Author: Dialogue India

India should also advance its time-zone by half an hour to make it GMT+6 hours rather than present haphazard GMT+5.30 hours as also recommended by National Institute of Advanced Studies. Since presently just eight countries in the world deviate from separating their time-zones by fraction of an hour, Indian government should approach international authorities so that time-zone for a country may compulsorily be deviated by full one hour from GMT. Making Indian Time at GMT+6 hours will fulfil long-pending and genuine demand of people from north-east India without going for dual and impractical time-zone for the country. Suggested change will reduce big time-difference of 127 minutes between extreme east and west zones of the country. Demand of north-eastern states is highly justified for bet...

Presently mail-tariff for post-cards and registered newspapers is decades old and is in paises where coins below rupee one are now totally out of circulation. It is senseless to have mail-tariffs in paise. Sale of post-cards has sharply declined, and mostly extra-ordinary heavy subsidy on post-cards is largely misused by chit-fund companies and other business-houses. Listeners of Akashwani also misuse extra-ordinarily subsidised post-cards to listen their names on radio by sending post-cards indicating ANY SONG as their choice. Production-cost of newspapers has risen multi-folds in last several decades, therefore it is senseless to continue with mail-tariff in paises in name of benefitting small newspapers. Minimum postal-tariff should be rupee one for postal-articles requiring subsidy ...

BJP leaders cheered 10-percent reservation to economically weaker section from unreserved categories by saying that it is first pre-election sixer, which was followed by too many welcome features in Union Budget for the year 2019-20 which made Congress President totally speechless. It is also well understood that a bold announcement towards construction of Ram Temple at Ram=Janmbhoomi at Ayodhya is expected any time. It is time that a big sixer to permanently solve Kashmir-problem may be hit by central government by abolition of articles 35-A and 370 of Constitution to make Kashmir like all other states of India without any special status so that desiring persons from other parts of the country may be able to settle in Kashmir by getting right to purchase properties there. It will provi...

Department of posts should come up with idea of sponsored postal-stamps on sponsors paying some sponsorship-fees per printed stamp apart from mandating purchasing some stipulated percentage of total print-order to be sold on face-value of stamps. When department can accept commercial advertisements on postal-stationery, there is no reason that revenue may also be raised by introducing concept of sponsored postal-stamps. Design of sponsored stamps can be approved by a department committee to avoid controversial designs of such stamps. It will further raise revenue because sponsoring companies will be shifting to postal-service from private courier-service in order to use their sponsored postal-stamps on mailed articles. Only sponsored meghdoot postcards may be sold by postal-departmen...