SPECIAL MENTIONS The following matters of Urgent Public Importance were raised/laid in the House with the permission of the Chair during the Session: Sl.No. Date 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 28 02 do do 29 02 do 01 03 do 01 03 Raghavji Bisi Sanatan Onkar Singh Lakhawat Nana Deshmukh mati Shabana Azmi Eduardo Faleiro Dr. Biplab Dagupta Janeshwar Mishra Drupad Borgohain mati Jayanthi Natarajan Gurudas Das Gupta Killing of police officials by terrorists in Bastar District of Madhya Pradesh. Kalahandi and poverty alleviation schemes. Impact of drought like conditions in Rajasthan. Need to change the name of Agricultural Science Centre in view of its nature of working. Withdrawal of two volumes of the "Towards Freedom" series by Indian Institute of Historical Research. Nation wide fear and insecurity amongst the public due to recent bomb blasts. Serious situation in Assam created by ULFA. Urgent need to withdraw T.V. advertisements of private liquor and scooter companies that misuse and misrepresent fictitious figures from the Indian Armed Forces. Recent decision of the CVC to order probe and the reaction thereof. Grave drought condition in Gujarat. 003 001 005 009 026 008 005 006 016 009 014
12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. do do do 02 03 do 02 03 Brahmakumar Bhatt S. Peter Alphonse Jibon Roy Balwant Singh Ramoowalia Ramachandra Khuntia R. Margabandu Onward L. Nongtdu Jalaludin Ansari S. Peter Alphonse Dr. M.N. Das J. Chitharanjan Privatization of Salem Steel Plant, Tamil Nadu. Dharna by All India Regional Rural Bank Employees Association regarding their demands. Large scale clandestine smuggling of fake Indian currency, stamp papers, from across IndoPak Border and their seizure in the Southern parts of the country. Fall in prices of Copra and coconut due to the inordinate delay in announcing the support price of milling copra for the year and difficulties being faced by the coconut cultivators. Withdrawal of security cover of some prominent political leaders by State Governments. Indirect threat by U.S. Secretary of State regarding India's nuclear programme. 009 008 003 014 003 016 006 008 001 008 22. 23. do Pradhan Satish Steady decline of the Vishwa Bharati University and the need to take effective measures to bring the university back to health. 012 006 24. 25. 15 03 Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav Satish Pradhan Migration of Riyang tribals from Mizoram to Tripura due to atrocities being committed on them. 014 003
26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. do do do do do 15 03 do do do do do Gurudas Das Gupta Onkar Singh Lakhawat Yadav Bisi Naresh Sanatan Solipeta Ramachandra Reddy Eduardo Faleiro Khagen Das Dr. Y. Lakshmi Prasad Bratin Prof. (mati) Bharati Ray Mehta mati Lalitbhai Sarla Increasing deaths due to Tuberculosis. Nonavailability of crop loan in Orissa. Killing of a Minister of Andhra Pradesh Government by Naxalites. Visit by the President of U.S.A. Urgent need for transit facilities for Northeastern States through Bangladesh, the area being a landlocked region. Need for Revival of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. The behaviour of a Judge at New Delhi Railway Station. Service rules for lady pilots of Indian Airlines. Unhygienic and reckless conditions prevailing in Bottling plants of soft drink companies causing health hazards. Irregularities in the Sankhya Vahini Project of Information Technology. Precarious power situation in Rajasthan. Disinvestment and related threats. Police brutality on students of Jamia Milia Islamia on 9 th April,. Pathetic conditions in the cyclone 002 009 010 009 007 045 006 005 019 057 017 059 024
39. Maheshwari affected areas in Orissa and inadequate rehabilitation work. 019 40. 41. 42. 43. do 16 03 do 17 04 Santosh Bagrodia Bratin Amar Singh Suresh Pachouri Ramachandra Khuntia Drought and famine conditions in Gujarat. Government's proposal to legislate on "Federal Crimes" enabling investigating agencies to investigate without permission of the State Governments. Role of C.B.I. in the cases against Laloo Prasad Yadav and mati Rabri Devi. 002 013 014 015 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. do do 18 04 do 19 04 Patel Ahmed Narendra Mohan Dr. Biplab Dasgupta Ram Deo Bhandary Nilotpal Basu R. Margabandu Arjun Singh Satishchandra Sitaram Pradhan Suresh Kalmadi Use of money power in the recent Rajya Sabha elections. Match fixing in Cricket in India. Improper arrangements to bring back the Haj pilgrims. Consequences due to crash in Sensex. Attack on churches in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Memorandum submitted by BHU old Students Association to the Prime Minister on 15 th March, demanding restoration of democratic character of BHU. Entry of Bangladeshi citizens into the voters' list of Assam. 009 028 007 014 010 016 004 004
