Opinion Not shocked at all
Ironically,while use of technology in all matters including statecraft is advancing across the world,our sufferings in matters of political will,political economy and above all organisational culture are increasing manifold....
This refers to Pratap Bhanu Mehtas All about us (IE,April 21). Ironically,while use of technology in all matters including statecraft is advancing across the world,our sufferings in matters of political will,political economy and above all organisational culture are increasing manifold. Our lack of the right human resources at the right time and place has naturally resulted in governance deficit,often manifest in a lack of transparency,political interference and nepotism. Even after more than 60 years of democratic governance we have failed to attain political maturity. Our leadership at the party level has displayed a peculiar watch-out-for-oneself attitude and a growing intellectual arrogance coupled with clear signs of drift,while the masses are gradually losing their interest and hope in political solutions to their fast growing problems. No wonder,people in general are neither shocked nor concerned at benami transactions and fraud in matters like IPL.
Ved Guliani Hisar
Adverse inflation
Shobhana Subramanian has rightly pointed out that wholesale inflation is no longer driven by supply-side factors alone,but also by the increase in demand on the part of consumers (Credit isnt due,IE,April 21). The government is complacent because it indicates higher food demand by rural population as a result of rural development schemes; but complacency is short-lived. Food inflation added fuel to general inflation. It adversely affected real income growth. Second,inflation distorts real income distribution. It hit hard the targeted population most. Expenditure which doesnt create wealth induces inflation. Top-down planning of rural development programmes failed to create expected wealth. Repeated interventions by RBI destabilise export,production as well as consumers budgets. Fiscal measures are a better alternative for controlling inflation in developing economies. Rising interest rate will adversely affect Indian products competing in the global economy.
M.K. Mahapatra Pune
Just clean up
As advised by the editorial At silly point (IE,April 22),while cleaning up the IPL,we shouldnt throw the baby out with the bathwater. The extreme step of banning the IPL will prove counter-productive and hit cricket and its players adversely. Where there is money,there is muck. What now needs to be ensured is transparency and accountability in IPL management. There should be no room for cronyism and oligarchy at any level.
Satwant Kaur Mahilpur
Insensitive
The report 13-yr-old rape victim to HC: let me abort(IE,April 21) and the editorial Courting trauma (IE,April 22) highlighted the outrageously appalling and utterly insensitive state of our judicial system. How,in a supposedly civilised and humane society like ours,a sessions court could be so unconcerned about the trauma of a 13-year-old rape victim,as to deny her the permission to abort since there was no evidence that her health was in danger?
M. Ratan New Delhi
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