Mr. Sultan Ahmed Chawla, President FPCCI has said that the proposed plan of moving clocks back by one hour from May 1, 09 will create disturbance in working schedules rather than bringing discipline in official working.
Mr. Chawla said present economic conditions demands our attention towards increasing our interaction with our major trading partners around the globe and by moving clocks back by one hour interaction time from our trading partners from western side will be reduced which will deprive our exporters to maintain laison with them. He proposed to the government that keeping in view the present need for more interaction with our importers from western side the clock should not be moved by one hour.
He further said that in a country where literacy rate is very low and whose over 65% population still reside in villages, it will create more problems than saving which are at least dubious. If at all government feels that it can achieve any savings then as in the early days of creation of Pakistan, the timings of government offices and educational institutions may be changed which will achieve the objective without causing any confusion.