Linking aadhar with elctoral card

 While I welcome the government move to link aadhar with electoral roll, i doubt why the government chooses to pass  such bills without any discussion in the parliament. (Same is the case with the bill to raise the marriageable age of girls to 21 years)

Such hurry shown by the government gives an impression that it had some hidden agenda in the matter, even though the ultimate result is appreciable. This also gives the opposition a stick to beat the government with!

I was also surprised to see the opinion of Dr Shashi Tharoor regarding the linking of aadhar with electoral rolls. He has opined that since aadhar is not a proof of citizenship, linking the same with electoral rolls will lead to giving electoral rights to non citizens !! I wonder whether Dr Tharoor is such a naive person to make such foolish opinion or he actually acts like that! As a result of the proposal, those who have got their names enrolled in electoral list are required to link their aadhar to it so that identity of a voter can easily be established at the time of voting and the chances of bogus voting can be eliminated. It is not the other way round linking aadhar numbers with electoral cards, i believe. Or in other words, a person who has an electoral card can link his/her card with aadhar, while a person who has an aadhar will.not be able to get electoral card. However, i wonder why the government has made the linking only voluntary and not mandatory , which leads to suspicion over it's intentions!

Marriage Age

I do not understand why almost all political parties have opposed the move of the government to raise the marriageable age of girls to 21 years on political and religious grounds !

First of all, the marriageable age of girls is proposed to be increased to 21 under the same laws or statutes under which it was earlier fixed as 18 years. While nobody had objected to it then, why they should object to it now, i wonder! 

The argument  that all concerned groups could have been consulted and a consensus could have been achieved before proceeding with such a contentious issue is well taken. But i am of the opinion that the government opinion cannot be faulted merely on this ground.  Similarly, the argument that when a person can cast her vote at the age of 18 or enter into a relationship at this age, why there should be a.bar to marry at this age is a childish one, i feel. In that case why don't (or rather didn't ) these people object to fixing the age as 21 years for boys?

However, here one pertinent question will rise. Aa per experts from medical field,  the sexual desire of the women ends earlier than that in men in terms of age and hence it is advisable to have a lower age for bride than the groom to avoid any disharmony at a later stage . If this is taken into account, fixing marriageable age at 21 years for both male and female may lead to some problems , as a boy aged 21 years may not find suitable bride younger than him. So it may become inevitable to consider increasing the marriageable age of boys too proportionately. 

Regarding the objections, i personally feel the girls may not be psychologically ready to lead a married life at 18 years, though legally it may be correct. We should at least allow the girls to achieve required minimum qualifications to secure a job for her to ensure a financial  security for her and also make her psychologically strong to lead a happy family life. In the light of the  recent report about  the so called 'dowry deaths', any right thinking parent concerned with the future of their daughter will surely welcome the present proposal, i am sure . However, at the same breath it can also be held that any such parent will not surely push their daughter to marriage at 18 years, just because it is permitted under law and hence there was no need to have a legislation to raise the age!

All said and done, i do not understand the logic in bringing religious beliefs into the issue as no religion talks about sacrificing girls like this.

PROMISE MADE BY MINISTERS ENFORCEABLE

 The stand of the delhi high court, that a promise made by the chief minister in public is enforceable by law, should be an eye opener to the politicians holding public offices (You made a promise, now keep it. (The New Indian Express 23.07.2021)

It has been observed that our ministers , whether central or state, keep on offering lot of things during their public speeches, but not even 50% of such promises are implemented actually. The public, as usual, listens to the promise and forget about it. With the present order, the responsible citizens should take it upon themselves to take such ministers to court for implementation of promises made by them .

We have an example of our hon'ble finance minister making a statement during an interview , to be repeated in an annual general meeting of IBA , that she and the government were fully aware of the need for revision of pension paid to bank retirees, which has not been done for the past 25 years and IBA had been asked to do the needful in the matter. Even after a lapse of more than 8 months since then, the plight of bank retirees continue. We are surprised to note that IBA and DFS are still sleeping on the issue , in spite of the open promise made by the hon'ble minister! 

I would urge upon the hon'ble minister to give instructions to the officials concerned to expedite the matter to ensure that a favourable decision is made within a specified time frame, giving succor to the senior and super senior citizens of the country.

E Sanjeevani OPD

The other day I availed the services of the e sanjeevani op scheme introduced by the government in view of the covid pandemic . While I appreciate the initiative taken by the government to save the common man from visiting a.doctor or hospital for treatment in the days of pandemic and lockdown conditions, I would like to flag some issues observed/experienced by me for the attention of those who are involved in the maintenance of the system.

After the registration, i was allotted a token number and was asked to login using the same. When I did this, a queue number was shown in the screen which was remaining stand still without any advancement to show the position real time. On pressing the 'current status's button the new queue number waa displayed . I feel this can /should be made real-time saving the user of teh need to keep on pressing the current status button. Before my turn came, the queue number was reset two or three times and a fresh larger number was displayed for no reason. Also I was asked to re login twice. Finally I was able to connect with the doctor and get the medicines prescribed after a wait of more than 45 minutes.

Unfortunately, when I went to medical store to get the medicine, one medicine was not available in any medical store locally. It is ususally observed that the medicines prescribed by a doctor is normally readily available at the medical stores in the near vicinity only, and in the instant case of e sanjeevani, the doctor who attends to you need not be a nearby doctor, leading to this problem!

(On asking whether it could be arranged i was told that no medicine in that name was seen!)

Now I am at a loss as to what to do as there is no provision to contact the doctor and get an alternate medicine prescribed ! Alternately, i may have to register again and go through the whole process and get a new medicine prescribed by another doctor , as there is no guarantee that I may be lucky to get the same doctor. This situation can be rectified if the doctor mentions the generic name of the medicine also while writing the prescription.