Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, from July 1991 up to Feb. 1993, within a matter of one and a half years they have presented three budgets. Every time the freight rates have gone up by more than 35 per cent which makes all the difference for the country’s economy and the common man’s plight. This causes escalation in the cost of the goods. There were 16 items under special consideration of which...

It has given me a great pleasure to be once again in your midst to inaugurate the ninth annual meetings of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. Important as the work of this society is my attachment with it has an element of personal interest. It was in 1947 that the society was started and as minister for food and agriculture I was asked to be its first president. It was...

Mr. Chairman Sir, the Hon’ble minster of Railways presented the Railway budget on Feb. 24. It is general impression of the people about the budget general impression of the people about the budget that this budget is a directionless and hopeless one and will have negative results. It would increase inflation, will have negative results. It would increase inflation, encourage price rise and create extra burden on poor people particularly on...

Mr. Chairman Sir, I rise to support the railway budget. The hon’ble railway minster Shri Jeffery Safief has presented this. Budget in the backdrop of severe financial crunch as a result of the dwindling budgetary support. Resource generation for the development is the main thrust. It is the focus of the budget. He has kept the increase in the passenger and freight fares to the inescapable minimum. Otherwise the acute financial...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, sir after independence the govt. has on many occasions, used even the Rashtriya Swam Sewak to maintain law and order in this metropolitan city. It has been used to control traffic on the roads. The service of the organization has been sought on other places also for different purposes. It does not mean that they should be deprives of their rights. It is not proper; we cannot accept...

In the past year and more so the year before that, our economic growth performance was somewhat unsatisfactory chiefly due to the vagaries of the capricious monsoons. It is imperative for us now to raise the rate of growth of the economy in the coming year in order to achieve a conditions, it is certainly not enough to achieve a higher level of national income if the vast majority of the...

Assam is primarily an agricultural State. Agriculture sustains about 72 per cent of its population but only one third of its area is cropped. The plains here are for growing rice, wheat, sugarcane, cotton banana, tobacco etc. On the hills, apart from great potential of growing variety  of fruits, we have colorful orchids and among the commercial crops tea, jute sugarcane cotton and potato and ginger are important. With these favorable...

The Govt. of India, as you are well aware, has for long postulated that any effective system of pest control must necessarily be an integrated system which takes into account all these aspects and must be carried to the fields. Through an efficient and forceful extensions agency. This seminar is therefore, particularly timely and welcome since it concerns itself with two of the most important crops sown in our country, rice...