lOKSABHA DEBATES TENTH SERIES (VOL. XLIII No.2) AUGUST, 1, 1995 FOURTEENTH SESSION TENTH lOK SABHA LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI CONTENTS Tenth Series Vol. XLIII. Fourteenth Session. 199511917 (Saka) No.2. Tuesday. August 1. 19951 Sravana 10. 1917 (Saka) Column ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS: ·Starred Questions Nos. 21 and 23 to 25 1-20 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS: ·Starred Questions Nos. 22 and 26 to 40 20-39 Unstarred Questions Nos. 168 to 397 39-286 RE : MEDICAL AID TO PRISIONERS 286-294 DELHI RENT CONTROL BILL 294-302 Shri Kalka Das 294 Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 294-295 Shri Sharad Yadav 295-296 Shri Nathu Ram Mirdha 297-298 Shri Chandra Shekhar 298 Shri Som Nath Chatte~ee 299 Shri Chandrajit Yadav 299-300 Shri Lal K. Advani 300 Shri S.B. Chavan 300-302 Shri Mahesh Kanodia 301 Shri Vinay Kaliyar 301-302 PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE 303 ASSENT TO BILLS 304 BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Fifty-Second Report- Presented 304 STANDING COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS Fifteenth Report and Minutes - Presented 304-305 STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-eighth Reports - Laid 305 DEMANDS FOR EXCESS GRANTS (GENERAL). 1992-93 - PRESENTED 306 MATTERS UNDER RULE 377 306-310 (i) Need to Improve air Services in the North Eastem Region Shri Sijoy Krishna Handique 306-307 (ii) Need to review the policy of rural electrification and also to provide adequate funds for this purpose Shri Janardan Misra 307 • The sign • marked above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the ftoor of the House by thaI Member. (iii) Need for according early approval to Coastal Zone Management Plans of Maharashtra Shri Ram Naik 308 (iv) Need for creation of a separate Uttarakhand State Shri Manjay Lal 308 (v) Need to Sal'!ction adequate funds for protecting Tamil Nacu Coastline Shri P. Kumarasamy 308-309 (vi) Need for doubling of railway line between Mangalore and Shornur Shri Mullappally Ramchandran 309 (vii) Need to start ICDS projects in earthquakes hit Satara and Sangli Distircts of Maharashtra Shri Prithviraj D. Chavan 309-310 UNION DUTIES OF EXCISE (DISTRIBUTION) AMENDMENT BILL, AND ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF EXCISE (GOODS OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL Motion to Consider Shri Ramesh Chennithala 311-315 Shri Hari Kishore Singh 315-317 Prof. Susanta Chakraborty 317-320 Shri Kashiram Rana 320-322 Shri Devendra Prasad Yadav 322-324 Shri Ramashray Prasad Singh 324-325 Shri Mohan Singh (Deoria) 325-327 Prof. Rasa Singh Rawa! 327-329 Shri Brij Kishore Tripathy 329-331 Shri Mohan Rawale 331-332 Shri Anna Joshi 332-333 Shri M.V. Chandrashekhara Murthy 234-339 Clauses 2 to 5 and 1 Motion to Pass, as amended Shri M.V. Chandrashekhara Murthy 339-346 ADDmONAL DUTIES OF EXCISE (GOODS OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL 340 Clauses 2 to 4 and 1 Motion to Pass, as amended Shri M. V. Chandrashekhara Murthy 340-341 WORKMEN'S COMPENSAT~ON (AMENDMENT) BILL 341-360 -As passed by Rajya Sabha Motion to Consider Shri P.A. Sangma 341-343 Shri Virendra Singh •• 343-346 Shri Basudeb Acharia 347-352 Shri A. Char1es 352-354 Shri George Fernandes 354-360 LOK SABHA DEBATES LOKSABHA SHRI C.K.JAFFER SHARIEF: Sir, according to the figure that I have, the offer was for 20,149 wagons in February, 20,073 in March, 19,652 in April and 18,362 in May. The Tuesday, August " 1995/ Sravana 10, 1917 (Saka) wagons supply was 19,906 in Match, 19,611 inApril and (The Lok Sabha met at two minutes past 18,362 in May. These are the figures about the \'I(agon Eleven of the Clock) supply. The figure of loading was 17,541 in February, [MR. SPEAKER in the Chaj~ 17,302 in March, 17,190 in April and 16,546 in may. In February, 1,940 wagons left empty, that is without loading, ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 2,604 wagons left without loading in March, 2,421 wagons without loading in April and 2,444 wagons left without loading in May. [English] SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA :Then there was no backlog Shortage ofWag~ms + in March 1995 .. *21. SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA : SHRI CK JAFFER SHARIEF : Now there is no backlog of March. SHRI HARADHAN ROY: • SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA : The Ministry of Railways Will the Minister of RAilWAYS be pleased to state: have decided to scale down the wagon procurement. When (a) Whether Coal India Limited (Cll) is unable to meet the Eighth Fjve Year Pia" was finalised, it was decided to its coal movement target due to the shortage of wagons; acquire 1,50,000 of four wheeler units during the Eighth Five Year Plan. May I know from the Hon. Minister whether (b) if so, the details thereof; and there is shortage cf wagon fleet in the Railways? This is (c) the steps taken by the Government to provide part (a) of the question. adequate wagons to Coal India Limited for the coal Part (b) of the question is this, Previously, that is prior to movements? 