21.03.2012 1 C O N T E N T S Fifteenth Series, Vol. XXIII, Tenth Session, 2012/1934 (Saka) No. 8, Wednesday, March 21, 2012/Chaitra 1, 1934 (Saka) S U B J E C T P A G E S REFERENCE BY THE SPEAKER Death of 15 persons and injuries to 3 others in a collision of a mini van with the Mathura-Kasganj Exppress 2 OBSERVATION BY THE SPEAKER Notices for suspension of Question Hour 4 ORAL ANSWER TO QUESTION ∗Starred Question No. 101 5-8 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Starred Question Nos. 102 to 120 9-58 Unstarred Question Nos. 1151 to 1380 59-462 ∗ 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 21.03.2012 2 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 463-470 513 COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 23rd Report 471 COMMITTEE ON SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION 23rd and 24th Reports 471 STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 50th Report 471 STANDING COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT 19th to 22nd Reports 472 STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND 472 TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS 221st Report STATEMENT BY MINISTER Status of implementation of the Recommendations Contained in the 21st Report of the Standing Committee on Information Technology on Demands for Grants (2011-12), Pertaining to the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Shri Milind Deora 473 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 474-491 (i) Need to set up computerized reservation counter and unreserved rail ticket counter at Bichhia and Mihinpurwa railway stations under North Eastern Railways Shri Kamal Kishore ‘Commando’ 475 (ii) Need to amend the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 in order to protect the interests of people residing adjacent to forest areas Shri Anto Antony 476 21.03.2012 3 (iii) Need to enact a law in Parliament to set up an Institution at the State level for monitoring proper allocation and utilisation of Social Component Plan and Tribal Sub Plan funds Dr. Manda Jagannath 477 (iv) Need to upgrade the Clinical Research Unit in the Edathala Grama Panchayat, Aluva, Kerala to a full-fledged Unit Shri K. P. Dhanapalan 478 (v) Need to sanction funds for renovation of Mundrothuruthu Railway Station, augment railway services and passenger amenities in Mavelikkara Parliamentary Constituency, Kerala Shri Kodikkunnil Suresh 479 (vi) Need to Streamline mid-day meal scheme in government schools in Hoshiarpur Parliamentary Constituency, Punjab Shrimati Santosh Chowdhury 480 (vii) Need to set up a Zonal Office of State Bank of India at Silchar, Assam Shri Kabindra Purkayastha 481 (viii) Need to strengthen and elevate embankments of Sikarhana- Burhi Gandak river in Bihar to prevent annual floods in the region Shrimati Rama Devi 482 (ix) Need to issue ‘No Objection Certificate’ for land- use by Bokaro Thermal Plant and Chandrapura Power Plant in Giridih Parliamentary Constituency, Jharkhand Shri Ravindra Kumar Pandey 483 21.03.2012 4 (x) Need to impress upon Government of Delhi to extend benefit of reservation in government services and educational institutions to OBC candidates having OBC certificates issued by other State Governments Shri Tufani Saroj 484 (xi) Need to allocate adequate power to Uttar Pradesh from Central Power Projects Shri Bhisma Shankar Alias Kushal Tiwari 485 (xii) Need to run