Saturday, July 17, 2010

Bad effects of mobile usage

Telecommunications is booming in India and people are happy the way communication has become easy. Those were the days when we used to stay in long que at STD/PCO to communicate to our dear and near and were cursing ourselves when we had to call somebody in odd hours, for not having a private phone. But too much of use of mobile phones may create serious health hazards in coming years. First, In India nobody cares for health of general public and Goverment's apathy towards that is well known. Second, there is no awareness about ill effects of wireless communication. We are not following any standards as far as putting mobile towers in residential areas or near public places like schools. Even if we are following, its more on paper. We are not having any rules and regulation about SAR value of mobile handset and Indian market is free for all. SAR value determines radiation emitted by mobile handset and hence its suitability of use without adverse effect on health. Goverment is least bothered and Telecom companies too are least interested in creating public awareness on too much use of mobile phones. I will write more on this in coming days and I wish my fellow Indians will help me in creating awareness about this topic, however small it may be. We should feel some duty towards our society.

Fight over Belgaum

Maharashta and Karnataka are fighting over Belgaum now a days. When people outside India read or hear about this, they can't stop themselves from laughing. Even we think sometime whether we should laugh or cry....These states are not able to take care of tousand of villages they have and fighting over for more 800 villages!!!! I think they have forgotton that ultimately states are created for better administration only and we all are part of a country called India. Instead of giving proper administration to their respective states, they are fighting for some more part of soil!!!! Look at Maharashtra- big part of it, Vidarbha wants to part away from main state as people feel government apathy towards them in that part about problem they are facing everyday. So many farmers- numbers are in hundreds, and may be in thousand are committing suicide every year and couldn't do much to stop this trend, what they will achieve by merging 800 more villages in Maharashtra?? How does it matter if more people in Belgaum speaking Marathi rather than Kannada? By that logic, in Bangalore, more people speak languages other than Kannada as its cosmopolitan city, so should it be not part of Karnataka? These politicians are just wasting time and money on unnecessary things rather than concentrating on serving the people and look after serious problems all our states and India are facing......very disappointing state of affairs and most of the intellectual people are feeling themselves helpless.