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Simplify process

To obtain birth and death certificates the amount fixed by the State Government has to be remitted in State Bank of India but the forms are to be obtained from the treasury office. Instead of asking the public to collect the form from the treasury and remit at the SBI counter, it will be better if they are directed to remit it at the treasury as before to facilitate public in curtailing unnecessary hardship. Or else, sufficient forms for remittance towards birth and death certificate may be supplied at SBI counter itself.

V. Kumar

Thekkurichy, Kanyakumari district.

Shameful act of neglect

This refers to the article published in The Hindu on June 6 about a passenger who slipped from the moving train. I was extremely pained to know the plight of the victim’s wife. The man came under the wheel and seeing his bleeding legs his wife pleaded with the passengers to come to her rescue, but unfortunately all around turned a deaf ear to her. The way the passengers behaved is really inhuman and a shame for all of us. How could they neglect the request of a helpless woman in such a critical situation? Could the passengers behave in such a merciless manner if the victim happens to be their relative or family member?

The victim’s wife rushed to the railway police station for ambulance, to add to her misery the ambulance had no driver. What purpose does the life saving vehicle serve without a driver? The victim’s legs could have been saved from amputating had he received some immediate help from the passengers and railway employees by providing medical assistance on time.

Lilly Ramadurai

Kovilpatti

Reason for price rise

Even before the recent price rise of petroleum products, prices of most of the commodities had gone up steeply. I would like to bring to the notice of Union Finance Minister that one of the main reasons for the sharp rise in prices started when the small denominations of coins were slowly withdrawn from circulation. When increasing the prices of low-price small products like shaving blades, shampoo sachets, pencil eraser and chocolates they were hiked by either 100 per cent or 200 per cent, i.e., from 50 paise to Re.1 or Rs.2. And many traders who shows this as bench mark, increases the prices of tea, vadai, flowers, liquors etc. minimum by Re.1. Small denomination coins like 5 paise, 10 paise, 20, 25 paise plays a very vital role when increasing prices.

So, I request the Government to reintroduce smaller denomination coins.

V. Kanthimathynathan

Tirunelveli

Signal lights

The traffic signal lights on the vital and vulnerable four point crossing at Tiruchendur, is not being used ever since its installation there for quite sometime now.

The spot being a busy thoroughfare and accident prone, keeping in view of the increasing flow of vehicles day by day, I request the authorities concerned to commence the functioning of the signal lights at the earliest.

K.K. Krishmamurthy

Tiruchendur

Infrastructure development

Complaints are pouring in daily that this road is not maintained properly or that road makes it difficult and inconvenient for the public to pass through in Tuticorin.

Actually, the works relating to repairs and the maintenance of roads were not carried out for the last few years except those taken up during VIPs’ visits.

The repairs made could not with stand one day’s rain.

The main V.E. Road was closed for traffic and the vehicles were diverted for a month. The lanes and by-lanes require immediate attention.

People begin to doubt whether the lavish spending on free distribution of colour TV sets and of free gas stoves is causing shadow and extensive damage to the works of road-laying and maintenance.

N. Kasilingam

Tuticorin

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