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Delhi New: Assam's choice to put his watches an hours ahead of the remainder of India could cause havoc on the trains, a senior researcher says, suggesting instead that the whole country should go half an hours ahead to conserve sunlight, power and efficiency. assam has agreed to change to bagaan (tea garden) time, an hour ahead of native american standard time (ist), said prime minister tarun gogoi on wednesday.

However, as a percent of peak demand, the saving is very significant, about 17-18%," said Dilip Ahuja, a research scholar and writer of a 2012 research document ordered by the Union's Department of Public Works. The IST, which is five and a half hour ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and was established in 1947, was selected with respect to a main railway terminal that is 82º 30' eastern and 23º 11' northern longitudes and runs through the county of Uttar Pradesh's Alahabad region.

Advocates of a distinct time zoning argument suggest that northeasters could start their days an extra hour ahead of their current time. It is not the first time that India has proposed its own time zoning, especially for the East. During 2006, the Planning Commission proposed the establishment of two time belts in the county and said it would conserve "a great deal of energy".

The Ministry of Sciences and Technologies, at the proposal of the then Tripura Provincial Government Commissioner, set up a high-level commission in 2002 to examine the viability of two time zone options, as the length differences between the most distant areas of the nation are large. It opposed the concept of separated time zone.

Separated time zones could not be of great benefit to States, and such a step could indeed lead to problems due to the different timetables that would have to be established for air carriers, trains and communication activities. IST has been the formal time for the whole nation since 1947.

India had two time zones prior to independency. Calcutta Time was 5:30:21 in the east before GMT, while Bombay Time was 4:51:00 in the west before GMT. The Calcutta Time was given up in 1948 and Bombay Time in 1955. Bagaan Time in Assam mirrors employment legislation, such as the Plantations Labor Act of 1951, which allows government to establish fixed periods of time for specific areas.

Teahardens in Assam are already working with locally adjusted watches one and a half minutes before IST. Meanwhile, researchers have found a way to resolve the time shift problems in the northeast without having to establish a distinct time zoning. The research document released in 2012 recommends researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore to move the IST forward by half an hours so that it is six and a half times ahead of GMT.

India's energy saving forecast for India is more than 2 billion kilowatt hours of power per year if this move is taken. As Ahuja, originator of the research document 2012, says, different time zoning in India can be potentially a problem. "Governments in these states are closed at different hours and are only 75% of the time available, which can lead to a possible drop in productivity," he said in reply to e-mail inquiries.

Also Ahuja says that different time zone could cause disorder on the India railway, although the airline companies can still make it. "In India, manually changing the track of a railway involves changing the track of a railway car. Differing time zone can cause great confusions in communication between railway undertakings and cause accidents," he added.