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Clean city

Salem Municipality through a public notice urged citizens to keep environment clean to prevent breeding of mosquitoes.

The Corporation has given sanitation work on contract to a private organisation which does not clean drainage canals.

The Corporation should first make the contractor work and advise the citizens to keep the city clean.

Rajaram,

Salem.

Rural employment

This has reference to the report ‘NREGP difficult to be implemented in Nilgiris’ (Aug. 30).

If officials of the State rural development department feel that it is not practicable to adhere to the rules relating to the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in the Nilgiris district, alternative ways suitable for the district should be suggested.

In this connection, it is worth mentioning here there is a vast scope for enhancing co-operative dairy development activities in the district which has suffered a setback as a result of the entry of private parties in milk business.

The amount earmarked for rural employment could be invested in dairy development by persuading the rural people to enlist themselves as members of the co-op milk societies.

The government should make arragements for loans to the farmers to buy milch animals.

P.U. Krishnan,

Udhagamandalam.

English for engineering

The disturbing thing about the syllabus for first year BE/B.Tech students of Anna University, Coimbatore, is that the course for English for the academic year 2009-10 has been entrusted to a private tutorial institution as it was done last year.

Students joining the first year class in the first week of September will have to pay nearly Rs. 1,800 for the first two semesters out of which nearly Rs. 800 will go to the private agency and Rs. 1,000 to the university as examination fee.

The university collects only Rs. 100 per paper for engineering and science subjects.

But, unfortunately, Rs. 500 + Rs. 500 is collected for the English examination.

Since the issue is in the High Court, the university will do well to wait till the judgement is given in the corruption case against the Vice-Chancellor which includes the charge that some percentage of the amount collected for the English programme has gone into the his personal account.

The general view is that it will be better for the Anna University, Coimbatore, to follow the syllabus prescribed by Anna University, Chennai, especially for English without giving the contract to the private agency thereby eliminating corruption.

S. Mahalingam,

Erode.

Traffic discipline

During peak hours (4 p.m. to 8 p.m.) service of the traffic police is required as pedestrians find it difficult to cross roads, especially the Olympus crossing on Trichy Road and the two nearby crossings.

The presence of the police during peak hours will ensure discipline.

E. Sivasankaran,

Coimbatore.

Coimbatore neglected

Why has Coimbatore been neglected for so many years in spite it being number two in revenue earnings, next only to Chennai. A divisional railway headquarters should have been established in Coimbatore long ago. Doubling of track between Irugur and Coimbatore should have been completed at least 20 years ago. I have been hearing about it for the last 30 years.

Why is Coimbatore given a step-motherly treatment? Perhaps it has not had a ruling party MP for many years. There are not proper facilities in the railway station. In the longer run authorities should plan to build a bigger station with more platforms and modern facilities.K.N. Gopalan,

Coimbatore.

To Sir, with love

The report ‘To Sir, with love and gratitude’ (Aug. 29) was most touching. Students, in general, show great respect for their teachers.

Mostly, this lasts for a life-time.

Alumni associations have sprung up everywhere and the active, well-placed old students belonging to various batches, wherever they may be, plan well and enjoy a pleasant get-together along with their good old teachers at fixed intervals at their old institutions.

During such meetings, they honour their teachers in some way or other.

But the manner in which the old students of Sengunthar Mahajana Higher Secondary School, Guruswamypalayam, have honoured their 83-year-old Tamil teacher V.Venkataraman, who was a great source of inspiration for them, is something unique.

K.D. Viswanaathan,

Coimbatore.

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