Tenth Series, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2 Tuesday, February 14, 1995 Magha, 25, 1916 (Saka) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Thirteenth Session (Tenth Lok Sabha) (Vol. XXXVIII contains Nos. 1 to 10) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI PI/ce.· Rs. 50.00 {ORIGiNAl ENGUSH PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED 'IN ENGLISH VERSION AND OR,GINAL HINDI PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN HINDI VERSION WILL BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND NOT THE TRANSLATION THEREOF.] Tuesda.y, February 1l.f.,1995/Magha 25,1916(Saka) ~ol./L1n~ For Read 18/13(from below) SHR! SOBHADREES\-iA...n..A bl:lRI SOBHANLJRUSW4RA 19/2.3 RAO VA.i)DE RAO VADDX 19f1t.(f'rom below) Delete 12.00 hrs. SBR.I MULIJ.PALLY l.f.O/27 .. SHRI MULLAPaLLY RAMAOHANDRAN RAMDHANDRAN 43/25(from below) Dr. LaXMlNARAYAN PANDEY [lr. IAXMINARAYAN PANDEYA 59/8 SIiR! MOY MUKHOPADYAY 154/24( from below) SHRI S.M.LAIJAN PASHA SBRI S. M. LAIJAN BASHA 202/8 SIB! M. V • ":HAN.J.)R.;,.SEKHARA. SHRI M. V • JHAllVR&SHEKEARA }1URTHY MURTHY 212/12 R3S0rrrION RESOLl.,lTION 23/3/7(from below) ~FfB.I P.J.0HAKD IN THE carmI F.J.OBAOKD IN THE ~HAIR 7 JfJAIRJ 250/20 SrFI THE CONTENTS [Tenth series, Vol. XXXVIIi, Thirteenth Session, 1995/1916 (Saka)] No.2, Tuesday, February 14, 19951Magha 25, 1916 (Saka) CoLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions: Starred Question Nos, to 3 1-20 Written Answers to Questions: ·Starred Question Nos, 4 to 20 20-52 Unstarred Question Nos. 1 to 106 and 108 to 163 ';2-182 Re: Misuse of TADA and demand for its Repeal 194-199 Papers Laid on the Table 199-207 Assent to Bills 207 Committee on Agriculture 207 Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Reports - Presented Standing Committee on Finance Tenth Report and Minutes - Presented 207-208 Customs Tariff (Amendment) Bill - Introduced 208 Explanatory Statement Giving Reasons for Immediate Legislation by the Customs Tariff (Amendment) Ordinance- Laid 208 Matters Under Rule 377 208--211 (i) Need for an international airport at Ch'andigarh Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal 208 (ii) Need for electoral reforms Shri Sriballav Panigrahi 208 (iii) Need to open Seamen's Employment Office at Madras Shri P.P. Kaliaperumal 209 (iv) Need to take immediate measures to check the menace of HIV disease by adopting Ayurvedic Medicines Shri K.G. Shivappa 209 (v) Need to implement various Centrally Sponsored Development Project in Uttar Pradesh Shri Surendra Pal Pathak 210 (vi) Need to constitute a separate State of Uttaranchal/Uttarakhand Maj, Gen. (Retd,) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri 210 (vii) Need to introduce one more mail train between Jalpaiguri and Sealdah Shri Subrata Mukherjee 211 (viii) Need to open Navodaya Vidyalaya and a Central School In Dehari-on-Son in Rohtas district of Bihar Shri Ram Prasad Singh 211 -------------- ...__ .. _... The sign + marked above. tile name 01 a MemlJel md/cates that tile QuestIOn was actually asked on the flool 01 the House by that Member. (i) Statutory Resolution Re: Approval of Continuance in Force of Proclamation in Respect of 212-235 Jammu and Kashmir 236-258 Shri S.B. Chavan 212 Shri Jaswant Singh 215 . Shri Nawal Kishore Rai 220 Shri Sudhir Saw ant 222 Shri Syed Masudal Hossain 225 Shri Indrajit Gupta 228 Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri 232 Shri Syed Shahabuddin 236 Shri Sobhanadreeswara Rao Vadde 240 Shri Inder Jit 241 Shri P.C. Thomas 243 Shri Chitta Basu 244 Shri Anna Joshi 245 Shri Pius Tirkey 246 Shri Malli Shankar Aiyar 248 Shri Govinda Chandra Munda 249 Message from Rajya Sabha 235-236 Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill 236 As amended by Rajya Sabha - Laid Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill 255-259 Amendments made by Rajya Sabha Motion to consider Shri S.B. Chavan 258 Clauses 3 and 1 Motion to agree Shri S.B. Chavan 259 Statement by Minister 259-261 Fire at the ONGC Well at Pasarlapudi in Andhra Pradesh Capt. Satish Sharma 259 Statutory Resolution Re: Disapproval of Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Ordinance and Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Bill 261-266 Prof. Rasa Singh Rawat 261 Shri K.P. Singh Deo 262 Shri Rupchand Pal 263 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA were selected at random basis. The Food Corporation 01 India has reported that though the possibility of cross­ infestation in some stray cases on the suliace of the sugar Tuesday, February 14, 1995/Magha, 25, 1916 (Saka) bags stored in the FCI godowns alongwith foodgrains cannot be ruled out, such cross-infestation will not enter the sugar bags because of special packing of imported The Lok Sabha met at sugar with polythene liners and double stitching. Eleven of the Clock SHRI PHOOL CHAND VERMA: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair] outset I would like to congratulate