Letters: Act now

Your editorial “A coalition of rights” (May 24) points out that the UPA-II has focused on inclusive growth and on rights rather than responsibilities, and that a number of programmes have been launched for this purpose.

Who should take on the responsibilities you are referring to? Let us examine some crying needs.

The 25-30 per cent vacancies in Indian courts at all levels are adding to the heavy backlog of cases. Why is it not possible to make sufficient appointments well in advance so that a new judge may take over the work of a retiring judge without the loss of a single working day? This can be done in six months to a year if the highest authorities get together and make up their minds to do so.

The non-availability of one rupee worth of electric power causes perhaps a hundred rupees worth of direct and indirect loss of production, both physical and intellectual. India has sufficient amounts of money to set up enough power generating, transmitting and distributing facilities to eliminate the bottleneck that is holding back the entire country’s progress for half a century now.

Alok Sarkar, Kolkata