Appendix - XII
(Vide Para 8.5)
DATES
OF MEETINGS OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEES AND IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
DISCUSSED THEREIN
Agriculture
Dates of meetings : 6.2.2003 (Mysore), 7.3.2003, 9.7.2003, 21.8.2003, 5.11.2003, 18.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Status of agricultural education in the country, oil seeds, oil bearing trees and bio-fuels, conservation of threatened breeds, agriculture credit and insurance, farm income insurance scheme, transgenics in agriculture.
Chemicals
& Fertilizers
Number of meetings : 4
Dates
of meetings
: 13.2.2003, 18.8.2003, 16.10.2003 (Mohali), 17.12.2003
Subjects
discussed : New pricing
policy for urea units, research and development in pharma Industry, demand
supply scenario of fertilizers during 10th
Five Year Plan including the availability position during Rabi, 2003-04.
Civil Aviation
Number of meetings : 5
Dates of meetings : 25.3.2003, 12.7.2003 (Mumbai), 4.11.2003, 19.12.2003, 9.1.2004
Subjects discussed : Present and future perspectives of the civil aviation security, air safety aspects of civil aviation, Report of the Sub-committee on Powan Hans Helicopters Limited, Report of the Sub-committee on Indian Airlines Limited, Report of Naresh Chandra Committee on a Road Map of Civil Aviation Sector.
Coal
Number of meetings : 1
Dates of meetings : 23.5.2003
Subjects discussed : Community and peripheral development.
Commerce and Industry
Number of meetings : 4
Dates of meetings : 12.3.2003, 11.7.2003, 21.8.2003, 17.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Special Economic Zone (SEZ):- (i) Experience of other countries (ii) The state of SEZ, Price Stabilisation Scheme for plantation sector, WTO issues, Present industrial scenario.
Communications and Information
Technology
Number of meetings : 4
Dates of meetings : 24.1.2003, 7.7.2003, 19.12.2003, 2.1.2004
Subjects discussed : Finances of the post, (i) Management of the spectrum (ii) Technologies in the telecom sector and (iii) Rural telephony, (i) presentation on the "rural telephony scheme" (ii) Policy initiatives in telecommunications (iii) Development in I.T. sector, hardware sector, backlash; and Information security and Rural Telephony.
Defence
Number of meetings : 2
Dates of meetings : 10.2.2003 (Jabalpur), 2.5.2003
Subjects discussed : Modernisation of army, Recruitment in the armed forces.
Environment & Forests
Number of meetings : 5
Dates of meetings : 10.2.2003, 24.4.2003, 4.7.2003 (Goa), 21.8.2003, 22.10.2003
Subjects discussed : Joint forestry management, Forest survey, Coastal regulation zone (CRZ), (I) Eco-clubs and their role (ii) Joint forests management and FDAs, Montreal protocol.
External
Affairs
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 5.2.2003, 2.5.2003, 8.7.2003, 11.8.2003, 24.11.2003, 22.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Economic diplomacy, India-Africa relations, India's relation with China, Indian relations with asian neighbours, India's relation with latin Americans and Caribbean countries.
Finance
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 14.2.2003, 8.5.2003, 16.7.2003, 21.8.2003, 1.12.2003, 22.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Adoption of VAT, Gulf war-Impact on growth and inflation, State Government guarantees - a review, Revival of UTI - present status, Capital markets, Mid-year review.
Food Processing Industries
Number of meetings : 2
Dates of meetings : 20.1.2003 (Mysore), 19.8.2003
Subjects discussed : Research and development in food processing sector, Restructuring of Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Health
& Family Welfare
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 22-23.1.2003 (Lakshdweep), 2.5.2003, 14.7.2003, 22.8.2003, 21.10.2003,
19.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Emerging challenges in the field of public health; Participation/involvement of people's representatives, Roll of incentives and disincentives in the programme of population stabilization, Polio eradication, tackling the menace of spurious drugs, HIV/AIDs- prevention and care, Save the girl child.
Heavy
Industries & Public Enterprises
Number of meetings : 1
Dates of meetings : 29.4.2003
Subjects discussed : (i) Scheme for counseling, retraining and redeployment of rationalised manpower in the central PSEs (ii) Paper industry under Department of Heavy Industry (iii) Status of Cement Corporation of India Ltd. (including subsidiaries) as on date and performance of CCI.
Home Affairs
Number of meetings : 4
Dates of meetings : 27.1.2003, 8.3.2003 (Takenpur), 2.7.2003, 21.8.2003
Subjects discussed : Modernisation of state police forces and central para military forces, Border Security Force, Terrorism, Multi-purpose national identity card.
Human Resource Development
Number of meetings : 3
Dates of meeting : 7.2.2003, 19.8.2003, 9.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Anganwadi workers and early child care, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, University
Grants Commission.
