RAJYA SABHA —— REVISED LIST OF BUSINESS

Friday, March 25, 2011 ———

11 A.M. ———

GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

Bills for consideration and passing 1. SHRI to move that the Bill to amend the Right of Children The Right of to Free and Compulsory Education, Act, 2009, be taken into consideration. Children to Free and Compulsory ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. Education (Amendment) Bill, 2010. 2. SHRI to move that the Bill to regulate the import, The Pesticides manufacture, export, sale, transport, distribution, quality and use of pesticides with Management a view to— Bill, 2008. (i) control pests; (ii) ensure availability of quality pesticides; (iii) allow its use only after assessing its efficacy and safety; (iv) minimize the contamination of agricultural commodities by pesticide residues; (v) create awareness among users regarding safe and judicious use of pesticides, and to take necessary measures to continue, restrict or prohibit the use of pesticides on reassessment with a view to prevent its risk on human beings, animals or environment, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, be taken into consideration.

ALSO to move that the Bill be passed.

3. SHRI M. to move that the Bill to provide for the The Commercial constitution of a Commercial Division in the High Courts for adjudicating Division of High commercial disputes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, as Courts passed by and as reported by the Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha, Bill, 2009. be taken into consideration.

ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. ————

©PAPERS TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE

I. Following Ministers to lay papers on the Table entered in the separate list: — 1. SHRI PRANAB MUKHERJEE for Ministry of Finance;

© At 2.30 P.M. 211 2. SHRI for Ministry of Civil Aviation; 3. SHRI KAPIL SIBAL for Ministry of Human Resource Development; 4. SHRI SUBODH KANT SAHAY for Ministry of Tourism; 5. SHRI G.K. VASAN for Ministry of Shipping; 6. SHRI DINSHA J. PATEL for Ministry of Mines; 7. SHRI for Ministry of Environment and Forests; 8. SHRI AJAY MAKEN for Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; 9. PROF. K.V. THOMAS for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; 10. SHRIMATI D. PURANDESHWARI for Ministry of Human Resource Development; 11. SHRI A. SAI PRATHAP for Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises; 12. SHRI DINESH TRIVEDI for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; 13. DR. S. JAGATHRAKSHAKAN for Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; 14. SHRI for Ministry of Communications and Information Technology; 15. SHRI R.P.N. SINGH for Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and 16. SHRI K.C. VENUGOPAL for Ministry of Power.

II. SHRI to lay on the Table, under clause (1) of article 151 of the Constitution, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Reports:- (i) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of for the year ended March, 2010 (No.23 of 2010-11): Union Government (Indirect Taxes - Central Excise - Compliance Audit); (ii) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2010 (No.24 of 2010-11): Union Government (Indirect Taxes - Customs - Compliance Audit)); (iii) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2009 (No. 25 of 2010-11): Union Government (Indirect Taxes - Service Tax - Performance Audit); (iv) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2010 (No.29 of 2010-11): Union Government (Indirect Taxes - Service Tax - Compliance Audit)); (v) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2009 (No.30 of 2010-11): Union Government (Indirect Taxes - Central Excise and Service Tax - Performance Audit of Cenvat Credit Scheme). (vi) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2010 (No.35 of 2010-11): Union Government (Defence Services) (Performance Audit of Defence Estates Management); and (vii) Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March, 2010 (No.36 of 2010-11): Union Government (Direct Taxes) - Taxation of assesses engaged in the Film and Television industry. ———

212 REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

SHRI SATYAVRAT CHATURVEDI SHRI VINAY KATIYAR to lay on the Table, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture (2010-11):- (i) Seventeenth Report on the Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Sixth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on ‘Demands for Grants (2010-11)’ of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Co-operation); (ii) Eighteenth Report on the Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on ‘Demands for Grants (2010-11)’ of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries); (iii) Nineteenth Report on the Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on ‘Demands for Grants (2010-11)’ of Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agricultural Research and Education); and (iv) Twentieth Report on the Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Ninth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on ‘Demands for Grants (2010-11)’ of Ministry of Food Processing Industries. ———

STATEMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

SHRI PRAVEEN RASHTRAPAL SHRI AVTAR SINGH KARIMPURI to lay on the Table, a copy each (in English and Hindi) of the following Statements of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2010-11):- (i) Action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter-I and final replies in respect of recommendations contained in Chapter-V of the Thirty-eighth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2008-2009) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Thirty-second Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2007- 08) on “Voluntary Organizations Engaged in Implementing Integrated Programme for Welfare of Older Persons”; (ii) Action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter-I and final replies in respect of recommendations contained in Chapter-V of the Forty-first Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2008-2009) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Thirty-third Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2007- 08) on ‘Demands for Grants (2008-09)’ of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment; (iii) Action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter-I and final replies in respect of recommendations contained in Chapter-V of the Seventh Report

213 of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2009-10) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Third Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2009-10) on ‘Demands for Grants (2009-10)’ of the Ministry of Minority Affairs; and (iv) Action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in Chapter-I and final replies in respect of recommendations contained in Chapter-V of the Eighth Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2009-10) on Action Taken by Government on the recommendations contained in Second Report of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2009-10) on ‘Demands for Grants (2009-10)’ of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. ———

STATEMENT BY MINISTER

SHRI R.P.N. SINGH to make a statement regarding status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirtieth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on Demands for Grants, for the year 2010-11. ——— (FROM 2.30 P.M. TO 5.00 P.M.) PRIVATE MEMBERS’ LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

Bills for introduction The Constitution 1. SHRI PRABHAT JHA to move for leave to introduce a Bill further to (Amendment) amend the Constitution of India. Bill, 2010 (to amend article ALSO to introduce the Bill. 348).

