Eighth6HULHV9ROXXXIII1R. 14 WednesdayNovember 25, 1987 Agrahayana 4, 1909 6DND /2.6$%+$'(%$7(6 (QJOLVK9HUVLRQ Ninth6HVVLRQ Eighth/RN6DEKD VolXXXIII CRQWDLQV1R1WR2 0 /2.6$%+$6(&5(7$5,$7 1(: '(/+, 3ULFH5V CONTENTS [Eighth Series, Volume, XXXIII, Ninth Session, 191J7/1909 (SaJca)/ No. 146 Wednesday, November 25, 1987/Agrahayana 4, 1909 (Saka) COLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions: t Starred Questions Nos. 270 to 272 and 274 '" 1--30 Written Answers to Questions: Starred Questions Nos. 269,273,275 to 288 ... 30--42 Unstarred Questions Nos. 2736 to 2742, 2744 to 2764, 2766 to 2779, 2800,2802to 2880,2882to 2887 and 2889 to 2910 ... 42--250 . Papers Laid on the table ... 258-264 349-350 Messages from Rajya Sabha ... 264-265 Equal Remuneration (Amendment) Bill, as passed by Rajya Sabha-Laid ... 265 Committee on Private Members' Bills and Resolutions-- ... 265 Forty-fourth Report - presented Matters Under Rule 377-- ·265-271 (i) Need to set up a high powered committee to make constructive and practical suggestions regarding child labour Shri Ganga Ram ... 265 .. 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) (b1 COLUMNS (ii) Need to fix the price of Aminophytin and Theophylin medicines and to recover extra money charged by the Companies Dr Chandra Shekhar Tripathi 266 (iii) Need for the Central Government to meet the entire cost of dredging in Paradip port Shri Lakshman Mallick 267 (iv) Demand for opening a Central School at SHEL. Bhopal Shri K N Pradhan 268 (v) Need to fix norms for utilising funds available for maintenance of irrigation dams Shri Jujhar Singh 269 (vi) Demand for setting up a 100 MW Thermal Plant near Cochin refinery to meet the acute power shortage in Kerala Shri Thampan Thomas 269 (vii) Demand for reconsidering the cess of 3.5 per cent on FOB pnces of pepper- Shn K Mohandas 270 (viii) Need to absorb the loaders-cum-packers earlier working with Air Freight (P) Ud.. in International Airports Authority Ltd Shrimati VyjayanthimaJa Bali 210 Regional Rural Banks (Amendment 8i1J)-- 271-349 Motion to consider Shri C Madhav Reddi 271 Shr; P Namgyt:tl 283 Shri K.S. Rao 286 Shri Basudeb Acharia 291 Shri Ram Nagina Mishra 295 Shri Dharam Pal Singh Mallick 299 (Iii) COLUMNS Shri Thampan Thomas 303 Shrimatl Basavarajeswan 307 Prof Narain Chand Parashar 312 Shri Vijoy Kumar Yadav 317 Shri Vijay N. Patil 320 Shri Umakant Mishra 324 Shri Bhadreswar Tanti 326 Shri V Knshna Rao 329 Shri Chintamanl Jena 331 Shri Ram Narain Singh 335 Shri Virdhl Chander Jain 337 Shrl G M Banatwalla 340 Shn Sriballav Pantgrahl 343 Shn PIYus Tlraky 346 Half-an-Hour Discussion- 350-372 Training of Senior Officers Abroad Dr G S Rajhans 350 Shri P Chtdambaram 354 Shri Basudeb Achana 360 Dr Chlnla Mohan 361 5hri Shantaram Nalk 363 Shri V. Sobhanadreeswara Rao 364 LOK SABHA DEBATES 1 2 LOKSABHA to know certain thIngs and only In one sen- tence the reply has been gIVen This IS the Wednesday, November 25, 1987/ modus operandi of the Government May I Agrahayana 4, 1909 (Saka) know from the han M,nister what prevented him to gIVe me the specifIC reply about the water resources and the realities in the The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock country? The country IS faCing In one part drought and In another part floods We have [Mr Speaker In the Chair] become a bird of prey In the hands ofriver Brahmaputra Every year In that part devas- ORAL AJ\lSWERS TO QUESTIONS tating floods have taken place and the people are suffenng Now I am asking the [English] question Please have patience National Water Policy MR SPEAKER Should I ask the M,nister *270 SHRI BHADRESWAR TANTI Will also to have patience? the Minister of WATER RESOURCES be pleased to state (InterruptIons) (a) whether the National Water Pohcy adopted recently has suggested rationalisa- SHRI BHADRESWARTANTI Sir, It seems as a running commentary IS gOing on tIon of surface and ground water rates. .f (b) If so, wMether due regard to the Inter- SHAt BHAGWAT JHA AZAD It IS prelude est of small and marginal farmers has been to Introduction Sir given In the pohcy and SHRI BHADRESWAR TANTI SIf, keeping (c) If so the salient features of the policy In view the peculiar SituatIon that we faced in In this matter? the country some months back when part of the country had abundance of water and THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MIN- floods ar j the rest of the country was faCing ISTRY OF TEXTILES AND MINISTER OF drought, may I know from the Government .n STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF WATER what way they propose to draw a master plan RE.SOURCES (SHRI RAM NIWAS MIRDHA of the total water resources of the country for (a) to (c) The NatIonal Water Policy has tts proper and balanced use? Secondly. recommended that the Water rates for sur- what steps are the Government taking to see face water and ground water should be that the tremendous resources of the river rationahsed with due regard to the Interests Brahmaputra are not wasted and the same of small and margInal farmers are harnessed for the purpose of "ngalion and power? SHRIBHADRESWARTANTt Sir Iwanted a specific reply from the M,nister, but the SHRI RAM NIWAS MIRDHA Sir, the repbes are alWays cavalier replies I wanted question that the hon Member has tabled is 3 Oral Answers NOVEMBER 25. 1987 0ra1 Answers 4 a very small and specific one 'whether the that we will be in a position to see in what way National Water Policy adopted recently has it could be done suggested rationalisation of surface and ground water' There is no mention of floods SHRI BHADRESWAR TANTI: Sir, the Na- in it. there is no mention of general water tional Water Policy has recommended that policy, there is no mention of Brahmaputra. the water rates for surface and ground water If the hon. Member had asked just what he should be rationalised with due regard to the is asking nciw, I would have given him a long interests of the small and marginal farmers. reply. So, it is not my fault that my reply is But nothing is there Sir. we are very much very specific because a very specific ques- concerned that in the country. particularly in tion was asked and I have said what the Saurashtra. for the last three consecutive Policy says years there has been no water even for drink- ing purposes and in my State. that IS. Assam, MR. SPEAKER· You should have just when you don't want water, you get sufficient telepathic sense. water from nature and when we want water for the farmers for cultivation. we do not get SHAt RAM NIWAS MIADHA: We have water. placed this National Water Policy document on the Table of the House and I will welcome MR SPEAKER You move no-confidence a discussion on this. I am myself thinking of motion against him. bringing a Resolution to discuss this, in which aN matters connected with the water policy SHAI BHADAESWAR TANTI So. Sir, we and the national perspective in respect don't get water and even the farmers do not thereto can be brought about But since get water But there is enough scope for har- some points have been raised right now. I nessing the water In Brahmaputra fiver for ir- would like to say that the problem of drought rigaton and power and In apite of the fact and floods - floods in one area and drought that we could give moral support to the in another area.. (Interruptions) people, nobody IS there to look Into the grievances of the people The Brahmaputra PROF MADHU DANDAVATE Did you Board has been constituted and that Board follow the question? is headless It is without Chairman. There IS no Chairman to head the Board. In the cir- MR SPEAKER You see he IS follOWing cumstances in what way the Government IS the oral one able to execute aU these projects, I do not know It is a topless Board. SHRI RAM NIWAS MIROHA. This ques- tion has been before us for a very long time SHAI RAM NIWAS MIADHA. We have The point is that the water at the flood level given much more attention to the Brah- in certain rivers and in certain areas can be maputra than probably any other fiver In the transported to water -deficient areas We country and Brahmaputra Board which the NNe a national Organisation which is survey- han. Member has mentioned, has a Chair- ing the whole thing and we have divided the man, that is. the Secretary of the North- survey work In two different aspects -one .s Eastern Council IS the Chairman of the what is called Himalayan rivers and the other Brahmaputra Board So, it is not that there is peninsular rivers For the first part of study- is no Chairman he ;s concentrating on peninsular rivers-we are SUrveying all the major river basins and SHAI BHADAESWAA TANTI: Who is the sub-bas'ns to arrave at avallablhty of water Chairman there now ? there and see that by quick link the water can be transported or carned to the peninsular SHRt RAM NIWAS MIRDHA Secretary, fegic:ln8 in the South where water is deficient North-Eastern Council is the Chairman of the ~'des are laking place and It IS only after Brahmaputra Board and the Board is prepar- 5 Oral Answers AGRAf-tAYANA 4.