VII 17 Thursday DecemberF08F 77 Agrahayana 17, 1899 (Saka) ThirdF)3=>7;9F VII 02 !% F*F*&+&,F $-F!F CON TENTS No. 17, Thursday, December 8,1977 lAgrahayana 17, 1899 ( Saka) Colu mns Oral Answers to Questions: •Starred Questions Nos. 331, 334, 335, 341 and 342 . 1—24 Written Answers to Questions: Starrted Questions Nos. 326 to 330, 332, 333, 336 to 340 and 343 to 345 • • *...................................................24—36 Unstarred Questions Nos. 3069 to 3071, 3073 to 3085, 3087 to 3092, 3094, 3095, 3097 to 3128, 3130 to 3146 and 3148 to 3205 36—158 Correcting Statements to USQ No. 682 dt. 17-11-1977 and USQ No. 731 dt. 17-11-1977...................................................158—61 Re. Calling attention notices {Procedure) 162—64 Paper laid on the Table . 164 Calling attention to matter of urgent public importance— Reported disturbance in a Kanpur Textile Mill . 165—91 Shri Kanwar Lai Gupta . 165—73 Shri Dhanik Lai Mandal......................................... 168-69 Shri Charan Singh......................................... 172—79, 190-91 Shri M. Ram Gopal Reddy . 176- 77 Shri Manohar Lai . 179—82 Shri Mukhtiar Singh Malik . 183—86 Shri Jyotirmoy Bosu . 186—90 Motion re. Steps for removal of economic backwardness of four districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh— Withdrawn — Shri Morarji Desai . 192—96 Shri Yadvendra Dutt 196—99 Public Accounts committee— ■ Thirty-second report . 200 Petition re. Export of Groundnut solvent extraction etc. 200 ♦The sign 4-marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (ii) C o l u m n s Election to committee— Governing body of Indian Council of Medicine Research . 200-201 Multi-State Co-operative Societies Bill—'Introduced 201 Matters under Rule 377— (i) Acute shortage of Power in Bibar .... 202-203 (ii) Resentment due to non-resumption of Bhagalpur-Bihpur Rail and steams service ........ 204-205 Motion re. Report (1974) of Commission of Inquiry into the Dis- appearance of Netaji Subhas Chandrrf Bose .... 206— 56 Shri Dhirendranath Basu 206-207 Shri K. Mayathevar . 208— 11 Shri S. K. Sarkar 2 11— 14 Shrimati Chandravati . 214— 18 Shri Saugata Roy . 218— 23 Shri Mritunjay Prasad Verma . 223— 30 Shri Chitta Basu ...... 230— 35 Dr. Karan Singh . 235— 39 Shri Tridib Chaudhuri 239-40 Prof. Dilip Chakravarty . 240— 43 Shri D. N. Tiwary 243— 48 Shri Narendra P. Nathwani 248— 50 Shri Bedabrata Barua . 250— 52 Prof. P. G. Mavalankar . 252— 56 t LOK SA BHA DEBATES LOK SABHA Statement The available information in regard to Part (a) of the question for the period March Thursday, December 8, 1977 jAgraha,-an to Sept. 77 is given below :— 17, 1899 {Safa) ' ♦ate/Union Territory Number of Strikes(P) The Lok Sabha met at Eh vert of the Clot h Andhra Pradesh 60 [MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]. Assam • 4 Bihar ♦ 167 ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Gujarat ............................................ 79 Haryana • 15 MR. SPEAKER : Q.. No. 326 to 330 Himachal Pradesh 3 —Not here. Q. No. 331, Shri Chitta Basu. Jammu & Kashmir . 3 You. arc permanently here. Karnataka . 45 Kerala . 94 SHRI CHITTA BASU : Yes, I am No. Madhya Pradesh no 1 to-day. Maharashtra . 175 Manipur ..... — Orissa * 19 Punjab . 27 State-wise strikes during March Rajasthan . 50 to November, 1977 Tamil Nada . 122 Tripura . 1 •331. SHRI CHITTA BASU : Uctar Pradesh . 104 SHRI KAN WAR LAL GUPTA : West Bengal . 152 Will the Minister of PARLIAMEN- At & N. Islands. 4 TARY AFFAIRS AND LABOUR Chandigarh . 2 be pleased to lay a statement showing : D elhi............................................ 15 G o a ............................................ 22 (a) the number of strikes in each State Pondichcrry . 15 during March to Nov-mber, 1977 ; and Meghalaya . — Lakshdweep 1 (b) how many strikes have been dec- Sikkim ..... — lared illegal ? D.N. Haveli . 1 Nagaland . — THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMEN- Mizoram ..... — TARY AFFAIRS AND LABOUR (SHRI Arunachal Pradesh . — RAVINDRA VARMA) : (a) A state- ment is placed on the Table of the Sabha. (b) The State Governments and Union Total Territories have been requested to furnish (P) Provisional and based on the basis the required information. The information of returns received in the Labour Bureau, Simla till 18th November, 1977. Returns is awaited and will be laid on the Table for October and November have rot of the Sabha in due course. yet been received. 