Focus on amenities
In the rush to achieve ranks and good results, neither the parents nor the colleges are focusing on providing basic amenities. There is no clean drinking water and washrooms, especially girls’, are unhygienic. The students have to suffer in pitiable conditions, not visiting toilets for long hours, resulting in health problems. Adding to this they are under tremendous pressure from parents and teachers to perform. Parents and college administrations should focus on providing a good atmosphere in the place of study.
A.V.R.K. Murty
Visakhapatnam
Punish the corrupt
not citizens
Under the guise of curbing corruption, the government keeps on changing rules like making it mandatory no objection certificate from civic administration to get power connection. The government should take stringent action against the corrupt staff and officials, if required terminate their services and not keep on adding more regulations making it difficult for citizens to get ordinary services.
Gopal Tallamraju
Visakhapatnam
New airport
The government has spent a lot of public money in improving the facilities at the Visakhapatnam airport to convert it into an international airport. Even before taking up the works, Bhogapuram was examined and dropped. The new Greenfield airport at Bhogapuram should be the lowest in the government priority. The government should focus on providing basic services like sanitation, public health, drinking water and development of villages to discourage urbanisation. Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju did nothing for Vizianagram and the other northern backward districts, but today is throwing his weight behind the proposal for new airport to be in tune with the utopian dreams of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to build our capital on the lines of Singapore or Shanghai.
Ganti Mahapatruni Rama Rao
Visakhapatnam
Time to introspect
Time has come for all of us to introspect and check indiscriminate use of vehicles and save our environment. We should also stop excessive and irrational use of air-conditioners which contribute to rising temperatures. We have to take steps to protect the environment which we would be handing over to our next generations.
O. Srinivas
Visakhapatnam
