1) Unfair treatment to women
The Catholic Church is the only place of worship where not only women but people of all faiths and religions can enter. When God made women in his own image, why are women being discriminated from entering temples? Isn’t it unfair and disgusting that women are treated inferior by some people of the Hindu community? When will men learn and treat women on par with them? Women are not sex objects and men should realise this.
– Jubel D’Cruz
2) Uplift common man’s lifestyle
This is very disappointing that despite average personal wealth per adult in India has risen by nearly 300 per cent since 2000, but everyone could not reap the benefits of economic prosperity. It is a matter of great concern that inequality in income is growing day by day in India. A new report released by the World Inequality Lab last December reflects that income inequality in India had reached historically high levels in India since the 1980s when economic and trade liberalisation began in the country as the top 10 per cent of the Indian population had 56 per cent share in the national income in 2014. By mid-2018, there were 3,43,000 millionaires in India, a rise of 7,300 during the 12 months. 3,400 have wealth over fifty million dollars while 1,500 of them have wealth over a hundred million dollars. It makes amply clear that the government’s policies are flouted to empower common people and only wealthy people are benefitting from the government’s schemes. It is high time for the government to take a measure and reduce this inequality. Otherwise, India cannot develop by producing more millionaires rather than uplifting common people’s income and their lifestyle.
– Ismail Ansari
3) Need an efficient bureaucracy system
Amid all the mordacious news about declining Indian economy, this news gave me immense solace whether for the time being, that India has been ranked as the 58th most competitive economy among 140 nations (rose by five places from 2017) on the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness index for 2018 with a score of 62.0, which was the largest gain among G20 economies. India’s great competitive advantages were its market size, innovation, and business dynamism, while the areas that the country needs to improve include health, labour market particularly work rights, product market, education, and skills. Hope the government will take a lesson from this report and instead of solely gaining brownie points, it will work for the cause of national interests. If the government wants to develop the economy and sooth the market it will have to make a more efficient bureaucracy system for business creation and insolvency.
– Ibne Qasim
4) Need of hour
Considering a large-scale wastage of food-items in the marriage-celebrations, some legislation like that of Guest Control Order 1960 should be there. The Union government should also study models of other countries like Pakistan where only soft drinks and beverages are allowed to be served in such functions. Even Afghanistan took measures to curb such mega-expenses on marriage-celebrations.
Apart from preventing huge wastage of food, such steps will automatically check ugly show of status through money in marriages which in the present era is becoming the root cause of aborting female foeticide because of money required to be spent in marriages of daughters.
– Madhu Agrawal
5) Appreciations to the Apex Court
I extend my appreciations to the Apex Court to come forward setting a deadline of two-week for the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to complete its inquiry against CBI Director Alok Verma under the supervision of a retired judge. Once again the Supreme Court handled the matter and stepped up to repay the premier agency of the country, Central Bureau of Investigation, (CBI) its credibility and autonomy. I expect hopefully that after the verdict of Supreme Court, everything will return to the normal. I request the Supreme Court to put some strict measures in place for the government so that it could not interfere in independent agencies of the country.
– Mohd Usmani
(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)