3 Oral Answers DECEMBER 8, 1977 Oral Answers 4 SHR I CHITTA BASU : Sir, the reply mation is quite understandable; but the contains a long list of strikes in different Government has to collect information parts of the country totalling to about from sources which in this case, include 1,290. the State Governments and the Union Territories. After the receipt of the notice we try to collect the information; but May I know from the hon. Minister when the information does not come to whether he considers that all is not quiet us, we can either indulge in guess work in the industrial front to-day ? Would or be honest and tell the House that the h“ kindly let the H^useknsw the particular information has not reached and we reasons for the start of the industrial will lay it on the Table of the House unrest in the country to-day and also as and when it is received. As regards the mand xyi lost and the loss of production the question of strikes being declared due to these strikes all over the country? illegal by two or three State Governments, namely, U.P., M.P. and Haryana, his question seeks an answer from me on each one of these instances. It is not possible to deal with each case. But I shall certainly collect the information SHRI RAVINDRA VARMA : Sir, the and lay it on the table of the House. hon’ble Member is a very well informed Member and he. should know from the statistics that the position this year, com- pared to the position in the similar period before the Em ergency, is net so bad as ^ W T *T^!T I to cause anxiety. It is true that it is not encouraging. We do not want any case ^ sftTOTT ^ of industrial unrest. We want the causes of industrial unrest to be dealt with in lime so that production may not get ff I ar-M ^ ^fa *(V«llllf hampered. From that point of view the situation needs to be improved -and we jjo cfto sftr % srrcr-T w are not satisfied with the situation as it exists. As regards the question of man- ts r if days lost, during 1977 the mandays % s to ; a n < r ^ | f o r lost in t'\t State spiere accounted for about 80 per cent of the total mandays f f t , STPTCf sfTT wrcr § s i t | s f k lost whereas corresponding figures for 1976 arc about 91 per cent of the total -JlM tj I W W>T Tilv*! |[ for mandays lost. ^ 5 vi'Ni fr, sft ^ ^T^ff % 5RrTT 5 far O 1 thr p^int regarding loss of production 0.1 this I would need a separate notice. nfr 3ft ^r^ffor ^TT 'r r ff SHRI CHITTA BASU : Sir, in reply w * stwwm for* 5t r k W ’f N t to part (b) of my question the Minister has been pleased to say that the information ^ 1 % ^ t o t ^rr^ETT g is being collected. Sir, the noticc had for w t w viFftM Tt cftir^%fvnT been sent earlier. « f l r *n r f t I do not know how the Government ©f India or particularly the Labour VvTnr’T, fora- if IV qi for Ministry have so far not been able to obtain the information sought. This is for your information. Sir, may I know f t , ^ whether it is not a fact that several strikes have been declared illegal in U.P., Madh- difo> *rnr *<i h <i T ya Pradesh and Haryana ? If so, will the Minister inform the House the reasons 5TRTT rft 1 % for declaring those strikes as illegal by % m r * 5> 3n 4r, fw tr stttcpt ift the conce ned State Governments ? Fur- ther whether it is not contrary to t‘ie sra srfa ?rnt I principle or policy announced by the Central Labour Ministry ? SHRI RAVINDRA VARMA : The hon. Member has pointed out certain SHRI RAVINDRA VARMA : Sir, the factors, which he considers as contributory hon’ble Member’s impatience for infor- factors for the industrial unrest that 5 Oral Answers AGRAHAYANA 17, 1899 ( SAKA ) Oral Answers one secs in the country. There is absolutely disputes in all undertakings \Vhere there is no doubt that there are mixed motives an employer-employee relationship. It in all kinds of industrial action—in is quite right that the Industrial Disputes many cases of industrial action, to correct Act, as it exists, today,does not cover every myself—either on the part of workers such contingency and every such under- or on the part of the management, and taking. While undertaking a review of it might well be that there are some existing laws and preparing to introduce groups which are interested in disrupting before this House a comprehensive legisla- the industrial peace and making it difficult tion on this subject, we are certainly giving for the economy to advance. These are consideration to this question also with a opinions. But as far as the other question view to ensuring that all whose who are he asked about the Government’s attitude employed have the benefit of job security to convening a meeting of the parties and some machinery and means for settle- concerned to discuss ways and means ment of disputes.