Editor,
The recent atrocities meted out by a landlord in Bengaluru on a student of Arunachal Pradesh once again proves that our students are really helpless in the big cities where they are either pursuing their higher studies or have taken up jobs there. The local administrations are the last benchers in almost every cases . The influential locals can easily maneuver the administration and ultimately everything falls against the tenants. What happens next is that the student who is a tenant has to vacate the house and the security deposit is hardly ever refunded to him/her. Now , even worse is finding a new accommodation and having to contact several cut-throat brokers with conditions such as a month’s rent in advance; one month extra rent as security deposit; brokerage fees equal to one month’s rent in most of the cases and then the rent agreement at the whims and fancies of the broker and owner.
I wonder if the local administrations in those cities have standard guidelines for renting out accommodation and a set of do’s and don’t for the tenants so that there is a legal aspect to the whole thing. Does the administration know that students and workers from other states are being fleeced? Can’t we take up this very delicate matter officially to protect our children?
Yours etc.,
Anjan Kr Das,
Shillong-6
Modi’s phenomenal rise
Editor,
This refers to your editorial “Assembly poll results” (ST- March 14, 2017). The manner in which the BJP has established its presence demonstrates how much popular faith it has won in the past three years of its tenure at the Centre. In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has emerged the largest party with a clear winner, after 20 years. The nation trusts Modi and so his policies should come up to the expectations and within the reach of needy and poor. The most impressive passion that Modi has exuded is the passion for development; the passion for the uplifting the living standards of the people in India and the joy with which he recounted simple yet memorable data-points. The results are a lesson for the Congress Party; it is on a steady decline in the country’s political arena. The Congress’ revival pivots on its ability to address its crisis of credibility, encouraging State leaders, and functioning as a vigorous Opposition in Parliament. The aim of our PM is to make India a developed nation while bringing about a complete transformation in the lives of the people through good governance, development and pro-poor, pro-farmer and pro-women policies. Now Sonia and Rahul Gandhi should focus only on welfare of people in Congress ruled states and stop focusing on Modi.
Yours etc.,
Vinod C. Dixit
Ahmedabad – 15