Online information
This is with reference to ‘Schools against accounts on web’, (DNA, July 19). The apprehension against putting up school accounts online is totally unfounded, baseless and imaginary. Corporates and companies put up their accounts online and this information is also available through the registrar of companies. Similarly, information about trusts and their accounts is available from the office of the Charity Commissioner. So what is the big deal about putting up this information on the school’s website?
—Jehangir Gai, via email
State politics
In ‘Maharashtra should help Belgaum prosper’, (DNA, July 19) the writer erroneously assumes that Marathi people have accepted Karnataka as their home state. Simply put, Marathi people are being given step-motherly treatment. The writer contradicts himself when he says that Belgaum requires prosperity and, on the other hand, says the younger generation has accepted Karnataka as the home state. Let the writer point out a single project undertaken by the Karnataka government which has benefited the locals in the past 60 years. The writer advocates a historical reason in the form of the Mahajan Commission. Karnataka adopted unfair means to get the award in their favour. The reaction of the Marathi people was so adverse that Mahajan committed suicide within one month of the commission report becoming public. Maharashtra has reserved engineering and medical seats for students coming from Belgaum area for many years. What has Karnataka done? Belgaum will prosper only when it joins Maharashtra.
—Narayan Badmanji, via email
It’s symbolic
I am unable to understand why so much hype is created over the new rupee symbol (‘India gets rupee symbol’, DNA, July 16)? What difference does it make to our economy? Will it improve the value of the rupee or the standard of life of those eight states where some of the poorest people in the world live? We hope that the new symbol will inspire us to work hard so that we too are proud one day to own it.
—Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee, Faridabad
Food for all
The food security law needs to be implemented properly if the benefits of it are to reach the deserving lot (‘Creating consumers’, DNA, July 16). I agree with your edit that the cash transfer scheme, if considered by the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, could alleviate the poor people’s food problems. The government should allocate more funds for such a vital social schemes for the benefit of the people.
—Jitendra Kothari, via email
The food security law needs to be implemented properly if the benefits of it are to reach the deserving lot (‘Creating consumers’, DNA, July 16). I agree with your edit that the cash transfer scheme, if considered by the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, could alleviate the poor people’s food problems. The government should allocate more funds for such a vital social schemes for the benefit of the people.
—Jitendra Kothari, via email
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