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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

No passenger amenities

The Nellore South railway station is being used for halt of passenger trains. Many passenger trains in this route have halts in this small station, where the officials seem to have forgotten their duty of providing basic facilities to commuters. The short platform has no water kiosk and there is no seating for passengers. The shed, which is protecting passengers from rain and heat, has to be renovated. Since many people are using this station daily, I request the railway authorities to take necessary steps to improve basic facilities here.

K. N. Rao

Kavali, Nellore district

Follow Gandhigiri

Political parties often announce bandhs to draw the attention of the Government to one issue or the other. Ironically, these parties bother least about the inconvenience such bandhs cause to common people. Normal life comes to a standstill and many daily labourers lose their livelihood due to such agitations. We don’t know whether the issue on which these parties agitate would be addressed or not, but we have to face inconveniences from not being able to send children to school to paying extra for commodities like milk and vegetables. I wonder why political parties can’t express their anguish in a different form like sitting on a hunger strike, the practice once used by Mahatma Gandhi.

D. Mohan Rao

Ongole

Right motivation needed to check AIDS

It is reported that the Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust has planned a new method of introducing female condoms to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS. A few years ago, the same trust introduced condom vending machines for men. It is learnt that the Andhra Pradesh AIDS Control Society is extending its help to promoting female condoms in East Godavari, Krishna and Visakhapatnam districts. It is better to have right motivation with high moral values to control the spread of the deadly disease in the State, rather than borrowing methods like vending machines and female condoms.

M. Blessing Moses

Penumantra, West Godavari dist.

MSP for paddy

Political parties seem to have a fascination for raking up sentimental issues and deriving political mileage out of it. The recent instance is the demand for increasing the MSP of paddy, which, no doubt, pertains to the much-suffering farming community. But the way political parties are trying to score a point over each other by criticising each other about lack of commitment towards the cause of farmers is depressing, to say the least. The need of the hour is forging of unity among all political parties and MPs from the State and demand in one voice a good amount of MSP for paddy from the Centre.

K. Sekhar Babu

Khammam

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