Saving electricity

The cabinet has passed an order whereas all the wedding halls will be closed after 10 pm in order to save electricity. Just wondering how much electricity would have been consumed had all these guests gone back to their homes and switched on the lights at their respective places. Has any policymaker ever considered this fact of calculating the electricity used for a single hall as compared to hundreds of houses? When will our policymakers make sensible decisions based on factual data? DR. IRFAN ZAFAR, Islamabad, November 10.

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