STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS The following Statements by Ministers were made/laid during the Session: 1. 21-10-2008 "India's Civil Nuclear Energy Initiative." Shri Pranab Mukherjee 2. 22-10-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-second Report of the Committee on Defence. 3. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred Seventy-seventh and One Hundred Eighty-fifth Reports of the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests. 4. -do- Successful launch of CHANDRAYAAN-1 Spacecraft, India's first unmanned scientific mission to the Moon. 5. 22-10-2008 23-10-2008 Shri A.K. Antony Shri Kapil Sibal Shri Prithviraj Chavan 0-02 "Recent developments in Sri Lanka". Shri Pranab Mukherjee 0-41 32
6. 23-10-2008 Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Twenty-first Report of the Committee on External Affairs. Shri V. Narayanasamy 7. -do- Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Thirty-fifth Report of the Committee on Rural Development. 8. -do- Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Thirty-eight Report of the Committee on Rural Development, pertaining to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. -do- Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar 33 9. -do- Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Fifty-fifth Report of the Committee on Information Technology. Shri Anand Sharma 10. -do- "National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP)". Shri Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 0-04
11. 24-10-2008 Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Twenty-sixth, Thirty-first and Thirty-fifth Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment. 12. -do- Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Standing Committee on Coal and Steel. 13. -do- Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Twenty-sixth Report of the Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers. Shri A.R. Antulay Shri Ram Vilas Paswan Shri V. Narayanasamy 14. 11-12-2008 * Recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal 8-54 14. -do- Status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. Shri V. Narayanasamy 34 * Converted into a full fledged discussion.
15. 12-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirty-sixth Report of the Committee on Railways. 16. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Fifty-ninth and Sixty-seventh Standing Committee on Finance. 17. 15-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Hundred and Sixty-eighth and Hundred and Eighty-eighth Reports of the Committee on Human Resource Development. 18. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-fifth and Thirty-fourth Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment. Shri R. Velu Shri V. Narayanasamy Shrimati D. Purandeswari Dr. Rameshwar Oraon 35
19. 16-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-ninth Report of the Committee on Defence. 20. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth, Two Hundred and Fourth and Two Hundred and Eighth Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry. 21. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Sixty-third Report of the Committee on Finance. 22. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Ninth Report of the Departmentrelated Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources. 23. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twentieth Report of the Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas. Shri A.K. Antony Shri Raghunath Jha Shri Prem Chand Gupta Shri Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav Shri Dinsha J. Patel 36
24. 17-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-second and Thirty-sixth Standing Committee on Rural Development. Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 25. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred Eighty sixth, One Hundred Eighty-seventh, One Hundred Ninetyfifth and One Hundred Ninety-sixth Reports of the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests. Shri Kapil Sibal 37 26. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred Thirtieth and One Hundred Thirty-second Reports of the Committee on Home Affairs. Dr. Shakeel Ahmad 27. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth Standing Committee on Textiles. Shri E.V.K.S. Elangovan
28. 17-12-2008 Status of Implementation of components of Bharat Nirman relating to Ministry of Rural Development. 29. -do- Status of Implementation of Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) 30. -do- Status of Implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 31. -do- "Revision of Pay Scales of Teachers in Universities and Colleges." 32. 18-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Seventieth Report of the Committee on Finance. 33. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Two Hundred and fourth Report of the Committee on Human Resource Development. Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh -do- -do- Shrimati D. Purandeswari Shri G.K. Vasan Dr. M.S. Gill 38
34. 18-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-third Report of the Committee on Public Grievances, Law and Justice and One Hundred Eighty-ninth Report of the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests. 35. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twentieth Report of the Committee on External Affairs. 36. 19-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirty-seventh Report of the Committee on Agriculture and Twenty-first and Twenty-third Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution. Shri Prithviraj Chavan Shri Anand Sharma Shri Sharad Pawar 39
37. 19-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirty-third Report of the Committee on Coal and Steel. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan 38. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Two Hundred and Sixth, Two Hundred and Seventh and Two Hundred and Tenth Standing Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. 39. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-eighth Report of the Committee on Labour. Shri Mahavir Prasad 40 Shri V. Narayanasamy 40. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Eighty-sixth Report of the Committee on Commerce and Industry. Shri Ashwani Kumar
41. 22-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth Reports of the Committee on Energy. 42. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second Standing Committee on Coal and Steel. 43. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-seventh, Thirty-second and Thirty-third Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment. 44. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development. Shri Sushilkumar Sambhajirao Shinde Shri Sis Ram Ola Shrimati Meira Kumar Shrimati D. Purandeswari 41
45. 23-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred-fourteenth and One Hundred-seventeenth Reports of the Departmentrelated Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture. Shri T. R. Balu 46. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Ninety-fifth, One Hundred-fourth, One Hundred-eighth, One Hundred-thirteenth and One Hundred-nineteenth Reports of the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture. 47. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Ninety-eighth Report of the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture. Shrimati Ambika Soni 42 Shri V. Narayanasamy 48. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Twenty-fifth Report of the Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. -do-
49. 23-12-2008 Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the One Hundred Eighty-third and One Hundred Ninety-first Reports of the Committees on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests. 50. -do- Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the Thirty-first Report of the Committee on Coal and Steel. 51. -do- Status of Implementation of Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) Shri Prithviraj Chavan Shri Santosh Bagrodia Shri V. Narayanasamy 43 52. -do- Status of Implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). -do- 53. -do- Statement on the circumstances leading to the death of Shri Hemant Karkare and other officers of the Mumbai Police. Shri P. Chidambaram Total: 1