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# The Parliamentary Debates Official Report In The Twenty-Eighth Session Of The Rajya   Sabha

Commencing on the 8th February,  1960 / the 19th Magha, 
 
1881 (Saka) 

## Rajya Sabha

Monday,    the  8th  February,  1960/ the 19th   
Magha,   1881   (Saka) 
The House met at half-past twelve of the cock, Mr. Chairman in the Chair. 

## President'S   Address  Laid   On The Table

SECRETARY: S.r, I beg to lay on the Table a copy    of the President's Address to both the Houses of Parliament assembled together on the lit 8th February, 
1960. 

{Text of   the President's   Address   in Hindi) 


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President's Address—      [ 8 FEB.  1960 ] 
Laid on the Table 
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(Text of the President's Address in English) 
Members of Parl:ament, once again, my privilege to welcome you to your labours in a new session of Parliament. 

2. In the year we leave behind, my Government and our people had been engaged, more than ever before, in their endeavours in nation-building. 

The needs and achievements in economic and social advance are understood by our people, in town and village, in increasing measure, as basic and vital to the improvement of their conditions and standards of living and as impor tant to their daily lives. 

3. The incursions into parts of the territory of the Union of India, across our traditional and well understood borders, by elements of Chinese forces have, however, deeply distressed our people and evoked legitimate and widespread resentment. 

They impose a greater strain on our resources and our nation-building endeavours. 

We regret and deplore these developments on   our   border.     They   have   resulted 
7. Members of Parliament:  I    have referred at some length to the situation that has developed on our border and to the consequences and problems thereof.    I need hardly say that in doing so I have reiterated the sentiments of our entire country and our people and their determination to defend our territory,    
from the disregard by China of the application of the principles, which it had been mutually agreed between us, should govern our relations. My Government have taken prompt and calculated measures, both defensive and diplomatic, to meet the threat to our sovereignty. 

4. My Government particularly dep-tore the unilateral use of force by our neighbour on our common frontier, where no military units of the Union were functioning. This is a breach of faith; but we may not lose faith in the principles which we regard as basic in the relations between nations. 

Defence, however, is effective   only   with national   unity   and strength   Our economic and industrial advance, the gearing of our production and   our  plans   to  greater endeavour and larger and speedier results, which will, enable the country to make available   to   itself   the   means   and   the resources for modern defence and, at the same time, help    the nation    to become  strong   
and   disciplined,    can alone render her secure. 

5. Members of Parliament: You have been 
8. Distressing as these Sino-Indian border developments have been, we may not, and we do not, relax our efforts for the planned development of our economy and our country. In point of fact, because of this situation, my Government are taking steps to speed up further, organise and streamline our economic development. 

9. The work on the preparation of the frame kept informed by the release, from time to time, of the correspondence between my Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of China, of the respective positions of our two countries in this matter. My Government have made it clear, beyond doubt, that they seek a peaceful approach in the settlement of outstanding matters. They have also stated and reiterated, equally clearly, that they will not accept the course, or the results of unilateral action or decisions, taken by China. My Government, therefore, pursues a policy both of a peaceful approach, by negotiation under appropriate conditions, and of being determined and ready to defend our country. 

6. This and the weight of world public and the outline of the Third Five Year Plan with its longer perspective and higher targets is making good progress. The objective of the Third Five Year Plan is to seek almost to double the national income, taking 1950-51 as the basic level, and to pay much greater attention to agricultural production and to our food requirements, to heavy machine building and to the development of basic resources such as steel, fuel and power. Small-scale and rural industries, the speedier and healthy opinion which is adverse to her action should, we hope, persuade China sooner than later to come to agreements in regard to our common frontiers which for long have been wall established by treaties, custom and usage. Thus, and thus alone, can friendly relations with our great neighbour which my development of our rural economy, and the healthy relationship between rural areas and industrial centres are among the main aims of the Plan. 

10. The Third Five Year Plan represents a Government and our people desire, become a reality and endure for our common good. The actions taken and the policy pursued by my Government, it may be hoped, will be adequate to convince China of both our policy and our determination. 

critical period in our national development. It aims at making our economy more self-reliant and capable of increasing and generating resources for its further and larger development. It calls for sustained efforts and enduranee of our people. Thus, our Third Plan will keep well in view, both its own power, fertilizer plants and Ht.ivy Machine Tools. 

