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Maintain seniority

Sir,

This is with reference to your news item captioned "50 Assistant Engineers promoted as Assistant Executive Engineers" published in your Esteemed Daily on 4.7.2001.

Congratulations to Power Development Department for taking bold initiative in promoting senior most Engineers. This is really worth appreciating and an example for other such departments where seniors are being humiliated and influentials promoted. Definitely PDD has set an example of being superior and courageous in terms of firm and quick decision making. Efficiency of any organisation lies in the hands of balanced Management. Scheming of big projects in glass houses does hardly work without giving due regard, reward and respect to the aspirations of the working class.

Really hectic efforts of representatives of PDD should also be highly credited for the commendable job they did by pleading their case so efficiently, without opportunism and which yielded success and justice for them.

This should be an eye opener to other such departments where credibility of seniors is being eroded and better sense may prevail upon them in prevailing the truth.

Yours etc..
"B. J.Zutshi"
Jr. Agriculture Assistant. Doda

Death with dignity

Sir,

Euthanasia or mercy killing is a practice of killing without pain. A person suffering from a disease that cannot be cured or from extreme old age that he or she can die with dignity. The Dutch parliament has recently passed a bill legalising euthanasia. No other country in the world has formally legalised euthanasia. After getting a legal status doctors in Netherlands will be permitted to inject lethal drugs into chronically ill people who want to die. However, before doing so, it should be certified by two physicians, that the patient is terminally ill and suffering an unbearable condition. Besides, after each case of mercy killing the same will be reviewed by a lawyer.

Something akin to the euthanasia law exists in the US State of Orregan by the name of Death with dignity Act, While oregon has between 1998 to 2000 registered an 96 cases of 'death with dignity'. Netherlands registers an abnormally high number 4000 cases each year. The difference is all too evident in the manner of implementation of the law. The US law is far more restrictive than the Dutch law. While in Netherlands doctors inject the lethal drug after medical review, in oregon the patient must be allowed to swallow the drugs themselves. Further in Netherlands children below 12 are eligible but in oregon only those above 18 are eligible. Besides in oregon a patient must have six months or less to live.

Should this practice of euthanasia be legalised in India where the number of such cases may be more higher due to large size of population and poor medical facilities. It is a matter of concern, so all socio-political and religious bodies should form an opinion for it.

Yours etc...
Waseem Raja
SKUAST-J
R S Pura

Registration of yatries

Sir,

I would like to invite your kind attention to the News item "Amarnath pilgrims again lathicharged" which appeared in your esteemed paper dated July 10, 2001. In this connection I want to comment upon the arrangements made to deal with the Amarnath Yatris. It would not be out of place to mention here that the administration had held so many meetings in this regard before the commencement of Amarnath Ji Yatra. The senior bureaucrats and discussed this matter again and again and after prolonged deliberations they finalised the arrangements for the yatries.

The arrangements made by the administration for registration were insufficient with the result the yatris had to pass through various inconveniences. Instead of registering and listening to their woes they are being lathicharged in the City of Temples which is a very shameful act.

It is a serious problem and the higher ups should take some concrete steps to make the arrangements for the yatries in a proper manner.

Moreover, in future also, the government should make elaborate arrangements for the Yatries as some of them come from other States of the country.

Yours etc..
Dwarka Dass Sharma
R/o Jammu

Plea to ADGP

Sir,

We the recruits of JKAP 5th and 14th Bn would like to draw attention of ADGP Armed Police towards our grievances regarding delay in training. Despite lapse of nine months after recruitment no information, order pertaining about training of recruits has been received uptil now. We (recruits) are serving here without any proper duty in hand. It is a matter of grave concern that the candidates recruited after us have been sent to the Police training school Talwara, Reasi, Udhampur. Also it is quite worthwhile to mention here that there are some recruits who have been adjusted in JKAP Bns despite their selection for IR 7th Bn. All have been sent for training in the above mentioned training centres. It may be mentioned that candidates who joined before us or candidates who were recruited after us will become our seniors. So keeping all this in mind it is requested to ADGP Armed Police J&K to pass an training order in favour of 5th and 14th Bns as soon as possible.

Yours etc..
Recruits of 5th & 14th Bns.