Andhra Pradesh

Women’s reservation bill

One more Women’s Day has gone by without empowering them. Political parties, which see women as the biggest vote bank, should cut across party lines and pass the women’s reservation bill before the 2009 general elections. It is high time both the national parties pulled the plug on small parties, as they have become an impediment for the development of the nation. The conglomeration of small parties has led to the fall of the government in the past and cost the nation crores of rupees.

Kasturi Tallamraju

Visakhapatnam

This has reference to the increasing juvenile crime, leading to use of fire arms and murders. This is a direct fallout of frustration as a sequel to materialistic life of parents and lack of training in moral lessons at the primary and secondary education levels. Further, rapid urbanisation saw vanishing of joint families, wherein elders used to influence the young by narrating moral stories and ballads that leave an indelible impression on their minds.

The uncensored violence shown on the celluloid screen and the TV and easy accessibility of weapons, which in normal course should be kept out of reach of all persons except the licence holder, are like adding fuel to fire. After all, we are proving that we are not lagging in the globalisation of crime as well.

G.M. Rama Rao

Visakhapatnam

Most of the population in the Gajuwaka zone of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is living below poverty line. Though many government schemes for the uplift of the poor are being implemented, the socio-economic conditions of the people are still miserable. They have no facilities for college education. As they cannot afford to join corporate colleges, many are discontinuing studies after high school. The government should set up junior and degree colleges in the area.

Kodali Rajeswara Rao

Visakhapatnam

I congratulate the Andhra Pradesh Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) for its decision to revise the undergraduate syllabus to make students employable and also equip them with multiple skills.

In this context, I wish to suggest that instead of conventional courses like pure botony, zoology and chemistry without any applied aspects, they can introduce crop botony, entomology and biochemistry. Pure science may be totally confined to the Intermediate level. And the job-oriented syllabi may be introduced from the next academic year.

G. Mary Hema Prabha

Kakinada

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