14. The Chemical Industry has also withessed    appreciable advance.      An Intermediates Plant to provide the basic raw materials for the manufacture of dye stuffs, drugs, explosives and plastics is being established. 

15. The endeavours of our Railway developmental aspects as well as the requirements and the perspective of the Fourth Plan to follow. While we are grateful for external aid and loans, as necessary in the present stage of our development, we should, in our own interests, in consideration of those who have been our good and generous friends, and the needs of the underdeveloped areas of the world, strive to shed our dependence. 

11. The country's foreign exchange organisation to attain self-sufficiency in regard to essential equipment have enabled it not only to meet all the requirements of steam locomotives, coaches, wagons, signalling and lighting equipment, but also to yield a surplus for export. 

16. Mining activities in the public sector have increased considerably. The Geological Survey of India has been expanded to undertake search and intensive investigation in virgin areas in minerals essential to our expanding economy. 

position while it shows no deterioration, remains more or less unchanged. My Government, therefore, pursue a policy to create more favourable balance of trade and to earn more foreign exchange by strict control over imports and efforts to increase exports. It will be the endeavour of my Government to conserve our foreign resources and add to the volume of our invisible exports in which there still exists unutilised a vast and increasing field. 

17. A Statutory Oil and Natural Gas 
12. Our industrial production shows a Commission has been established. The search for and discovery of oil in different parts of the country continues. Sixty oil wells have been drilled in Nahorkatiya for the production of crude oil required for the two State-owned Refineries in Assam and Bihar and the construction of the Refinery  in Assam is  in progress. 

 
18. My Government have entered Into an pronounced upward trend, and for the first ten months of the year, an increase of over ten points has been recorded, from 138 to 149'3, over the last year's figures. This is an allround increase to which all industries have contributed, but special mention may be made of the rise in the output of metallurgical industries. The three steel plants at Rourkela, Bhilai and Durgapore have gone into production in 1959. There has been a fifty per cent, increase in the production of pig iron and a somewhat lower, though considerable, increase in the output of steel. 

agreement with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the supply of equipment for the construction of the Refinery at Barauni in Bihar. 

19. My Government are alive to the 
13. The Iron and steel output would help to requirement of scientists, technicians and technologists for our expanding economy. Measures are being taken to step up progressively the output in these cadres and to provide increasingly better career advance the Heavy Machine building projects. My Government have already sanctioned a number of machine building and other projects for the Third Five Year Plan. These include the doubling of the *Heavy* Machinery Project at Ranchi and the steel production at Bhilai the expansion of the Heavy Electrics] Project at Bhopal, a number of new projects for opportunities and a higher status for the old and new entrants. In our developing economy, there are ever growing opportunities of service in these fields, which are so important to our planned development on modern lines. 

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20. Our Atomic Energy organisation has   recorded  commendable   progn training of women teachers have made good progress and are gathering momentum. All eligible college students belonging to ed production of  isotopes fabrication of Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes ere receiving stipends. 

25. Advance in the production of food is vital to the sustenance, expansion and strength of our economy. 

Foodgrains fuel elements, the Uranium Metal Plant at Trombay, the ex-. traction of Plutonium from the used fuel elements and the mining of Uranium are among the achieve-ments of this organisation. The preliminary work for the setting up of the first Nuclear Power Station is well in hand. The Uranium which is sought to be mined in Bihar will supply sufficient raw material to feed the first Nuclear Power Station. 

21. An additional tonnage, of one 
. Lakh gross, was added to the Indian 
. Merchant Fleet.  A National   Shipping Board and a statutory, non-lapsing Shipping  
Development     Fund     have production attained a record level of 73'5 
million tons and cash crops also record yields resulting in the overall in-ise in the Index of Agricultural Production to 131.0, an increase of 14-3 per cent, over the previous record in 1957-53. We cannot, however, feel satisfied, much less complacent, about the food production in our country. Each year, we are obliged to import considerable quantities of foodgrains for consumption and for reserve stocks, causing great stress on our slender foreign exchange resources and rendering our economy far from self-reliant. Our production per acre falls short of the yields in many of the countries of Asia, Europe or America. My Government are giving greater attention to the increased production of fertilisers and to the supply of good seeds. It is, however, by   
bettei   cultivation,   avoidance  of waste through pests, better animal 

. been     established.    Indian     shipping, 
•which has suffered many    handicaps in  the pre-mdependence  period,  will continue to 
receive all possible a 
tance in its modernisation and development. My Government is fully-aware  of  the  place  
of  the  Merchant 
Navy in our economy, in the conservation and earning of foreign exchange and in its auxiliary and reserve roles in the defence of 
OUR- long sea coast. 

