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H S1 ~ (1)t; ~ ~ ~ t (/) !02:: .... i Q 0 f; ::::s Ii ~ " @ 0 w. ~ e< CONTENTS {Tenth Series, Vol. XXIX, Ninth'Session, 1994/1915 (Saka)} No. 11, Tuesday, March 8, 1994/Phalguna 17, 1915 (Saka) COLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions: 'Starred Questions Nos.: 181 to 186 and 188 1-55 Writt.. Answers to Questions: "",rred Questions Nos.: 187,189 to 200 55-77 Aarred Questions Nos.: 1989 to 1993, 1996 to 2012, 77-388 2014 to 2101,2103 to 2151, 2153 to 2217. and 2219 to 2227 Motion of Thanks on the President' Address---Contd. 389-425 Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao 389 Re: Atrocities on Women 425-452 Papers Laid on the Table 453-461 Public Accounts Committee 461 Sixty-Fourth Report-Presented Matters Under Rule 377 462-468 (i) Need to Declare Solapur-Vadodara and Aurangabad-Hyderabad Roads in Maharashtra as National Highways Shri Ankushrao Raosaheb Tope 462 (ii) Need to Construct a road over-bridge at Khireni Phatak and a foot overbridge at Mudwara Railway crossing at Katni in Madhya Pradesh Shri Shravan Kumar Patel 463 (iii) Need to lay Double Rail line between Ghaziabad and Moradabad Section Shri Chetan P.S. Chauhan 464 (iv) Need to declare Kampearganj-Mehdawal- Tanda-Khalilabad-Akbarpur and BerhalganJ- T akramjan roads in Uttar Pradesh as National Highways Shri Astbhuja Prasad Shukla 465 • The sign + marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (i) (ii) COLUMNS (v) Need for early announcement of 'Dr. Ambedkar Puraskar' Shri Devendra Prasad Yadav 466 (vi) Need to allocate adequate funds for restoration of Kakinada-Kotapalli Railway line in Andhra Pradesh Shri G.M.C. Balayogi 466 (vii) Need to take up gauge conversion programme between Ajmer, Chittorgarh and Udaipur Shri Shiv Charan Mathur 467 Railway Budget. 1994-95-General Discussion 469-500. Demand for Grants on Account (Railways). 1994-95 516--550. And 556--736 Supplementary Demands for Grants (Railways). 1993-94-Contd. Shri Sharad Dighe 469 Dr. S.P. Yadav 479 Shri Basudeb Acharia 487 Shri P.G. Narayanan 520 Shri R. Jeevarathinam 523 Shri Shreesh Chandra Dikshit 532 Shri Chhedi Paswan 543 Shri Kamla Mishra Madhukar 556 Shri G.M.C. Balayogi 559 Shri V.S. Vijayaraghavan 563 Shri Dau Dayal Joshi 571 Shri Sivaji Patnaik 578 Shri Subash Chandra Nayak 583 Shri Suraj Mandai 589 Kumari Uma Bharti 595 Shrimati Saroj Dubey 599 Shri Bheru Lal Meena 609 Shri S. Sivaraman 613 Shri Rajendra Kumar Sharma 616 (iii) CoLUMNS Shri Narain Singh Chaudhri 622 Shrimati Geeta Mukherjee 626 Dr. Rajagopalan Sridharan. 630 Shri Ram Kripal Yadav 634 Shri Sant Ram Singla 639 Shrimati Malini Bhattacharya 646 Shri Astbhuja Prasad Shukla 652 Shri Ankushrao Raosaheb Tope 657 Shri Ram Prasad Singh 663 Kumari Frida T opno 668 Shrimati Bhavana Chikhlia 671 Shri Kodikkunil Suresh 674 Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria 680 Shri Syed Masudal Hossain 681 Shri Gunvant Rambhau Sarode 684 Shri A. Venkata Reddy 687 Shri Gaya Prasad Kori 690 Shri Oscar Femandes 693 Shri Rampal Singh 695 Shri Lall Babu Rai 699 Dr. R. Mallu 702 Shri Rajendra Agnihotri 705 Shri Mohammed Ali Ashraf Fatmi 709 Dr. Laxminarayan Pandeya 713 Shri A.G.S. Ram Babu 719 Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar 722 Shri K.H. Muniyappa 727 Shri V. Krishna Rao 729 Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan 731 (iv) CoLUMNS Statement by Minister 500-501 Disconnection of power supply to NTC Mill in Bombay Shri G. Venkat Swamy 500 Re: Statement by Minister of State of the 501-511, Ministry of Textiles on Disconnection 550-556 of Power Supply to NTC Mills in Bombay Statement by Minister 514-516 Derailment of Goods Train on Kalyan Lonavala Section of Central Railway on 7.3.94 Shri C.K. Jaffer Sharief 514 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA (b) the achievements made in this regard; Tuesday, March 8, 1994/ (c) the financial assistance provided Phalguna, 17, 1915 (Saka) therefor by each foreign country, project- wise; and (d) the other countries which have shown their willingness to provide The Lok Sabha met at assistance alongwith the amount Eleven of the Clock proposed? [English] [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair] THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AND FORESTS (SHRI KAMAL NATH): (a) to (c). Assistance in the environmental sector is received from several [Trans/ation] bilateral/multilateral