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**acneman** · 02-22-2010, 09:16 PM

Dear all :

India is a country of festivals. We are celebrating festivals every month. Even commercial establishments and Govt. Offices are declaring holidays for festivals. Every festivals are having its own story and importance but still I have a doubt why we have to celebrate many festivals as we are having hectic schedule on daily basis. In developed countries like US and UK they are celebrating few festivals during the year and no specific festival holidays are being declared. Apart from this in India we have PL, CL and SL. In total out of 365 days we are virtually working hard 140 days or so in a year. Can any one explain the necessity of celebrating so many festivals and is it essential for us even though we are not adopting proper customary principles as per our Dharma.

Regards,

VKSWAMY

dear sri vkswamy,
I totally endorse your views. i dont think anywhere in the world so many holidays in a year are entiltled to leaving the working days to be less than 50% of total no of days in a given year. I still don't understand how far is justified our prevalent fact that every alternate day [to tell roughly] is a function / festival and whether they warrant holidays which clubbed to the other Govt holidays restricts the working days to bearest minimum. From this we have to deduct the leave previleges which tells upon the effective working days in an year. I think the resultant average man hours figure will be apologetic. Probably that is why we are still under the domain of "developing" country and never able to go up to "developed" country though 60+ years have elapsed after we got independance.

02-22-2010, 09:16 PM	#2
acneman Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 554 Senior Member	Dear all : India is a country of festivals. We are celebrating festivals every month. Even commercial establishments and Govt. Offices are declaring holidays for festivals. Every festivals are having its own story and importance but still I have a doubt why we have to celebrate many festivals as we are having hectic schedule on daily basis. In developed countries like US and UK they are celebrating few festivals during the year and no specific festival holidays are being declared. Apart from this in India we have PL, CL and SL. In total out of 365 days we are virtually working hard 140 days or so in a year. Can any one explain the necessity of celebrating so many festivals and is it essential for us even though we are not adopting proper customary principles as per our Dharma. Regards, VKSWAMY dear sri vkswamy, I totally endorse your views. i dont think anywhere in the world so many holidays in a year are entiltled to leaving the working days to be less than 50% of total no of days in a given year. I still don't understand how far is justified our prevalent fact that every alternate day [to tell roughly] is a function / festival and whether they warrant holidays which clubbed to the other Govt holidays restricts the working days to bearest minimum. From this we have to deduct the leave previleges which tells upon the effective working days in an year. I think the resultant average man hours figure will be apologetic. Probably that is why we are still under the domain of "developing" country and never able to go up to "developed" country though 60+ years have elapsed after we got independance.
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