Team Anna should be believed

Team Anna should be believed
This is with regards to your column ‘Why should we blindly believe Team Anna’. Why should anyone believe blindly? Team Anna is not headed by Digvijay and does not consist of Sharad Pawar, Chidambaram, the Raja’s and Rani’s. It has members of repute.  The government even planted Swami Agnivesh in the team to derail their movement, who is now exposed.  It is heartening to note that Annaji has said that if Jan Lok Pal Bill is not passed; he and his team will again continue their anti-Congress campaign. If so far they have done well, why change their strategy?  Young Indians are awakened by Anna Team. We want to recall the non-performers who toe the high command line.  They have inaugurated the kitchen as you rightly said, and IAC will ensure that only after food is properly cooked, that they will turn off the gas. Team Anna will only get stronger against the vested interest, trying to derail an honest movement.
—Koshy George, via email

Byculla zoo requires a makeover
It is shocking to read the report of Plant and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) Mumbai, that civic-body run Byculla Zoo is in bad shape. It has been observed that wild animals who are sick are been kept in pathetic condition with water. The enclosures are not cleaned on a regular basis, proving that the zoo staff are inefficient and not qualified. Some of the enclosure are empty and animals are being put in small enclosure without any natural habitat and they are up for display. Despite a ban of plastic bottles in the zoo premises, it has been noticed that many plastic waste and gutkha pouches and cold drinks bottles have been found. I strongly feel that since the zoo is being maintained with the taxpayers money it should be shut down till BMC provides proper basic amenities to the animals. I hope that the zoo authorities will look into this matter and provide good conditions for the animals to live.
—Bhagwan Thadani, via email

Step up, Reserve Bank of India
Numerous co-op banks have gone into liquidation and innocent depositors have lost huge amounts of money. The RBI seems to have no control over their dubious transactions and they usually come into the picture after damage has been done, to put an ad in newspapers informing that the license has been cancelled! If RBI is not able to control these banks mushrooming in every nook and corner, it should not have given them licenses in the first place. In this regard your report (DNA, November 3), about the registered audit report to be provided by the Central Bank under RTI is a welcome move. People have the right to know who the defaulters are. With so many legal illuminaries in the central cabinet, why has no one thought of raising the insurance limit for bank depositors from Rs1 lakh, which was fixed some decades ago? Why not raise it to atleast five lakhs per depositor per bank?
—Sitaram, Sion

CM, bring back encounter specialists
The news that the underworld is chasing big game indicates that the gangsters are active again in Maharashtra. Before it is too late and before innocent common people become a victim of the gangsters’ bullets along with any industrialist or a horse breeder, the state chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is requested to bring back the encounter specialists like Daya Nayak, Pradip Sharma and Vaze 
at once.
—Hansraj Bhat, Borivli