03.05.2012 1 C O N T E N T S Fifteenth Series, Vol. XXV, Tenth Session, 2012/1934 (Saka) No. 21, Thursday, May 3, 2012/Vaisakha 13, 1934 (Saka) S U B J E C T P A G E S ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER 2 Moving of Cut Motions to outstanding Demands for Grants ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS *Starred Question No.381 to 384 3-34 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos.385 to 400 35-74 Unstarred Question Nos.4371 to 4600 75-456 *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. 03.05.2012 2 OBSERVATION BY THE SPEAKER 457 Question of privilege PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 458-461 STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENERGY 462 26th to 28th Reports STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CONSUMER 462 AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION 17th and 18th Reports STANDING COMMITTEE ON LABOUR 463 28th to 30th Reports STANDING COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES 463 13th and 14th Reports STANDING COMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 464 29th and 30th Reports STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE 464 DEVELOPMENT 243rd to 245th Reports BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE 464 37th Report GOVERNMENT BILLS- Introduced (i) BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS (AMENDMENT) 465 BILL, 2012 (ii) INDIAN MEDICAL COUNCIL (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2012 590 03.05.2012 3 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 488-501 (i) Need to name Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Super Fast Train No. 12237/12238 as Begumpura Super Fast Train Shrimati Santosh Chowdhary 488-489 (ii) Need to provide timely and adequate loan to entrepreneurs belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Shri P.L. Punia 490 (iii) Need to provide adequate Guar (cluster bean) seeds at concessional rates to farmers in Rajasthan Shri Gopal Singh Shekhawat 491 (iv) Need to protect the interests of retail dairy businessmen in the proposed Food Security Bill 2011 Shri Premchand Guddu 492 (v) Need to take steps to reconstruct the National Highway No. 744 at Ezhukon, Kerala to avoid serious road accidents due to its high elevation Shri Kodikkunnil Suresh 493 (vi) Need to undertake development of areas under Karauli-Dholpur Parliamentary Constituency in Rajasthan Shri Khiladi Lal Bairwa 494 (vii) Need to construct overbridges on level crossings and repair National Highway Nos. 26 and 86 passing through Sagar in Madhya Pradesh Shri Bhoopendra Singh 495 03.05.2012 4 (viii) Need to institute an enquiry into the irregularities in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Mangaldoi Parliamentary Constituency, Assam Shri Ramen Deka 496 (ix) Need to set up a Trauma Centre on N.H. No. 15 at Sanchore in Jalore district, Rajasthan Shri Devji M. Patel 497 (x) Need to prevent erosion of agricultural land caused by Chambal river in Bhind, Morena and Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh Shri Ashok Argal 497 (xi) Need to provide stoppage of North East Express (Train No. 12505/12506), Seemanchal Express (Train No. 12487/12488) and Dadar Express (Train No. 15646/15647) at Karagola Station under East Central Railway in Bihar Shri Nikhil Kumar Choudhary 498 (xii) Need to revive the unit of Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited at Durgapur, West Bengal Sk. Saidul Haque 498 (xiii) Need to release full entitlement of Backward Regions Grant Fund to Boudh district in Odisha Shri Rudramadhab Ray 499 (xiv) Need to provide four attempts to SC, ST & OBC students in the proposed Indian Science Engineering Eligibility Test to be conducted from 2013 Dr. P. Venugopal 500 03.05.2012 5 (xv) Need to start operation of flights from Cooch Behar Airport in West Bengal Shri Nripendra Nath Roy 501 DEMANDS FOR GRANTS (GENERAL), 2012-2013 502-513 Ministry of Commerce and Industry Sk. Saidul Haque 503-513 Dr. Shashi Tharoor 516-531 Shri Nishikant Dubey 532-543 Shri Sanjay Dina Patil 544-545 Shri Jose K. Mani 546-548 Shri Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya 549-552 Shrimati Sudarshana Bhagat 553 Shri Ratan Singh 554-556 Shri C. Sivasami 557-559 Shri P. Kumar 560-561 Shri Shailendra Kumar 562-565 Shri Jayaprakash Hegde 566-574 Shri O.S. Manian 575-577 Dr. Thokchom Meinya 578-579 Shri Shivarama Gouda 580-583 Shri Ramashankar Rajbhar 584-586 Dr. Monazir Hassan 587-589 Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar 591-594 Shri N. Peethambara Kurup 595-598 Shri R. Thamaraiselvan 599-601 Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 602-606 Dr. Kirit Premjibhai Solanki 607 Shri Chandrakant Khaire 608-610 03.05.2012 6 Shri P. Karunakaran 611-613 Shri Harish Choudhary 614 Shri P. Sugumar 615-618 Shri Mahendrasinh P. Chauhan 619-620 Dr. Tarun Mandal 621-623 Shri Naranbhai Kachhadia 624 Shri Nama Nageswara Rao 625-627 Shri S.S. Ramasubbu 628-630 Dr. Rattan Singh Ajnala 631-634 Shrimati Darshana Jardosh 635 Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel 636-638 Shri Adhir Choudhary 639-642 Shri Bhibhu Prasad Tarai 643-644 Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 645-647 Shri Jagdambika Pal 648-651 Shri Premdas Rai 652-653 Dr. Ratna De 654-658 Shri Hansraj G. Ahir 659-660 Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal 661-662 Shri Pratap Singh Bajwa 663-673 Shri Kodikkunnil Suresh 674-678 Shri Raju Shetti 679-680 Shri Nilesh Narayan Rane 681-685 Dr. Vinay Kumar Pandey 686 Shri P.L. Punia 687 Shri Satpal Maharaj 688-690 Shri Anand Sharma 691-698 03.05.2012 7 SUBMISSION OF OUTSTANDING DEMANDS TO 700-703 VOTE OF THE HOUSE (GULLOTINE) APPROPRIATION (NO. 3) BILL, 2012 717 Motion to Consider 717 Clauses 2 to 4 and 1 717 Motion to Pass 718 ANNEXURE – I Member-wise Index to Starred Questions 719 Member-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 720-724 ANNEXURE – II Ministry-wise Index to Starred Questions 725 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 727 03.05.2012 8 OFFICERS OF LOK SABHA THE SPEAKER Shrimati Meira Kumar THE DEPUTY SPEAKER Shri Karia Munda PANEL OF CHAIRMEN Shri Basu Deb Acharia Shri P.C. Chacko Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan Shri Inder Singh Namdhari Shri Francisco Cosme Sardinha Shri Arjun Charan Sethi Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Dr. M. Thambidurai Dr. Girija Vyas Shri Satpal Maharaj SECRETARY GENERAL Shri T.K. Viswanathan 03.05.2012 9 LOK SABHA DEBATES __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ LOK SABHA ---------- Thursday, May 3, 2012/Vaisakha 13, 1934 (Saka) The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock [MADAM SPEAKER in the Chair] 03.05.2012 10 ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Moving of Cut Motions to Outstanding Demands for Grants MADAM SPEAKER: Hon. Members, the Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry will be taken up for discussion and voting by the House today and the guillotine in respect of outstanding demands will take place at 6 p.m. To facilitate smooth disposal of cut motions to the outstanding demands, I would request the hon. Members present in the House whose cut motions to the outstanding demands have been circulated to send slips to the Table within 15 minutes indicating the serial numbers of the cut motions they would like to move at the time of guillotine. It may please be noted that only those Members who send slips to the Table within 15 minutes of this announcement would be permitted to move cut motions at the time of guillotine, and they will be permitted to move only those cut motions the serial numbers of which have been indicated by them in their slips. A list showing the serial numbers of the cut motions which the Members intend to move at the time of guillotine will be put on the Notice Board shortly thereafter. In case any Member finds any discrepancy in the list, he may kindly bring it to the notice of the officers at the Table immediately. Hon. Members are requested not to mention in their slips to be sent to the Table now the cut motions in respect of the Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry which is scheduled for discussion later in the day. 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