Date:01/10/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/10/01/stories/2007100158540300.htm

For the CGH beneficiaries to whom fresh identity cards were issued it was running from pillar to post for many. Now, again the CGH authorities want pension orders and other details from the bank, from retired employees. from This could have been done when new cards were issued to avoid the present avoidable exercise tied to red tape. Why doesn’t CGH computerise its functions to maintain the history of every beneficiary including the pensioner’s dependants? Then much of the present pen and paper work again can be avoided. Will the Union Health Ministry do the needful. Ranga Rao,

Hyderabad

Alternative paths

Being secular we respect all regions in our country and it is wrong to touch the sentiments and beliefs of any religion. I am surprised to find that some have expressed to treat Ram and Ram Sethu as Archeological opinion and not as a mythological belief.

It is not to be taken as advantageous by any political party. We should always find alternative paths to build a project anticipating such eventuality. Let us not complicate any further.

N.S.Narayana,

Mehdipatnam

Competitive populism

Government of Andhra Pradesh has a public debt of about Rs.80,000 crore on which every year the State is paying interest of not less than about Rs.8,000 crore, much more than what it spends upon school education. Despite this, the Chief Minister is promising that he will disburse Rs. 1 lakh crore as low-interest loans to women. The Minister for Rural Development, Dr. Chinna Reddy, is promising that in the next few years Rs.36,000 crore will be given as loans to farmers. Many farmers are committing suicide for their inability to repay the loans they had taken and yet this Minister promises further loans. A leader of TDP says that, if the TDP is voted back to power, it would give nine hours of free electricity every day, to all farmers. It is clear that our politicians have so much degenerated that they indulge in competitive populism. How can we save ourselves from these fraudsters?

Yogesh Gupta,

Banjara Hills