20.03.2012 1 C O N T E N T S Fifteenth Series, Vol. XXIII, Tenth Session, 2012/1933 (Saka) No. 7, Tuesday, March 20, 2012/Phalguna 30, 1933 (Saka) S U B J E C T P A G E S INTRODUCTION OF MINISTER 2 ORAL ANSWER TO QUESTION *Starred Question No.81 to 84 3-37 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos.85 to 100 38-95 Unstarred Question Nos.921 to 1150 97-688 *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. 20.03.2012 2 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 689-691 STANDING COMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL, PUBLIC 692 GRIEVANCES, LAW AND JUSTICE 49th Report STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS (i) Status of implementation of the recommendations 693-694 contained in the 150th Report of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs on the Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the 144th Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2010-11), pertaining to the Ministry of Home Affairs Shri Mullapally Ramachandran (ii) Loss of human lives at an unmanned Level Crossing 805-806 near Hathras in North-Eastern Railway in an accident on 20.03.2012 Shri Mukul Roy MOTION RE: JOINT COMMITTEE ON OFFICES 695 OF PROFIT MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 696-715 (i) Need to open a Kendriya Vidyalaya in Kancheepuram city, Tamil Nadu Shri P. Viswanathan 697 (ii) Need to accord approval for the establishment of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research at Nagpur, Maharashtra Shri Vilas Muttemwar 698 20.03.2012 3 (iii) Need to start construction of Theme Park immediately at Kapilvastu in Siddharth Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh Shri Jagdambika Pal 699 (iv) Need to promote and explore use of wind energy in Tamil Nadu to address the problem of shortage of power in the State Shri Manicka Tagore 700 (v) Need to include Soliga Tribe living in the Chamarajanagar Parliamentary Constituency, Karnataka in the list of Primitive Tribal Groups Shri R. Dhruvanarayana 701 (vi) Need to permit export of additional 20 lakh bales of cotton Shrimati Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi 702 (vii) Need to undertake repair of National Highway No. 86 between Makronia to Chhattarpur in Madhya Pradesh Shri Bhoopendra Singh 703 (viii) Need to repair and re-construct NH 76 on Jhansi- Chhattarpur-Bamitha section and NH 84 between Kanpur-Dewas Shri Virendra Kumar 704 (ix) Need to set up a Coast Guard Station at Hazira, Gujarat to strengthen maritime security Shri Harin Pathak 705 20.03.2012 4 (x) Need to abolish the system of collection of entry tax in cantonment areas of Belgaum, Karnataka Shri Suresh Angadi 706 (xi) Need to provide free irrigation and power facilities to farmers in the country particularly in Bundelkhand region Shri R.K. Singh Patel 707 (xii) Need to set up police booth in the vicinity of the residences of Members of Parliament in Delhi to ensure safety from anti-social elements and burglars Dr. Shafiqur Rehman Barq 708-709 (xiii) Need to provide adequate compensation to families displaced due to acquisition of their land for construction of bridge on river Kosi in Bihar Shri Vishwa Mohan Kumar 710 (xiv) Need to connect Mecheda with Ranichak and Haldia through NH 41 in West Bengal Shri Suvendu Adhikari 711 (xv) Need to enhance security and welfare of fishermen in the country Shrimati J. Helen Davidson 712 (xvi) Need to establish a Chilli Board in Palnadu area of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh Shri M. Venugopala Reddy 713 20.03.2012 5 (xvii) Need to repair National Highway from Chhapra to Muzaffarpur and from Muzaffarpur to Barauni in Bihar Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 714 (xviii) Need to expedite construction of railway line between Dahanu and Nasik, introduction of MEMU service between Dahanu and Valsad and EMU service between Dahanu and Churchgate in Maharashtra Shri Baliram S. Jadhav 715 RAILWAY BUDGET (2012-2013)– GENERAL DISCUSSION DEMANDS FOR GRANTS ON ACCOUNT –( RAILWAYS), 2012-13 DEMANDS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS-(RAILWAYS), 2011-12 AND DEMANDS FOR EXCESS GRANTS – (RAILWAYS), 2009-10 716-1023 Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan 720-732 Shri P.C. Chacko 733-748 Shri Rewati Raman Singh 749-755 Dr. Kirodi Lal Meena 756-759 Shri Pakauri Lal 760-762 Shri Gajanan D. Babar 763-766 Shri Jose K. Mani 767-770 Shri Pashupati Nath Singh 771 Shri Sudarshan Bhagat 772-773 Shri Dara Singh Chauhan 774-777 Shri C. Rajendran 778-780 Shri Bhaskarrao Bapurao Patil Khatgaonkar 781-782 Shri Dinesh Chandra Yadav 783-792 Shri R. Thamaraiselvan 793-798 20.03.2012 6 Shri Amarnath