han. Buta Singh on his [Translation] becoming a Minister and that too the Minister of Civil Supplies. I would also like to advise him to keep himself off SHRI GOVINDA CHANDRA MUNDA (Keonjhar): from the scandals like the recent Sugar scandal to main­ Point of information. We are not given a copy of the tain a clean image and set an ideal before the country. papers that are laid on the Table of the House. [English] In his reply, the hon. Minister stated that microbe mix sugar was found in 20 fair price shops in Delhi. The Food MR. SPEAKER: I will explain to you later. Corporation of India constituted a team to look into it and ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS stopped its sale. There is the Government of Bharatiya {Translation] Janata Party in Delhi. Our Minister of Food Swung into action and raided the godowns to stop its supply otherwise Sugar Under pes this microbe mix sugar would still have been selling in *1. SHRI PHOOL CHAND VERMA: Delhi. He has stated about Delhi's 20 shops only. There SHRI NAWAL KISHORE RAI: are many districts in Madhya Pradesh where adultrated sugar is being sold. Have you made any correspondence Will the Minister of CIVIL SUPPLIES, CONSUMER or issued any guidelines to the State Governments for AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION be pleased to immediately stopping its sale? state: (a) Whether sub-standard sugar has been distributed in the recent months through Fair Price Shops in Delhi and SHRI BUTA SINGH: I thank the han. Member for his other parts of the country; well wishes. I would like to tell him that Doctors have advised me not to take sugar. Therefore, I can be totally (b) if so, the details thereof; impartial with regard to sugar. This could be achieved with (e) whether the Government have conducted any the help of both the Food Corporation of India (F.C.!,) and enquiry to ascertain the facts; and the han. Minister of Delhi Government. Both the teams visited shops. We have reached the conclusion that sugar (d) if so, the outcome thereof? in godwons is totally safe for use. Complaints against only THE MINISTER OF CIVIL SUPPLIES, CONSUMER 20 shops were received in Delhi and action has been AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SHRI BUTA taken against them. F.C.!' will replace the contaminated SINGH) (a) to (d). A statement is laid on the Table of the sugar with the fresh one. We have not received such House. complaints from any other State and when we receive one, Statement we will definitely take action. (a) and (b). No, Sir However, the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi has reported that in the SHRI PHOOL CHAND VERMA: My second supplemen­ case of about twenty fair price shops, sugar supplied by tary question is that the team of officers constituted by the the Food Corporation of India (FCI) was found to be F.e.1. said in its report that non-living microbes were found infested. They have reported that infested stocks of sugar on the outerside of the sacks of sugar and not in sugar have not been distributed to the consumers and FCI has conter,t. They were of wheat, rice etc. and had got stuck to been requested to replace such stocks of sugar. No other sugar-bags. This means that the han. Minister indirectly specific complaint of this nature has been reported by any admits that rotten foodgrains are supplied to the people. Is other State GovernmentsiUT Administrations. the Government going to formulate any scheme to prevent supply of rotten rations to the public so that our country­ (c) and (d). A team of officers of the Food Corporation of men are given quality wheat, rice and sugar? India was constituted to investigate the matter. The team found that some of the sugar bags in the FCI godown at Mayapuri had dead insects on the seam of some bags. No SHRI BUTA SINGH: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a specialists team infestation was found inside the imported sugar bags which was deputed to examine sugar alone. It is true that 3 Oral Answers FEBRUARY 14, 199& Oral Answers 4 microbes were found in the store where sugar was stored, sugar is not made available to the consumers of the rural Other foodgrains like wheat, rice where also stored there areas of the country on the occasion of prominent festivals and it is possible that microbes from other foodgrains like HOIi, Diwali, Christmas, Id etc. They have to face many reached the sugar bags and when these bags were hardships and even if it is available, the quantity is so opened, it was necessary to make them free ot these inadequte that it only adds to one's dismay. I would like to microbes. Theretore, F.C.I. has asked not only Delhi ask the Hon'ble Minister whether such discrepancies in Administration but all the States that at the time ot distribution, where the consumer is not even provided the allotment of rations, distribution should be made after fixed quantity of sugar, will be removed and the system making it germ free.