14 Sep 2018 | 04:25am IST
Letters to the Editor
Our founding fathers had stated that our Governments should be called using the party with a larger majority. Today we see as to why they inserted the clause. If a small party is called and if the members are incapacitated how will the government function? This is the state of our present Government.
If the cook keeps on burning the kichdi repeatedly, the family will get angry. This Government has seen rapes (Betalbatim), mining turmoil, destruction of the environment (bridges, highways, airport, rivers), food frights, and ill ministers. While we do wish that the ministers and MLAs get well, we do feel that work should be surrendered to able government.
The Governor should accept that her experiment has failed. I would respectfully suggest President’s rule under a different Governor.
Carmo Costa-Viegas, Assolna
The mother is the one who gives us birth by keeping the baby nine months in her womb. And the father is the one who works hard and does his best to provide his family and children.
Our parents are the first people with whom we come into contact; we owe our body to them. Parents’ love is immeasurable and the child can never return it. Parents sacrifice their life for the good of their children; they may feel hungry but will always feed their children until their stomach gets full. They may be also having many wishes of their own to fulfill, but they let it go off and put their efforts to fulfill their children’s desires.
As the parents grow old they expect love and affection from their children. It is here that the responsibility of looking after their old parents falls on the children in the same manner as to what their parents had done. But the irony is that they get busy in improving their own lifestyle. They forget their responsibilities towards their parents and they feel that their parents are becoming burden on them. They either leave them alone on their own or admit them in some home for aged.
We need to change our mindset towards our parents otherwise a day will come when our own children will do the same to us.
Demonisation was a good step but implementation was a total flop and Narendra Modi has to take the blame for the utter confusion created by a ban on Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes from circulation.
The Union government and Reserve Bank has made major errors over the past few days. I am not sure if demonetisation has accelerated the shift from cash to digital economy. Rural areas still lack basic infrastructure to handle demonetisation and the farmers don't have enough cash to deposit as whatever they earn they feed their family and they hardly go to the bank to deposit money as they don't have a penny in hand. They are more dependent on cash for sustenance so for them digital money is irrelevant hence the dream of digital money is a dream and cannot be reality unless the farmer's are given their higher dues for their crops as of now the traders and middle man are minting money of the hard work of the farmer's this has to be taken care by the government.
Modi eloquently talks about cashless society. But he should consider the plight of farmers in rural areas as most of the farmers don't have bank accounts and if they have they are unable to operate as they don’t have cash or otherwise. Modi cashless society will remain a utopian dream.
The article named "The denial of dignity in a casteist society" by Dale Luis Menezes is really Bonzer. This prestigious youthful essayist is a super-duper, I'm genuinely an aficionado of this youthful author due to his astounding articles.
Coming to the point, Rane is a great lawmaker and a decent pioneer yet since his blood child changed the side from Congress to BJP he has changed radically.
Calling Goans as toilet cleaners was truly hurting. Because each Goan who buckles down abroad continually make a few bucks to help their family. The motivation to travel to another country is on the grounds that there is no employment accessible and if there are then you need to pay under the table cash for this grimy politicians. I say this as a result of my own experience, and the low occupations have less pay which you can't bolster your entire family, but working abroad we can.
I'm not a Mugwump but rather before I shut down my pen this one is for you Rane - A regular worker Goan dream doesn't progress towards becoming reality through magic, it takes sweat, determination and diligent work.
Encircled in the news is heart-breaking bus disaster that fell into a gorge in Telangana's Jagtial district. This severe accident leading to 57 deaths and more than 36 injuries left every single individual of us saddened and overwhelmed by tidal waves of sheer grief and sorrow.
Really, Telangana state witnessed a very awful and dark day. We pray for eternal peace to the departed souls. Also I request Telangana government to provide the bereaved families with financial support and injured people with a proper assistance for their treatment.
Our country is passing through the toughest time in its history. Entire nation is suffering from poverty, mob-violence, rape cases, rupee crashing down against US dollar and so on. But what is the most shocking thing is that our leaders, and political parties are blaming each other for such critical situation.
I request both the ruling and opposition parties to find out the proper solutions of the problems. It is the most pressing need of the time to bring the nation out of whirlpool of such critical situations.
Bharat bandh or protesting before Jantar Mantar is not the solution rather it creates more problems for a common man particularly who depends ephemeral wage.
The daily rise in petrol and diesel should make a good case for all petroleum products under GST. Instead of daily price-rise, hike should be in multiples of one rupee when needed. There should be a ban on production of diesel-cars where diesel is deliberately priced low despite being almost same procurement-price to give relief to public-transport and transportation.
Revenue-loss can be compensated by adopting two-tier GST rates of 10 and 30 percent normally except on super-luxury items presently attracting cess, abolishing all others including zero-rate GST-slab. Items of long-lasting use even including like TV-sets and fridges of all models should attract 30-percent slab. Instead of imposing cess, extra GST-rates in multiples of 100 should be there so that luxury items requiring cess may have extra-ordinary high GST-slabs.
Abolishing zero-rate slab may look to be bitter, but practically it will provide much more relief specially in service-sector where items or services presently under 12 and 18 percent will also come under 10-percent slab. Revenue-loss can and should be further compensated by abolishing system of Input-Tax-Credit on all aspects including manufacturing and service sector, retaining only for trade-channels. Malpractice of selling GST-invoices without selling goods for availing false Input-Tax-Credit specially by manufacturing-sector will thus be checked to large extent.
Such practical reforms should not get political hurdles for unnecessarily criticizing abolition of GST-rates below 12-percent including zero-percent.
Subhash Chandra Agrawal, Delhi
