Andhra Pradesh

Quash the GO

The recent order issued by the State government regularising apartment complexes and group houses up to December 31 last has a disturbing effect on ordinary citizens while it was a boon to builders.

There is a sudden upsurge in the building activity with the Town Planning Department tacitly advising the builders to go ahead with extra floors in the guise of regularisation. And, the same has come at an opportune time just before the festival period filling the pockets of the Town Planning Department which turned a Nelson’s eye towards the sprouting constructions and is all out to help the builder class throwing all guidelines to the winds and least worried about the strain on the natural resources and hazards thereon.

Normally, a builder would insist on an auspicious muhurtam to commence construction, but this time the GO released during ‘moodham’ and ensuing ‘sunya masam’ have not stopped the activity which is on an accelerated mode. It is time someone took up the cause and saw to it the GO is quashed lest we should only be helping illegal constructions go unchecked.

O. Srinivas

Visakhapatnam

Once a calm and quite city, Visakhapatnam is transforming itself into a nightmarish city with crime, high density population, most inadequate civic services and local transport for the burgeoning population.

Despite lack of infrastructure, the real estate prices are kissing the skies. Mafias are springing and growing very fast. City roads are choked. Already, the Garden City of Bangalore has become a veritable den for vice and crime. Hyderabad does not lag behind with political and land mafias operating merrily. The cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida and Chennai have become incorrigible. If the government takes a pragmatic look and develops infrastructure such as roads, telecommunications, transport by land and air in the hinterlands of the above places up to a radius 200 km to 300 km., there will be uniform development all around and the evils of the big cities can be eliminated. It is desirable to shift the IT and other industries in Visakhapatnam to northern places such as Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Palasa, Ichhapuram, Bobbili, Parvatipuram, etc.

G.M. Rama Rao

Visakhapatnam

While one laddu is being given free of cast at Tirumala temple in Tirupati and Sri Kanakadurga temples in Vijayawada to the Rs.50 ticket holders, no laddu is being offered at the Dwaraka Tirumala temple near Eluru for the Rs.50 ‘Antaralaya Darshan’ ticket holders. The latter should provide at least a small laddu as prasadam to ticket holders.

V.V.S.S.N. Prasad

Visakhapatnam

It is said that even the officials at BSNL jot down the telephone numbers of customers on currency notes of higher denomination, probably with a view to reverting to them in the event of it being proved fake later.

A better mechanism should be introduced to check the genuineness of the currency.

P.V.R. Murty

Visakhapatnam

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