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All India Radio is doing a yeomen service in promoting Carnatic music. It deserves praise for its excellent coverage of the Thiagaraja Aradhana festival held recently at Thiruvaiyaru. The ‘live’ broadcast on Saturday’s national programme and the chorous singing of Pancharathna Krithis on the Aradhaa day were really commendable. Radha Bhaskaran, Erode. Anti-plastics driveWhen the anti-plastics drive was launched in the Nilgiris, it was treated as an Utopian idea but soon it gathered momentum and plastic carry bags began to disappear. The success was achieved through a carrot-and-stick policy. If we are to achieve total success, we need the cooperation of tourists who could be won over by persuasion or by force, if necessary. P.U. Krishnan, Udhagamandalam. Clean citiesChennai Corporation has banned spitting, urinating and dumping garbage in public places. One thought that such a ban must have existed long, long ago. Yet better late than never. Other Municipalities and Corporations too should impose a similar ban to keep cities clean and hygienic. V.S.Venkatavaradan, Salem. Train robberyOn January 24 I and my wife travelled in West Coast Express to Mangalore in a three-tier air-conditioned compartment. My wife occupied the lower sub berth. On reaching Mangalore at 4.45 a.m. the next day my wife found two mobiles, which were in her hand bag placed under her head, missing. At night someone had obviously taken the handbag, removed the mobiles and kept the bag in the same place from where it had been taken. At the Mangalore railway station when we went to file an FIR, we found many other passengers, mostly women, whose mobiles too were found stolen. Some had lost a lot of cash too. The air-conditioning mechanic was found with a bag of a passenger, but his version was that he found the bag in the toilet and he was about to return it to the owner. The mechanic and the ticket examiner who was drinking throughout the night while on duty were handed over to the police with a half-consumed liquor bottle. The police after a preliminary interrogation of the two released them for want of proof. As the bags were all kept back in the same place from where they were taken, it was an inside job, obviously. If the police give a clean chit to the accused caught red-handed, how can people travel safely in trains, especially women, at night? As the security of the passengers is the responsibility of the railways, it should be bound to compensate the passengers if they lose their belongings. Prince Herbert, Coimbatore. Music in busesAlmost all private buses play audio or video cassettes with high decibel music, obscene dialogues and scenes. The cassettes are selected by the bus drivers or conductors, irrespective of whether passengers enjoy them or not. Mild and melodious music will perhaps be appreciated by the passengers. G. Syamala, Salem. Save usBrindhavan Colony came into existence during 1961-62 thanks to G.V. Doraiswamy Naidu and sites in the colony were sold before 1965. This layout falls under the old jurisdiction of Uppilipalayam Panchayat which was later merged with Singanallur Municipality. Singanallur Municipality itself was merged with Coimbatore Municipal Corporation. An elementary school run by the Corporation has been functioning in the area for the last 30 years. There are many houses in the layout approved by the Corporation. The houses have been given water connections and property tax is being collected from them. The layout has pucca tar roads and street lights. But owing to the hamhanded ways of the revenue department of Coimbatore the layout has been classified as land taken over by the Government under urban land ceiling. How can the colony which was formed before 1965 and approved by the Director of Town Planning, Madras, in 1961-62 be classified as the Government land under the ULC Act which came into existence only in 1978 in Tamil Nadu? In this regard, my representations to the Collector, the Secretary, revenue department, and the Chief Secretary and petition to the Urban Land Tax Commissioner under the Right to Information Act have not yielded any result. I request the Government to look into this and give relief to the buyers of the sites who are mostly labourers retrenched from textile mills. K.N. Ramakrishnan, Coimbatore. R eaders can mail to cbereaders@thehindu.co.in with address and telephone number.
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