The Special 2. SHRI PRABHAT JHA to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide Financial for special financial assistance to the State of Madhya Pradesh for the purpose of Assistance to the improving standard of life of the tribals, improving the sex ratio and the State of Madhya condition of education and health of the girls, encouraging the girl students of Pradesh Bill, the families living below poverty line in the urban areas to pursue higher studies, 2010. providing concession to the families living below poverty line belonging to general category in the tuition fees and the level of higher education, and in the

successful completion of various ongoing schemes related with welfare and protection of the landless agricultural labourers and reducing maternal and infant mortality rate.

ALSO to introduce the Bill.

The Unorganised 3. SHRI PRABHAT JHA to move for leave to introduce a Bill to amend the Workers’ Social Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008. Security (Amendment) ALSO to introduce the Bill. Bill, 2010.

214 4. DR. T. SUBBARAMI REDDY to move for leave to introduce a Bill to The Girl Child provide for free and compulsory education to every girl child whose parents are (Free and living below poverty line and for matters connected therewith and incidental Compulsory thereto. Education) Bill, 2010. ALSO to introduce the Bill.

5. SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR to move for leave to introduce a Bill to The Media Council provide for the establishment of a Media Council and certain stringent measures Bill, 2010. to regulate electronic and print media and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

ALSO to introduce the Bill.

6. SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR to move for leave to introduce a Bill to The Public provide for stringent punishment and adequate compensation for non-nuclear Liability for Non- industrial mishaps in the country and for matters connected therewith and Nuclear Industrial incidental thereto. Mishap Bill, 2010.

ALSO to introduce the Bill.

7. SHRI RAJKUMAR DHOOT to move for leave to introduce a Bill to The Homeless provide for the welfare measures for the homeless citizens living on the Pavement Dwellers pavements of roads, under the bridges, flyovers, bus stops, railway yards, in (Welfare) parks or under the open sky in any public place in the Metropolitan Cities and Bill, 2011. other urban areas, to be undertaken by the State and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

ALSO to introduce the Bill.

8. SHRI RAJKUMAR DHOOT to move for leave to introduce a Bill to The Illegal provide for the establishment of an Authority at the national level for Immigrants and identification and deportation of illegal immigrants who have come generally Missing Foreign from the neighbouring countries in India and have settled in various parts of the Nationals country thereby increasing the burden on national resources and also to identify Identification and and deport the foreign nationals who go missing after coming to India after the Deportation expiry of their visa period and many of such immigrants and foreign nationals Authority of India are threat to the national security and for matters connected therewith and Bill, 2011. incidental thereto.

ALSO to introduce the Bill.

9. SHRI RAJKUMAR DHOOT to move for leave to introduce a Bill to The Exploited, provide for the protection of farmers from exploitation by moneylenders, Indebted and middlemen, unscrupulous traders and others, removal of indebtedness, Poverty Stricken remunerative prices for their produce, increasing farm yield by improving Farmers farming practices by modern techniques and allied occupations, extending (Protection, protective umbrella against natural calamities in which crops are lost by way of Prevention of compulsory insurance of crops and livestock and provision of adequate Suicides and compensation, work, food, potable water, fodder, etc. during calamity, extending Welfare) Bill, 2011. compulsory market intervention in case of bumper crops, old age allowance, soft loans from Banks and other institutions and other welfare measures to be undertaken by the state so as to prevent the distressed farmers from committing suicide and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

ALSO to introduce the Bill.

215 The Learning of 10. SHRI M. RAMA JOIS to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide Devanagari Script for compulsory learning of Devanagari Script in schools by every citizen of India (For National and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. Unity) Bill, 2011. ALSO to introduce the Bill.

Bills for consideration and passing

The Constitution 11. DR. ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI to move that the Bill further to (Amendment) amend the Constitution of India, be taken into consideration. Bill, 2008 (to amend articles ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. 217 and 233).

The Constitution 12. SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR to move that the Bill further to (Amendment) amend the Constitution of India, be taken into consideration. Bill, 2007 (to amend articles ALSO to move that the Bill be passed. 153, 156 and 158 and substitution of new article 157).

The Illegal 13. DR. MANOHAR JOSHI to move that the Bill to set up a National Immigrants Commission to identify and deport illegal immigrants in the country and matter (Identification and connected therewith and incidental thereto, be taken into consideration. Deportation) Bill, 2006. ALSO to move that the Bill be passed.

The Prevention of 14. SHRI MOHAN SINGH to move that the Bill to provide for measures to Female stop female infanticide and make it punishable with stringent penalty and for Infanticide matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, be taken into consideration. Bill, 2010. ALSO to move that the Bill be passed.

The Direct 15. SHRI MAHENDRA MOHAN to move that the Bill to check and Marketing regulate the unsolicited direct marketing calls made by banks, non-banking Telephone Calls financial institutions, cellular phone, pharmaceutical and insurance companies (Regulation) and companies manufacturing other high end consumer goods, on the mobile or Bill, 2006. landline telephone of an individual thereby violating the right to privacy, by establishing a Do-not-Call Registry and preventing the companies or individual form disclosing customer’s details to any other company or individual and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, be taken into consideration.

ALSO to move that the Bill be passed.

NEW ; V.K. AGNIHOTRI, March 24, 2011. Secretary-General.

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