 bill no 63 of  2014 the coconut growers (welfare) bill, 2014 by shri mk raghavan, mp a billto provide for certain welfare measures and other facilities for coconut growers and  for matters connected therewithbe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-fifth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1 this act may be called the coconut growers (welfare)  act, 20142 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—definitions5(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the state government,and in other cases, the central government;(b) "coconut" means coconut and its products including by-products and itsextracts;(c) "committee" means coconut development committee constituted under section 3;(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act; and5(e) "scheme" means coconut growers welfare scheme formulated under section 3 3 (1) the central government shall formulate a scheme for the welfare of coconut growers to be known as the coconut growers welfare schemecoconut growers welfare scheme(2) the scheme shall be administered by a committee to be known as the coconut development committee10(3) the committee shall consist of—(i) a chairperson, who shall be nominated by the central government; (ii) two members, representing the governments of coconut growing states, to be nominated by the central government;15(iii) two members representing coconut agriculturists who are growing coconut on large scale; and(iv) two members representing small coconut growers(4) the chairperson and members of the committee shall be nominated by the central government in such manner as may be prescribed20(5) the salary and allowances payable to, and other conditions of service of the chairperson and members of the committee, shall be such as may be prescribed4 without prejudice to the powers of the central government, the scheme shall include:—provisions to be made under the scheme25(i) framing of a comprehensive insurance scheme for loss or destruction ofcoconuts;(ii) providing technical and other kinds of specialized assistance to coconutgrowers;(iii) fixing minimum support price for coconuts; (iv) creation of adequate procurement and storage facility for coconuts;30(v) providing assistance for export of coconuts and its products; (vi) encouraging research in coconut related fields with a view to promote it asa healthy edible item;(vii) provision of adequate marketing facilities for coconut growers; and (viii) provision of electricity and water facilities to coconut growers at subsidizedrate355 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament by law in this behalf, provide adequate funds for the purposes of this actcentral government to provide funds power to make rules6 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act4045(2) every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of  the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement of objects and reasonscoconut is an important item in our daily life it is not only used as an important food item but also used as offering in temples it is regarded as a religious symbol also coconut and its by-products like coconut oil, coconut water are used in large quantities for various purposes but unfortunately, there are no adequate facilities for coconut growers coconut is grown only in few states in our country and also in very few other countries of the worldas such, there is adequate export potential for coconut which would earn us considerable foreign exchange coconut oil has a number of uses including preparation of certain medicines the coconut based industries are suffering from numerous problems including problems relating to its storage, marketing, procurement and exportthe bill seeks to overcome the problems mentioned above hence this billnew delhi;mk raghavanjune 30, 2014 financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for the formulation of a welfare scheme for coconut growers it also provides for the constitution of a committee to administer the scheme clause 4 provides for the activities to be undertaken under the scheme clause 5 provides that the central government shall provide adequate funds for the purposes of this act the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is likely to involve a recurring expenditure of about rupees one hundred crore per annuma non-recurring expenditure of about rupees  eight crore is also likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 6 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character lok  sabha———— a billto provide for certain welfare measures and other facilities for coconut growers and  for matters connected therewith————(shri mk raghavan, mp)gmgipmrnd—1311ls(s3)—23-07-2014