No time game, please
People have heaved a sigh of relief and feeling very happy to be able to return to the old timing. They turned the clock hands backwards. It was a welcome step from the government celebrating the New Year and we hope the government will not change it again.
The news that the time may be changed again in March has made people very anxious. We fervently request not to change the time again, it was a failure, people from all walks of life protested against it. They were confused and in the rural areas people did not bother to advance their clocks.
The government made an experiment, it failed, so it must not be repeated. The government is claiming DST scheme has saved electricity but we disagree with it, if at all electricity has been saved it was due to the unbearable load-shedding which gripped the country, even on Fridays and Saturdays load-shedding was going on unabated. So, for the sake of people's well being the government must drop the DST, once and for all.
Like the "name game", the government must not start a "time game."
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