22. The Code of Discipline evolved in  1958 has improved  the climate  of industrial relations in the country and husbandry, the advance of co-operation both in production and in marketing, and by the determination of the people to be self-reliant, that individual and national prosperity can be achieved. 

 
created more favourable conditions for the maintenance of industrial peace and increase of efficiency. Compared to the previous year, there has been an appreciable reduction in the loss of man days of work in 1959. 

23. The Employees State Insurance 
' Scheme has been extended to further 
20. To enable greater participation in the conduct of affairs and the development of our economy by the people of the country as a whole, my Government have encouraged schemes of devolution of authority to statutory institutions of the people at the basic level of our great and growing democracy. This scheme of "Panchayati Raj" has already been inaugurated in Rajasthan and in Andhra Pradesh and is making pro-ss in other States. To make the working of the "Panchayati Raj" 
effi-a comprehensive programme   of areas and now covers about fourteen and a half lakhs of factory workers, while medical care under the Scheme has been extended to about twelve lakhs of members of the workers' families. 

24. In the field of National Education, the teaching of science subjects, expansion of girls' education and the training non-officials of all categories been undertaken. 

Proclamation will be revoked and the normal constitutional machinery restored in the State shortly. 

27. Defence production has made 
32. Parliament decided during the last satisfactory progress. Plans of expan-sion in this field, both of production and of capacity, are under consideration and will be progressively .implemented. 

28. My Government have taken steps to session to extend the safeguards provided in the Constitution for the reservation of seats for members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislatures by a further period of ten years and the Constitution 
(Eighth expand the National Cadet Corps in the coming year and to form units of nursing and auxiliary services for girls. The Territorial Army and the Lok Sahayak Sena will also be expanded in numbers, and certain changes introduced in regard to their training and reserve liabilities. 

Amendment) Act embodying this decision has received my assent. Government also propose to appoint a Commission as required under Article 339 of the Constitution to examine and report on the administration of the Scheduled Areas and the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in the States. 

29. A number of measures for the 
113. Sixty-three Bills were passed' by improvement of the conditions of set vice in the various categories in the Armed Forces have been implemented. 

30. The re-settlement of ex-servicemen Parliament in 1959. Fifteen Bills are pending before you. My Government intend to introduce a number of legislative proposals both by way of Bills and amendments. Such proposals will include: - 
The Atomic Energy Bill; The  Indian   Telegraph      (Amendr mont)   Bill; 
The Agricultural Produce   (Development  
and     Warehousing)      Cor-ton Bill; 
The  Forward  Contracts   (Regula-uonj  
Amendment Bill: 
dian   Patents and   Designs Bil ; 
and the utilisation of the reservoir of disciplined manpower that they provide are continually engaging the attention of my Government. Schemes of technical and vocational training and guidance and of selfhelp by co-operatives are promoted. Welfare and re-settlement of ex-service-men are integral, to defence - cations and provide a necessary incentive and a legitimate measure of aope and security for those who serve the Armed  Forces The.  Employees'   Provident   Fund 
(Amendment)  Bill; 
31. 

Members of Parliament are The Dock  Workers     (Regulation-.. 

of Employment)   Bill; 
The  Plantation  Labour   (Amend- -ment)  
Bill; 
aware that in the Proclamation issued in relation to the State of Kerala on the 31st of July, 1959, which was ap proved by Resolutions passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, it was provided that the general elec The  Central     Maternity     Benefit Bill; 
T'he  indian Safe of Goods (Amendment)   
Bill: 
The Religious Trusts Bill; 
The   Two-Member   Constituencies - 
(Abolition)  Bill; and The Payment of Wages   (Amend--mant)   
Bill. 

tion for constituting a new Legislative Assembly for that State shall be held as soon as possible. The general elec tion was accordingly held and polling took place in  the entire State on Feb ruary i, the number of voters exercis ing their franchise being one of the highest recorded in any election. The 
34. My Government also propose to introduce a Bill for the reorgani sation  of  the  present  Bombay   Stale and to reconstitute it as two separate . States. 

