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LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe real taste of Independence Sir, For the last so many years we have been observing Independence Day but suddenly for the last few years Independence Day has became synonym with tight security, fear of militant attack. So a day of freedom turns into a day of confinement for a common citizen, strangely we fear to celebrate our own independence because of our own fellow citizens who are dissatisfied with our own created system. Bandh and strikes on any national days has become a common thing in northeast. Psychologically people are so terrified of militant organizations that bandhs were observed forcefully. In Kashmir national days have become common holidays when people takes rest and watches TV. However very few watches the Prime Minister’s speech telecast in the national television probing the same old issues but with different narrators. In another word national days are ‘just another’ ceremony for politicians and bureaucrats, mere holidays for common people and nightmare for security forces. Our new president always talks of India becoming a superpower, but how? We have not been able to fulfill the objectives of the first five year plan which is still the basic objective of our latest five year plan, instead of dreaming of becoming a super power, lets first get freedom from poverty, Illiteracy, caste divide, communalism then we will have the real taste Of Independence
Yours Faithfully Iftakhar Latif, Dighalipukhari, G.N.B.Road, Guwahati--781001. Uncalled hike in insurance premiumSir, From July 2002 onwards, premium of insurances has been increased drastically by government owned insurance companies. For instance, premium for third party insurance has increased to more then hundred percent and premium for so called terrorist cover in property insurances have also been raised alarmingly. If queried about the steep rise, the insurance officials prefer to hold the entry of private players in the field of insurance responsible. However, if the reason be so, then the premium should be decreased and quality of services should be enhanced. One cannot compete by just increasing the price of premium. Actually these type of policies by government owned insurance would result in shifting of consumer to other companies. Iftakhar Latif G.N.B.Road,Guwhati-781001 e-mail: iftakhar1@vsnl.net Animal
sacrifices Animal
sacrifices to propitiate the gods has come into
focus with the visit of the Nepalese King
Gyanendra to Kamakhya temple , where he offered prayers
and performed animal sacrifices. Animal sacrifices as a means of
worship has been a part of some religions of the world.
But
it has also been a contentious issue. I think the
idea of animal Deplorable condition of Athgaon Area Sir, Very often we get to read in your "Letter to the Editors Section" about the annoyance for the deplorable civic state of the B-class city of Guwahati. It seems that the civic administration (GMC or MCD) is in a deep slumber and there is no sign of waking up. We may term the civic authority as "RIP VAN WINKLE" or RIP in abbreviated form. There have been formation of committees, action plan, master plan, super plan for revival of the city but only on papers. That’s a waste of stationery too and loss to exchequer. The areas which are generally covered in public grievances are Rajgarh, Panjabari etc. At this point of time I would like to draw the attention of the sleeping RIP and also the citizens of Guwahati about the Athgaon Pukhor. It must be sounding strange to many surfers. At the initiative of the previous AGP Government, decision was taken to construct a flyover across the Railway Gate No: 5. The project seems to be in a limbo and there seems to be no sign as to when the so-called flyover will be completed. The un-ambitious project has at least resulted in formation of a pukhori (pond) near Railway gate no: 5 and so this may be named as “Athgaon Pukhor”. The whole of the approach road from Gate No: 4 have turned into a drain system (including pavement if there was one) and which needs no drain cleaning – are you listening RIP ? Relentless Developmental work on the through way is being carried out from Secretariat to Airport so that our representatives and Bureaucrats can commute peacefully and smoothly to the Airport. This is a short-term attitude of the Govt. Because such kind of dirty Pukhor is always the birthplace of diseases and epidemic and the Govt. will be solely blamed for it. Leave aside the flyover construction, at least the city can be kept clean and ultimately safe from health hazards. The project was to ease the public conveyance because of the positioning of railway gate between A.T.Road and Bharalumukh. But actually it has made conveyance much more difficult now. The Govt. should stop planning and instead adhere to the regular civic duties of the GMC like garbage removal and drain cleaning, so that, the citizens can live a healthy life. Sanjay e-mail: j_sanjay72@yahoo.com Put
an end to this 'bandh ' culture. There
was yet another Assam bandh on 15th June 2002. So the people of
Assam continue with their bandh culture. Are we ever going to shake
off this bandh culture? Are we not bothered about
the damage that repeated bandh does to our economy and the very bad
message that it sends across to the world? As such, we have to struggle a lot to
uplift our state economy due to a host of factors. On top of
that, our inability to shake off this suicidal bandh culture would only
exacerbate our economic difficulties. Every bandh inflicts
serious economic costs on the society by stopping the wheel of
economic activity. Moreover, although most bandh are called for apparently
relevant socio-economic and political issues, especially those
pertaining to poor and weaker sections of society,
but in reality, they are very detrimental to the interests of
those poor and weaker sections, many of who are dependant on
generating income and economic activities on a daily basis. For these people, every bandh actually constitutes a
violation of their fundamental tight to livelihood as part of the
wider interpretation of article 21 of the constitution.
In a society like ours, ridden by so many problems, there
would be innumerable occasions, which might warrant
registering of political protest. Does it mean that a bandh
will be called on every such occasion? If so, then we will have
to have a bandh every week and we will have to bid
goodbye to economic development. Therefore if political protest has to be registered on
various occasions, people have to learn to do so without disrupting
the economic train. Since we are afflicted by a bandh
culture, there would be elements who would call for
a bandh every now and then. But it is extremely important that
people themselves do not fall prey to this bandh culture. They
should not pay heed to these bandh and must carry on
with their normal activities. Assam cannot afford to be afflicted by
this bandh culture anymore. Let us shake off this bandh culture once
and for all Pranjal
Das, Foot
injury Sir,
War
hysteria
Sir, But the question is that if war is the permanent solution to deal with Pakistan, then what about China who had once and is still sponsoring insurgency in northeast? It seems that to solve our insurgency problem, we have to go for war with three or four countries, which is impossible. India has to solve its internal problems first to tackle insurgency and remove the causes which create insurgency. Firstly, India should strengthen its own immune system from inside to resist external aggression, since a weak immune system will always cause diseases irrespective of how much medicine we take. Yours Faithfully Iftakhar Latif G.N.B Road, Guwahti-781001
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