Editor,
While driving along the Jaiaw- Cremation-Datbaki road I was surprised to see the construction of a wall along the road expansion project, using weak and fragile cement blocks which are known to have no strength at all to withstand even the destructive elements of nature, not to speak of animals, man and vehicles to which the wall is unavoidably exposed. Even a lay man with this common sense would not use cement blocks for such a wall, so how come the engineers of the PWD with their specially trained sense have allowed such a construction?
I wonder why there has been no reaction from the local MLA, MDC, the headman or even the local branches of KSU and FKJGP, against such blatant acts of corruption. Though much has been talked about and promised by the Chief Minister, other ministers, politicians and bureaucrats to deal with corruption, but all these people just seem to see no evil, hear no evil even though acts of corruption are thriving right under their noses.
Should we hope that our PWD Minister being pro-active himself in inspecting the works of his department, as he recently did over the Shillong-bypass, that the Jaiaw- Cremation- Datbaki road and the wall along the road will be promptly inspected by him so that the road and the wall will last at least for five years as promised by the Minister himself recently.
Yours etc.,
John Maring
Shillong-2
Taxi Owner’s complaints frivolous
Editor,
Apropos the new item in your Daily relating to complains by the Taxi Owners Association against the operation of JNNURM buses (ST Feb 15, 2012), I would like to say that there is no reasonable ground for the Taxi association to complain since they have spoilt their business by allowing ruthless and indisciplined drivers to take them for a ride. People of Shillong are fed up of the behaviour of taxi drivers who speak uncivilized language in front of passengers, smoke inside the taxis and charge excessive fares, much beyond the fares fixed by RTA and who refuse to pick up passengers of particular routes. We have suffered this unruly behaviour of taxi drivers for the past several years and now we are blessed with a public transport system in the town. We hope the government will sustain it for the convenience of all. I understand that the buses are procured under the scheme of the Government of India to ease the problems faced by the public, so there is nothing to complain about. I would request the various Taxi Associations to think about the general interest of the people of Shillong.
Yours etc.,
B Dympep,
Via email
No inconvenience to examinees
Editor,
Apropos the matter raised in the letter (ST Feb 9, 2012) written by a candidate who had sat for the recently conducted examination for recruitment to the posts of Officer Scale – I in Meghalaya Rural Bank, we clarify that this examination was conducted under the aegis of IBPS, Mumbai, which sets the highest standards for professionalism in the industry, and that utmost effort had been taken to strictly abide by the stringent norms prescribed by them.
The examination had indeed, proceeded smoothly at all venues with the exception that in one examination room at one of the Shillong centres, an error had inadvertently occurred in distribution of test booklets. The error was discovered within minutes and immediately rectified in such a way as to cause the least inconvenience to the examinees there.
Yours etc.,
General Manager,
Meghalaya Rural Bank,
Head Office,
Shillong