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Thirteenth Series, Vol. XXXVI, No. 14 Thursday, AORost 7, 2003 Sravana 16, 1925 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Thirteenth Session (Thirteenth Lok Sabha) Gazettes & Debates Cnlt Parli~me'1t Li''"''cTV Duilding BuOHl he' r8'"U25 SIoel< 'G4 (Vol. XXXVI cOlltaillS Nos. 11 to 21) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT ~ NEW DEIJHI \ I'rice : R.I'. 50,flO EDITORIAL BOARD G.C. Malhotra Secretary-General Lok Sabha Dr. P.K. Sandhu Joint Secretary Sharda Prasad Principal Chief Editor Kiran Sahni Chief Editor Parmesh Kumar Sharma Senior Editor U.C. Pant Editor 101 iginal English Proceedings included in English Version and Original HlIldi Proceedings included in will be treated as authoritahve and not the translation thereof. CONTENTS [Thirteenth Series, Vol. XXXVI, Thirteenth Session, 200311925 (Sata)) No. 14, Thursday, August 7, 2003lSraYana 16, 1925 (Sake) SUBJECT RE: SUSPENSION OF QUESTION HOUR 1·19 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ·Starred Question Nos. 261·280 19·85 Unstarred Question Nos. 2432·2585 86·290 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 291 DEPARTMENTALLY RELATED STANDING COMMITTEE - A REVIEW... ... 292 DEMANDS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTs-GENERAL National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Amendment) Bill-Introduced ... 292 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 (i) Need to shift oil depot from Ambala Cantt. to some other place in the interest of safety Shri Rattan Lal Kataria ... 293 (ii) Need to provide ..opeway facility at historical and tourist places in Rajasthan Shri Girdhari Lal Bhargava 294 (iii) Need to lay rail line between Oeodhar and Rajmahal via Godda in Jharkhand Shri Pradlp Yadav ... 294 (iv) Need to provide better facilities at Ekambrakuppam railway station, Tamil Nadu Dr. N. Venkataswamy 294 (v) Need to advise NABARD to provide financial help for promotion of horticultural products in East Champaran district, Bihar Shri Radha Mohan Singh 295 (vi) Need for construction of underground and over bridges on Palanpur-Shyamkhali and Jodhpur·Bhllari railway line Shri Haribhai Chaudhary ... 296 (vii) Need to shift Depot of Indian Oil Corporation located near Raxaul railway station to some other place In the Interest of safety Dr. M.P. Jalswal 296 • t CoLUMNS SUBJECT (viii) Need to release funds to the Govemment of Kerala for settlement of landleas tribals In Wayanad Shrl Aamesh Chennlthala 297 (be) Need to provide compensation to the farmers whose crops have been affected due to drought in Kodarma Parliamentary Constituency. Jharkhand Shri Tilakitharl Prasad Singh ... 297 (x) Need to withdraw the move to shift the headquarter of Syndicate Bank from Manlpal to Bangalore Shri Vlnay Kumar Sorake 298 (xi) Need to repair Farakka bridge on river Ganga and also construct second ahemative bridge there Shrl Abul Hasnat Khan ... 298 (xii) Need to retain normal annual allocation of As. 190 crores for rural road connectivity in Andt.ra Pradesh Shrl Aamanaidu Oaggubatl 299 (xiii) Need to expedite construction of Agra-Kanpur highway In Etawah Parliamentary Constituency. U.P. Shrl Aaghuraj Singh Shakya ... 300 (xiv) Need to widen N.H.-S and make It four lane connecting Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu Shrl A. Krlshnuwamy 300 (xv) Need to declare 'Glrlpar' area of Himachal Pradesh as a Scheduled Tribe area Col. (Aeld.) Dr. Ohani Ram Shandil '" 301 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOKSABHA MR. SPEAKER : I have the notice from him also. I am saying that the subject of PAC and the notice of suspension of the Question Hour be taken one by one. Thuflldlly, Augu.' 7, 2003/Sra""1J8 16, 1925 (Salra) SHRI C.N. SINGH : My notice Is at the first place ... (Interruptions). The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock MR. SPEAKER : You know that I can dispose off all notices in a minute but the subject of PAC is very [MR. SPEAKER in the Chaltj important. RE : SUSPENSION OF QUESTION HOUR (Interruptions) (Interruptions) SHRI C.N. SINGH : My lubject il also very Important (Translation) and Is placed at the top In the Hst. SHRI RAMJI LAL SUMAN (Firozabad) : Mr. Speaker, Sir, the ban imposed by the Supreme Court on the strike MR. SPEAKER : It is not a question of being at the by the Govemment employees Is against the spirit of the top. I can give the opportunity to speak to one after another constitution ... (Interruptions) It Is the murder of democracy Member. Right now, I am asking him to speak. ... (Interruptlons) SHRI C.N. SINGH : My tum wiU come after It. [English} MR. SPEAKER : I will also listen to you after this MR. SPEAKER : Please sit down. subject Is completed. (Interruptions) [English) MR. SPEAKER : Friends, I have received notices for suspension of the Question Hour from several Members SHRI N.N. KRISHNADAS (Palghat) : The judgment on different issues. The important issues quoted In the given by the Supreme Court is a disastrous judgment. notices for the suspension of the Question Hour and Adjournment