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2001-2019FOLLOW US ONAbout UsContact UsPrivacy Policy ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE ADNormalcy returns to RS, Question Hour, Zero Hour conducted smoothlyNormalcy returns to RS, Question Hour, Zero

Hour conducted smoothlyIANSPublished: 06 Aug 2018, 3:30 PM ISTHot News TextiAaAaSmallAaMediumAaLargeADVERTISEMENTREMOVE ADNew Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) After repeated adjournments last week over

the Assam NRC issue, normalcy returned to the Rajya Sabha on Monday with the smooth conduct of the Zero Hour and Question Hour.Soon after the House met, Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu sought the

members' cooperation, saying only four working days were left and businesses including some bills were pending.He said the House will extend the duration of business hours.The Samajwadi

Party's (SP) Javed Ali Khan raised the issue of vacant seats in minority education institutions, urging the government to do away with discrimination against them."There is neither a

chairman nor members in the National Commission for Minority Education Institutions. In the last four years, the commission has been retired. More than 7,000 requests are pending," he said,

alleging that the Centre gives slogans like "sabka saath, sabka Vikas" (development for all) but doesn't care for the minorities.Naidu said the government should take note of it.Trinamool

Congress's (TMC) Manish Gupta raised the issue of shortage of anti-rabies vaccines and urged the government to improve its supply.Ashok Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expressed

concern over the country's rising population and urged the Centre to find a method to control it."If you don't control the population, development would have no meaning," he said. BJP's

Vijay Pal Singh Tomar and many other members of the treasury and opposition benches also shared their concern on the issue.SP's Ravi Prakash Verma spoke of the discrepancies in the

distribution of Mudra scheme and sought to form a special committee for its effective monitoring.Senior Congress member Moti Lal Bora talked about human trafficking and said that tribals

from West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand were being sold off by placement agencies.Ram Vichar Netam of BJP asked the government to control the unfair pricing of food and other items at

airports.Hussain Dalawai of Congress raised the issue of Maratha quota agitation while Santiuse Kujur spoke of the plight of tea garden workers in Assam.TMC's Derek O'Brian raised the issue

of the UIDA

I helpline number which popped up on Android phones causing a big controversy."The UIDAI is getting involved in controversy almost every week. Now Google has come and said something.

Whenever we are giving out our data we are getting alerts. My wife lives in America, she gets mails from the Prime Minister. How they got the ID we don't know," he said."Please guard our

data so that 'Big Brother' is not watching you and do not make the Aadhaar compulsory..."During Question Hour the members sought answers pertaining to defence procurement, Delhi's air

pollution and derecognisition of sports federations.--IANSbns/ksk/sed

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