from public by the hospitals run by Public Undertakings — Shri Sriballav Panigrahi (iv) Need to continue the ’12-bogie’ train running 403 between Dadar and Virar of Western Railway — Shri Anoopchand Shah (v) Demand for installing a powerful T.V. transmission 404 booster in Chittoor — Shrimat N. P. Jhansi Lakshmi (vi) Need to consider sympathetically the demands 404-405 of the striking officers of public sector undertakings — Shri Saifuddin Chowdhary (vii) Need to provide adequate assistance to Bihar for 405-406 giving relief to the people affected by recent earthquake — Dr. G.S. Rajhans (viii) Need to increase the quote of essential commodities for 406-407 Madhya Pradesh — Shri K. N.Pradhan Discussion Under Rule 193— 407-466 Commission reported to have been paid by M/s. Bofors in the 467-516 Howitzer Gun Deal— S. Buta Singh 407-445 Shri Indrajit Gupta 446-456 Shri H.A. Dora 456-461 Shri Ram Pyare Panika 461-466 Shri Dinesh Goswami 467-474 Choudhary Khurshid Ahmed 474-477 Prof. Saifuddin Soz 477-482 (iii) C olumns Shri V. Kishore Chandra S. Deo 482-487 Shri K.C. Pant 487-516 StatementRe: Recognition to Newly declared State 467 of Palestine— Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA agricultural land nearby. The effluents from dyeing and printing industries in Balotra also have been found to be polluted. Consump­ Wednesday, November 16, 1988/Kartika tion of such water is likely to have ill effects. 25. 1910 (Saka) (b) The action taken by the Government include the following: The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock (i) The Ministry of Environment & [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair] Forests have directed closure of four units in Pali under the Envi­ ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ronment (Protection) Act, 1986. [Translation] (ii) The State Government have decided not to allow any new Water Pollution In Rajasthan dyeing a.id printing unit in Pali, Jodhpur and Balotra. *32. SHRI SHANKAR LAL: Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT AND FOR­ (iii) The Association for dyeing and ESTS be pleased to state: printing units at Pali have been requested to take over the (a) whether the dyeing and printing Combined Effluent Treatment factories in Pali, Jodhpur and Balotra cities in Plant which was set up by the Rajasthan have posed a serious problem of Rajasthan State Industrial De­ water pollution because of discharge of the velopment and Investment Cor­ effluents in the river causing damage to poration (RIICO) for a cluster of thousands of bighas of land and affecting the units. Individual units situated at irrigation wells as well as posing a danger to different places in Pali city or its the life of the people on account of spread of neighbouring places will have to dreadful diseases; and establish pollution control de­ vices on their own. (b) if so, the steps proposed to be taken by Government to solve this problem? SHRI SHANKAR LAL: Mr. Speaker Sir, may I know from the hon. Minister whether it [English] is true that the Rajasthan Government has admitted the fact that in Pali alone, fertility of THE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT thousand bighas of agricultural land has AND FORESTS (SHRI Z.R. ANSARI): (a) been destroyed? The findings of a research Yes, Sir. Water in the wells adjacent to the carried out by Dr. M.M. Mohnot, Head of river bed of Pali and Jodhpur has been found Zoology Department of Jodhpur University, to be polluted and water used from these say that this water could lead to dreaded wells for irrigation purposes has affected the diseases like cancer. In the light of this 3 Oral Answers NOVEMBER 16, 1988 Oral Answers 4 information, why did the Government allow running cost. Now the Government has 750 factories to come up in Pali? The Com­come to the conclusion that the State Indus­ mon Effluent Plant installed over there has tries Association should be asked to run the been non-functional for the past four years. plant. Some steps are, perhaps, being taken The effluent from these factories is dis­ in this direction. charged into the river. Consequently, land and irrigation wells belonging to farmers in SHRI SHANKAR LAL: This treatment 40 villages under Pali and Rohit Panchayatplant has been lying closed for the past four Samities have been destroyed. Does the years. The hon. Minister says that efforts are Government have any scheme for the pay­ being made. Will the Government give a ment of compensation to the affected farm­ fixed date from which the plant would be re­ ers. After the Act came into being in 1975, activated? Half of the 750 factories are cov­ 750 factories have been set up in the State.ered by this Treatment Plant. What is being The Water Pollution Act stipulates that adone for the rest of the factories which are factory can be set up only after obtaining aoperating on agricultural land? What is the N.O.C. So, how could so many factories Government doing for farmers who are in­ have come up? What is the Government curring losses? The Government is the land­ going to do about the Treatment Plant which holder and the farmer is an account-holder is lying closed for the past four years? What who pays rent to the Government. So how is steps Government is taking to provide relief Government going to make good the losses to the farmers? suffered by the farmers and what kind of relief is being provided to them? SHRI Z.R. ANSARI: Sir, it is true that as a result of water pollution in Pali, Jodhpur SHRI BANWARI LAL PUROHIT: That and Balotra, even the ground water hasis a very important question. been coniaminated. Therefore, the Govern­ ment has asked people in certain areas of SHRI Z.R. ANSARI: There are two Pali and Jodhpur not to use that water for questions. The first relates to the Common drinking and irrigation purposes. Thorough Treatment Plant lying closed for four years. study has been conducted to find out the I admit that it is true. The problem with the extent to which the water of the wells has plant is, who is to bear its running cost. been contaminated due to discharge of efflu­ Through the State Government, the Small- ents in the river. Notices have been issued scale Sector Industries Association has making it compulsory to instal pollution been asked to take-up this matter and raise control devices failing which the Govern­ the necessary finances to run the plant. ment would be compelled to close the fac­ Another problem is that industries in Pali are tory under the Environment Protection Act of a particular type and they discharge an passed by Parliament. alkali effluent. If some alkali-based indus­ tries had also been set up, they could have As to the question of the Common used this effluent and the pollution would Tubewell Treatment Plant, it had been set uphave been neutralised to a considerable by RIICO. There are many dyeing and print­extent. ing units in the small-scale Industry sector. In fact they should be called tiny industries. It is So far as its running is concerned, it is not possible for these units to instal a treat­ the responsibility of the industry and not of ment plant on their own. Hence RIICO had the Government. This Effluent Plant was set installed this common treatment plant. But up by RIICO. The Government has to see the question is that the running cost of the whether the plant is controlling pollution plant is exorbitant, at Rs. 35,000 to Rs.properly or not. If there is any pollution in 40,000 per day, and, as such, the indtistriesspite of the functioning of the Effluent Treat­ should share the burden. The plant is lying ment Plant, the only choice before the Gov­ closed as nobody is prepared to bear its ernment is to issue a closure notice to that 5 Oral Answers KARTIKA 25, 1910(SAKA) Oral Answers 6 industrial undertaking. The second question Effluent Treatment Plants. relates to payment of compensation to farm­ ers.