Page 30 - Letters

Letters: Calling card

Merchants should be prohibited from levying extra charge on card usage

Letters: Fighting poverty

This fight is against internal forces, unlike a real war

Letters: Pragmatic view

Financial conditions have eased and with inflation set to settle within the manageable limit there was scope for a rate cut

Letters: Curbing cyber fraud

More importantly, the RBI's dedicated team is said to be making efforts to ensure the occurrence of such frauds are curtailed and also how to resolve them more efficiently

Letters: Make teaching lucrative

Teaching is not a sought-after career option these days because it is not lucrative enough

Letters: Take remedial steps

Selective targeting, as in the past, will not serve any purpose and may even prove counterproductive in the long run

Letters: Time for a revamp

In India, one or all of these pillars need to be either installed or revamped in several sectors, including transport, farm sector, industries, education and trade

Letters: Mitigate flow of FDCs

FDCs are popular with pharma companies in India as they help circumvent drug prices and packaging regulations by adding an innocuous ingredient

Letters: Better wealth sharing

There are several pockets, including many in states like Kerala, where the local population has eliminated poverty and shown improvements in human development indicators

Letters: Unearthing black money

However, the government must remain aggressive in its stance against evaders, and bring more people under the tax net

Letters: Back to the future

I was pleased to read Dilip Satapathy's report, "Tata Steel plans to add 6 mt in capacity through brownfield expansion" (October 1)

Letters: An efficient operation

Compliments for the brilliant, incisive and comprehensive editorial, "A decisive action" (September 30). You have covered all angles of the issue

Letters: Pak must mend its ways

With reference to Archis Mohan's report, "India to boycott SAARC meet, review MFN status to Pak" (September 28)

Letters: Push for inclusion

The Central Board of Excise and Customs has recently released 11 GST return forms for taxpayers to be uploaded every month

Letters: Pak dug its own pit

While Afghanistan is furious at cross-border attacks against its army by people allegedly from Pakistan, Bangladesh is upset with Pakistani support to radical elements in that country

Letters: Radical policies needed

The government must look at radical policies and regulations to control wastage as well as ensure judicious use of water

Letters: Harnessing water

If people can pay for bottled drinking water, then it is time to charge them for state-supplied water, too, say, at the rate of Rs 1 per 100 litres

Letters: In students' interest

With reference to Anjuli Bhargava's article, "A potent cocktail of problems" (September 20) due to parental and peer pressure, students opt for courses in colleges that would likely get them high-paying jobs in the future

Letters: Apt arguments

I found T N Ninan's piece, "TV anchors go to war" (September 24), an out-of-the-box and illuminative contribution to the subject of war psychosis being raked up by several Indian TV news channels, in their own ceaseless war to score TRP rating points

Letters: EPW's influence

I read TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan's article, "Politics, patronage and intellect" (September 24) with great interest