
"A person is fresher (in the morning), but by the time you go at office at 10 o'clock you have lost that energy." "Definitely there is a loss of energy, a loss of workable hours," says Arup Kumar Datta, a writer in the northeastern state of Assam who has campaigned on the issue. Around the summer solstice, the sun rises at 4.15 am in the far northeast - a good 90 minutes before dawn breaks on India's west coast - and sets at just 6.15 pm.Ĭampaigners say that has held back the development of the region, home to some of India's poorest states, hitting productivity and adding billions to the cost of lighting homes and offices.
