~_ VoL XXXV, No.:!2 j Wednesday, August 24,1994 Bhadra 2, 1916 (Saka) LOK SABRA DEBATES (Englis_b Version) Eleventh Session (Tenth Lok Sabha) ............ ~ --PAJ"R-Ll-A-M~ENT-- LlHaARY . • <") ........... , No ..........~...... i ,.., ,.~ ... _. _.. \).:.q .. eu::--:.:::__---- (Vol. XXXV contains Nos . .21 to 24) LOKSABHASECRETARiAT . NEWDam Price: Rs. 50.00 [ORIGINAL ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN ENGLISH VERSION AND ORIGINAL HINDI PROCEEDINGS INCLUDED IN HINDI VERSION WILL BE TREATED AS AUTHORITATIVE AND NOT THE TRANSLATION THEREOF.] CONTENTS [Tenth Series, Vol. XXXV, Eleventh Session, 1994/1916 (Saka)] No. 22, Wednesday, August 24, 199418hadra 2, 1916 (Saka) CoLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions: ·Starred Question Nos.: 421 to 425 1-42 Written Answers to Questions: ·Starred Question Nos.: 426 to 440 43-119 Unstarred Question Nos.: 4131 to 4287and 4289 to 4323 119-486 .Statement correcting Answer to Unstarred Question No. 1521 dated August 3,1994 Re: Funds to Maharashtra from National Renewal Fund 486-488 Threat to Security of India in view of reported Possession of Nuclear Bomb by Pakistan 491-506 Shri Chandrajeet Yadav 491 Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 493 Shri Sharad Yadav 496 Shri Saifuddin Choudhury 498 Shri Indrajit Gupta 498 Shri P.G. Narayanan 501 Shri Chandra Shekhar 501 Shri Ramesh Chennithala 503 Shri P.C. Chacko 504 Shri Vidyacharan Shukla 505 Alleged Misuse of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act by various States 506-521 Shri Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi 506 Shri Ram Vilas Paswan 508 Shri Lal K. Advani 510 Shri Somnath Chatte~ee 511 Shri Sharad Yadav 513 Shri Bhogendra Jha 514 Shri E. Ahamed 515 Shri Yaima Singh Yumnam 516 Dr. Mumtaz Ansari . 517 The sign + marl(ed above the nam& of a Member Indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (i) (ii) CoLUMNS Shri O. Venkateswara Rao 518 Shri Hari Kishore Singh 518 Shri Chitta Basu 519 Shri Vidyacharan Shukla 520 Papers Laid on the Table 522-528 Messages from Rajya Sabha 528,529 588 Committee on Petitions 529 Sixteenth Report - Presented Standing Committee on Transport and Tourism 529 Eleventh Report - Laid Matters under Rule 3n 530-537 (i) Need to open early a new post office at Pathayakad in Kerala Prof. Savithri Lakshmanan 530 (ii) Need to provide stoppages of Vanchinad Express at Changanacherry, Tiruvalla, Chengannur, Mavelikara, Kayamkulam and Varkala Railway Stations in Kerala Prof. P.J. Kurien 530 (iii) Need for early completion of West Coast Water- ways work in Kerala Shri Pal a K.M. Mathew 531 (iv) Need to provide concessions to industries for industrial development of Bundelkhand region Shri Rajendra Agnihotri 532 (v) Need to merge Kashi Nath Seth Bank, Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh) with some nationalised bank 3hri Chinmayanand Swami 533 (vi) Need to provide financial assistance to State Government of Uttar Pradesh for providing relief to the people affected by severe floods in Ghatampur, Kanpur Oehat district Shri Kesri Lal 534 (vii) Need to expedite exchange of enclaves between Bangladesh and India in terms of Indira-Mujib Agreement (1974)· Shri Chitta Basu 535 CoLUMNS (viii) Need to provide aid to Haryana Government for providing compensation to the village Rohnat for the losses suffered during tl19 first war of Independence Shri Janghir Singh 536 Motion Re: Consideration of Twenty-Eighth and Twenty- Ninth Reports of Erstwhile Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Report of National Commission for Scheduled Castes 538-571, and Scheduled Tribes 573-588, 589-632 Shri Anadi Charan Das 538 Shri G.M.C. Balayogi 555 Shri Chhedi Paswan 566 Shri Prem Chand Ram 575 Kumari Sushila Tiriya 581 Shri Ratilal Varma 589 Shri Ramashray Prasad Singh 599 Prof. P. J. Kurien 603 Shri Rup Chand Murmu 611 Shri Manjay Lal 616 Shri Dattatraya ~aru 620 Shri B. Rajaravl Varma 628 Statement by Minister 571-572 Ambush of an Assam Rifles Column in Manipur by underground elements Shri P. M. Sayeed 589 Motion Re: Contempt of the House of some persons from the visitors' gallery - Adopted 632-634 Constitution (Eighty-Fifth Amendment) Bill 588 As passed by Rajya Sabha - Laid LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA countries to whom these are being ~rled; and (d) the amount ot foreign exchange Wednesday, August 24, 1994/ spent on import and eamed from export Bhadra 2, 1916 (Saka) of these fertilizers during the last two years? The Lok Sabha met at [Eng/ish] Eleven of the Clock THE MINIstER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTI- LIZERS AND MINISTER OF STATE IN [MR. SPEAKER in. the Chaitl THE MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND MINISTER OF STATt;: IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTROHICS AND DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN DEVE- LOPMENT (SHRI EDUARDO FALEIRO): ORAL ANSWERS TO to the QUESTIONS (a) (d). A Statement Is laid on Table of the House. [Translation} STATEMENT ImportlExport of Fertilizers ca) to (~. Urea, Oi-Ammonium Phosphate (OAP) and Muriate of Potash + (MOP) are the major fetllizers Which are 421. SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: imported In the country. The main sources SHRI A. ASOKRAJ: of imports are: Will ttle Minister of CHEMICALS Urea: CIS, Sa... Arabia, Qatar, Abu~ AND FERTIUZERS be pleased to state: Dhabi, Kuwait. Ubya. Indonesia. Romania and Bangladesh. (a) whether variQua types of fetilizers are being imported as well as OAP: USA, Jordan, Mexico and CIS. exported; MOP: CIS, Gennany, Jordan, Canada (b) if 80, the details of the'tertllizers and 18rael. 