Bifurcate MoEF
The only way out of this mess is to increase the number of lower-level staff who actually guard the forests.
The report Tiger numbers sink to record low (February 13) is worrying. The only way out of this mess is to increase the number of lower-level staff who actually guard the forests. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) must be bifurcated and a new ministry for matters pertaining to wildlife should be set up.
MADHU AGRAWAL
Delhi
Migrants put pressure
Raj Thackeray’s anti-migrant rhetoric has tou-ched the hearts of many in Mumbai because people from Bihar and UP have not only burdened the metro, they have also taken up whatever few jobs were available in the city.
Rajinder Katoch
via e-mail
II
Apropos of Family of the feckless (February 12), Raj and Uddhav Thackeray are openly preaching parochialism because they believe they are above the law. But, why are Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi still silent on this burning issue?
SHARIQ ALAVI
Lucknow
III
Poor governance in states like Bihar and UP have led to mass migration from these states to places like Mumbai. But this is putting more pressure on the already stretched civic infrastructure of the city. The solution to Mumbai’s woes lies in clean and dynamic governance of those states.
J.N. Mahanty
Puri
Leave Taslima aloneMahmood Farooqui in Home is where our heart is (Feb. 12) truly says that Taslima Nasreen has suffered enough and her visa should be extended. I wish liberal Muslims come forward and spread the message of peace and amity.
Seeme Mehmood
Bhopal
Left’s roadblock again
Apropos of the report Karat remark signals N-end? (Feb. 13), after US envoy David Mulford’s remarks that the time to implement the nuclear deal is now or never, Karat lost no time in baring his party’s teeth to ditch the deal.
Tarlok Singh
via e-mail
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