Within the limited time at my disposal, I shall limit my remarks to refugees from Bangladesh. The first thing which strikes one, as one looks at the various broachures and publications that have been given to us, is the amount of contradiction one has to battle against. The first contradiction is in regard to the number of persons government think they have rehabilitated in West Bengal. Granting that it is difficult to make a final assessment of the number of refugees who have come from Bangladesh, it is still true to say that at least there should be some sort of parity between what the union ministry says and what the West Bengal rehabiliation said that there are 22 lakhs of refugees who have to be rehabiliated, but the central government's figures are 31 lakhs. Unless the government know the number of people they have to budget for, it is rather bewildering to know how they mean to plan in bringing about their rehabiliation. As a matter of fact, many other sources believe that the figures isfar higher, but in any case there should be some parity and some idea as to the extent of the rehabiliation problem which remains before the people of West Bengal. Some programmes of general improvement have been undertaken by the government of West Bengal by way of setting up new industries these programmes should be looked into, and put into operation, with a view to giving more employment to these displaced persons. The number of displaced persons from Pakistan employed through employment exchanges is not very encouraging but still it is 75,000. I would urge upon the hon. Minister to take this into consideration and see that something is done to find employment for these people exchange meagre, compared dealing supplied. In spite of this increased production, I must admit, we have not been able to solve the question of unemployment, but efforts are being made to ease the situation so far as this question is concerned.
