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Hallmarking of gold jewellery

Often, a common person feels cheated after purchasing gold ornaments as they are not always pure. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the only agency in the country that tests the standard of products and issues a certificate. It is therefore suggested that the BIS should also test and hallmark all gold jewellery.

K.C. Mohanti

Visakhapatnam

Adopt modern methods

`City beautifiers' as the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) re-designated its sanitation staff, are in reality, a harassed lot, thanks to the primitive working methods adopted by the GVMC.

The street sweepers are made to carry the sweepings in heavy steel-wheeled pushcarts without any rubber beading.

It is time the steel pushcarts are changed and modern methods introduced in disposing the garbage.

T.S. Rao

Visakhapatnam

Whom to blame?

My flat in MPM VUDA Layout was completed six months ago but power connection is not given by the EPDCL that insists on a certificate of completion from the GVMC Commissioner. But GVMC says that it does not give any such certificate. While the EPDCL officials do not certify the electrical wiring for safety, they do not have any moral right to insist on completion certificate from the corporation.

V. Pedamba Raj

Visakhapatnam

RTC occupancy rate

Though one notices a change in attitude of the bus staff of APSRTC who are now more polite, the occupancy rate is yet to be improved. This can be done by adopting some practices like displaying bus timings at all important places and maintaining punctuality.

V.V. Ratnachary

Visakhapatnam

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