1 10.08.2016 C O N T E N T S Sixteenth Series, Vol. XIX, Ninth Session, 2016/1938 (Saka) No.18, Wednesday, August 10, 2016/Shravana 19, 1938 (Saka) S U B J E C T P A G E S ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 341 to 346 11-60 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 347 to 360 61-107 Unstarred Question Nos. 3911 to 4140 108-637 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. 2 10.08.2016 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 640-644 MESSAGES FROM RAJYA SABHA 645 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE th 35 Report 646 COMMITTEE ON SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION 12th to 15th Reports 646 COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS 13th to 19th Reports 647-648 COMMITTEE ON EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN th 7 Report 648 STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 34th to 36th Reports 649 STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION Statements 649 STANDING COMMITTEE ON COAL AND STEEL 21st to 23rd Reports 650 STANDING COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT, TOURISM AND CULTURE 236th to 238th Reports 651 STATEMENT BY MINISTER Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 265th Report of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests on reported forecast of a Major Earthquake in Uttarakhand, pertaining to the Ministry of Earth Sciences Shri Y.S. Chowdary 652 3 10.08.2016 GOVERNMENT BILLS - INTRODUCED 653-659 (i) Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (ii) Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 696-722 (i) Need to undertake repair of bridge on river Ganga in Ballia parliamentary constituency Shri Bharat Singh 697 (ii) Need to undertake delimitation of Lok Sabha Constituencies and Assembly segments in Jharkhand Shri Ravindra Kumar Ray 698 (iii) Need to expedite construction of bridge at Dumariaghat as well as renovation of old bridge in Gopalganj parliamentary constituency, Bihar Shri Janak Ram 699 (iv) Need to provide pension and other facilities to the politicians arrested and jailed under Maintenance of Internal Security Act during Emergency Shri Shyama Charan Gupta 700 (v) Need to set up a separate department of Fisheries & Fishermen Welfare Shri Chintaman Navasha Wanga 701 (vi) Need to provide a special package to rejuvenate the flagging brass industry in Shamsabad in Kaushambi parliamentary constituency, Uttar Pradesh Shri Vinod Kumar Sonkar 702 4 10.08.2016 (vii) Need to construct permanent buildings for post offices in rural areas of the country and also introduce new facilities in them Shrimati Neelam Sonker 703 (viii) Need to provide employment/pension and other benefits to SSB volunteers in Uttarakhand Shrimati Mala Rajyalaxmi Shah 704 (ix) Need to include 'Tanti' caste of Jharkhand in the list of Scheduled Castes Shri Laxman Giluwa 705 (x) Need to set up a 'Alha Gayan Sanskritik Kendra' at Mahoba to promote Alha, a folk song of Bundelkhand region Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel 706 (xi) Need to undertake repair of roads constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in Aurangabad parliamentary constituency, Bihar Shri Sushil Kumar Singh 707 (xii) Need to provide adequate medical facilities in hospital under the administrative control of Ministry of Coal in Dhanbad parliamentary constituency, Jharkhand Shri Pashupati Nath Singh 708 (xiii) Regarding commercialization of education and health care sectors Shri Ramen Deka 709 5 10.08.2016 (xiv) Need to develop tourism in Malabar region of Kerala Shri Mullappally Ramachandran 710 (xv) Need to set up fodder banks in all the villages in the country Shri B.N. Chandrappa 711 (xvi) Need to provide facilities at Arkkonam Railway Junction in Tamil Nadu Shri G. Hari 712 (xvii) Need for early completion of Tindivanam- Krishnagiri Section of National Highway No. 66 in Tamil Nadu Shri V. Elumalai 713 (xviii) Regarding GST provisions Prof. Saugata Roy 714 (xix) Regarding development of Basirhat Parliamentary Constituency of West Bengal Shri Idris Ali 715 (xx) Need for funds from Central Government for construction of a bridge in Kandhamal Parliamentary Constituency of Odisha. Shrimati Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh 716 (xxi) Need to set up adequate number of branches of public sector banks in Buldhana parliamentary constituency, Maharashtra Shri Prataprao Jadhav 717 6 10.08.2016 (xxii) Need to permit partially re-sited outlets in Andhra Pradesh and other States to sell both petrol and diesel Shri Jayadev Galla 718 (xxiii) Need to expedite the process of takeover of Instrumentation Ltd., Palakkad Shri M.B. Rajesh 719 (xxiv) Need for total prohibition in India Shri E.T. Mohammed Basheer 720 (xxv) Need to provide toilet facilities along National Highways in the country Shri Ram Kumar Sharma 721 (xxvi) Need to address the problems of powerloom sector of Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra Shri Raju Shetty 722 GOVERNMENT BILLS – PASSED (i)Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2016 723-795 Motion to Consider 723-726 Shri Arun Jaitley 723-726 785-791 Shri Nishikant Dubey 727-732 Shri Deepender Singh Hooda 733-740 Shri S. R. Vijaya Kumar 741-742 Prof. Sugata Bose 743-748 Dr. Kulmani Samal 749-750 7 10.08.2016 Shri Arvind Sawant 751-755 Shri Jayadev Galla 756-758 Shri P. K. Biju 759-762 Adv. Narendra Keshav Sawaikar 763-765 Shri Kaushalendra Kumar 766-767 Shri N. K. Premchandran 768-771 Shri Asaduddin Owaisi 772-773 Shri Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli 774-776 Shri Sudheer Gupta 777-779 Kumari Sushmita Dev 780-781 Dr. Ravindra Babu 782 Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 783-784 Clauses 2 to 4 and 1 792-794 Motion to Pass 794-795 (ii) Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016 796-889 Motion to Consider 796-797 Shri Bandaru Dattatreya 796-797 Shri Mallikarjun Kharge 798-804 Shri Ramesh Bidhuri 805-813 Shri T.G. Venkatesh Babu 814-817 Shri Kalyan Banerjee 818-822 Shri Rabindra Kumar Jena 823-826 Shri Shrirang Appa Barne 827-828 Shri Muthamsetti Srinivasa Rao (Avanthi) 829-832 Shri Sankar Prasad Dutta 833-836 Shri Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli 837-839 Shri Kamakhya Prasad Tasa 840-842 Shri Rajesh Ranjan 843-845 8 10.08.2016 Shri Dharam Vira Gandhi 846-847 Shri Kaushalendra Kumar 848-849 Shri B. Vinod Kumar 850-851 Shri Dushyant Chautala 852-853 Shri E.T. Mohammad Basheer 854-855 Shri Harishchandra alias Harish Dwivedi 856-858 Shri N.K. Premachandran 859-862 Adv. Joice George 863-864 Shri Vinayak Bhaurao Raut 865 Shri Gaurav Gogoi 866 Shrimati Aparupa Poddar 867-868 Shri Bandaru Dattatreya 869-872 Clauses 2 to 5 and 1 873-887 Motion to Pass 887-889 ANNEXURE – I Member-wise Index to Starred Questions 890 Member-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 891-896 ANNEXURE – II Ministry-wise Index to Starred Questions 897 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 898-899 9 10.08.2016 OFFICERS OF LOK SABHA THE SPEAKER Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan THE DEPUTY SPEAKER Dr. M. Thambidurai PANEL OF CHAIRPERSONS Shri Arjun Charan Sethi Shri Hukmdeo Narayan Yadav Shri Anandrao Adsul Shri Pralhad Joshi Dr. Ratna De (Nag) Shri Ramen Deka Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao Shri Hukum Singh Shri K.H. Muniyappa Dr. P. Venugopal SECRETARY GENERAL Shri Anoop Mishra 10 10.08.2016 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA ---------- Wednesday, August 10, 2016/Shravana 19, 1938 (Saka) The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock [HON. SPEAKER in the Chair] 11 10.08.2016 11.00 hours ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS HON. SPEAKER: Question Hour, Q. No. 341, Dr. Shashi Tharoor. (Q. 341) DR. SHASHI THAROOR : Madam Speaker, I must admit that I have been a bit surprised by the response of the hon. Minister, my good friend for whom I have a great deal of respect, that he takes satisfaction in his answer from the fact that according to a survey report of Transparency International, India has gone up, he says, to 76th most efficient civil service in the world. I am sure that this is not the benchmark that the hon. Minister or myself or, indeed, the Prime Minister would wish to hold India to. We would certainly want to be a country that aspires not to be proud of being 76th in anything in the world. So, I do want to stress that the Minister goes on thereafter to cite the Administrative Reforms Commission and said that there is no proposal to study the feasibility of lateral entry into the civil services. When you look at the international benchmarks that are available, when you see what other countries’ governments do in terms of ensuring that they not only bring in fresh blood into the government at various levels, including some very high levels, you would find that they also renew the competence, the spirit of the hard working bureaucrats –I am not criticizing the quality of our bureaucrats, but we know that the big enemy of bureaucracy is complacency – and so, we need them to be able to rejuvenate themselves through working even in the private sector. Therefore, instead of saying bluntly that there is no proposal for lateral entry, I am making this proposal in Parliament. Can the hon. Minister – I request him – constitute a Committee to look at the best practices in the civil services of other countries and see why we cannot be the best rather than the Minister being satisfied at being no. 76? DR. JITENDRA SINGH: Madam Speaker, the hon. Member is a scholar in his own right, a very erudite and well read person and I can hardly disagree with any of the 12 10.08.2016 points raised by him. Having said that, just to put the record straight, nowhere in the answer it was mentioned that we are satisfied with being at no.