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Long wait at SBI counters

At present only the main office of the State Bank of India (SBI), caters to the needs of the customers of Madanapalle Municipal Town and its vicinity including out station customers.

But, it is turning monotonous to wait hours together in the “Q” at the counters, allotted for deposits, withdrawals of personnel, government and other nature.

With this, the customers, mainly senior citizens and the disabled are also made to wait for long hours.

To overcome this problem I request the authorities to have all types of ‘deposits’ in one counter. This could be introduced on an experimental basis and see that it works effectively.

Eggoni Syama Sundar,

Madanapalle

Rise of road accidents

This refers to the news item “60 p.c. accident victims are youth”, The Hindu (9.2.08).

The main reason for the rise of road accident is lack of traffic awareness among the two-wheeler riders.

Further, most of the youth have madness for driving the vehicle at high speed and speaking on mobile phones while driving the vehicles resulting in accidents.

Besides, the number of two wheelers has also increased enormously due to the loan facilites available currently.

To check this practice the local administration should ask the riders to wear helmets and take stern action against drunken drivers and also those found speaking on cell phones while driving vehicles.

Dr. M. Nazeeruddin,

Kurnool

An affront to human dignity

The body disposal following death on railway tracks triggers a wave of jurisdictional wrangles. Recently a lady passenger, while alighting the train at Dadar station , fell down and was run over.

The media highlighted

the indignity the railways displayed in disposing the body.

The railway police even go to the extent of shifting the body out of their jurisdictional perimeter to evade their duties.

The paramedical wing shows a cavalier response to incidents of death on the track.

All these is done despite the fact that instructions in the rules book that bodies should be treated with dignity!

N. Sadasivan Pillai,

Guntakal

Common sense needed

The recent statement of transport commissioner Poonam Malakondaiah that sixty percent of those dying in road accidents are youth is unnerving.

Majority of the youth do not know that the traffic rules and signals are meant for their safety.

It is a wise step to introduce road-safety in syllabi of sixth to ninth standards.

Even the grown-up should bear in mind that all traffic-rules aim at their safety. Indiscriminate parking, speaking on phone while driving, drunken driving, riding on the wrong side – all these have biter consequences which are avoidable if people have a bit of common sense and sense of responsibility.

R. Sreenivasulu,

Anantapur

Organ transplant: who are the culprits?

The Organ Transplant Act may be sacrosanct but rings hallow in a country where a large parallel economy makes a mockery of every thing and is obviously responsible for continuing mass poverty. In the end it is the grinding poverty that makes a man sell his kidney. M. Satyanarayana Rao,

Hanamkonda

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