Opinion Paying the bill
The Womens Reservation Bill will open up opportunities for women. Womens empowerment and advancement have had a highly beneficial impact on politics,the economy,health,education,culture,and society....
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This refers to the editorial Judgment reserved (IE,March 10). The Womens Reservation Bill will open up opportunities for women. Womens empowerment and advancement have had a highly beneficial impact on politics,the economy,health,education,culture,and society. It is now important for the women elected to contradict the claim that they will function as a sheer rubberstamp when they are in positions of power. All-round empowerment will become possible only when women decide to empower themselves. Lets hope the bill gets cleared by the Lok Sabha too.
Vinod C. Dixit
Jaithirth Raos Lets junk the hypocrisy (IE,March 10) made good reading. Yet,with the intent and effort lacking in putting genuine affirmative action in place,reservations remain the popular measure. The assertion of the OBCs in state and national politics has more than threatened the upper castes traditional dominance. There are not enough reasons to believe that this bill should be viewed in any other perspective,loud counter-claims notwithstanding. The majority of the middle class is going gaga over the whipping/ passing of the bill for precisely this reason. That the presence of middle class women among the ranks of the Congress,the BJP and the Left is comparatively higher than among those opposed to the bill is clear.
Arun Kumar
Thane
The contrasting views of Jaithirth Rao and Madhu Purnima Kishwar (Unsettling politics,IE,March 10) spelt out two distinct perspectives,but connected by a common thread the interests of communities,classes and individuals. Democracy,based on interests,is a bad copy of Western politics. In the old Indian collective life,it was the idea of dharma that predominated. We had spontaneous and free growth of communities developing on their own lines. That is how panchayats came along. A free development is always superior to legislation.
D.S. Gulati
Aurangabad
Liability lows
In the report Top scientists back n-liability Bill (IE,March 7),Anil Kakodkar and R. Chidambaram describe the proposed limit on liabilities for
operators (Rs 500 crore,about $100 million) as fair. This amount is but a tenth of what the US government had to spend cleaning up the accident site at Three Mile Island. Thirty years after that,thanks to inflation,the proposed limit will be a far smaller fraction of any corresponding expense. The billion dollars spent by the Americans did not even include relief to victims several miles away and nobody actually died in that mishap,since the island was not inhabited. Where in India can you find a zero-density locale?
Acceptance of the proposed limit would mean our government,that is,Indian tax payers have to bear almost the entire burden. Wouldnt GE and Westinghouse be tempted to cut corners on safety precautions to boost their profits?
V.C. Nanda
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