समाचार

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 ...

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...