Dismal failure
I do not know how to define the apathy and attitude of the cabinet ministers with exception of only a few. The energy state minister has no clue or idea about the concept, merits and demerits of the DST. He has said that it is running well, why do we need to put back the clock? He seemed to be talking about the closing hours of shops and big business centre, which might have saved some energy. Surprisingly, nobody, nobody in the government has yet produced any concrete and scientific results of energy saving by the DST. Either they do not have any technical capacity to measure the same or they are happy with the earlier closer of the shops.
I think they have forgotten that as soon as the winter falls our official sunrise will be creating a hell of a problem for the school and office goers. They will be forced to use electricity to prepare for schools and office unless the extra one hour is put back moving the clock as before introduction of the DST. Just to mention that it is a routine exercise neither the government nor the citizen needs to bother about every year.
I think we can not ignore the ignorance of the decision makers. They must be asked to explain their failure and to adopt a regular time frame to change the clock automatically by the citizens. Since it is a very new concept, the media should launch an awareness programme for the citizens. Therefore, we need a fixed timetable during the year so that they can educate the people.
The energy ministry has totally failed like many ministries in running their affairs. The prime minister need not put back the clock again ceremonially. This must be taken out of her official routine programme.
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