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CHAPTER – VI

MONITORING OF IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSURANCES

6.1 While replying to questions or supplementaries thereon or during discussion on bills, resolutions, motions in Parliament, at times, Ministers gives certain assurances, such as, that they will consider the matter, take action, furnish the required information etc. The government is obliged to fulfill these assurances and present a report. The ministry of Parliamentary Affairs is the coordinating agency to ensure that the ministries fulfill their assurances in time.

General Procedure

6.2 The Ministry extracts from the daily proceedings of both Houses, assurances given by ministers and forward the same to the ministries/departments concerned for taking necessary action thereon. There is a set of expressions for each House which constitute assurances to be fulfilled by the government. These expressions are illustrative and not exhaustive. While treating the statement of a minister as an assurance, due consideration is given to the context in which it has been made and whether it is capable of being fulfilled within a reasonable time-frame.

6.3 All assurances given to the Parliament are required to be fulfilled within a period of three months. Where delay is anticipated by the Ministry on account of some genuine difficulties in fulfilling an assurance or they do not find it feasible to fulfill an assurance for any valid reason, the ministries/departments request Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha directly for extension of time or dropping of an assurance as the case may be under intimation to this Ministry.

6.4 The reports are laid on the Table of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha by the Minister/Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs. Copies of the reports laid are supplied to the members concerned and are also kept in the Parliament library.

6.5 The details of assurances extracted/fulfilled/dropped during the years 1956 to March, 2004 and the balance which remain to be implemented are as follows:

LOK SABHA

Year	Total Number of Assurances	Number of Assurances		Total Imple-mented	Balance	% of Impl-mentn.
		Fulfilled	Dropped
1	2	3	4	5 (3+4)	6 (2-5)	7
1956	1543	1543	-	1543	-	100
1957	893	893	-	893	-	100
1958	1324	1324	-	1324	-	100
1959	1138	1138	-	1138	-	100
1960	1000	1000	-	1000	-	100
1961	1244	1244	-	1244	-	100
1962	1333	1333	-	1333	-	100
1963	781	781	-	781	-	100
1964	883	883	-	883	-	100
1965	1073	1073	-	1073	-	100
1966	1542	1542	-	1542	-	100
1967	2116	2116	-	2116	-	100
1968	4174	4174	-	4174	-	100
1969	4260	4260	-	4260	-	100
1970	3331	3331	-	3331	-	100
1971	1824	1824	-	1824	-	100
1972	1577	1577	-	1577	-	100
1973	1757	1757	-	1757	-	100
1974	1789	1789	-	1789	-	100
1975	925	925	-	925	-	100
1976	521	521	-	521	-	100
1977	889	889	-	889	-	100
1978	1655	1655	-	1655	-	100
1979	1069	1069	-	1069	-	100
1980	1105	1105	-	1105	-	100
1981	1587	1587	-	1587	-	100
1982	541	1541	-	1541	-	100
1983	1726	1726	-	1726	-	100
1984	1284	1284	-	1284	-	100
1985	1122	1121	-	1121	01	99.91
1986	1688	1688	-	1688	-	100
1987	2139	2136	-	2136	03	99.85
1988	2308	2302	-	2302	06	99.74
1989	1794	1783	02	1785	09	99.50
1990	2408	2398(1)*	-	2398	10	99.58
1991	1717	1700(3)*	01	1701	16	99.07
1992	2229	2203(3)*	01	2204	25	98.88
1993	1798	1766(1)*	01	1767	31	98.28
1994	1464	1436(1)*	01	1437	27	98.16
1995	1522	1490(1)*	-	1490	32	97.90
1996	1696	1633(9)*	01	1634	62	96.34
1997	1388	1351(11)*		1351	37	97.33
1998	1228	1168(16)*	-	1168	60	95.11
1999	725	660(23)*	-	660	65	91.03
2000	1638(1)+	1479(103)*	01	1480	158	90.35
2001	1231(3)+	1013(208)*	01	1014	217	82.37
2002	1429(62)+	1098(674)*	07	1105	321	77.33
2003	1353(140)+	478	25	503	850	37.18
2004	12	-	-	-	12	-
Total	76773 (811)+	74,787(1532)*	44	74831	1942	97.47

