Torturous timing!
The very idea is to complete the working hours of govt. and other offices within the daylight so that electricity is not consumed. Normal office hours finish at 5 pm. long before dusk and it makes no difference if the offices are closed at 4 p.m.
This thoughtless executive order has become unnecessarily inconvenient for many people and school/ college children. Our day's activities relate to the rising and setting of the sun! Now, under this present changed time, we have morning an hour before the sun rises. People going to offices are forced to swallow breakfast at unearthly hours as well as lunch !
It is also not understood why the school children are compelled to rise early by an hour to rush to school though most of the schools normally break up at 2 pm. Over enthusiastic head of institutes should apply common sense on the simple question of daylight and should not impose punitive timing for school children!
The ingenuity of this advancement of time is absolutely a bogus suggestion when thousands and thousands of domestic apartments need using lights, fans and AC. Besides, innumerable sectors like railway, transport, garment factories, and river transport stations work round the clock with no respite to the consumption of electricity.
Withdraw this torturous timing, for it is untrue to say this Advanced Timing Saves Electricity by even 1 megawatt!
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