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It is really unfortunate that the Maharashtra government proposes collective punishment on entire villages where atrocities against Dalits are committed.
• It is really unfortunate that the Maharashtra government proposes collective punishment on entire villages where atrocities against Dalits are committed. The state government even proposes to withhold development funds from such villages,something that will adversely affect Dalits too. Is it not administrative inefficiency and indifference to Dalits that has failed to check such crimes? Punish the officers who fail to perform their duty. Collective punishment is the easy,populist way out.
Ved Guliani
Hisar
Striking hard
• The two-day PSU bank strike is altogether unjustified,especially during a global recession. Banks are the lifeline of all business and a single days strike jeopardises the economy. Frankly,one doesnt even understand why PSU employees need to strike,since nobodys as safe as they are during economic crises,without any questions being raised as to their efficiency and competence.
S.N. Kabra Mumbai
A poet for all
• This refers to the editorial Casting the first stone . Tiruvalluvar was a poet-saint who wrote for humanity as a whole. A figure like him is universal and cannot be claimed by any one community alone. Nor should he be derided by anybody. The installation of Tiruvalluvars statue must not be considered as an exercise of flaunting Tamil civic pride but as an exercise in increasing awareness of such personalities. Indeed,his work Tirukkural is celebrated as
A Bible to the whole world. That said,it would be ironic to reduce him to just a linguistic identity.
Raghu Seshadri Chennai
Re-policing
• The demand for police
reform is justified . We shouldnt forget that the training of our top bureaucrats has hardly been reformed since Independence. Besides,our policemen are overburdened with long work hours. It might be better to train all successful civil service candidates in public administration for a year and then deploy them in the various services according tot heir temperament and talent.
Every five years,each policeman should take a refresher course. Then there must be ground level restructuring of police stations. Finally,investment in infrastructure and equipment would convert our police personnel to a modern day force.
Harish Awasthi
New Delhi
Paks shift?
• This refers to the report Independent Kashmir will ensure peace in South Asia: Pak . With this statement Pakistan has appears to have moved from annexation of Kashmir to the creation of an independent Kashmir. It should be taken note of. The dismemberment of Pakistan in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh wounded Pakistani pride irreparably and ever since it has been trying to do a Bangladesh to India. India should make it clear to Pakistan and others that Kashmir will always be non-negotiable.
R.J. Khurana
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