RAJYA SABHA

Year	Total Number of Assurances	Number of Assurances		Total Imple-mented	Balance	% of Impl-mentn.
		Fulfilled	Dropped
1	2	3	4	5 (3+4)	6 (2-5)	7
1956	373	373	-	373	-	100
1957	238	238	-	238	-	100
1958	287	287	-	287	-	100
1959	235	235	-	235	-	100
1960	233	233	-	233	-	100
1961	257	257	-	257	-	100
1962	479	479	-	479	-	100
1963	218	218	-	218	-	100
1964	349	349	-	349	-	100
1965	1342	1342	-	1342	-	100
1966	436	436	-	436	-	100
1967	495	495	-	495	-	100
1968	827	827	-	827	-	100
1969	1104	1104	-	1104	-	100
1970	591	591	-	591	-	100
1971	447	447	-	447	-	100
1972	832	832	-	832	-	100
1973	1009	1009	-	1009	-	100
1974	724	724	-	724	-	100
1975	384	384	-	384	-	100
1976	781	781	-	781	-	100
1977	1117	1117	-	1117	-	100
1978	1655	1655	-	1655	-	100
1979	748	748	-	748	-	100
1980	1391	1391	-	1391	-	100
1981	1688	1688	-	1688	-	100
1982	1466	1466	-	1466	-	100
1983	1472	1472	-	1472	-	100
1984	1082	1082	-	1082	-	100
1985	1315	1315	-	1315	-	100
1986	1295	1295	-	1295	-	100
1987	1810	1807	01	1808	02	99.88
1988	1703	1698	-	1698	05	99.70
1989	1376	1368	-	1368	08	99.41
1990	1441	1427	-	1427	14	99.02
1991	1388	1376	-	1376	12	99.13
1992	2086	2072	03	2075	11	99.47
1993	1623	1614	-	1614	09	99.44
1994	1440	1428	-	1428	12	98.16
1995	1183	1167	02	1169	14	98.81
1996	738	728	-	728	10	98.64
1997	773	749	01	750	23	97.02
1998	757	717	01	718	39	94.84
1999	564	532	02	534	30	94.68
2000	945	825	09	834	111	88.22
2001	1175	835	09	844	331	69.40
2002	1469	1177	34	1211	258	82.43
2003	1350	204	04	208	1142	15.40
2004	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	46691	44594	66	44660	2031	95.65

+ Recorded during the year under report.

* fulfilled during the year under report.

6.6 In addition to the above, 29 part Implementation reports relating to the Lok Sabha and 30 part Implementation reports relating to Rajya Sabha were also laid during the period under report.

6.7 Two bar charts showing the total assurances recorded, fulfilled and dropped during the years 1985 to March 2004 for Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha are at Appendix VIII and Appendix IX respectively.

Action to Clear Pending Assurances

6.8 The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has been vigorously pursuing with all the ministries/departments for ensuring early implementation of all assurances given to Parliament. Periodic reviews are undertaken of all pending assurances and the ministries/departments are reminded to expedite implementation of the assurances. As a result of the drive conducted by this Ministry, there has been a marked improvement in the pace of implementation of assurances.

Report of The Committees on Government Assurances

6.9 The Committee on Government Assurances, Lok Sabha presented four reports to the House, namely the 11th report on 16.12.2002, 12th report on 16.12.2002, 13th report on 24.07.2003, 14th report on 01.08.2003 and 15th Report on10.12.2003 respectively. The Committee on Government Assurances, Rajya Sabha presented its 56th report on 19.12.2002 and 57th Report on 17.12.2003.

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