Pradhan 799 Shri Sanjay Bhoi 800 Shri Nilesh Narayan Rane 801-804 Shri Arjun Charan Sethi 807-812 Shri Ashok Kumar Rawat 813-824 Shri E.G. Sugavanam 825-830 Dr. Ram Chandra Dome 831-837 Shri Yashbant Laguri 838-842 Shri Laxman Tudu 843-845 Shrimati Bhavana Patil Gawali 846-848 Shri A.K.S. Vijayan 849-852 Shri P. Kumar 853-856 Shrimati Supriya Sule 857-864 Shri Adhi Sankar 865-866 Dr. N. Sivaprasad 867-870 Shri Anandrao Adsul 871-872 Shri Sanjay Singh Chauhan 873-875 Shri Surendera Singh Nagar 876-881 Shri P. Lingam 882-885 Shri O.S. Manian 886-888 Shri Uma Shankar Singh 889-891 Shri N.S.V. Chitthan 892-893 Shri N. Cheluvaraya Swamy 894-897 Shri P.R. Natarajan 898 Shri Prasanta Kumar Majumdar 899-901 Shri Balkrishna Khanderao Shukla 902-909 Shri Nripendra Nath Roy 910-911 Shri Lalji Tandon 912-917 Shri Sameer Bhujbal 918-920 20.03.2012 7 Shri Jagdambika Pal 921-927 Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel 928-931 Shri Tufani Saroj 932-933 Dr. Baliram 934-936 Shri Rajaram Pal 937 Shri Abdul Rahman 938-940 Shri Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi 941-942 Shri Anto Antony 943-949 Shri Syed Shahnawaz Hussain 950-959 Shri Radha Mohan Singh 961-963 Shri Rajendrasinh Rana 964-966 Kumari Meenakshi Natarajan 967-969 Shri S. Semmalai 970-971 Shrimati Meena Singh 972-973 Shri M.B. Rajesh 974-976 Shri Pralhad Joshi 977-980 Shrimati Darshana Jardosh 981-986 Dr. Nirmal Khatri 987-990 Shri Thol Thirumaavalavan 991-994 Shri Joseph Toppo 995-997 Shri Nikhil Kumar Choudhary 998-1006 Shri Ram Singh Kaswan 1007-1008 Shri Shripad Yesso Naik 1009-1011 Shri P.T. Thomas 1012-1013 Shri Uday Pratap Singh 1014-1017 Shri Virender Kashyap 1018-1019 Shrimati Putul Kumari 1020-1023 20.03.2012 8 ANNEXURE – I Member-wise Index to Starred Questions 1042 Member-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 1043-1048 ANNEXURE – II Ministry-wise Index to Starred Questions 1049 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 1050 20.03.2012 9 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 20.03.2012 10 LOK SABHA DEBATES __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ LOK SABHA ---------- Tuesday, March 20, 2012/Phalguna 30, 1933 (Saka) The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock [MADAM SPEAKER in the Chair] 20.03.2012 11 INTRODUCTION OF MINISTER MADAM SPEAKER: Hon. Prime Minister. THE PRIME MINISTER (DR. MANMOHAN SINGH): Hon. Madam Speaker, with your permission, I wish to introduce to you and through you, to this august House, my colleague, Shri Mukul Roy, who has been promoted in the Council of Ministers as Cabinet Minister of Railways. Cabinet Minister Shri Mukul Roy Minister of Railways 20.03.2012 12 (Q. 81) MADAM SPEAKER: Question Hour. Q. No. 81, Shri M. Venugopala Reddy. SHRI M. VENUGOPALA REDDY : Madam Speaker, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to raise my voice about scarcity of drinking water in major and metropolitan cities, 48 hours prior to the World Water Day, that is, 22nd March. After going through the Minister’s reply, provision, monitoring, maintaining water supply and also ensuring sufficient water during summer season, is the responsibility of the State Governments and Urban Local Bodies. But in Andhra Pradesh especially, the local bodies are not at all functioning; they are vacant for the last 1½ years. Moreover, he has made a provision of Rs.30,000 crore under the JNNURM and UIDSSMT, for almost 600 projects all over the country. I would like to know from the hon. Minister what about those projects and what are the deadlines to complete those projects. Is there any special budget allocation for the States during summer seasons? SHRI KAMAL NATH: There is a huge deficit of urban infrastructure and in that, we have water supply also. Water supply is a State subject as per the 7th Schedule of the Constitution and as per the 74th Constitutional Amendment. So, water is essentially a State subject. However, the Central Government, under its scheme of JNNURM, has been sanctioning funds for State Governments and Urban Local Bodies to avail of some financing. Primarily, it is the responsibility of the State Governments. With regard to the hon. Member’s question about incomplete projects, there are some on-going and incomplete projects. We are considering to extend the JNNURM for another two years. The JNNURM is supposed to end this year. But before we launch the JNNURM-II, which is in stages of finalization, we are looking at extending the JNNURM-I for another two years. 20.03.2012 13 SHRI M. VENUGOPALA REDDY (NARASARAOPET): Madam, the Urban Development Ministry has set up a 100 MLD desalination plant at Chennai at a cost of Rs.870 crore.