Thirteenth Series, Vol. XXX, No. 11 Thursday, December 19. 2001 Agrahayana lB, 1924 (Sake) LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) Eleventh Session (Thirteenth Lok Sabha) (Vol. XXX contains Nos. 21 to 23) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price : Rs. 50.00 EDITORIAL BOARD G.C. Malhotra Secretary-General Lok Sabha Dr. P.K. Sandhu Joint Secretary Sharda Prasad Principal Chief Editor Kiran Sahni Chief Editor Parmesh Kumar Sharma Senior Editor U.C. Pant Editor [ORIGINAl ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN ENGLISH VERSION AND ORIGINAL HINDI PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN HINDI VERSION WILL BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND NOT 11iE TRANSlATION 11iEREOF.) CONTENTS [Thirteenth Series, Vol. XXX, Eleventh Session, 200211924 (SlIka)] No. 22, Thuradey, December 19, 2OO2IAgrahllyana 28, 1924 (Sake) SUBJECT MEMBER SWORN ............................................................................................................................................ OBITUARY REFERENCE ................................................................................................................................. 1-2 RE: TEHELKA ENQUIRY COMMISSION ....................................................................................................... 2--8, 272-281 ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ·Starred Question Nos. 423--425 .................................................................................................... 8-26 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ·Starred Question Nos. 422 and 426-441 ...................................................................................... 26-46 Unstarred Question Nos. 4643-4872 ............................................................................................... 45-245 OBSERVATION RE: HALF-AN-HOUR DISCUSSION .................................................................................. 245 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE .................................................................................................................... 245-254 MESSAGES FROM RAJYA SABHA .............................................................................................................. 254-255 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE Fortieth to Forty-second Reports ...................................................................................................... 255 COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS Twenty-third Report ............................................................................................................................ 255 JOINT COMMITTEE ON STOCK MARKET SCAM AND MATTERS RELATING THERETO (i) Report ............................................................................................................................................ 256 (ii) Evidence ........................................................................................................................................ 256 STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE Thirty-fifth to Thirty-ninth Reports ..................................................................................................... 256-257 STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENERGY Thirty·first Report ................................................................................................................................ 257 STANDING COMMITTEE ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Statements ..... ,.................................................................................................................................... 267-258 STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE Thirty-third to Thirty-eighth Reports .................................................................................................. 258 ·The sign + marked above the name of a Member IndIcat88 that the quesIIOn W88 actually IIIked on the floor of the Hou.. by that Member. (ii) SUBJECT CoLUMNS STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOOD, CIVIL SUPPLIES AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION Twentieth Report ................................................................................................................................ 258-259 RAILWAY CONVENTION COMMITTEE Sixth Report .. ,................................................................................................................................... 259 STANDING COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRY Ninety-second to Hundred and tenth Reports ................................................................................ 259-261 CALLING ATTENTION TO THE MATTER OF URGENT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE Need for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution .............. 262-272 Shri Prabhunath Singh ........................................................................................................ 262 Shri 1.0. Swami .................................................................................................................... 262 Shri Basu Deb Acharia ....................................................................................................... 266 Shri Raghunath Jha ............................................................................................................ 266 Shri Ram Vilas Paswan ...................................................................................................... 267 Shri Salkhan Murmu ............................................................................................................ 267 Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay ............................................................................................., .. 268 Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi .............................................................................................. 268 Shri Vijayendra Pal Singh Badnore ................................................................................... 269 Dr. Jayant Rangpi ............................................................................................................... 269 Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann ............................................................................................. 269 Shri Chandra Shekhar ......................................................................................................... 270 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 ....................................................................................................................... 282-289 (i) Need to declare Jhul (Chakia)-Kasaria-Dumaria-Areraj-Harsldhi-Sugauli road in Bihar as a national highway Shri Radha Mohan Singh ............................................................................................ 282 (ii) Need to provide stoppage of Indore-Narmada Express at Salka road and Durga-Bhopal- Amarkantak Express at BHgahja In Bilaspur constituency, Chhattisgarh Shri Punnu Lal Mohale ................................................................................................ 283 (iii) Need to convert Swarupsar-Sriganganagar meter gauge rail line in Rajasthan into broad gauge Shri Nlhal Chand Chouhan ......................................................................................... 283 (IV) Need to clear the proposala of Govemment of Himachal Pradesh for development of sports in the State Shri Suresh Chandel ............................................................................., ...................... 284 (iii) SUBJECT CoLUMNS (v) Need to introduce Indian Airlines flights from Kullu in Himachal Pradesh Shri Maheshwar Singh ................................................................................................. 284 (vi) Need to declare Mehagaon-Sabalgarh-Sheopur-Sawai Madhopur road 18 a National Highway Shri Ashok Argal .......................................................................................................... 285 (vii) Need for earty completion of gas turbine projects in Sarmer and Jalsalmer districts, Rajasthan Col. (Retd.) Sona Ram Choudhary ............................................................................ 285 (viii) Need to set up industries in Pratapgarh Parliamentary Constituency, U.P. with a view to solve unemployment problem there Shrimati Rajkumari Ratna Singh............................ .......... .......................... .. ............ .. 286 (ix) Need to check the move to handover rare quality genes of paddy to a multi-national company by Indira Gandhi Agriculture University Raipur, Chhattisgarh Dr. Charandas Mahant ................................................................................................. 286 (x) Need for a multi-pronged approach to conserve water in Purlab and other parIS of the COW1try Shrimati Sant08h Chowdhary ...................................................................................... 287 (xi) Need to provide stoppage of express trains at Asansol and Ranlganj railway stations, West Bengal Shri Bikash Chowdhury ................................................................................................ 287 (xii) Need to withdraw the move to change the route of Trimala Express train running between Vishakhapatnam and Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh Shri M.V.V.S. Murthi ..................................................................................................... 288 (xiii) Need to provide stoppage of express trains at Nasik road station in Maharashtra and also start a new train between Mumbai and Manmad Shri Uttamrao Dhikale .................................................................................................. 288 (xiv) Need to open a railway division at Salem, Tamil Nadu and make it functional Dr. V. Saroja ................................................................................................................. 288 (xv) Need to clear the proposal of the State Government of West Bengal for promotion of tourism in Sunderbans