Information & Broadcasting
Number of meetings : 4
Dates of meetings : 10.2.2003, 30.4.2003, 13.8.2003, 3.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Programming on Doordarshan, DD's head end project in the NE 'C' band &
DD's Ku band project to expand coverage in border/remote areas, Content on radio, Content on television.
Labour
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 7.2.2003, 30.4.2003, 30.6.2003, 13.8.2003, 7.11.2003,19.12.2003
Subjects disscussed : Draft of the umbrella legislation on unorganised labour, Report of the National Commission on Labour except the issue already covered i.e. unorganised labour, Elimination of child labour and National child labour projects, Strategies for vocational skill and training, Social security scheme for unorganised sector.
Petroleum
& Natural Gas
Number of meetings : 7
Dates of meetings : 6.2.2003, 7.5.2003, 14.5.2003 (Mangalore), 13.8.2003,13.10.2003,18.12.2003,
3.2.2004
Subjects discussed : Review of progress of new exploration licensing policy (NELP) and Coal bed methane (CBM), Oil security in the current international scenario, Acquisition of 51% stake in Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGCL) and 25% stake in Greater Nile Oil Project, Sudan by ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), Scenario of natural gas & LNG and its transport infrastructure, (i) Pricing of petroleum products and (ii) Review of performance of petroleum sector in 4 years, Review of initiatives on Ethanol blended fuel, Bio diesel and conversion of plastic wastes to hydrocarbons, Latest Developments in Oil Sector.
Power
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 7.2.2003, 5.5.2003, 6.7.2003 (Gangtok), 21.8.2003,
25.11.2003,18.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Research facilities in power sector, training and development in power sector, capacity addition programme during the tenth Five-year plan, Power Finance Corporation, Bhakra Beas Management Board, Damodar Valley Corporation.
Railways
Number of meetings : 2
Dates of meetings : 3.7.2003, 5.11.2003
Subjects discussed : Railway claims system, Role of Indian Railway Catering and
Tourism Corporation Limited in Indian Railways.
Rural
Development
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 29.1.2003, 10.4.2003, 9.7.2003, 14.8.2003, 17.10.2003 (Srinagar), 11.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Monitoring, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana ( PMGSY), Sampoorn Grameen Rozgar Yojana ( SGRY) and Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), Rural water supply, (i) drinking water supply and (ii) hariyali, Panchayati raj.
Road Transport and Highways
Number of meetings : 3
Dates of meetings : 25.4.2003, 14.7.2003, 15.11.2003 (Pune)
Subjects discussed : Central road fund, Progress of NHDP particularly golden
quadrilateral, National highways.
Science & Technology and Deptt.
of Ocean Development
Number of meeting : 3
Date of meeting : 6.2.2003, 21.8.2003, 10.12.2003
Subject discussed : National spatial data infrastructure and other initiatives of the Survey of India, Traditional knowledge, Recent findings of Department of Ocean Development (DOD).
Social Justice & Empowerment
Number of meetings : 4
Dates of meetings : 28.1.2003, 9.5.2003, 11.7.2003, 23.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Implementation of PWD Act, 1995, Functioning of the corporations under the aegis of the Ministry, Liberation & rehabilitation of scavengers and the work done by the NSKFDC, Concessions and facilities to older persons.
Steel
Number of meetings : 5
Dates of meetings : 7.2.2003 (Visakhapatnam), 6.5.2003, 3.7.2003, 2.9.2003,23.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Working of Visakhapatnam steel plant, General steel scenario, Performance of the PSUs under the Ministry of Steel during the year 2002-03, Functioning of Steel Authority of India Limited, Iron ore availability by SAIL and RINL and Rowghat Mines.
Textiles
Number of meetings : 3
Dates of meetings : 29.1.2003, 16.7.2003, 29.11.2003
Subjects discussed : Handloom sector and performance of various schemes' of handloom sector, Modernization of powerloom sector, Wool and woolen industry
Tourism
and Culture
Number of meetings : 2
Dates of meetings : 13.6.2003 (Siliguri), 19.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Recent developments and integration of culture, tourism, clean civil life, environment etc., National mission for preservation of antiquities
Urban
Development & Poverty Alleviation
Number of meeting : 2
Dates of meeting : 10.4.2003, 11.11.2003
Subjects discussed : Urban development, Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY).
Water
Resources
Number of meetings : 6
Dates of meetings : 15.2.2003, 7.5.2003, 18.7.2003, 21.8.2003,
20.11.2003,18.12.2003
Subjects discussed : Command area development, Water resources development in Assam and the North-east, Public private partnership in water resources management, Water resource development in drought prone areas, Inter-linking of rivers.
Number of meetings : 2
Dates of meetings : 1.2.2003 (Patiala), 18.7.2003
Subjects discussed : India's performance in the Commonwealth and Asian games, Promotion of youth activities and training.
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