Affordable system: Letters to The Editor

The RBI has stepped in to ease the Covid-19 burden. Cheap and affordable credit is crucial for a country's development. With income dwindling amid the second wave of the pandemic, RBI's measure to mitigate financial stress is praiseworthy. It would ease the process of taking loans and help people who are reeling under the exorbitant health expenditure.

Chandan Kumar Nath

Sorbhog

Extracurricular activities

Indian parents only concentrate on children studies and not on their extracurricular activities, this needs to change.

Our society focuses only on academics. That's the reason why till so recently sports (except cricket) and other fields like music, art, theatre were not considered as a source of well-established and economically-settled life. In India there is a culture of finding jobs only based on academics. The reason is the attitude of discrimination in jobs as majority of the people believe that either Government job or MNC job can provide a secured future. That's why parents do not give value to extracurricular activities of their children. They take it as a waste of time as it doesn't help their children to become engineers, doctors, IAS officers so on and so forth.
Although nowadays there are some parents who appreciate their children's success in extracurricular activities and encourage them to move ahead, yet the youths are required to prove that extracurricular activities have the equal potential to provide a successful career. The attitude of parents will never change unless the youth steps forward with strong determination and courage to prove this mentality wrong and by pursuing their extracurricular activity till the point where they become an example for others.

Mohsin Hussain

Cotton University

Helping senior citizens

The South Delhi Police has initiated a unique move to start the CoviVan helpline to facilitate senior citizens during this COVID 19 crisis. The deployed police officer in the van with a beat officer of the concerned beat visits the house of the senior citizens and helps them in getting the essential items. The police officers also help the old-aged people in purchasing household things, medicines, and other items which are essential for them. The CoviVan ensures vaccination to the senior citizens by taking them to nearby vaccination centres where they have booked through the CoWIN App or Aarogya Setu App. The need of the hour is that authorities concerned of all States should take steps to help senior citizens with safety. Society needs to come forward to offer services for needy citizens.

Amit Singh Kushwaha,

Satna (M.P.)

BCCI's decision

The BCCI's decision to suspend the IPL amid the Covid pandemic is a belated one. At a time when the country is bearing the brunt of the life-threatening virus, holding the cricket match was not a wise step.

Chandan Kumar Nath

Sorbhog

Drug menace

Through this column of your esteemed daily, I would like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned to the fact that, the menace of drugs is increasing among the youngsters in the recent years. Now and then we read in the newspapers that teens are being held for consuming drugs, and most of them are usually aged from 17-20 years. Young people's brains are growing and developing until they are in their mid-20s. Taking drugs when a person is young can interfere with the developmental process occurring in the brain. So, it can also affect their decision-making. Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder in which compulsive drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviour persist despite serious negative consequences. It is a curse of modern civilization. It has a terrible effect on the human body as well as it is a major problem to our society.

Somikhya Rani Dutta

(somikhyaranid@gmail.com)

Pharmaceutical company

Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited, in District Almora (Uttarakhand), is a premier company under the Union Ayush Ministry for the production of Ayurvedic medicines at economical prices and reliable purity and quality. But its products are not seen anywhere in the market except at the government dispensary of the Delhi government. There also, a not complete range of products especially pain relief oil is always out of stock. Even the website of the company is not working so that desiring ones may be able to know its complete product range and addresses of distributors and dealers.

Union Ayush Ministry should ensure proper working of Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited with its website properly working also showing addresses of distributors and dealers for its entire product range. In case the company does not have a network of distributors and dealers, it should immediately appoint them so that people may be benefitted through an economical and reliable range of Ayurvedic medicines.

Subhash Chandra Agrawal

Delhi