'being ImpOrted and exported; The total quantilies of fertilizers (c) the names of the countries from Imported and the foreign exchange outgo which these are being Imported- and the on Impo~ (excluding imports on priVate 3 0nIJ Answem AUGUST 24, 1991- Oral Answets 4 account) during the years 1992-93 and 1993-94 are given below:- (Quantity in lakh tonnes) (Foreign exchange outgo in R.s. crores) Year Urea DAP MOP Qty. Foreign Qty. Foreign Qty. Foreign Exchange Exchange Exchange outgo on outgo on outgo on Govt. Nc Govt. Nc Govt. Nc 1992-93 18.57 665.64 15.57 654.50 17.61 488.19 1993-94 28.40 930.63 15.69 14.28 166.57 Generally, India does not export The quantities of fertilizers exported chemcial fertilizers. However, small (excluding movement to Bhutan) and the quantities are exported to Bhutan, Nepal foreign exchange eamed during the years and Bangladesh. 1992-93 and 1993-94 are as follows:- Year Commodity Country to Quantity Foreign exported which exported exchange exported (in tonnes) (in Rs. crores) 1992-93 Urea Nepal 15,000 6.44 1993-94 SSP Bangladesh 29,000 7.10 [Translation] are unable to use their full production capacity. In this direction Government SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: Mr. has neither any long-term policy nor has Speaker, Sir, India is mainly an agricultural its any fixed production target. country where majority of the peopte depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Because of the Govemments attitude, Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want the fertiliser sector has remained to know from the Govemment through neglected. The expansion of the plants you that if the existing fertilizer units of and their modemization have not been our country start producing fertilizers attended to and in the name of according to their fully capacity, how maintenance of plants, Government's much foriegn exchange we will be able money has been misused. Because of to save through it and by what planning the cynical attitude of the Depa!1ment, the Government will be able to fill the we have to import fertilizers to cater to gap between the demand and the supply. the domestic demands. On the other The second part of my question is what hand, the fertilizer plants are lying closed. is the cost of production of fertilizers The reason behind it is that these plants exported and imported. 5 Oral Answers BHADRA 2, 1916 (~~KA) Oral Answers 6 [English] do not have even one per cent. We have 'zero'. That is the position. That is the SHRI EDUARDO FALEIRO: Sir, I reason why our strategy is two-fold. want to place the full facts before the hon. Member and before the House. Our strategy is two-fold. Firstly, From 1950, roughly from the time of modemise, upgrade and put up new independence up to now, the installed 'plants, particularly, on the urea side; capacity and the production of fertilisers secondly, have joint ventures, where gas in the country have gone up more than is much cheaper and it is much cheaper hundred times. That is number one. in the Middle East and some other places. We are finalising a plant in the Number two, the hon. Member has private sector in Jordan; we have a very some misconceptions regarding the good experience of a plant in Senegal capacity utilisation. let me take this. As in the jOint sector. We have finalised far far as the public sector is concemed, Memorandum of Understanding in Iran the capacity utilisation of the plants is and Olnan recently. We are working on around 84 per cent. As far as the possibilities in Qatar and other Gulf areas cooperative sector is concemed, that is, and even areas outside Gulf. This is the KRIBHCO and IFFCO, it is more than strategy; these are the achievements; hundred per cent. That is around 108 per these are the problems. cent. [Translation] As far as the private sector is concerned, it is again more than hundred SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: My per cent. That is 104 per cent. That is second question is, whether the how the pOSition is. All of them are in productivity of soil is deteriorating by that bracket which I have mentioned. using synthetic fertilisers and if so, the This is the broad position.