New gen cine artists should pay tax on time.

What Yuvamorcha state secretary Sandeep Varier said about ടome new generation movie artists is right. Many of them are dwelling in ganja smoke and they not even know about paying income tax on time.

And in this context  BJP state general secretary M T Ramesh coming against Sandeep’ s comment is unwarranted. There is no other leader, young or old, in Kerala BJP to defend the party so vividly, in channel debates. Perhaps Sandeep is not in the group led by M T Ramesh. Even if Sandeep's view is not  party's opinion, what he said is correct and new gen cine artists have to pay the tax on time and they have to abstain from Ganja life as alleged by cine producers.

K A Solaman

Rain water policy

Overpopulation has resulted in the   depletion of our water bodies. Deforestation has further compounded the deficiency of water. Several areas are critically affected by a dearth of usable water.

May be in this backdrop the Government of Kerala made laws for harvesting rain water. Facilities such as tanks and pipes are to be installed at the rate of collection of 25 litres of water for one square metre area for residential buildings and 50 litres per square metre for commercial buildings. This means having constructed a residential building of 100 sq.m area, owner has to spend lakhs to make PVC/Ferro cement tank to hold 2500 litres of water. This will break the back bone of the owner.

Moreover, the tanks made of PVC or concrete is not eco-friendly and they immensely contribute to global warming. Again rivers, lakes and ponds are refilled with rain water and if all people collect water and hold it in their tanks, no refilling will happen unless there is  heavy rain.

Further, water requirement of some districts is less compared to others and hence a uniform pattern for rain water harvesting is not at all advisable.

Hence, a revision is needed for rain water policy of Kerala government.

Rain water harvesting strategy should not be made a cause for environmental impact and a curse to those who make a new building.

K A Solaman

Deal with iron hand

The government should remain firm on its strategy on CAA. The protestors of various colleges and varsities should be dealt with iron hand. All stone-pelters and property destroyers should be brought to book and severely punished if they refuse to shun violence.

There were several rounds of clashes between agitators and the police. The supporters of CAA have shown complete restraint against the agitators. If they also surface into the arena it would be a tough time for the police to restore normalcy. Misguided youths resorting to violence is a curse to the country

K A Solaman

Sheer extravagance

It is a sheer extravagance for cash crunchy Kerala to send student leaders for foreign trip  by spending lakhs. If the very purpose of the trip is to give chance to take part in leadership training programme at Cardiff University in London, it could be outsourced to more able agencies at a lower rate within the country.

When KSRTC staff end life because of no salary it is truely cruel to misuse fund for sending a 70-member team, most of SFI leaders, for the training session. What kind of training they get is anybodys guess. These student leaders will not even get a chance to visit the tomb of Karl Marx in London as it was demolished many months ago.

K A Solaman

Child eating soil .

Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Mayor offering job to the woman residing in Kaithamukku, who handed over four of her six children to CWC, because of poverty, is a noble gesture. However, the socio- economic issues that led to the incident also to be looked into.

A poor young woman becoming the mother of six poses a question before the Health Department and its family welfare schemes. Her child eating soil due to hunger makes  all schemes relating hurger-free villages in the state in stake. The Asha Workers, Ayalkoottam, Kudumbashree, and other charity agencies not seeing this family,  is rather curious. The woman's husband, instead of earning for the family, becoming drunkard also indicates the liquor policy of the state.

The corporation and CWC gestures are praiseworthy but what actually needed is rehabilitation of the entire family. The CWC denying parental care for children when parents are alive, is not in the right direction.

K A Solaman