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| | Value of one rupee | | | Dear Editor,
It refers to a highly irresponsible statement from Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, hurting sentiments of a silent majority of middle-income people when he taunted that those spending rupees twenty for a cup of ice-cream or a bottle of mineral water have no right to object for price-hike of one rupee per kg of wheat or rice. He forgot that dependence on mineral-water rather than normal tap-water is also due to wrong policies of governance-system. Ice-cream in present era is not a luxury where even people above poverty-line as defined by our Planning Commission with daily income of rupees twenty-eight have to spend at times to see their children happy. On the other hand, wheat and rice are daily necessities, hurting lives of every commoner even if there is a price-rise of even one rupee per kg.
Our super-rich politicians and planners have no sensitivity at all towards miseries of common people. People are forced to accept unwanted items like candies etc because our government does not mint coins of one-rupee denomination in a sufficient quantity because political rulers like Chidambaram have no value for a rupee. Why should we forget that even richest of the persons, if going to market have a common Indian psychology to bargain for vegetables even though such a bargain may result in saving of just one rupee.
—Subash Chandra Agrawal,
Chandni Chowk, Delhi. |
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| ‘Militant’ killed in Handwara encounter | | SRINAGAR, Jul 17: An unidentified ‘militant’ was killed in the wee hours today in an encounter with police and army at Batsunjhi in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.
The militant, according to the police, was hiding in the forest near Jaba in the village. On a tip off, the police and army started a search operation overnight, resulting in a gunfight that ended at 9 AM with death of the ‘militant’.
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