a direct train from Saharsa to Hatia in Bihar Shri Dinesh Chandra Yadav 486 (xiii) Need to enhance the per unit assistance given under Indira Awas Yojana Dr. Ratna De 487 (xiv) Need to provide forest land for construction of road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana from Adimalaikadu to Kemmampatty in Dharmapuri Parliamentary Constituency, Tamil Nadu Shri R. Thamaraiselvan 488 (xv) Need to address the problem of malnutrition in the country Shri P.K. Biju 489 (xvi) Need to expedite computerization of office of Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation in Keonjhar Parliamentary Constituency, Odisha Shri Yashbant Laguri 490 (xvii) Need to restart Cement Factory at Japla, district Palamu, Jharkhand Shri Kameshwar Baitha 491 21.03.2012 5 SUBMISSION BY MEMBERS Criteria for defining poverty line by Planning Commission 492-512 Shri Sharad Yadav 491-496 Shrimati Sushma Swaraj 496-497 Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav 497-499 Dr. Baliram 499-500 Shri Basu Deb Acharia 500-502 Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 502-504 Shri Prabodh Panda 504-505 Shri T.R. Baalu 506 Shri Anant Gangaram Geete 506-507 Dr. M. Thambidurai 507-508 Shri Kalyan Banerjee 508 Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 508-509 Shri Aruna Kumar Vundavalli 509-511 ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Messsage from Hon’ble President 514 RAILWAY BUDGET (2012-13) – GENERAL DISCUSSION DEMANDS FOR GRANTS ON ACCOUNT (RAILWAYS), 2012-13 515-740, DEMANDS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS (RAILWAYS), 2011-12 742-968 AND DEMANDS FOR EXCESS GRANTS – (RAILWAYS), 2009-10 Shri Kalyan Banerjee 515-517 Shri N. Peethambara Kurup 518-522 Shri Harin Pathak 523-526 Shri Adhalrao Patil Shivaji 527-528 Shri P.C. Gaddigoudar 529-532 Shrimati Paramjit Kaur Gulshan 533-537 21.03.2012 6 Shri P.L. Punia 538-542 Shrimati Santosh Chowdhary 543-545 Shri Kirit Premjibhai Solanki 546-549 Shri S.R. Jeyadurai 550-552 Shri Ramashankar Rajbhar 553 Shri Inder Singh Namdhari 554-558 Shri Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav 559-562 Shri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao 563-567 Shri Shivarama Gouda 568-570 Shri A. Ganeshamurthi 571-574 Yogi Aditya Nath 575-580 Shri K.C. Singh Baba 581-584 Dr. Mirza Mehboob Beg 585-587 Shri Aruna Kumar Vundavalli 588-590 Shri Mohammed E.T. Basheer 591-593 Dr. Ratna De 594-597 Shri Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure 598-603 Shri Gorakhnath Pandey 604-605 Shri Om Prakash Yadav 606 Shri Datta Meghe 607-609 Kumari Saroj Pandey 610-612 Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 613-616 Shri Vishu Deo Sai 617-618 Shri Radhe Mohan Singh 619-621 Shrimati Jyoti Dhurve 622-625 Shri Manikrao Hodlya Gavit 626-628 Shri C.R. Patil 629-631 Dr. Prasanna Kumar Patasani 632-636 Shri Sukhdev Singh 637 21.03.2012 7 Shri Hari Manjhi 638-640 Shri Harsh Vardhan 641-642 Shri P. Karunakaran 643-646 Shri Jagdish Sharma 6470-649 Shri Virendra Kumar 650-652 Shri Charles Dias 653-654 Shri Kameshwar Baitha 655-656 Shri Mansukhbhai D. Vasava 657-663 Shri S.S. Ramasubbu 664-667 Shrimati Ashwamedh Devi 668 Shri Murari Lal Singh 669-670 Shri Haribhau Jawale 671-675 Shri Avtar Singh Bhadana 676-677 Shri Harish Chandra Chavan 678-679 Shri Ajay Kumar 680-681 Dr. Padam Singh Bajirao Patil 682-683 Shri Vishwa Mohan Kumar 684-684C Shri K. Bapiraju 685-688 