The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : Power cut hurts

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Thursday, Jun 28, 2007
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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Power cut hurts

Having come from Mumbai to spend retirement years in Coimbatore, the frequent power shut hurts me. Power suddenly goes, at times twice, even thrice, a day, for 10 or 15 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes or an hour in the Vadavalli and Tondamuthur Road areas. Indian engineers have won recognition abroad as the world’s best engineering talent. It is a crying shame that the state engineers are unable to ensure uninterrupted power supply. It is said an official in the power house sensing load excess instinctively shuts power to the Vadavalli-Tondamuthuir area. Will the Chief Engineer of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board summon his junior staff and think up ways to provide uninterrupted electricity supply to senior citizen complexes. One expects speedy relief from power shut woes.

N. Hariharan,

Tondamuthur Road.

Pedestrian safety

I would like to bring to the notice of the Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore city, the need for more barricades in front of the mini bus stand opposite the Government Hospital on Tiruchy Road. Lives of pedestrians crossing this bus stand to the hospital are at risk. There is no zebra crossing here. Coimbatore Corporation is yet to start a sub-way at this spot.

N.R. Ravisankar,

Villankurichi.

Good work, V-C

Coimbatore has a pride of place among the Indian cities with reasonably good schools and facilities for higher education. It seems to be poised for a further leap. Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor Thiruvasagam has initiated many measures to improve the standard of college education. Activity-based education has replaced the age-old stale system at KG level and there is a move to extend it up to the third standard. Coimbatore Corporation has supplied video disc players, projectors and computers to schools under its jurisdiction to introduce virtual classrooms. There is also a move to establish an eco-friendly arts and science college with ultra-modern amenities in the outskirts of the city. All these clearly point to the fact that before long the quality of education in Coimbatore will match international standards.

K.D.Viswanaathan,

Thadagam Road.

Re-evaluation woes

I have has just completed the Higher Secondary Examination. Soon after the results were announced, students were given the option of applying for a photocopy of their answer sheets. A friend of mine was one of the students who had applied for the photocopies by paying Rs.275 for each subject. She finds that one of the answers in the chemistry paper has not been evaluated. To get the two marks for that answer, which she deserves, she had to send a demand draft for Rs. 505 along with copy to be sent for re-evaluation. Is this not unfair on the part of people who had valued her paper?

Shilpa . S

Raghupathy layout, Saibaba Mission Post, (Readers can mail to cbereaders@the hindu.co. in with address and telephone number)