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Introduce boating

Introduce boating

Civil Service Training Institute, Regional Institute of

Rural Development, Agricultural Research Station, fisheries department, State Transport Corporation Driving Institute, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board hydro power project, State Bank of India, Sri Lankan refugee camp, Government Higher Secondary School, Holy Redeemers Matriculation Higher Secondary School, public works department, block development office and forest office are situated in Bhavanisagar. Moreover, many tourists visit Bhavanisagar and Bannari Amman temple in weekends. Hence, the Tamil Nadu Tourism Department should introduce boating in Bhavanisagar Dam. G.N. Devaraj,

Bhavanisagar.

Public woe

Travel agents create problems at Erode railway reservation centre every day. They come in groups and one of them stand in the queue while others wait outside.

As the queue moves, the person in the queue signals the others waiting outside and they conveniently join the queue ignoring the protests of those waiting.

All these happen under the very eyes of Railway officials.

A Railway Police constable should be deployed there to solve this problem.

Otherwise, a separate counter should be opened exclusively for travel agents.

C. Bhaskaran,

Erode.

Save these

precious lives

The report `4 killed as train hits autorickshaw' ( The Hindu , Aug. 19) has shocked us.

A four-year-old child who was going to see a doctor with her mother was among the casualties.

Two more women who boarded the auto mid-way also met with the tragic end.

We are reminded of Nobel laureate Albert Camus' novel `The Plague' where one character asks a priest: "Father, what sin has this child committed to suffer like this?" The existential feeling of being thrown into existence in this world is portrayed here.

Coming out of such existential dread and anguish, if we reason out the order of incidents in this tragic accident, we wonder what made the driver take a detour to the unmanned railway level crossing, especially when the nearby railway gate was closed. There have been many accidents at unmanned railway level crossings.

Such crossings should be manned to save precious lives.

M. Vathapureeswaran and V. Joseph Emmanuvel,

Tiruchengode.

(Readers can mail to cbe readers@thehindu.co.in)

Bhavanisagar.

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