Parliamentary Bulletin

RAJYA SABHA Parliamentary Bulletin

PART-II

Nos.: 52369-52371] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

No. 52369 Committee Section (MPLADS)

Flash floods / floods / landslides in Jammu & Kashmir and provision under MPLADS Guidelines for recommending permissible works.

Government of India has informed that the calamity caused by the recent flash floods / floods / landslides in Jammu & Kashmir is a ‘Calamity of severe nature’ for all practical purposes. 2 Attention of Members is drawn towards Para 2.8 of the Guidelines on MPLAD Scheme, as recently amended, which inter-alia provides that in the event of ‘calamity of severe nature’ in any part of the country, an MP can recommend works up to a maximum of ` 1 crore for the affected district. The funds in this regard will be released by the District Authority of Nodal district of the MP concerned to the District Authority of the affected district to get permissible works done. The Works Completion Report, Audit Certificate and Utilization Certificate for such works and funds will be provided by the District Authority of the affected districts directly to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for overall reconciliation. No separate UC/AC/Completion Report in respect of the transferred amount would be required from the Nodal District authority in this regard while processing release of subsequent installment of MPLADS funds. ______2

No. 52370 Committee Co-ordination Section

Re-constitution of the Standing Committees (House Committees) of Rajya Sabha

The Standing Committees (House Committees) of Rajya Sabha have been re-constituted by the Chairman, Rajya Sabha w.e.f. the 15th September, 2014, as follows:-

Business Advisory Committee

1. Shri Satyavrat Chaturvedi 2. Shri Narendra Kumar Kashyap 3. Prof. P. J. Kurien 4. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda 5. Dr. E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan 6. Shri Derek O’Brien 7. Shri Sharad Pawar 8. Shri Rajeev Shukla 9. Shri Bhupender Yadav 10. Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav

(Hon'ble Chairman, Rajya Sabha is the Chairman of the Committee) Committee of Privileges

1. Shri Naresh Gujral 2. Shrimati Kanimozhi 3. Shri Vinay Katiyar 4. Prof. P. J. Kurien 5. Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa 6. Shri Rajpal Singh Saini 7. Shri Digvijaya Singh 8. Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz 9. Shri K.C. Tyagi 10. Shri Sitaram Yechury

(Hon'ble Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha is the Chairman of the Committee)

Committee on Rules

1. Shri Gulam Rasool Balyawi 2. Shri Anil Desai 3. Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa 4. Dr. Ashok S. Ganguly 5. Prof. P. J. Kurien 6. Shri A. Navaneethakrishnan 7. Shri Basawaraj Patil 8. Shri Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu 9. Shri Praveen Rashtrapal 10. Shri Sukhendu Sekhar Roy 11. Dr. Vijaylaxmi Sadho 12. Shri Mohammad Shafi 13. Shri Bhupinder Singh 14. Shri Devender Goud T. 15. Shri Khekiho Zhimomi

(Hon'ble Chairman, Rajya Sabha is the Chairman of the Committee)

Committee on Subordinate Legislation

1. Shri M.P. Achuthan 2. Shri Ali Anwar Ansari 3. Shri Shadi Lal Batra 4. Prof. Jogen Chowdhury 5. Shri Kalpataru Das 6. Prof. M. V. Rajeev Gowda 7. Shri S. Muthukaruppan 8. Shri K. Parasaran 9. Dr. K.P. Ramalingam 10. Dr. K. Keshava Rao 11. Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy 12. Shri Arvind Kumar Singh 13. Shri Shankarbhai N. Vegad 14. Shri Bhupender Yadav 15. Vacant

(Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy has been appointed to be the Chairman of the Committee) 4

Committee on Petitions

1. Shri Narendra Budania 2. Shri Bhubaneswar Kalita 3. Shri A. Navaneethakrishnan 4. Shri Ambeth Rajan 5. Shri P. Rajeeve 6. Shri Rangasayee Ramakrishna 7. Shri V. Hanumantha Rao 8. Shri A.V. Swamy 9. Shri Alok Tiwari 10. Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia

(Shri Bhubaneswar Kalita has been appointed to be the Chairman of the Committee) Committee on Government Assurances

1. Shri Husain Dalwai 2. Shri A. U. Singh Deo 3. Shri Md. Nadimul Haque 4. Shri Avinash Rai Khanna 5. Dr. R. Lakshmanan 6. Shri Satish Chandra Misra 7. Shri Madhusudan Mistry 8. Shri Dilipbhai Pandya 9. Shrimati Viplove Thakur 10. Shri Pavan Kumar Varma (Shri Satish Chandra Misra has been appointed to be the Chairman of the Committee)

Committee on Papers Laid on the Table

1. Shri Joy Abraham 2. Shri Vivek Gupta 3. Shri Santiuse Kujur 4. Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar 5. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi 6. Shri Ranbir Singh Parjapati 7. Shri Garikapati Mohan Rao 8. Shri Nand Kumar Sai 9. Shri Ashk Ali Tak 10. Shri K.T.S. Tulsi (Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has been appointed to be the Chairman of the Committee) House Committee

1. Shri V.P. Singh Badnore 2. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury 3. Shri Prem Chand Gupta 4. Shri B. K. Hariprasad 5. Shri Harivansh 6. Shri Prabhat Jha 7. Shri Jugul Kishore 8. Shri Praful Patel 9. Shri T.K. Rangarajan 10. Shri Pramod Tiwari

(Shri V.P. Singh Badnore has been appointed to be the Chairman of the Committee) ______

No. 52371 Legislative Section

Distribution of copies of the Annual Reports, Outcome Budgets of various Ministries/Departments and CAG Reports

Members are informed that the Annual Reports, Outcome Budgets of various Ministries/Departments and Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General laid on the Table of the House during the 232nd Session, are available for distribution to the Members of Rajya Sabha.

2. Members are requested to collect their copies from the Publications Counter, Rajya Sabha.

SHUMSHER K. SHERIFF, Secretary-General