Page 24 - Letters
Letters: Seniority matters
With reference to A K Bhattacharya's article, "Choosing the tax implementers well" (Dec 7)
Letters: Return to nature
The fact that food eaten off newspaper packaging may be poisonous is known
Letters: SC should investigate
Given that banks are hardly allowing a person to withdraw more than Rs 20,000, it is not easy to take out Rs 1-2 crore
Letters: Change the rules
Current rules make it possible for promoters of companies to bring in "yes men" as independent directors
Letters: Just a pawn?
One hopes, Tyagi is not used as a pawn in the larger political game plan
Letters: Fair-weather friends
Someone from the government has to take the initiative to quickly douse this political fire
Letters: Things are getting worse
Cashless society is a Western concept which cannot be implemented in India
Letters: At the cost of the poor
The discounts announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to provide incentive for a switch to digital transactions will compound the problems being faced by the poor due to demonetisation
Letters: Not yet late for solution
After the Opposition, it was the turn of the highest court to question the tardy implementation of demonetisation
Letters: Supreme Court is right
The caustic attack by TV news anchors, columnists and a jurist on the Supreme Court judgment to compulsorily play the National Anthem in cinema halls before the start of a film in no way echoes the sentiment or opinion of the Indian population
Letters:RBI restoring trust
India was able to sail through economic crises only because monetary policy interventions and other measures by the Reserve Bank of India supported government policy
Letters: Wilful exploitation
It is intriguing to learn that several banks are levying cash handling charges on cash deposits made by customers following the demonetisation move
Letters: Focus on Parliament
Demonetisation of currency worth over Rs 14 lakh crore has not only dampened economic activity around the country
Letters: Don't rush tax matters
The government should wait for the Budget to enact tax-related changes linked to demonetisation and black money
Letters: Self-made politician
Economists might have frowned upon the slew of populist schemes launched by her, but several of them did benefit the common man in the state
Letters: Law not to blame always
The ban on the entry of a certain category of vehicles into New Delhi was aimed at reducing pollution, not eliminating it
Letters: Orphaned by Jaya death
Her political life was full of turmoil
Letters: Decadent approach
Anti-profiteering provision in the proposed goods and services tax law would be against the interest of trade and industry
Costs outweigh benefits
Compensation in taxation will be inadequate as most of the sufferers are not in the tax bracket
Letters: Dole for the poor
So if the PM is contemplating giving a one-time dole to the poor, it is not at all a bad idea
