Play Audio Script Mr.Vice Chairman. Sir , I would like to speak on this Bill in the interest of the rapid economical growth /in the country. If the nation grows from strength to strength economically leading to ERADICATION of the degrading and disheartening poverty of the people of India, the workers of this nation would also benefit and they would also go above/ the poverty line.           Sir, I would like...

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  Play Audio Script Mr.Vice-Chairman, Sir, the Plantations Labour Bill, 2003, was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on/the 6th March, 2003/. Then, it was referred to a Joint Committee of both the House/ and this Joint Committee submitted its report in 2005.  Now, we are discussing this Bill today/ after six years of the submission of the report by the Joint Committee.  Hence, the Bill would not be able to/ deal...

      Play Audio Script  Madam Deputy Chairman, the main question for consideration of this House is whether the increase in the passenger FARES and / in the freights that has been proposed by the Railway Minister should have the support of this House or not./ I have been listening with some interest to the speeches so far made and they are all UNANIMOUS on one/ point, namely, that there...

      Play Audio Script May, I Madam, draw the attention of the hon. Minister to an important Committee set up by the Government of/ India in 1998 under the chairmanship of Mr. Neogi who are asked to enquire into the/ various problems of railway-road co-ordination? Their PRELIMINARY report appeared sometime ago, and it was even circulated to all/ the State Governments for their opinion.  But to my regret, I...

  Play Audio Script If you SCAN the history of the railways in this country, you will see that it was the Presidency/ towns- Bombay, Madras and Calcutta—that determined the PATTERN or our railways as well as of our industrial and economic growth./ The British, when they landed in this country, established trading centres called forts.  In Chennai it was Fort St. George;/ in Kolkata it was Fort St. Williams and...

  Play Audio Script Mr. Vice-Chairman, I was speaking about the need for developing a strong U.N. delegation. I wish that the/ hon. Prime Minister would give his attention to this aspect of the matter, particularly in view of the fact that/ in the next DECADE or two, politics all over the world would take on a COMPLEX character and it is / necessary that men are trained from now on...

  Play Audio Script Mr. Vice-Chairman, Sir, I rise to support the plantations Labour (Amendment) Bill brought up by the Government for our/ consideration.           Sir, the sad PLIGHT of millions of TOILING people who sweat on various plantations in the country to earn/ valuable foreign exchange for us is really too much to be expressed in words.  These workers live and work in / most inhuman and PITIABLE conditions.  These...