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‘Dangerous’ trees

I refer to the news item ‘Survey to identify ‘dangerous’ trees will commence soon’ (Dec. 27).

All these dangerously poised trees in the Nilgiris are victims of urbanisation and expansion and there is no alternative but to axe them to prevent recurring road blocks. However, sufficient care should be taken to avoid indiscriminate felling of trees because the very survival of the Nilgiris as a major tourist spot depends much on these rare and charming trees and plants.

P.U. Krishnan,

Udhagamandalam.

Harassed pensioners

About 42 railway pensioners and widows have been denied monthly pension by the manager of State Bank of India, Podanur, on the ground that their pension records and documents are not available in the bank and that they are missing.

We were receiving the pension regularly till November 30 with the available records in the bank without any hitch. Pensioners are not at all responsible for loss of records in the bank.

The bank can get full details of the missing records from the railway divisional office, Palakkad or from Chennai.

State Bank of India zonal manager should look into this and arrange for immediate payment of the pension. We should not be harassed by withholding our pension.

Philomena Rathy,

Podanur.

TV in railway station

Recently I went to the Coimbatore railway station to see off my father who was leaving for Chennai by Nilgiris Express.

Before the arrival of trains, coach position from the engine is announced for the convenience of passengers.

At the same time, television sets installed in the platforms broadcast commercial advertisements in high volume causing inconvenience to the passengers who want to know the coach position.

I request the railway authorities to look into this and advise the people concerned to switch off the TV sets or reduce the volume at the time of announcement of the coach position.

R. Ragavan,

Coimbatore.

Skewed priority

The State Government has been distributing colour TVs and LPG gas connections with gas stoves free of cost to poor people (incidentally, they are given to all and sundry irrespective of economic status) and people have benefited by this.

However, there are many remote villages in Tamil Nadu without proper roads or bus facilities. In suburbs, buses are overloaded and people travel on footboards, endangering their lives, because of inadequate bus facilities.

Will the Government look into this problem urgently instead of wasting money on free colour TVs and gas connection?

Ganapathy Subramaniam,

Coimbatore.

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