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218Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009availability. We have been encouraging imports, as I said, anddiscouraging exports.TDB/4E/6.25(Continued by 4E)SHRI SHARAD PAWAR (CONTD.): From the last one year, we havetotally banned rice export, other than Basmati. We have banned wheatexport. We have banned, except one or two small items which arerequired for Indian community, particularly in the Gulf, edible oils fromour side. So, we have now totally banned a number of items. And, thereare a number of items where we have practically removed 100 per centduty. We have done it because we want availability should be there inthe country. To ensure that the vulnerable sections of the country areprotected, the Government of India has given considerable support tothe Public Distribution System. An extremely important step in thisdirection has been to keep the Central issue price constant since theyear 2002. We have two prices. One is acquisition price from farmer. Thesecond is the issue price for the public distribution. These are twoprices, and practically, the issue price is constant for years together.But, the acquisition prices have been increasing. That has beenenhanced. The Minimum Support Price in the last five years has beenenhanced by practically up to 70 to 80 per cent. At the same time,thanks to the record production of last year, the Government procured arecord 58.53 million tonnes of food grains, i.e., 33.30 million tonnes ofrice and 25.23 million tonnes of wheat this year. As a result, the CentralPool Stock of wheat as on 1 st November, 2009 was 266.88 lakh tonnes.In 2009-10, the quantity of 129 lakh tonnes of rice has been procured till
219Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009first of December. I have briefed the House while this year we areexpecting less rice production because of the drought situation in certainStates, but still Punjab, Haryana, parts of the Western U.P., theseGovernments have taken tremendous efforts to save their paddy cropthis year. The Government of India has also supported them. We haveprovided them diesel subsidy. We have provided them additional powerand because of this, they could save their crop and that is why, at least,these two States or three States have definitely saved their paddy crop.That is why our paddy procurement, which has been started frompractically two months, is quite good and, as compared to last year, tilltoday, our procurement is a little higher. But, I don't expect similarsituation all over India because there are a number of other States whichhave been affected. Modification has been made to the order issuedunder the Essential Commodities Act to provide powers to the States tofix and enforce the stock limit for several essential commodities. So,these are some of the quick decisions which have been taken.Sir, the hon. Members would recall that in the last Session of theHouse, we had discussed the situation arising because of poor monsoonthat we experienced last year. Since then, we have received fullinformation about the monsoon of the current year. The monsoon hasended with overall shortage of 23 per cent. It is reported that it hasbeen the worst monsoon since 1972. The State Governments havedeclared 316 districts in 13 States, namely, Assam, Himachal Pradesh,Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka,Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh to be droughtaffected or scarcity or drought-like conditions. (Contd. by 4f-kgg)
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