MyVoice: Views of our readers 12th June 2020

KCR should emulate Jagan

After YSR party came into power in Andhra Pradesh they are continuously introducing welfare schemes for the poor people. Recently they launched the scheme 'Jagananna Chedodu', a boon for the washermen, barbers as they will get Rs.10,000 in their bank accounts.

But on the other side Telangana CM KCR has not been able to give financial benefits to the poor. Except free rice and Rs.1,500 to the white ration card holders no benefits has given to the middle income group people even unemployment allowance not announced for the educated youth which promised in the Telangana assembly elections.

Telangana CM is focussed only on agriculture but there is a need to give benefits to other people who earn below Rs.10,000 per month as a private employee.

I request the Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to announce retirement age of government employees, regularisation of contract employees, give unemployment allowance and Covid special allowance to all the people who have less than monthly income of Rs.10,000 and who is working in the private sector job.

Syed Nisar Mehdi, Hyderabad

Reduce GST

GST rates across need to be cut by 5%. The purchasing power has declined.

In order to boost the demand more money should be available in the hands of people this can be done reducing GST rates. Address the problems on the demand side, supply side will automatically take care of.

Government needs to take action in time as the more it is delayed, it takes more time to recover the economy.

Vikas Panchareddy, Hyderabad

Bridge the power deficit with China

The India-China border standoff in eastern Ladakh has somewhat eased with both sides mutually pulling back their troops around 1-2 km from three out of the four confrontation sites.

Locked in a power tussle with the US, it's possible that China is using LAC intrusions to warn India to follow its lead on geopolitical issues.

If this is the case, one hopes New Delhi doesn't make any diplomatic concessions to get Beijing to back off on the territorial issue.

More than grabbing some territory, it would be a bigger prize for Beijing if New Delhi were to subordinate its own diplomatic concerns to Chinese ones, and be willing to play second fiddle to it.

Countering Beijing's salami slicing tactics will be a stern test of New Delhi's diplomatic capabilities. But New Delhi does hold some cards here – such as the enormous trade deficit India has with China. It could thus make any Chinese land grab expensive in economic terms.

In the long run, the Indian political class must really turn its mind to bridging the enormous power deficit with China, whose primary cause is India's slow economic growth due to faulty policies.

Being a growth laggard is now turning into a national security threat. Beijing should also be wary of alienating a nation of 1.3 billion people most of them young and with no bitter memories of the 1962 war.

N Sadashiva Reddy, Bengaluru