Sir, I would like to focus I have said it many times in this House before on our traditional industries. Pranab Da should keep an eye and monitor that our traditional industries like textiles, plantation industry, sugar industry which are all larger employers of people are taken care of by the banks. The banks should help them in this time of need because jobs should not be lost. Small tweaking is required. I am sure that with his experience and knowledge it will be easy for him to do it. In the Interim Budget, I saw a paragraph that Non-Performing Assets by banks have come down significantly. I am very happy because the banks will be flush with funds. The hon. Finance Minister, in his Budget Speech, said that he was going to recapitalise banks, give banks more capitals and like President Obama he should lay down some rules and conditionalities for people who are taking packages from the Government. I would request the hon. Finance Minister also to make it clear to the banks that they are getting stimulus packages from the Government, they are getting capital from the Government and so they should help the industries which are suffering. So their problem is not as easy one. It is one of the most difficult problems. Allotting money, laying out schemes is necessary, of course, but the implementation of the schemes is more necessary. They live in hilly areas. They live far away and I am afraid, with the little experience that I have, I can say that very few people take the trouble of going to places which are not easily accessible and therefore the advantage and comfort that they should derive from those employed to look after them is not what it should be. There should be a scheme by which the people of the Scheduled Tribes should mix with others. We should not make a pocket of the Scheduled Tribes. They feel absolutely cut off. They are confined at one place and they hardly meet the people of the plains. I am talking of the people of the hill areas. Even the Government officials are not very helpful to them because they live far-off.
