“You have darkness descending even at 5:30 PM while sun light is very much there in Mumbai around this time. In the northeast dusk settles even before here in Kolkata. So much loss of man hours,” he said.
“In our country there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don’t have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time,” the “Kapoor & Sons” actor said.
Recalling that he had heard Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had discounted such a proposal decades back on the ground our public was not so educated to be nuanced with the differences of latitude and longitude and get confused, Rishi said, “Now since we are already in 2017 and moving into 2018, it was high time such a proposal was implemented.