sources. Canada, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Japan, the United States of Aid for Environment and Forests America and Norway are among the countries with whose assistance projects have been taken up. Likewise, the World + *181. SHRI RAJENDRA Bank and other multilateral agencies have AGNIHOTRI: funded both on loan and grant terms, major projects in the environmental and SHRIMATI DIPIKA H. forestry sectors. The progress with regard TOPIWALA: to the implementation of sanctioned projects is closely monitored. A Statement Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT giving details of on-going externally aided p,ND FORESTS be pleased to state: projects is laid on the Table of the House. (a) the details of externally - .aided (d) The seeking of external projects undertaken for improvement of assistance for projects related to environment and development of forests environment and forestry is a continuing in the country; process. 3 Oral Answers MARC}i 8, 1994 Oral Answers 4 STATEMENT List of Extemaliy Aided On-going Projects SI. Name of Bilateral Size No. Project Partner 2 3 4 1. Ford Foundation Projects. Ford Foundation US$ 50,000 2. Forestry" Research Support FDRSPA US$ 56,000 Programme for Asia and Pacific Project (FDRSPA). 3. Neem Project FAD US$ 5,000 4. Demonstration and Training FAD US$ 212,500 in Primary Processing of Small Diameter Logs. 5. Strengthening & Developing UNDP US$2.56 mil. Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education (ICFRE). 6. Ecology & Population Dynamics USIF US$ 60,584 of the Nilgiri Tahr. 7. Conservation Ecology of the USIF Rs. 3.89 lakhs. Great Pied Hornbill. 8. Grasslands of Indian Plains. USIF RS.54.64 lakhs. 9. Ecology of Large USIF Rs.9.87Iakhs Carnivores at Nagarhole. 10. Indian Giant Squirrel USIF Rs.32.23 lakhs 11. Conservation of Birds of Prey. USIF As. 49.8 lakhs. 12. Ecology of Indian Elephant. USIF As. 50.42 lakhs. 13. Endangered Tortoise and USIF As. 13.55 lakhs. Freshwater Turtle Breeding. 14. Stengthening of Wildlife Management UNDP As. 4.03 crores. and Eco-development Planning Capabilities. 15. Development of Wildlife Institute USIF AS.l.07 crores of India. 16. Indian Stock US IF As. 26.46 lakhs. 17. Indian Primates USIF As. 1.74 crores. 5 Oral Answers PHALGUNA 17', 1915 (SAKA) Oral Answers 6 2 3 4 18. EPTRI, Hyderabad. Sweden SEK 15 mill. 19. Training Programme on Modelling Norway NOK 1.05 mill. and Surveillance of Movement of Pollutants. 20. Orissa Environmental Programme. Norway NOK40 million 21. Environmental Master Plan, Denmark Rs. 12 crores. South Canara District. 22. Bio-monitoring of Rivers Netherlands DFL 2.6 lakhs. Yamuna, Cheliar and Tugabhadra. 23. Automatic Water Quality Netherlands DFL 5 million. l\Aonitoring 24. Industrial Counselling. Netherlands DFL 5 million. 25. Mysore Paper Mills. Netherlands DFL 5 million. 26. Pollution Perception Studies. Netherlands DFL 2 million. 27. Strengthening of Kerala State Netherlands DFL 6 million. Pollution Control Board. 28. Strengthening of Central Pollution Germany OM 5.5 million. Control Board and State Pollution Control Boards of Punjab, Rajasthan, M.P., Karnataka, Assam, Haryana, Gujarat and Bihar. 29. Environmental Training Institute Denmark OM. 9.96 million. in Tamil Nadu. 30. Environmental Training Institute Denmark DM.9.96 million in Kamataka. 31. Training of Trainers in UNIDO US$49,OOO Environmental Audit. 32. Establishment and Upgrading UNIDO US$. 310,000 of Industrial Units. 33. Environmental Decision Support UNIDO US$ 300,000 System for Atmospheric Air Pollution Control. 34. Industrial Pollution Control World Bank US$155 mill. Project. 35. Integrated Sanitation Project, Netherlands. Rs. 21.59 crores Jajmau (11 schemes). 7 Oral Answers MARCH 8, 1994 Oral Answers 8 2 3 4 36. Integrated Sanitation Project, Netherlands. Rs. 13.89 crores. Mirzapur (9 schemes). 37. Pollution Control Works, U.P. World Bank. Rs. 30.5 crores (loan). 38. Pollution Control Works, W.B. World Bank. Rs. 12.27 crores (loan). 39. Pollution Abatement Works Japan (OECF) Yen. 17.77 bill. (loan). for River Yamuna. Projects Approved Under Global Environment Facility 40. Alternate Energy Project. World Bank US$ 30 million. 41. Optimising Development of Small UNDP US$ 7.S million. Hydel Resources in the Hilly Regions of India. 42. Development of High Rate Bio- UNDP US$ 5.4 million. methanalion Processes as a means of reducing GHG emissions.