1) How is it possible to hit the boundary wall?
It was quite strange to read that a Dubai Air India Express plane, with 136 people on board, was damaged when it hit the boundary wall of Tiruchi Airport while taking off. The plane has been reported to be airborne for around four hours and with thanks to God, it landed safely in Mumbai. But the most pressing question is that how it is possible for a plane to hit the boundary wall of the airport while taking off. It seems that the pilot was neglectful of this blunder or there was another conspiracy. Whatever, the reasons were behind it, there must be an immediate investigation to find out its causes and a severe action should be taken against all those are responsible for this blunder putting 136 lives in danger.
– MFU Tandvi
2) ‘Me Too’: Report at the time of incident happening!
‘Me too’ campaign in our country is at its epitome as more skeletons have fallen from the cupboard though none of the names comes as a shock. From Nana Patekar to media baron MJ Akbar’s name have come to the forefront for playing with woman’s modesty which truly is traumatising for the fact that women in our country are asked for sexual favours to retain their jobs which speaks poorly of humanity in our country. The modesty of the fair sex should be respected and those indulging in rapes and molestations should be put behind the bars.
However, I doubt if ‘Me too’ campaigns which accuse men of incidents that have taken place years and decades back serves any purpose. The criminality should be brought before the law and public at the time of its occurrence and not after years and ages. Stringent punishment for abusing women modesty is the need of the hour to frighten people with pervert mindset and let us put checks and balances in our working environment so that these incidences can be avoided in future!
– S.N.Kabra
3) Unemployment is the major problem of India
I can agree with Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi’s statement that joblessness and unemployment led the youth to attack Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat state. It is an undeniable fact that India lacks employment and jobs for the young generations. According to the report of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), India has 18.6 million unemployed persons in 2018 that are higher than 18.3 million in 2017. It is also a fact that the Indian government has set no target to control this increasing number of unemployment. I request the government to give the first priority to improve employability instead of playing blaming game of each other. Only rhetoric in big gatherings and blaming each other will not work anymore, rather action is the need of the hour.
– Mohd Faheem
4) Responses should be e-mailed
Presently at least three web-portals www.pgportal.gov.in, www.helpline.rb.nic.in and a similar website of Prime Minister as -Write to Prime Minister- are there for enabling people to lodge submissions with portal www.pgportal.gov.in handling only complaints, but that on the website of Prime Minister also entertaining suggestions and feedback. All the three portals are managed by Department of Administrative Reforms of Government of India in the same manner.
All these three portals should be combined and simplified by providing all special characters in the unified portal duly publicised by retaining maximum character-limit to avoid people filing extra-long submissions. But the provision of suggestions and feedback must be there. In case all the three portals are to be retained, then also all special characters should be allowed with portal www.pgportal.gov.in equipped to handle suggestions also.
Responses on submissions made must be e-mailed also rather than those having made submissions required to track responses from the portals. Provision of transferring submissions to concerned ones by those having received submissions may also be there.
– Madhu Agrawal
5) Enforce strict regulations
The recent incident involving Air India Express flight hitting the perimeter boundary wall at Tiruchi Airport while take-off seems to be a serious incident affecting the passenger safety. While it is a miracle that the flight survived the ordeal which went unnoticed by the pilots until informed by the authorities, the pilots could have taken a prerogative stand to land immediately to any nearest airport keeping in mind the passengers’ safety as the paramount factor. Though normal functioning was reported by the pilots it is an alarming fact that passenger safety took a back seat for a while until it landed safely at Mumbai.
It is high time that the civil aviation authorities and DGCA take note of such incidents and take a call to permit night landings and take-offs at airports until such airports are expanded completely to accommodate wide-bodied aircraft. Mere international airport tag without taking account the necessary airport expansion requirements and lack of sufficient technological infrastructure for night landing/take-off at the cost of passenger safety will lead to catastrophe. In a bid to open India’s regional skies to go international or otherwise, there needs to be a strict audit and enforcement of mandatory compliance by DGCA related to the safety of wide-bodied aircraft at the airport, with an ultimate aim to ensure passenger safety.
Further, there is a need to enforce strict regulations to ensure the landing of the aircraft immediately, upon noticing even a minute snag similar to such incidents and divert the aircraft to the nearest airport. The pilots and ATC teams should be empowered take a prerogative stand to land immediately to ensure passenger safety.
– Varun S.D
6) The ban on Khap is a must
Khap Panchayat in Bengal punished a man with an order to cut off all 10 fingers of his hands in Panrui. The victim is in the hospital and his condition is critical. The irony is that the Khap Panchayat first ordered that he should be executed by beheading.
Is Sharia running in Bengal? Can we Ban Khap Panchayats? Please wake up PM Modi and please make a law on KHAP. It is more important than Triple Talaq and Ram Mandir to win the next election in 2019.
– Divyesh Chovatiya
7) Preserve wildlife heritage
National Wildlife Week is celebrated all over the country in the month of October from the 2nd to the 8th with the view to preserve the fauna means the animal life of India. The Indian Government has established an Indian Board of Wild Life which works to improve awareness as well as the consciousness of the Indian people towards wildlife preservation.
It is very important to all of us that, animals all around the world do not get extinct. The current problem is logging and also hunting these animals for so many things like horns and skins. People can think more about how much they are using the world’s forests by thinking about the kind of products they are buying. They should not buy products that are made from endangered animals’ bodies. If we don’t stop hurting animals and destroying their habitats, we won’t have any animals of any kind left in the world.
– Jubel D’Cruz
8) A strange verdict of SC
I respect the SC’s verdict but it’s very strange to allow the married women to be in a live-in relationship with their consent. The verdict is a matter of great objection in the eyes of gentle groups where the husband feels proud of his chaste wife. Because it’s entirely against the gentleness as well as the Eastern values and cultures. It’s not allowed for women to have a physical relationship with strangers in any religion whether it’s Hinduism or Islam or others. That’s because it causes to rise conflict between husband and wife; besides, many types of diseases can take place and a good number of illegal children can be found whose fathers are unknown. So, with due respect, both the aspects should be kept in view by the Supreme Court.
– Zahid
(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)
