Antony speak

The Kerala Govt.plan to implement  hydro-power project at ecologically sensitive Athirappilly in Thrissur district is aimed at ecological disaster. This decision is an insult to the Mother Nature and a U-turn from the previous stance of the LDF. In this context, after many years of hibernation on Kerala matters, Congress leader A.K. Antony coming against the Athirappilly hydel project is praiseworthy. The CPM-led State government is now keen to implement it.

The implementation of the project on the downstreams of Chalakudy river would convert that area into a dumpyard of construction materials which would severly affect fauna and flora. It is well researched and reported that a new dam spending  several crores of rupees is no longer feasible to Kerala. Hence, the present plan  to book some quick bucks by politicians and bureaucrats will not be permitted by the peope of Kerala at any cost.

The reason for both LDF and UDF standing for the dam when in power and speak against it when out of power is curious.

K A Solaman

Card drill will continue

Issue of Aadhaar card or PAN card has become a child's play now. As one knows, Aadhaar is a 12-digit biometrics based identity number issued by the UIDAI. It has been now reported that
around 81 lakh Aadhaar numbers have been deactivated by the UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India, according to Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. This means out of the 115 crore Aadhaars issued, 81 lakh of people possess  invalid Aadhaar numbers.  All they have to reappear before Aadhaar issuing offices to get new one. This creates loss of 81lakh working days as one day is needed to finish Aadhaar application formalities. Money loss for travel and food is extra. Like wise is the case of PAN cards. Several lakhs of PAN cards also have been deactivated,

Then, who is responsible for this sort descrepancy? Is our government mechanism is so poor fo execute a work meticulously?

In Kerala, people are in queue for quite long to get Ration cards without mistake. After Ration card,  it is another turn for them to get foolproof Aadhaar card.  Seemingly the drill will continue.

K A Solaman

Control them

Immigrant worker Murugan’s death following denial of treatment by various hospitals in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram  indicates how greedy and unscrupulous are these hospital managements. The incident is a shame to the state. Action should be taken against these hospital managements for dereliction of service.

And in this regard Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) bill stipulating hospitals  to put up boards displaying the service fee and medical package expenses, is a welcome move. At present most of the hospitals charge exorbitantly for their service. Hospitals refusing to admit accident cases and unwilling to reduce their treatment expenses should not be permitted to function.

K A Solaman

Respect one's mother tongue

Kerala C M Pinarayi Vijayan in an NDTV interview said the BJP and RSS were isolated in the state with no support from the people. May be it right or wrong my point is the poor performance of Pinarayi in English before the interviewer.

Knowing English is not a big issue as even beggers of US and Britain speak it fluently. Since our mother tongue is Malayalam, majority of us are not good at English. This is evident from the  performance  of Kerala MPs like P K Sreemathi, K C Venugopal or M B Rajesh in the Parliament.

Many of the world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and others prefer their mother tongue to English when they communicate with world leaders. Why can't our state leaders prefer Malayalam for interview instead of sitting as a laughing stock before Oxford trained channel interviewers? If one gives due respect to his mother tongue then there arises no question of humiliation for not knowing English.

K A Solaman