RAJYA SABHA Parliamentary Bulletin PART- II Nos.: 49985-49994] TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 No.: 49985 Table Office Election of the Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha The office of the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha having fallen vacant, the Chairman has, under rule 7 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Rajya Sabha, fixed August 21, 2012 as the date for holding the election to the said office of the Deputy Chairman. The election will take place at 12-00 Noon immediately after the Question-hour on that day. 2. The provisions of rule 7 of the ‘Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Council of States’, which lay down the procedure for the election, are reproduced below— Rule 7: (1) The election of a Deputy Chairman shall be held on such date as the Chairman may fix and the Secretary-General shall send to every member notice of this date. (2) At any time before noon on the day- preceding the date so fixed, any member may give notice in writing addressed to the Secretary-General of a motion that another member be chosen as the Deputy Chairman of the Council, and the notice shall be seconded by a third member and shall be accompanied by a statement by the member whose name is proposed in the notice that he is willing to serve as Deputy Chairman if elected; Provided that a member shall not propose or second more than one motion. 2 (3) A member in whose name a motion stands in the list of business may, when called, move the motion or not move the motion, in which case he shall confine himself to a mere statement to that effect. (4) The motions which have been moved and duly seconded shall be put one by one in the order in which they have been moved and decided if necessary by division. If any motion is carried, the person presiding shall, without putting later motions, declare that the member proposed in the motion which has been carried, has been chosen as the Deputy Chairman of the Council. 3. Members are informed that as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 7, quoted above, notice of the date of election to the office of the Deputy Chairman has been sent to them separately. The notices of motions will be received in the Rajya Sabha Notice Office up to 12-00 Noon on the 17th of August, 2012. Any notice received after 12-00 Noon on that day will be treated as time barred. ——— No.: 49986 Committee Co-ordination Section Election to the National Shipping Board The following programme has been fixed for receiving nominations, withdrawal of candidature and for holding election, if necessary, to the National Shipping Board, motion in respect of which was adopted by the House on the 14th August, 2012:- 1. Number of Members to be Two elected: 2. Last date and time for 21st August, 2012 receiving nominations: (Upto 3.00 P.M.) 3. Last date and time for 23rd August, 2012 receiving withdrawal of (Upto 3.00 P.M.) candidature: 3 4. Date and time of election: 4th September, 2012 (Between 2.00 P.M. and 5.00 P.M.) 5. Place of election: Committee Room No. 63, First Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi. 6. Method of election: Proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. ——— No.: 49987 Committee Co-ordination Section Meeting of the Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management As intimated by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, the Speaker, Lok Sabha in consultation with the Chairman, Rajya Sabha has constituted the Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management with the broad aim and objective to identify and discuss the problems relating to Disaster Management and to equip the Members of Parliament with the information and knowledge thereon for making them aware of the seriousness of the issues involved and enabling them to adopt a result- oriented approach towards this critical issue. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, MP is the Member-Convener of the Forum. 2. A meeting of the Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management will be held on Thursday, 16 August, 2012 at 1530 hrs. in Committee Room No. 074, Ground Floor, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi. In the meeting, Prof. A.K. Gosain, Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi will make a presentation on the subject ‘Urban Flooding and Disaster Mitigation’. 3. Members are requested to kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting. ——— 4 No.: 49988 Legislative Section Private Members’ Resolutions for 17th May, 2012 As a result of draw of lot, the following Resolutions will, subject to compliance with the Rules, be set down for discussion on Friday, the 17th August, 2012. By Whom Contents of Resolution Remarks Shri Vijay “Having regard to the fact that— (Admitted, Jawaharlal secured first Darda (i) the Supreme Court of India, place in the th in its Judgment delivered on 29 draw of lot) March 2006, had issued directions to the Government of India, to review the meat export policy in the light of Constitution’s Directive Principles of State Policy and also its potentially harmful effects on livestock population, and its impact on the economy of the country; (ii) on 3rd May 2007, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry had issued an Office Memorandum reiterating continuance of the then existing policy, primary thrust of their arguments being generation of employment, foreign exchange earnings, avoidable rise in the number of so-called unproductive animals, etc.; (iii) the main petitioners, led by His Holiness Jain Acharya Vijay Ratnasundarsuri Maharaj Saheb submitted their well documented arguments, comprising 13 chapters, covering all vital aspects, to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, stating that the Ministry has failed to 5 conduct the requisite review exercise taking into consideration the concerns of the Supreme Court, both in respect of Directive Principles of the State Policy and the potentially harmful effects of the Meat Export Policy; (iv) the Ministry of Commerce & Industry claimed to have consulted the Ministries of Law and Justice, Agriculture (Department of Animal Husbandry), Food Processing, Environment & Forests, etc., before issuing the continuance orders of the Meat Export Policy in their OM dated 3.5.2007; (v) the petitioners, after having obtained, through RTI, copies of communications from above- mentioned Ministries/Departments and after making in-depth studies, stated that these were perfunctory routine pieces of advice which seem to have no pertinence to the crucial issues as these completely overlooked the concerns expressed and directions given to the Government of India in the Judgment of the 20th March 2006 of the Supreme Court; (vi) the petitioners stressing contention upon the Ministry of Commerce and Industry that just for the sake of export of 8 percent of country’s total meat production, the Government is following the meat export policy, leading to avoidable increase in the number of slaughter houses; 6 (vii) international standards for export quality meat necessitated slaughtering of young and healthy animals, and thereby blatantly violating the local State Governments’ laws prohibiting slaughter of such animals; (viii) slaughtering of animals has been depriving the country of dung availability and thus Government has no option but to resort to use of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides, thereby damaging the fertility of soil, polluting agricultural farms, water, air and foodgrains, apart from creating health hazards; (ix) petitioners corroborating their well-structured arguments through factual presentation of their position, stated that a buffalo yields 5.4 tons of dung per annum and slaughtering of 51,00,000 buffaloes would be required for five years to obtain 5,61,000 MT tone of meat for export in the next five years, and that during this five-year period, conversion of 1377 lakh tons of dung would be producing 2754 lakh tons of organic manure, which may fulfill the requirement of 918 lakh acres of agriculture corps; (x) slaughtering has further led to huge avoidable expenditure on subsidies on fertilizers, chemicals, pesticides, etc. being sustained by the Government of India by nearly one 7 lakh crores of rupees of taxpayers money, this House urges upon the Government to - (a) immediately scrap the “Meat Export Policy” which is catering to the economic ambitions of a few but causing an irreversible situation of depletion of national animal wealth, especially at the cost of our young and healthy animals; (b) take effective steps towards avoiding acute shortage of useful animals happening through slaughtering for production of meat for exports, which is adversely affecting the over all availability of essential commodities and becoming a major contributory factor towards rise in prices of foodgrains, milk, etc.; (c) strictly observe, in letter and spirit, the provisions of the article 51 A of Indian Constitution which lay emphasis on compassion for all living creatures so that Government being a role model for observing fundamental duties, is not seen as the violator of fundamental duties; (d) stop violation of various State Governments’ Animal Preservation Laws which impose restrictions for slaughtering based on age and utility of animals and also prohibiting inter- state transport of animals for slaughter; 8 (e) strictly enforce the already existing ban on slaughter of cow and its progeny for meat export, as the continuance of the existing Meat Export Policy is leading to large scale opening of clandestine slaughter houses, under the garb of slaughter of buffaloes for export of meat, but actually slaughtering cow and its progeny also; (f) accept the Law Commission’s recommendations