XI LOK SABHA DEBATES,   Session IV (Budget) 

Thursday, March 06, 1997 / Phalguna  15, 1918 (Saka)



Type of Debate: MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF RULES (RULE-388)

Title: Suspension of Rule 331 (1) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of 
Business in Lok Sabha provides for laying of recommendations of the Rules 
Committee deals the Welfare and the dignity of women.

TEXT :


SHRIMATI   GEETA  MUKHERJEE  (PANSKURA):  Mr.  Speaker,  Sir,  thank  you  for
permitting me to move the motion. I beg the indulgence of the House to explain
in two minutes why I have tabled the motion and why I want your  support.  Day
after   tomorrow,  the  8th  March  is  the  International  Women's  Day.  But
unfortunately that day being a holiday, our House will not be in Session. This
report which has been laid here deals with the setting up of a Committee which
is supposed to exhaustively deal with all measures taken for the  welfare  and
the  dignity  of  women  by  the Union Government. Therefore, I want that this
Report of the Rules Committee be adopted  by  the  House  today  itself  as  a
present  of  the  House  to the women on the occasion of International Women's
Day.

	With this introduction, I beg to move: -


        "That  this  House do suspend part of Rule 331 (1) of the Rules
        of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha in so far  as
        it  provides  for  laying  of  the recommendations of the Rules
        Committee on the Table of the House for a period of seven days,
        to  enable  members  to  give  notice  of  amendments  to  such
        recommendations  together with consequential provisions to this
        extent in Rule 331 (2) and (3)  in  their  application  to  the
        laying of the Second Report of the Rules Committee."

MR. SPEAKER : The question is :

        
        "That  this  House do suspend part of Rule 331 (1) of the Rules
        of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha in so far  as
        it  provides  for  laying  of  the recommendations of the Rules
        Committee on the Table of the House for a period of seven days,
        to  enable  members  to  give  notice  of  amendments  to  such
        recommendations  together with consequential provisions to this
        extent in Rule 331 (2) and (3)  in  their  application  to  the
        laying of the Second Report of the Rules Committee."


 The motion was adopted.


SHRIMATI  GEETA  MUKHERJEE (PANSKURA): I thank the House. I thank you for this
very important present to us, the women,  on  the  occasion  of  International
Women's Day.
SHRI A.C. JOS (IDUKKI): Sir, kindly permit us to make a submission. Two of our
MLAs are under arrest.

MR. SPEAKER : I will allow you after the Submission is over.

			... (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER : I will allow you. I have already told you.




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