Wasted resources

 

 

Prasoon Majumdar's thought provoking feature"Food for thought" (TSI, Aug 9-15 ) aptly suggests that there is an alternative available to utilise every unused and wasted resource, so that the society is benefited. It is really strange that when a staggering amount of Rs 15,000 crore is lying unclaimed and unused for years together in the EPFO and many banks, why it is not being utilised to develop various initiatives like proper sanitation for poor people in the urban slums and rural areas. He is right to advise that likewise, so much more could be done for which the Centre should involve the banks themselves and take up this initiative through their branch network to pro-actively locate such unused, undiscovered and wasted resources and opportunities, and put them to use on an immediate basis. For a country like ours, every bread wasted would leave an empty stomach, somewhere!

Bhanupriya.

Chandigarh