Shri Kabindra Purkayastha 685-688 Shri Baliram Jadhav 689-691 Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab 692-693 Shri Sohan Potai 694-697 Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal 698-699 Shri Rajendra Agarwal 700 Shri Ponnam Prabhakar 701-703 Smt. Yashodhara Raje Scindia 704-706 Shri Satpal Maharaj 707-711 Shri Sanjay Dhotre 712-716 Shri Ravindra Kumar Pandey 720-721 21.03.2012 8 Shri Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary 722-725 Shri Manda Jagannath 726-730 Shri Rakesh Sachan 731-733 Chaudhry Lal Singh 734-736 Shri Devidhan Besra 737 Shri G.M. Siddeshwara 738-740 Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal 742-744 Shri Rajen Gohain 745-747 Dr. Shafiqur Rahman Barq 748-749 Shri Makan Singh Solanki 750-751 Shri Hemanand Biswal 752-754 Shri Suresh Kashinath Taware 755-756 Shri Mahendrasinh P. Chauhan 757-758 Shri Pulin Bihari Baske 759-760 Shri Ganesh Singh 761-764 Shri Dushyant Singh 765-771 Shri Anurag Singh Thakur 772-774 Shrimati Sushmita Bauri 775-776 Shri Narayan Singh Amlabe 777 Shri Chandu Lal Sahu 778 Shri K. M. Anandan 779-781 Shri Rakesh Singh 782-791 Shri Kunwarjibhai Mohanbhai Bavalia 792-794 Shri Khiladi Lal Bairwa 795-796 Shrimati J. Helen Davidson 797-799 Shri Gopal Singh Shekhawat 800-801 Shri P. Viswanathan 802-805 Shri M.K. Raghavan 806-809 21.03.2012 9 Shri Rajaiah Siricilla 810-812 Shri Ratan Singh 813-816 Shri Mahendra Kumar Roy 817-818 Shri Naranbhai Kachhadia 819-820 Shri Prabodh Panda 821-823 Kumari Mausam Noor 824-826 Dr. Sanjeev Ganesh Naik 827-830 Prof. Ram Shankar 831-833 Shri A.T. Nana Patil 834-836 Shri Bharat Ram Meghwal 837 Shri Bhudeo Choudhary 837-839 Shri Shivraj Bhaiya 840-845 Shri Ghanshyam Anuragi 846-854 Shri Kishanbhai V. Patel 855-860 Shri Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya 861-864 Shrimati Rama Devi 865-868 Shri Ramesh Vishwanath Katti 869-874 Shri Manicka Tagore 875-879 Shri A. Sampath 880-881 Shri J.M. Aaron Rashid 882-884 Sk. Saidul Haque 885-886 Shri Ashok Tanwar 887-889 Shrimati Kamla Devi Patle 890 Shri Sanjay Dina Patil 891-893 Shri Narahari Mahato 894-896 Shri Naveen Jindal 897-908 Shri G.V. Harsha Kumar 909-910 Shrimati Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi 911-914 Shri Ramsinh Rathwa 915-916 21.03.2012 10 Shri Shailendra Kumar 917-919 Shri Mukesh Bhairavdanji Gadhvi 920 Shri Shivkumar Udasi 921-926 Shri Ashok Argal 927-928 Shri Manohar Tirkey 929-930 Shri Madan Lal Sharma 931-932 Shri Devji M. Patel 933-935 Shri Ramkishun 936-937 Dr. Arvind Kumar Sharma 938-939 Shri Ramen Deka 940-941 Shri Premdas 942 Shri Chandrakant Khaire 943-945 Shri S.P.Y. Reddy 946-947 Shri Madhusudan Yadav 948-949 Shri M. Krishnasswamy 950-951 Shri Kaushalendra Kumar 952 Shri K. Sudhakaran 953-954 Shri Govind Prasad Mishra 955-956 Dr. Prabha Kishor Taviad 957-958 Shri Kamal Kishor Commando 959-960 Shri Sushil Kumar Singh 961-962 Shri K.P. Dhanapalan 963 Dr. Vinay Kumar Pandey 964 Shri Bhakta Charan Das 965 Shri Pradeep Kumar Singh 967-968 ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING CANCELLATION OF SITTING OF LOK SABHA 741 21.03.2012 11 ANNEXURE – I Member-wise Index to Starred Questions 984 Member-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 985-990 ANNEXURE – II Ministry-wise Index to Starred Questions 991 Ministry-wise Index to Unstarred Questions 992 21.03.2012 12 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.