1 Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009 SSS-AKG/11.00/1A ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

186Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009price of diesel and petrol, end the discrimination in allotment and followthe self- reliant policy in agriculture. So, this is my demand. Thank you,Sir.(Ends)THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (PROF. P.J. KURIEN): Now, Shri Naresh Gujral.Please take only five minutes. ...(Interruptions)...SHRI NARESH GUJRAL: You give me five minutes and I will live with it.THE VICE-CHAIRMAN: Because I will tell you the problem. In the"Others Category" there are nine speakers and only 29 minutes. Thatmeans, almost three minutes. But, I am allowing extra two minutes....(Interruptions)... Yes, generous.SHRI NARESH GUJRAL (PUNJAB): Sir, the last few months havewitnessed an unprecedented rise in the prices of essential commodities.While the Government may be sitting smug with the overall official lowinflation figures, the fact of the matter is that the Aam Aadmi, who thisGovernment claims to represent, is finding it difficult to keep his bodyand soul together. The Government by patting itself on the back with a7 per cent growth rate is very, very happy. Congratulations. But, whatabout the man on the street who is literally starving due to the highprices of food?Sir, more than 50 per cent of our population survive on just four orfive food items, atta or rice, dal, onion, edible oil and a little bit of saltand sugar. The prices of all these commodities have gone up from 20per cent to 120 per cent in the past one year. Congratulations to theGovernment for the management of the economy!
187Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009Sir, according to the Planning Commission, an average person inthe village requires a minimum intake of 2400 Calories of food per day,and those living in urban areas require 2100 Calories per day. I ask you,Sir, given the current prices of food stuff, how does he get it? It is amatter of national shame that more than half of the population remainsmalnourished. Sir, according to the Global Hunger Index that rankscountries on a scale of 100 with 0 being the best score, India has a GHIof 23.9 which is an alarming value. We stand next only to Bangladesh,Ethiopia and Pakistan. These are last year's figures. With the currentprices, we are, perhaps, below them even.Sir, in reply to a debate on the sugar prices, the hon. FinanceMinister said that the prices are going up because there is a mismatchbetween demand and supply. We all know that. We also know that wehave had a drought year, but does that mean that we let our poorstarve?Sir, to my mind, the only solution to meet this challenge is toincrease our food production, and this would be possible only if wemake farming a lucrative profession or business. According to theDeputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, a recent National Surveyhas shown that 49 per cent of the farmers would not like to be infarming given a choice. Sir, our farmers are perennially in debt, andmany unfortunately resort to suicide to end their misery. This is sobecause of the myopic policies of successive Governments that haveonly given lip-service to the interests of the farmer.Sir, to improve our farmer's plight, we need to incentivise him. Weneed to give him better MSP, and this MSP should be realistically
Page 1:
1Uncorrected/ Not for publication-
Page 4 and 5:
Page 6 and 7:
Page 8 and 9:
Page 10 and 11:
Page 12 and 13:
Page 14:
Page 17 and 18:
Page 19 and 20:
Page 21 and 22:
Page 23 and 24:
Page 25 and 26:
Page 27 and 28:
Page 29 and 30:
HK/1e/11.2029Uncorrected/ Not for p
Page 31 and 32:
Page 33 and 34:
Page 35 and 36:
Page 37 and 38:
Page 39 and 40:
Page 41 and 42:
Page 43 and 44:
Page 45 and 46:
Page 47 and 48:
Page 49 and 50:
Page 51 and 52:
Page 53 and 54:
Page 55 and 56:
Page 57 and 58:
Page 59 and 60:
Page 61 and 62:
Page 63 and 64:
Page 65 and 66:
Page 67 and 68:
Page 69 and 70:
Page 71 and 72:
Page 73 and 74:
Page 75 and 76:
Page 77 and 78:
Page 79 and 80:
Page 81 and 82:
Page 83 and 84:
Page 85 and 86:
Page 87 and 88:
Page 89 and 90:
Page 91 and 92:
Page 93 and 94:
Page 95 and 96:
Page 97 and 98:
Page 99 and 100:
Page 101 and 102:
101Uncorrected/ Not for publication
Page 103 and 104:
Page 105 and 106:
Page 107 and 108:
Page 109 and 110:
Page 111 and 112:
Page 113 and 114:
Page 115 and 116:
Page 117 and 118:
Page 119 and 120:
Page 121 and 122:
Page 123 and 124:
Page 125 and 126:
Page 127 and 128:
Page 129 and 130:
Page 131 and 132:
Page 133 and 134:
Page 135 and 136: 135Uncorrected/ Not for publication
Page 185: 185Uncorrected/ Not for publication
Page 235: 235Uncorrected/ Not for publication
show all

1 Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009 SSS-AKG/11.00/1A ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?