52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. do 20 04 do do do do do do 24 04 Bratin Sanjay Nirupam Janeshwar Mishra Rama Shanker Kaushik Dr. Dasgupta Ravi Biplab Vayalar Pranab Mukherjee Bratin Prof. M. Sankaralingam Dr. Arun Kumar Sarma Shankar Roy Chowdhury Lalitbhai Mehta Anantray Devshanker Dave Vayalar Ravi Bachani Lekhraj Pradhan Satish Attack on cattle protectionists resulting in murder of citizens in Gujarat especially during scarcity and drought conditions. Atrocities on women by the police in the country. Recognition of the Janakinath Bhavan, Cuttack where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was born as a National Monument. Need to develop India as a maritime power. Communal violence in Varanasi. The recent killing of two Shiv Sena Shakha Pramukhs in Mumbai. Daylight murder of a of Bihar Legislative Assembly by the Coal Mafia. Engagement of child labour in trains. Suicide by a Scheduled Caste family in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. Sale of public assets without revaluation and without assessing replacement cost. Situation arising out of Government 019 003 004 013 011 006 005 006 006 004 005 002
64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. do do 25 04 do do do do 25 04 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Eduardo Faleiro Janeshwar Mishra Nirupam Ahluwalia Dr. M.N. Das Verma Sanjay S.S. Bratin Vikram Dipankar Mukherjee Vayalar Ravi Nagendra Nath Ojha Rama Shanker Kaushik Jibon Roy decision not to implement recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission concerning Central Government retirees. Sharp decline in the prices of coconut in Andhra Pradesh. The serious difficulties being faced by the Institute of Gandhian Studies, Varanasi due to non release of grants by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Need to provide assistance to brass exporters in Moradabad. Need to revamp and bifurcate H.F.C.L., Namrup. Agitation by Assistant Professors working on ad hoc basis in A.I.I.M.S. Indians in Pakistani Jails. Discharge of untreated effluent by factories located in Bangladesh into Mathabhanga and Churni rivers. Murderous attack on a senior journalist in Delhi. Nonrelease of funds to the Gram Panchayats for the years 199899 and 1999 as recommended by the Tenth Finance Commission. 005 002 009 035 022 005 005 025 018 007 043 006 017 021 78. do Problems being faced by telephone users/allottees and nonattending of complaints by Telecom Authorities in 008
79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. *86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 26 04 do do do do 26 04 do 27 04 do mati Geetha Vanga Dr. Manmohan Singh Rama Shanker Kaushik Drupad Borgohain Dr. Y. Radhakrishna Murty Prof. M. Sankaralingam Manoj Bhattacharya C. Ramachandraiah Solipeta Ramachandra Reddy K. Rama Mohana Rao time. Nonholding of Panchayat Elections by the State Governments every five years. Frauds in Public Sector Banks. Telecast of the Car Festival of Puri by Doordarshan. Water scarcity in the country, depletion of ground water and contamination of drinking water. Callous attitude of I.A.S. Officers towards a of Parliament. Protest by Handloom workers from Kerala. Need to take initiative by the Government in the interests of the Handloom sector. The recent statement made by the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid at the Ramlila grounds, Delhi. Strike by postal employees. Tension on the Kutch border. Delay in the passage of Women Reservation Bill. Killing of fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy. 015 003 004 012 037 004 050 015 (* Special Mentions from Sl. Nos.86 to 116 were permitted to be laid on the Table after taking the sense of the House.)
