Indian-Standard-Time

In this era of "Go Green", every step you take every breath you take you are thinking of the environment - How bad it is? How long will it survive/sustain and so on and so forth...you think of every possible way to reduce your carbon footprint....

Having said that, sometimes I wonder why India inspite of being so vast in its geographic spread has only one Time-Zone? Is it because a country that does everything together stays together aka unity!!?? I wonder.

The Indian Standard Time (IST) is based on the meridian passing east of Allahabad (my hometown) at 82.5 deg E. This meridian is taken as the central meridian of India.So, as we go further east the time should increase and when we go west it should decrease.

The expanse of India east to west is a little over 2000 kms and covers over 28 degrees of longitude.That means, the sun rises and sets 2 hours earlier in the far east of india than in Rann of Kutch - the far west. As for now, Northeast wastes almost 2 hours of day light whils working on IST. So it makes sense that our countrymen in the NE advance their clocks by 2 hours or so with the early sunrise to avoid extra consumption of energy during the daylight hours.

Bangladesh which lies ahead of the northeastern states geographically is half an hour ahead in time.

I guess it makes a lot of sense atleast now to seriously consider the IST as several time zones. This would only help increase productivity & prosperity of the country and save a lot of energy and make the world a greener place.

Cheers!!