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Title: Further discussion on the motion of thanks on the President's Address to both Houses of Parliament assembled together on 23.02.2007, moved by Shri Madhusudhan Mistry and seconded by Shri Sandip Dikshit on 01.03.2007.

 

MR. SPEAKER: Item No. 17. Shri Mahtab, your Party time is already over by four minutes but I will give you another five minutes.

SHRI B. MAHTAB (CUTTACK): Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other day while discussing the Motion of Thanks on Presidents Address, I was mentioning that India produces 30,000 doctors a year but has not been able to achieve higher rates of child survival than any of our neighbours, with the exception of Pakistan. Infant and child mortality rates are significantly lower in Bangladesh.

MR. SPEAKER: Please maintain silence in the House. We are discussing a very important subject.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : Child immunization is virtually universal in Sri Lanka. We are far behind and there is little mention to improve the situation.

MR. SPEAKER: If hon. Members have anything to discuss amongst themselves, there is the Inner Lobby, there is the Outer Lobby and then there is the Central Hall, they can go anywhere they like.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : The India of tomorrow cannot be built on foundations of yesterday. The one resource that needs to be given policy respect is knowledge. This is the one word which Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the National Knowledge Commission Chairman Sam Pitroda have been stressing upon. The idea is to creating and  maturing of India into a knowledge society. This process has begun in the early 1990s. Dr. Singh opened the economy sector by sector, clause by clause.

12.40 hrs.                              (Shri Varkala Radhakrishnan in the Chair) A decade and a half later, as the captain of a ship, with many sails to open before it cruises at double digit, he has to recognize that if the ship has to power ahead … MR. CHAIRMAN : Hon. Member, last time you had been given more than the allotted time.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : Hon. Speaker has already mentioned it and you are repeating it, Sir. Ten hours of time has been allotted for this discussion.

MR. CHAIRMAN: You have taken double the time that is allotted to you.[KMR5]  SHRI B. MAHTAB : Sir, a decade and a half later, as captain of a ship with many sails to open before it cruises at double digits, he has to recognize that if the ship has to power ahead, its oarsmen at the bottom need to be empowered with muscles of knowledge. Social infrastructure has to be put in place. Do we find any mention of this in this Address?

MR. CHAIRMAN : You are repeating the same lengthy speech as you did last time also when I was in the Chair.  You should control yourself.

   

SHRI B. MAHTAB : I am raising a point that the Group of Minister headed by……… (Interruptions)

MR. CHAIRMAN: You are repeating the same process of reading out lengthy speech as you did last time when I was in the Chair.  If we continue like this, how can we conclude the discussion in time?

SHRI B. MAHTAB : I am continuing my speech as last time you had said that I could continue later.