Daytime saving
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In mid July, this year, our usual time was advanced by an hour on the plea of availing daylight to complete day's routine work in govt. offices and in various organisations. How funny is the suggestion for our country, where, even in winter days, we have plenty of daylight ! Electricity is not only consumed for light but there are fans, air conditioning and many other electrical gadgets! Electricity is consumed not only in offices and workplaces, but there are millions of private residential houses, and round the clock functioning industries ! Many industrial units and garment factories contribute the highest dividend to government earning and even in broad daylight they need electricity not only for light but to run their machines as well ! Some sycophants might have suggested such an unearthly measure which is causing torturous punishment to people, engaged in various fields of work! School children, parents and teachers undergo routinely punishing drill in the early morning unnecessarily! Bank employees and people from various sectors have to work long after the announced time of closure of work! All said and done, the punishing drill has not done any good to avoid repeated load shedding! If like the developed countries, where they need changing time during winter, we also do this, then we are nothing more than a Laughing Stock! Hope some people are there who would consider and suggest stopping this madness!!
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