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Stray dog menace

The Tuticorin Municipality does not care about stray dogs. They trouble the pedestrians who cannot go away from the house. Many people are bitten by the frenzy dogs.

Schoolchildren are seriously affected by the stray dogs, which impede movement of the people. The civic body should do the needful immediately.

M. Sankar Ganesh,

Tuticorin.

Bad condition of bus stand

The condition of the bus stand in Tiruchendur is worsening. It does not have proper platforms and pavements. Moreover, there is no proper black-top inside the bus stand. Worst of all, the entire bus stand has become muddy and slippery, owing to the recent downpour. As a result, commuters are put to untold agony.

Further, there has been an undue delay and deadlock in establishing the proposed new bus stand in Tiruchendur. The purpose of building the new bus stand is to cater to the needs of the largest number of the commuters travelling to and from Tiruchendur.

The local people and the commuters are really upset over the lethargic attitude of the authorities concerned towards the condition of the bus stand.I request the authorities concerned to kindly look into this matter.

P. Senthil Saravana Durai,

Vazhavallan, Tuticorin district.

School admission

Many private primary English schools are available in Kanyakumari district catering to the needs of parents who want their wards to study in English medium schools. But to admit children in sixth standard English medium is an uphill task as far as the district is concerned.

A few aided missionary schools for boys alone are available to admit the aspirants.

Admission to sixth standard in English medium is made only through an entrance examination conducted by the management and the entrance is an eyewash.

But in the case of aided schools admission is restricted to particular students in spite of better performance and those admitted are wards of powers that be.

Students must be admitted without fear or favour so that meritorious students would not be left out of the stream.

V. Kumar,

Thekkurichy, Kanyakumari district.

Free schemes by civic bodies

While recently presenting the Chennai Corporation budget for the year 2008-09, the Mayor M. Subramanian has offered a bonanza of free schemes.

They include the issuance of the birth and death certificates free of cost, supplying a gift pack consisting of a towel, a bar soap, talcum powder and a set of clothes to the children born in the Corporation maternity hospitals..

While the birth certificates open the doors — to education, health, employment and other basic rights as a citizen, the death certificates are required for transfer of ownership of properties, closure of bank/post office accounts and the like.

Since they serve as the two basic documents in the lives of every human being, it is requested that all other civic bodies in the State may issue the birth and death certificates free of cost.

S. Nallasivan,

Tirunelveli.

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