1993-94, there was a system of placing orders with the THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS (SHRI C.K. JAFFER Wagon India and the Wagon India used to distribute it to SHAF3IEF): (a) and (b) No, Sir. During April to June '95, the public sector and the private sector. Suddenly now, the Railways lifted 42.86 million tonnes of revenue earning Ministry of Railways have changed this policy which was coal which is 0.70 million tonnes more than the target. In approved by the Cabinet in the year 1973 - it was a good respect to Coal India Limited, against a loading target of . policy - and they have decided to have open tender system_ 17247 wagons per day, 16688 wagons were loaded, thus May I kf!Ow from the Hon. Minister as to the number of achieving a satisfaction of 96.7 per cent wagons the Ministry of Railways have placed with the Wagon India, the percentage of the order and the number (c) Railways have taken measures to optimise loading of wagons earmarked tor open tender? potential through augmentation of wagon fleet and intensive monitoring of movement of loaded and empty rakes in the Part (c) of the question is this. Will the Hon. Minister coal circuits as at the terminal ends. inform this House? SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA : Sir, the growth cf the MR. SPEAKER: Mr. Acharia, time is running out. Please economy depends on the transportation of raw material put the question. from points of raw material to the finished goods SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA: When this policy was manufacturing units. There have been large scale changed and when the order was placed with the Hindustan complaints from coal industry as well as other industries in Development Corporation by open tender, whether this regard to non-availability of wagons. Recently, the President Organisation has failed to supply the required number of of Fertilizer Industries Association, Shri Prakash Narain \'48gons for which the order was placed by the Ministry of has threatened that all the fertilizer units would be closed RAilWAYS at a reduced rate? down because of non-availability of wagons. This is also true in regard to the coal industry. SHRI C.K. JAFFER SHARIEF: Sir, the Supplementary ·Questions are totally not connected with the main question. Is it a fact that in the month of March, the initial backlog in placement of wagons at collieries was 6696? I am talking SHRI BASUDEB ACHARIA: Part ·c· of my about the backlog. supplementary is very important which is pertaining to the main question. In BCCl, it was 9021; in CCL, it was 16,281. May I know from the Hon. Minister whether this backlog has bee 1 SHRI CK JAFFER SHARIEF: Sir, the main question is cleared after March 19957 with regard to offering 01 wagons to Coal India Limited. 3 AUGUST 1, 1995 Oral Answers 4 HowaIIar, Sir, this issue has been raised repeatedly in this The third part of Supplementary is since the daily House and also in the other House. demand of Cil is 18.260 wagons this year, whether the Minister is aware of this figure or not? If so, how the Ministry The House is weH aware that the Railway Budget is a is going to meet the demand? ~ Budget. When the budgetary ~rt comes down, naturally the Government will have to manage within Many factories have been closed in several areas due the resources that are avaHable and that is why, the Railway to non-availability of coal. So I would like to know the Budget became a need-based Budget. Wagons have never number of condemned wagons and their replacement for been In shortage. The question was of Intensive utilisation the last three years.The figures will indicate whether there of our asset which we have done and I have not found any is shortage or excess of wagons. This is my question. sort of complaint that there is shortage of wagons . SHRI C.K. JAFFER SHARIEF: Sir, I have already given (IntemJptions) .... Now, we have been seeing that there is the figures with regard to the demand and supply position. lot of demand State which wants to augment from every With regard to the condemnation of the wagons etc., that is their power sector. There is going to be acquisition of more an annual feature of our renewal and replacement as the Even anybody asking - even the wagon wagons. Without aged ones will get condemned and we place order for the Industry did ask us - In this year's Budget, we have not new ones to replace them.