92. 93. do Ravi Shankar Prasad Retrenchment of workers in Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. Assault on senior army officers by J.N.U. students. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. do do do 28 04 do do N. Thalavai Sundaram Dr. M. N. Das Ramachandra Khuntia Narendra Mohan Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav J. Chitharanjan Rumandla Ramachandraiah Violation of the Delhi Master Plan. Plight of Indian Prisoners in various jails in Pakistan. Nonpurchase of Barrack Blankets through Association of Corporation and Apex Society of Handloom (ACASH) by Ministry of Defence. Nonpayment of wages to the casual Newsreaders of All India Radio. Free flow of fake currency notes and its impact on the economy. Removal of Jhuggi clusters with the help of Bulldozers resulting in hundreds of poor people becoming homeless. 99. 100 101 102 do do do Ahluwalia S. Vidhuthalai Virumbi S.S. Anantray Devshanker Dave Assault on a by Uttar Pradesh Police. Strike call by workers of Newspaper industry for revision of wages. Damage to crops due to hailstorm in Dharamsala and Kangra areas of Himachal Pradesh. 03 mati Sarla
103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 05 do do 03 05 do 08 05 do Maheshwari Sanjay Nirupam N. Thalavai Sundaram V.P. Duraisamy K.B. Krishnamurthy M. Venkaiah Naidu Eduardo Faleiro mati Ambika Soni Shatrughan Sinha Santosh Bagrodia Lajpat Rai Declining educational standards of Nalanda. Impact of prawn cultivation by multinational companies on the soil fertility in the coastal areas. Heavy losses to farmers of Andhra Pradesh due to refusal by FCI to procure grade I rice. Revival of Heavy Engineering Corporation, Ranchi. Impact of IndoNepal trade treaty on the Indian Acrylic Industry. Government s decision to impose a ban on People's War Group. Autonomy and independence of the Rajghat Samadhi Committee. Declaration of Orissa as a special category State. 111 112 113 114 do do do Prof. (mati) Bharati Ray Prof. M. Sankaralingam mati Saroj Dubey Rama Shanker Kaushik Shankar Release of Tamil fishermen from Sri Lankan jails. Decision of the Railway Board to raise the licence fee for small vendors running small food stalls at Railway Platforms. Lacunae in the Industrial (Development and Regulation) Act,
115 116 09 05 09 05 17 05 do do Roy Chowdhury Munavvar Hasan Balbir K. Punj Suresh Pachouri Sanjay Nirupam mati Jayaprada Nahata Kripal Parmar Anil Sharma mati Chandresh Kumari Ven'ble Dhammaviriyo 1951. Situation arising out of capture of 30 Indian members of the U.N. Peace keeping force by the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone. Insurance cover for crops and houses of farmers. Need to withdraw the Bill regarding Religious places and buildings passed by the U.P. Government. Distribution of honorary degrees on a large scale by the ViceChancellor of BHU. Soil Erosion due to river Ganges. 1809 do do Rama Shanker Kaushik Solipeta Ramachandra Reddy Killing of 15 labourers in Lakkhi Sarai District of Bihar. Misuse of forged SC/ST Certificates in Bihar. do 17 05 Rumandla Ramachandraiah Lajpat Rai Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao Misuse of funds meant for drought relief by the Government of Rajasthan. Anomaly in the pay scales of Officers of Indian Railways.
do do do do Eduardo Faleiro R.S. Gavai T.N. Chaturvedi Ramachandra Khuntia Miss Frida Topno Dr. M.N. Das Ranganath Misra Murder of a MLA in Dhanbad, Bihar. Killing of a Minister in Kashmir in a bomb blast. Harassment of minorities and their educational institutions in U.P. Deplorable condition of IDPL. Impact of Adulteration of Petrol, Milk and Medicines on the health of common man. do 17 05 do do do N. Thalavai Sundaram R. Margabandu Nagendra Nath Ojha Dr. Arun Kumar Sarma Dr. Manmohan Singh Prof. M. Sankaralingam Prof. M. Sankaralingam Killing of Tamil Fishermen on account of confusion in maritime agreement between India and Sri Lanka. Need for Legislative protection to innocent public hoodwinked by misleading/tricky advertisements in the media. Demand for the amendment of The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. Selling of kidneys in the Capital by farmers. Setback to steel sector in A.P. TOTAL:
do Mirza Abdul Rashid do Janeshwar Mishra do 17 05 do do do do Bratin Dr. Y. Lakshmi Prasad mati Sarla Maheshwari Rajiv Ranjan Singh Ravi Shankar Prasad Gopalsinh G. Solanki Lalitbhai Mehta S.S. Ahluwalia Ramdas Agarwal Dr. Mahesh Chandra Sharma do Dara Singh Chauhan Kuldip Nayyar
do Narendra Mohan 17 05 do Maulana Obaidullah Khan Azmi Manoj Bhattacharya Bratin Ramamuni Reddy Sirigi Reddy do mati Kum Kum Rai do S. Niraikulathan do P. Soundararajan C.O. Poulose Bratin Dr. Y. Lakshmi Prasad S.S.
Ahluwalia Dr. Y. Radhakrishna Murty N.R. Dasari