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Enforce road discipline

Kudos to the Motor Vehicles Department for booking violators of traffic rules using the latest technology. The increasing number of accidents, of late, is attributed mainly to rule violations and, hence, it is necessary to enforce road discipline.

The violators should be fined heavily.

Video cameras should be installed at vantage points to record traffic offences. Speeding vehicles, including buses of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, which create a scare, are to be marked and their drivers taken to task.

G. Ramachandran

Kaimanam

The increase in the prices of building materials such as cement and steel is an extra burden on building contractors and the middle-class and salaried sections who plan to construct houses. The price of cement has risen to around Rs. 270 a 50-kg bag, up by about Rs. 80 in a year.

The price of steel TMT bars is about Rs. 45 a kg. The common man and the contractors find it difficult to carry out works. Sand, gravel and other building materials are also priced high. A check on the price of cement and steel is needed as construction works are going on in vast numbers in the city limits. The small contractors are the worst sufferers.

Jishi R.

Palayam

The Opposition and the Left parties are blaming the Centre for the rise in prices of essential commodities. They may well understand that in a fast-developing country like India, price rise is inevitable.

O. Mathai

Kowdiar

Last week, I twice visited a State Bank of India branch in Thiruvananthapuram for making deposits. I could complete the formalities after a delay of 40 minutes during the first visit and 35 minutes next time.

People crowded each counter, as the token system and queues were absent.

The bank authorities may introduce the token system and allow transactions on all counters irrespective of the nature of business.

Karamana Mani

Vanchiyoor

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