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Wednesday, Apr 13, 2005

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Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi

Readers' Mail

Sales Tax to VAT

Sir, — Hitherto traders were paying Sales Tax from their own profit apart from paying some amount without any receipt to Commercial Tax officials. Because whenever ST is raised on bills, there is a stiff resistance from customers.

After the introduction of VAT, which is a foolproof system of collecting tax, traders are forced to collect 12.5 per cent as ST from consumers or pay through their nose. While purchasing goods, traders have to pay 12.5 per cent tax and they have to collect tax, profit and already paid tax. It is nothing but tax added tax.

To avoid this situation, the Government must come out with a proposal to collect only 4 per cent ST on all products.

Ansar,
Tiruchi.

Unsafe roads

Sir, — The city roads can be called safe, only when pedestrians are safe. From Thennur road over-bridge to Thennur Salai Road junction and further at Pattabiraman X Cut Road KMC curve till Puthur Four Roads junction there is no space for pedestrians on pavements.

The same old story holds true at Palakkarai Main Road, Melapudur Convent Road, Madurai Road and from Main Guard Gate till Chattiram bus stand whatever little space is available is taken up by encroachers, hawkers and two wheelers leading to accidents every day.

Due to slow ongoing construction work of Palakkarai Over Bridge, traffic in the area is very congested. The authorities should relay Uzhavar Sandhai Annanagar Road leading to Shastri Road to easetraffic congestion on the Thennur Main Road.

Besides it is right time to install temporary automatic traffic signals at Tennur road over-bridge and Tennur Salai Road junction entrance and Pattabiraman X cut road.

Dr. David Peniel,
Tiruchi.

Violation of traffic rules

Sir, — The traffic rules and regulations in Tiruchi city have lost their meanings.

Firstly, none of the State Transport Corporation bus drivers are charged for violating traffic signals. Secondly, share auto-rickshaws, which carry more than the permissible number of passengers and its conductor stands or sits on the door while the vehicle is in motion are plying without any control. It is a high time the road traffic rules and regulations in Tiruchi city.

C. Ramalingam,
Tiruchi.

Sir, — There is a regular traffic jam inevitable at Gandhi Market area for more than two decades. Sometimes it takes more than fifteen minutes to get cleared.

Hence, Tiruchi Corporation should take some serious steps to ease congestion at this point.

S. Comagan,

Tiruchi.

Power and phone

Sir, — Vangal, a fast developing village near Karur, is now facing a difficulty.

Power supply and telephone communication have proved to be a bane than boon to this village. The telephone exchange and power stations are in a very dilapidated state.

I request the authorities concerned to remodel the telephone exchange and ensure uninterrupted power supply.

P.Ramesh Balajee,

Tiruchi.

Woes of ATM users

Sir, — At present, all the banks are boasting of their ATM facilities.

The gullible account holders also consider holding an ATM cards as a pride. But, these ATM centres have become a nightmare for the customers.

For instance, an account holder drew Rs. 5,000 from the ATM centre of a nationalised bank at Ponmalai.

The hapless man has got just Rs.2,500. But, the statement generated by the ATM machine showed that he has received Rs.5000 After lot of negotiation alone he could set right his account.

In another case, a cardholder drew Rs. 15,000 from the ATM centre of another nationalised bank.

When he tried in another ATM centre of the same bank, it displayed `cannot be processed'.

But, when he tried in the first referred ATM again, he got a statement that he has already received Rs.15000.

Will the bank officials take steps to solve these problems?

H. Ghousebaig,

Tiruchi.

Missing

note

Sir, — I remitted an amount of Rs. 5,000 in a bank, which included a `bank packed' bundle of Rs.50.

The bundle was properly packed, sealed and contained bank seal and there was no chance for pilferage.

At the bank, the cashier opened the bundle in my presence and counted the notes through the counting machine, which indicated only 99.

Thereafter, the same notes were manually counted thrice, but there were only 99 notes. Therefore, I had to pay Rs.50 to make up the shortage.

In order to avoid recurrence of such instances, the banks may exercise more caution and fool proof methods.

R. Jambunathan,
Tiruthuraipoondi.

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