Opinion H1N1 fears
The first swine flu fatality means the government cant be complacent as to the actual number of the infected. It also exposes the laxity of state measures and the inability...
• The first swine flu fatality means the government cant be complacent as to the actual number of the infected. It also exposes the laxity of state measures and the inability of clinics to detect the disease in the initial stages. Questions should also be raised on proper checking facilities at airports. But now that the virus is spreading within the country,the possibility of the victim getting the virus at the clinic itself is cause for worry. It means,one can go in with a normal cold,and come out with swine flu!
Arundhati Sharma
New Delhi
Ecological games
• Ramaswamy Iyers article on the Commonwealth Games venue is most pertinent. The writer is justifiably anguished by the fate of the Yamuna plains in Delhi,thanks to the bad decision of locating the Games there. The form of the apex court judgment hasnt helped either. Inadequate consideration of expert opinion and poor reasoning behind it will certainly have long-term adverse consequences.
R. Venkatanarayanan
Noida
Judging concerns
• A seasoned Indian litigant might stop at nothing; depending on his case and its financial ramifications,and may even accuse a judge of shady deals. There are only two occasions when a judges assets need to be known to his boss,the CJI and the president of India: at the time of appointment and,once,annually.
Such declarations should be checked by a competent body consisting of the Union law minister,the attorney general and a nominee of the CJI,and a representative of the opposition in Parliament. But members of the judiciary should be excluded from the purview of the RTI because of the nature of their work and also because they cant use the media to defend themselves.
M.K.D. Prasada Rao
Ghaziabad
• The government sensibly deferred the Judges Bill which,in its current form,would have conferred a privileged status on judges contravening the constitutional ideal of equality before law. One understands the judiciarys concerns that public access to information about their assets would be problematic.
But a revised bill,while
excluding the offending clause,should provide for a special authority in each state with full powers to investigate any complaints against senior judges,senior bureaucrats and sitting legislators,and publish the findings within a timeframe.
P.V. Maiya
Shadow fights
• On the reluctance of our top cricketers to comply with the WADA guidelines,you have rightly commented that Indian cricket is becoming reflexively disposed towards standoffs. The BCCI and our cricketers should meet the WADA requirements. Neither the BCCI nor Indian cricketers are bigger than the sport.
Dilbag Rai
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