STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS The following Statements by Ministers were made/laid during the Session: No Date Subject matter of the Statement Name of the Minister Time taken HrsMts 1 13-02- Twenty-fourth Report of the Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 2 "Follow Up to Mumbai Terrorist Attack" 3 16-02- "Accident due to derailment of 2841 Howrah-Chennai Coromandal Express at Jajpurkeonjhar Road Station of East Coast Railway on the 13 th February, " Shri Sharad Pawar Shri Pranab Mukherjee 0-13 Shri Lalu Prasad 0-04 4 18-02- Shri Kapil Sibal
No HrsMts One Hundred Ninety-seventh Report of the Department-related on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests 5 "Situation in Sri Lanka" Shri Pranab Mukherjee 6 19-02- Two Hundred Second Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development 7 Thirty-first Report on Demands for Grants 2008-09 of the Department- Shrimati D Purandeswari Shri S Jaipal Reddy 0-18
No HrsMts related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development 8 Twenty-fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Urban Development 9 20-02- Two Hundred Sixth Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development 10 "National Ganga River Basin Authority" Kumari Selja Shrimati D Purandeswari Shri Namo Narain Meena
No HrsMts 11 24-02- Seventy-first Report of the Standing Committee on Finance Shri Prem Chand Gupta 12 Twenty-sixth Report of the Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice Shri K Venkatapathy 13 the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 14 Expansion of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) to include pension scheme for Widows 0-02
No HrsMts and Persons with Disabilities 15 the components of Bharat Nirman relating to the Ministry of Rural Development 16 25-02- Sixtieth and Sixty-eighth Reports of the Department-related on Finance Shri SS Palanimanickam 17 Twenty-second Report of the Shrimati Suryakanta Patil
No HrsMts 18 19 Standing Committee on Rural Development Eighty-fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Commerce and Industries 26-02- One Hundred Twenty-seventh, One Hundred Twenty-eighth, One Hundred Thirty-fourth and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Reports of the Department-related on Transport, Tourism and Culture Shri Jairam Ramesh Shri T R Baalu
No HrsMts 20 26-02- Thirty-second Report of the Standing Committee on Urban Development Kumari Selja 21 Two Hundred and Eighth Report of the Department-related on Human Resource Development Dr MS Gill 22 Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Reports of the Standing Committee on Health and Shrimati Panabaka Lakshmi 0-01
No HrsMts Family Welfare 23 First, Fourteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-fifth Reports of the Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Shri Prithviraj Chavan 24 26-02- One Hundred Ninety-eighth Report of the Department-related on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests Shri Prithviraj Chavan 25 Thirty-seventh Report of the Shri V Narayanasamy 32
No HrsMts Standing Committee on Rural Development 26 Sixty-ninth Report of the Standing Committee on Finance 27 Fifty-sixth and Fifty-eighth Reports of the Department-related on Information Technology Total: 0-48