35. My Government have already announced  their     decisions   on     the of armaments and the fear and passions from which they spring and on which they rest, the newer development of the projection of the picture of a warless world, wherein nations will not only lay down their arms, but reject war as a method of settling disputes and devote their energies and resources to building a peaceful world. 

- major 
recommendations 
of 
the 
Pay 
Commission. 
The 
other 
recommen 
dations 
are 
under 
their 
active 
consi 
40. Devoted as my Government and people 

deration. 
The 
additional 
commit 
ments on account of the pay, allow ances 
and 
pensionary 
charges 
alone 
are 
estimated 
to 
be 
about 
thirty-one 
crores per annum, in respect of the Services 
directly 
covered 
by 
the 
Jagannadha Das Commission Enquiry. 
are to world peace and co-operation, they are determined to adhere to a peaceful approach and the policy of non-alignment, to both of which our country stands fully committed by history and outlook, faith and conduct, and by the overwhelming desires and convictions of our people. Parliament has expressly endorsed this policy on several occasions. 

36. A 
statement of the estimated Receipts and Expenditure of the 
41. I have had the privilege and pleasure of Government of India for the financial year 1960-61 *will* be paid before you. 

37. My     Government     note     with visiting Cambodia, the Republic of Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Laos and Ceylon, and to receive the generous welcome and joyous greetings of their Governments and peoples. 

42. I was happy to welcome to our Capital the President of the United States of America, and later the President of the Soviet Union, who in their persons represent not only the greatness and power of their countries, but also the fervent desires of their peofor world peace. We are looking gratification the relaxation in    world tensions and the prospect of high level meetings of the Heads of Governments for the promotion of World Disarmament and Peace. The initiative of great statesmen, notably the President of the United States of America and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, deserve the attention and appreciation of our country and people. My Government, while welcoming the continuance of the voluntary unilateral suspension of nuclear test explosions and the increasing endeavours of both the United States of America and the Soviet Union to solve this problem, reiterate their view that the testing  of weapons  of mass   destruction should be abandoned. 

forward to the visit of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Mr. Khrushchev, another messenger of peace in the world today The goodwill and moral support of this? country will be behind the efforts of these two great countries, and those of others, in full measure in their search for Disarmament and Peace. 

43. My Government were glad to 
38. We welcome these trends and the direct welcome the Prime Ministers of Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, Ghana, Nepal and Sweden. 

We look forward to the visits of President Nasser of the United Arab Republic, contacts between the leaders of the Great Powers and wish success to their efforts, which we feel assured are inspired with sincere desire to halt the armaments race and for world peace. 

His Majesty the King of Morocco and the Prime Minister of Finland. 

39. We also welcome wholeheartedly, in the midst of the awesome growth 
44. The Vice-President visited the Ceylon, *v:i* well as to Mrs. Bandaranaike and her children. 

Philippines, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, receiving cordial welcome from the Governments and the people there. 

51. In the United Rations, our dele gation reflected the deep feelings of 
45. My Prime Minister visited Aignanistan, Iran and Nepal, and was welcomed with an abundance of goodwill. 

our people in regard to the problem of the liberation of colonial countries and, more particularly, in regard to Algeria, in the sustained struggle of 
46. The exchange of visits of my Prime the Algerian people for their national independence. 

52. We welcome the independence of Cameroons,    till recently    under Minister and the Prime Minister of Nepal has further strengthened the bonds of affinity and friendship and proclaimed the desire and determination for co-operation in the interests of our two countries. 

French administration. We look forward to the emergence to nationhood in the coming years of several other colonial areas in Africa. 

47. 

Our relations with Common wealth countries and our participation 
53. The policy of apartheid, pursued by the at various Commonwealth gatherings have served to create greater under standing of our internal and external policies and, in an appreciable mea Government of the Union of South Africa, inflicts untold suffering and indignity on the majority of the people who are subjects of that Government. 

