Unfair practice
It’s rather surprising to know that all the VIPs who are Covid positive are opting for private hospitals because they can afford it whereas the local Goans are dumped in the govt medical centers to fight the battle, which means that the rich only have the right to live and the local Goans are left to face the brunt. Is this the govt that we have chosen and why is there a difference made between the electorate and the elected?
The VIP treatment is done at the cost of the tax payers and not their own so why is this happening that the VIP gets the best treatment and not the local Goan. If the medical care in the govt medical care center is good according to the Health Minister than why are the VIPs not admitted in these govt centers. This act should be stopped and all the ministers should be admitted in the same way as the locals..
Vincy Soares, Orlim
Address issues
It is good to know that many Indian universities, during the lock down have opened full-fledged online courses. But the fact that only around 12 per cent of Indian households have uninterrupted power supply and good internet connectivity is cause of concern and will spoil everything that we are planning in such a situation.
In the past five years, so many students have gone abroad for higher studies despite the havoc caused by this pandemic. A recent study has revealed that a handful of Indian colleges and universities conform to international standards. And the recent past around 17 million students have left the country for greener pastures The government needs to address this issues, and help in bringing in a bandwidth revolution in the country.
Diomedes Pereira, Corlim
Don’t cut trees for sake of your greed
You all must be aware that climate change is taking place, and the reason for this is environmental degradation, so here we should stop deforestation and if deforestation stop than everything will come to normal.
Trees are very important to human kind not only economically, environmentally and industrially but also spiritually, historically and aesthetically for they sustain human life through direct and indirect gains by providing wide range of products for survival and prosperity.
Do you’ll know, why we are existing on this earth? The only and only reason is because of oxygen, and from where we are getting this oxygen? From trees, so ultimately with this simple question you all must have understood that we should love trees not destroy, trees act as a life support system for all the living creatures on this earth.
It is necessary to make people aware that we must save the trees, otherwise there will be no one to save our lives. Remember that one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Just take a minute and think of our future without trees. So, take a small step of planting a tree and saving our mother planet.
Sahili S Sawant Dessai, Curchorem
‘Short circuit’ theory
The left bank hydroelectric power plant, built on the Srisilam dam on the Telangana side, belonging to the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TSGenco), witnessed a frightening night last Thursday. A massive fire left nine dead and seven injured. Rapid spread of smoke through the four–storeyed underground building, and tunnel, shut the escape doors although some employees saved themselves. Seven of the deceased were engineers who had stayed behind to shut the unit even as they extinguished fire to prevent further damage, and save lives.
But smothering smoke and raging flames thwarted their effort. Good number of “inbuilt safety designs”, including emergency exits, could not protect the workers. That being said, some reports say there was only one emergency exit in the hydel plant. Short circuit is a popular reason offered in accidents of the Srisilam type.
This puts a strong question mark on the functional status of fire fighting tools available at the plant. The natural corollary to that is whether or not the TSGenco hydel plant was regularly upkept because India has a pathetic history on that aspect. Safety audits have become an exercise in futility. Accountability is found wanting and transparency is a far cry. Any fire tragedy has to be taken as manmade unless proven otherwise.
A hydroelectric plant of such repute cannot rest itself on the “short circuit” theory because that will only reflect the poor standard operating procedures.Were the personnel expected to wear the personnel protection equipment (PPE). If yes, were they doing so? Is it so difficult to install a smoke extraction system in vulnerable power plants? All said and done, if administrators don’t learn from tragedies, the latter cannot be prevented from recurring.
Ganapathi Bhat, Akola
Bharat Ratna for Dhyan Chand
Former and current hockey players came together to demand Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, for the legendary Major Dhyan Chand, a few days ahead of his 115th birth anniversary on August 29. The day is observed as the National Sports Day.
Dhyan Chand is considered as the world’s greatest field hockey player of all times and received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 1956. What Pele was to football, Chand was to field hockey. Dhyan Chand earned three Olympic gold medals in field hockey in the years 1928, 1932 and 1936.
In the 1928 Olympics the hockey wizard was the top scorer of the tournament scoring an unbelievable 14 goals in five matches. In the 1932 Olympics India beat host USA by a score of 24-1 which was a world record at the time. In the 1936 Olympics finals India defeated Germany 8-1 and Dhyan Chand scored three goals. Chand was considered as the magician of hockey which is the national sport of India. Incidentally the Dhyan Chand Award is an award in India for lifetime achievement in sports.
The national stadium in Delhi is named as Dhyan Chand National Stadium. Given his stupendous contribution to hockey in India and of course to world hockey in general, it would be befitting to bestow the country’s highest civilian award the Bharat Ratna on Major Dhyan Chand.
Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco
Ban fringe organisations
The political leaders and government of Karnataka clamouring for a ban on SDPI and PFI as the group were linked to the violences in Bengaluru and Mangaluru. Some cases are also been reported from Kerala also. It is a high time to ban these groups as they are a grave dangers to peace and progress for India. It has become cancer to the society.
These organisations are based in Kerala and entire operations across the country is done from Kerala, some political parties is supported them to get minority votes. But Karnataka should carefully get a concrete case on these organisations so the ban stays solid. It should ban groups which incite hatredness and engage in violence’s.
Moreover the government should be in a position to defend and substantiate the action before the Centre and courts for banning these organisations for frequently causing law and order issues as well as indulging themselves in anti-national programmes.
K.G. Vilop, Chodan
