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Bus fare

I travelled by the State Transport Corporation’s point-to-point bus from Ramanathapuram to Madurai on May 23. The fare collected was Rs.40. I returned the same evening by another point-to-point service. This time the fare was Rs.50.There is no justification in collecting two different fares for the same distance on the same sector. This way of exploitation should be stopped forthwith. I request the Government to look into this unjustified collection of fare and issue necessary orders to adopt uniform rate.

G. Nagasamy,

Secretary, Consumer Welfare Association, Ramanathapuram

Evening college

The evening college affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University was functioning very well with more women students and employed persons at Ramanathapuram and every year there was rush for admissions. Since 2007, it was abruptly closed for want of required infrastructure when Alagappa University insisted on such facilities. It is unfortunate that it could not be retained at this educationally backward district. There are many places belonging to the State in Ramanathapuram. The district administration should take steps to revive the evening college.

Asmabagh Anvardeen,

Ramanathapuram

To ban or not

To ban or not to ban, that is the question. It relates to the reported proposal to ban smoking and drinking on screen on the plea that these acts by the actors highly infect the people and encourage them to become votaries of cigarette and alcohol. Now, this assumption can be accepted only when a detailed study brings out any link between smoking and drinking scenes shown in films and the cultivation of these habits by the people. Does it mean the rape and the crime scenes shown so often on screen motivate people to become rapists and criminals? If so, these scenes too deserve to be banned! If films can mould people, how is that even after viewing so many good films depicting excellent scenes of real love, patience, tolerance and religious harmony, we continue to be consumed with hatred, intolerance, impatience and religious fighting? If the authorities are really keen on improving the health and habits of people, let them see to it that air and water are kept clean, plastics are kept out, fake drugs are banished, mounds of disease-causing garbage are removed, for these cause slow death.

G.K.S. Kandasubramanian,

Sivaganga

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