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Time to save power

Time to save power

The power distribution structure is in trouble once again - rasta rokos, dharnas and gherao of the discom staff is the order of the day. In the 70s the APSEB was one among top three power utilities in the country. In those days every connection was metered and 24-hour supply was made available at the L.T. terminal of the consumers.

All the technical parameters are being adhered to and quality power is being made available.

However, the distribution personnel are being penalised for no fault of theirs. The needs of agricultural consumers have to be met to their satisfaction for increasing their produce. One hears that Gujarat is extending 24 hours' power supply to the farming community. If that is so then why can't we do it. We all have to adopt power saving practices to tide over the situation.

G.L. Panchashrit Reddy,

Nizamabad

Co-existence is need of the hour

The Doha games closing ceremony with its mesmerising show of colour and music was truly a poem in digital technology. The faces of sportspersons and spectators all through the 15-day extravaganza showed feelings of friendliness and joy. This joyful mood showed how people can live in happiness for centuries to come if only they cooperate with each other, forgetting their petty differences of race and religion.

But this mood is in stark contrast to the fiendish nature of man exhibited in international policies -- selfishness, intolerance and violence, the desire to acquire more and more destructive weapons of war, the readiness to recklessly tamper with nature's laws for economic gains, etc. Man should not forget that the earth will be, for at least a few thousand years more, the only inhabitable planet in the whole universe and we have nowhere to go if it is damaged. SBVR Shastry,

Warangal

State should serve the individual

Ours is a socialist order aimed at achieving an equitable society. The pattern incorporates the ideals of socialism as much as those of democracy. On the one hand, we cherish the ideals of equalisation of wealth and resources, the maximisation of public utility services, and the elimination of exploitation of man by man, and on the other, our democratic ideals are symbolised in universal suffrage, supremacy of Parliament, and the fundamental rights of individuals.

Without entering into a controversy whether fundamental rights should be regarded as sacred and inviolable, or whether the Directive Principles of State Policy, incorporated in the supreme law of the land, should have an edge over the fundamental rights, it can be said that the fundamental rights and Directive Principles are not to be regarded as contradictory. Hence there is no dichotomy between the fundamental rights and Directive Principles and a social order cherishing the ideals of socialism and democracy does away with concepts like "Individual versus the State" and relates the two in such a manner that the state as an instrument, serves the individual - each and all.

M. Satyanarayana Rao,

Hanamkonda

Nizamabad

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