""f1urteenth Serie!', Vol. IV, No. 11 Monday. August 13. 1004 Bhadra 1. 1916 (SlIka) LOK SABRA DEBATES (English Version) Second Session (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) Gazettes & Debates Unit Parliament Library Building Roor.1 t-.10. FB-025 Si03k 'G' Aoc. No ............~ , ........... Dated .••.•• J.. .'t.) .~. !l.r.:. ... (Vol. IV contains Nos. 21 to 24) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price : Rs. 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD G.C. Malhotra Secretary-General Lok Sabha Anand B. Kulkaml Joint Secretary Sharda Prasad Principal Chief Editor Kiran Sahni Chief Editor Parmesh Kumar Sharma Senior Editor Sarita Nagpal Editor (ORIGINAL ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN ENGLISH VERSION AND ORIGINAl HiNDI PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN HINDI VERSION WilL BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND. NOT THE TRANSLAnON THEREOF.] CONTENTS {Fourteenth Series, Vol. IV, Second Session, 200411926 (Saka)) No. 21. Monday. August 23, 20041Bhlldre 1, 1926 (SIIu) SUBJECT CoLUMNS WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 382-401 4-61 Unstarred Question Nos. 359&-3827 ..................................................................................................... 61-426 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE .................................................................................................................... 432-437 STANDING COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY First to Fourth Reports ............................................................................................................................. 437 STANDING COMMITIEE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT First and Second Reports ........................................................................................................................ STANDING COMMITIEE ON WATER RESOURCES First Reports .............................................................................................................................................. 438 STANDING COMMITIEE ON HOME AFFAIRS One Hundred·Ninth and One Hundred·Tenth Reporbt ......................................................................... 438-439 STATEMENT CORRECTING REPLY TO STARRED QUESTION NO. 84 DATED 12.7.2004 REGARDING Scarcity of .water and reasons for delay In regard thereto ................................................................ 441-443 Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi ..................................................................................................... 442 CALLING ATIENTION TO MATIER OF URGENT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE Situation arising out of fan in the prices of Rubber and steps taken by the Government in regard thereto ....................................................................................................................................... 443-444 Shri Suresh Kurup ................................................................................................................... 443 Shri Kamal Nath ....................................................................................................................... 443-444 CUSTOMS AND CENTRAL EXCISE LAWS (REPEAL) BILL ................................................................... .. 445 MATIERS UNDER RULE 377 ....................................................................................................................... 445-452 (i) Need to look into the interests of "Jarawas" in Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shri Manoranjan Bhakta ..................................................................................................... 445-446 (ii) Need to regularlse the unauthorlaed colonies in Delhi Shri Sapn Kumar ............................................................................................................... 446 (ii) SUB.JECT COLUMNS (iii) Need to provide for stoppage of Ashram Express at Rajgam railway station in Rajasthan Dr. Karan Singh Yadav ..................................................................................................... 446-447 (iv) Need to provide better salaries and facilities to members of the Village Defence Committees in Jammu and Kashmir Chaudhary Lal Singh .......................................................................................................... 447 (v) Need to provide funds to the newly formed swgar co-operative in Kalahandi district of Orissa to take over and run the closed sugar mill at village Goudsargiguda Shri Bikram Keshari Deo .................................................................................................... 447-448 (vi) Need to improve the functioning of B.S.N.l.'s mobile service in Betul and Harda districts in Madhya Pradesh Shri Vijay Kumar Khandelwal ............................................................................................ (vii) Need to release adequate funds for enabling early completion of the work on Maxi-Indore- Dahod-G'odhra railway line Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan .................................................................................................. 448--449 (vliii) Need to provide soft loans to the weaker sections for undertaking employment generation programmes Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya ..................................................................................................... 449 (ix) Need to ensure uniformity in implementation of Integrated Child Development Scheme in the country and enhancing the honorarium payable to Anganwadi workers Shrimati P. Satheedevi ....................................................................................................... 449-450 (x) Need to promote tourism in Gonda district of U.P. with a view to generate additional employment tor the local youths Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh .................................................................................................... 450 (xi) Need for construction of bridge over river Ganga in Buxar, U.P. , Shri Brijesh Pathak ............................................................................................................. 450 (xii) Need to look into the problems faced by pensioners of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board Shri C. Kuppusami .............................................................................................................. 450-451 (xiii) Need to' declare the support price for paddy at Rs. One thousand per quintal in Maharashtra and other parts of the country Prof. Mahadeorao Shiwankar .............................................................................................. 451 (xiv) Need to open new telephone exchanges in Saran district of Bihar so as to enable clearing the pending cases for telephone connections Shri Prabhunath Singh ....................................................................................................... 452 (KV) Need to set up a Railway spare parts factory at Gadhara (Barauni) in North Bihar Shri Suraj Singh .................................................................................................................. 452 DEMANDS FOR GRANTS (RAILWAYS), 2004-2005 ................................................................................. .. 453-457 (iii) SUflJECT COLUMNS APPROPRIATION (RAILWAYS) NO. 3 BILL ................................................................................................ 457-460 Motion to Consider .................................................................................................................................... 458 Shri Lalu Prasad .................................................................................................................. 457 Clauses 2, 3 and 1 ............................................................................................................ 459 Motion to Pass .......................................................................................................................................... 460 ANNEXURE-I Member-wise Index to Starred List of Questions ................................................................................. 461 Member-wise Index to UnstalTed List of Questions ............................................................................ .. 461-466 ANNEXURE-II Ministry-wise Index to Starred List of Questions ........................... :..................................................... .. 467-468 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred List of Questions ............................................................................. .. 467--468 OFFICERS OF THE LOK SABHA THE SPEAKER Shrl Somnath Chatterjee THE DEPUTY·SPEAKER Shri Chamjlt Singh Atwal PANEL OF CHAIRMEN Shrl Pawan Kumar Bansal SM Glridhar Gamang Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan Shri Ajay Maken Dr. Laxminarayan Pandey Shrl Balasaheb Vlkhe Patl! Shrl Varkela Radhakrlehnan Shrl Arjun Sethi Lt. Col. (Retd.) Manabendra Shah Shrl Devendra Prasad Yadav SECRETARY·GENERAL G.C. Malhotra (v) LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA MA. SPEAKER: You sit-down. Show some respect to the speaker at least once. All are speaking at one go. [Eng/ish] Monday. August 23. 20041Bhacira 1. 1926 (Saka) The whole country is watching. I am sure they are wondering why Lok Sobha has been constituted at all. The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock. What was the fun of holding elections? Crores and crores of rupees are spent in holding elections. I have always [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair] said that it is not my House, It Is your House. It is the House of the People of this country. {Translation] ... (Interruptions) PROF. VIJAY KUMAR MALHOTRA (South Delhi) [Trans/ation) Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have given a notice for suspending the Question Hour. A grave crisis has emerged in the MA. SPEAKER : A matter has been raised in the country. The police force of a State went