NEW DELHI: BJP MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe on Wednesday said that local firms should be given preference in consultancy sector in the country as the ‘Public policy’ has become a lucrative domain with several talented students opting for it.
Speaking during the ‘Zero Hour,’ he said that consultancy was a huge business in India, the turnover of which stood at Rs 27,000 crore in 2020 but the foreign-origin consulting agencies have been grabbing the business.
“The government should adopt a policy wherein Indian consulting firms are given priority as in most of the cases, the local firms lose out due to the existing norms such as minimum turnover which is always high for the local firms”, he said.
Public policy has emerged as a lucrative domain, and talented students are opting for that. The government should adopt a policy wherein Indian consulting firms are given importance. Local firms are losing out due to the existing norms,” Mr Sahasrabuddhe observed.
Congress lawmaker Shaktisinh Gohil raised the issues of the Indian fishermen from Gujarat lodged in Pakistan jails and urged the Government’s intervention in getting them released from the Pakistani prisons. ”As many as 1,100 fishing boats and 500 fishermen from Gujarat have been lodged there in Pakistan”, he said.
Mizo National Front Member K Vanlalvena raised the issue of trade along the Myanmar border which has been closed due to COVID-19. “Some businessmen have constructed seven unauthorised roads, thousands of good are entering India through these roads.
They might turn into smuggling roads if necessary action is not taken. Reopen the border trade to avoid unnecessary situation”, he urged the Government through the Chair.
Raising the issue of orphan children in the country, the BJD Member Prasanna Acharya said that that the Government must frame special law for orphan children to get them the necessary documents like birth certificate, ration cards and ration card to save them from exploitation.
“They cannot be admitted to the schools and they are deprived of many beneficiary schemes of the government and they are forced to do menial jobs like trash picking and others and they have been prone to exploitation”. Mr Acharya said.
Referring to the recent glacial avalanche on February 7 in Chamoli in Uttarakhand, the BJP lawmaker Anil Baluni of BJP urged the Centre to make a study of study the natural disasters affecting the state as it has been prone to glacier burst, cloudburst and earthquakes and devise a mechanism for the state to avoid such disasters by the Earth Science Ministry.
Speaking about the ongoing rescue efforts in Uttarakhand, he said “Power projects and villagers have suffered losses. We can never forget the Kedarnath floods. The State is prone to glacier burst, cloudburst and earthquakes”, he said.
DMK member NR Elango raised the issue of Haj pilgrims of Tamil Nadu who have to submit their papers in Chennai and then they have to go to Kochi to take flight which has been causing troubles to them.
Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu suggested the Minority Affairs Minister and External Affairs Minister should look into this matter.
BJP Member Jyotiraditya Scindia raised the issue of the child marriages and said that education of the girl child was impacted due to COVID-19. “The period saw an increase in child marriages. As per an RTI reply, the child helpline recieved18,324 distress calls. I request Women and Child Development Minister to collect data on child marriages, mobilise anganwadi workers on mission mode so that the girls can go back to school’, he said.
(AGENCIES)
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