Motions are: the Supreme Court order SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA (Bankura) : It Is an banning strikes, the PAC Report, the Report on the unprecedented one . ... (Interruptlons) Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana, etc. These are some of the issues on which several Members have given MR. SPEAKER : Please lit down. notices to me. SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA : How can they take away You are all aware that today we have decided to take the rights of the Govemment Employees? ... (Interruptions) up the Constitution Amendments, and it has also been decided In the Business Advisory Committee that there SHRI S. JAIPAL REDDY (Mlryalguda) : Mr. Speaker, would not be any 'Zero Hour' today. At 12 o'clock itaeIf, Sir, we are today faced with an anomalous and we are going to take up these Constitution Amendments. unprecedented lituatlon. There are two functions of In the meantime, since I have received notIcee for suspension of the Question Hour, Parliament: One Is law-making, the other Is accountability. It is the right and duty of Parliament to caD the Executive (Interruptions) to account. (Translation) Sir, under Rule 308, the Public Accounts Committee SHRI C.N. SINGH (MachhHshahar) : My notice is first is constituted, and It is the function of the PAC to examine in the list. the accounts. Let me read the Rule. 3 Re : Suspension of AUGUST 7, 2003 Questions Hour 4 "There shall be a Committee on Public Accounts for [English] the examination of accounts showing the appropria- tion of sums granted by the House for the expenditure MR. SPEAKER : I am not going into the report. I just of the Government of India, the annual finance want to know why he wants the Question Hour to be accounts of the Government of India and such other suspended. accounts laid before the House." (Interruptions) Rule 308(2) refers to the role that the PAC has to perform (Translation] in the light of the paras produced by the Comptroller and Auditor General. SHRI KIRTI JHA AZAD (Darbanga) : He Is misleading the House ... (/nterruptions) There is only one Committee, that Is the Public Accounts Committee, which is to pronounce a judgement SHRI SHISRAM SINGH RAVI (BiJnaur) : The Speaker, on the paras of the Comptroller and Auditor General. It Is Sir, he is deviating from the subject, why don't you speak only the Public Accounts Committee which is competent on the subject...(Interruptlons) to modify, agree with or reject even the recommendations or conclusions of the Comptroller and Auditor General of [English] India. That Public Accounts Committee has been denied key documents. I bring to your notice that the Public MR. SPEAKER : I only want to know from Shrl Jalpal Accounts Committee in its report stated that documents RedcJy as to why he desires that the Question Hour should were made available to a retired journalist even before be suspended. they were made available to the Public Accounts Committee. The Public Accounts Committee report says - (Interruptions) I do not know what happened there in the Committee- 'The DR. VIJAY KUMAR MALHOTRA : I would like to say Committee unanimously felt that the Defence Minister Mr. something on this. George Femandes was guilty of breach of privilege.' ... (lnterruptions) MR. SPEAKER Do you want to raise a point of order? (Translation] DR. VIJA Y KUMAR MALHOTRA (South Delhi) : Mr. DR. VIJAY KUMAR MALHOTRA : No, I want to say Speaker, Sir, this allegation is baseless .... (lnterruptions) something. [English] MR. SPEAKER Do you want to raise a point of order? SHRI S. JAIPAL REDDY: This was a recommendation made unanlmoualy by the Public Accounts Committee to DR. VIJAY KUMAR MALHOTRA: Yes. you, Sir. I am not saying anything new. ... (Interruptions) SHRI SHIVRAJ V. PATIL (Latur): Unless you suspend (Translation] the Question Hour, there cannot be a point of order. He should know the rules. SHRI KANTILAL BHURIA : They are the one sumfng the country ... (Interruptions) SHRI S. JAIPAL REDDY: Sir, I am not saying anything unparliamentary. I am not saying anything which is not true SHRI PRABHUNATH SINGH (Maharajganj, Bihar) : to the report. I am trying to interpret the report to the best Mr. Speaker, Sir, Shri Jaipal Reddyjl is speaking In of my Hght, I cannot do It according to their light. irrisponsible language .... (Interruptions) ... (1hterruPtions) 5 Re : Suspension of SRAVANA 16, 1925 (Saka) Questions Hour 6 MR. SPEAKER : Shri Malhotra, you will be allowed SHRI S. JAIPAL REDDY: Let me have my sly. to raise your point of order. But let him complete his point ... (lnterruptions) The Comptroller and Auditor General first. himself stated that the situation Is anomalous beeaOle the observations of the Comptroller and Auditor General have (Interruptions) been made public while the report of the Central Vigilance Commissioner has not been made public• .•. (Interruptions) MR. SPEAKER : We have already decided that the The Comptrolier and Auditor General...(Intenuptlons) Question Hour will be given priority. I want to go to the Question Hour as early as possible.