These include large sure, served also to assist our econo mic  development. 

48. I am happy to note that further numbers of people of Indian origin. This policy constitutes a violation of Human Rights under the Charter of the United Nations, and it has again met with overwhelming disapproval by the United Nations in the last session of the General Assembly. 

agreements have been reached with Pakistan in regard to our boundary disputes. It is the hope of my Government that these 
54. My Government have decided to diplomatic representatives with Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia in South America and Guinea in Africa. 

arrangements with Pakistan will lead to a successful delimitation of our boundaries along our frontiers with our neighbour wilh whom we have always desired to remain in friendly relations. 

55. Members of Parliament: I have placed 
49. Progress has also been made in regard before you the main events and achievements and our concerns of the past year. I have also projected before you some of the great tasks and burdens that are in front of us. They must engage your dedicated attention. 

Your to the settlement of financial issues pending between India and Pakistan, and it is hoped that the longstanding Canal Waters dispute will be settled soon. I welcome these developments which bring promise of closer relations between our countries. 

50. The Government and the people of understanding and co-operation, in regard to problems of our economic planning, the defence of our country and our contribution to world peace, are required by our Government and people in increasing measure. Thus will Parliament fulfil its historic role in our Constitution. 

56. We have celebrated this year the tenth India were deeply grieved and shocked to learn of the assassination of the Prime Minister of Ceylon, the late S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, on September 25, 1959. He was a great friend of India and visited us several times. Our heartfelt sympathies went out to the Government and people   of anniversary of our young Republic. Our Constitution which we gave unto ourselves, wherein all power and democratic and socialist society in which progress is sought and attained by peaceful means and by consent, authority are based upon and spring from the people, has endured and grown in strength. The policies and achievements of my Government and of our people have 
61. Members of Parliament: I bid you to strengthened our democracy and continue to import into it economic and social content in increasing measure. 

57. We are fortunate in the historic background that our national struggle your labours in this new session and wish you all success. I earnestly trust that wisdom and tolerance and a spirit of co-operative endeavour will guide you. May your labours bear fruit for the good of our country and people and the world whom we are all privileged to serve. 

## Obituary Reference

MR. CHAIRMAN; I have to refer to the developed and the inspiration that the life and example of the Father of the Nation gave to us. In this eleventh year of our young Republic, we may look back as well as forward, with pride and confidence, though not with complacency. The tasks ahead of us are stupendous. They call for constant vigilance, greater determination and discipline and a sense of purpose both among our people and in our administration. This alone will make our democracy a reality in terms of the masses of our people. 

58. Our vast resources and the qualities of passing away of Mr. M. C. Shah. He took a leading part in our national struggle and was the Chairman of the Ahmedabad Municipality, and all who know of his work speak of the great efficiency and honesty with which he conducted the affairs of that Municipality. He was also Minister of Revenue and Civil Expenditure here, a man of quiet, unostentatious nature with strong convictions. We have lost a very good person in him. May, I ask you to stand up for one minute as a mark of respect to his memory? 

our people have become engaged in the tremendous tasks of conduction and progress that lie ahead of us. In these, the quality of our administration into which must be imported an ever-increasing sense of urgency, 
(Hon.  Members then stood in silence for one minute.) 
rationalisation of procedures, the emergence and developmert of greater confidence at all levels, and the avoidance of waste of manpower and time, must be an urgent consideration. 

 

## Resignation Of Shri Purushottam Das Tandon

59. It will continue to be the constant MR. CHAIRMAN: I have to inform you that Shri  Purushottam Das Tandon has resigned his seat in the Rajya Sabha with effect from the 1st January, 1960. 

endeavour of my Government to initiate and further, efforts and plans to bridge the gaps between the time of formulation of policies and their implementation, to enable our people to participate at all levels in our economic and social developments, and for them to feel a sense of function and dignity which 

## Statement Of Bills Assented To

Independence has brought to us. 

## By The President

60. My Government seeks to uphold the SECRETARY: Sir, I beg *to lay on* the dignity and independence of our land and people, to promote out unity and social  wellbeing,  and to build a Table a statement showing the Bills passed by the Houses of Parliament during the Twentyseventh Session of the Rajya Sabha and assented to by the President. 
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