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Watever happens... will happen for good...
There’s a brighter side to
India’s exit from the World Cup.
Something that can cheer up disappointed fans and angry advertisers.
Sri
Lanka has done a great favour to Indian economy
by ousting the cricket team from the World Cup. There are about 80 million cable
and satellite viewing homes in India.
According to TAM
ratings, the average viewership of all World Cup matches held till now stands at
about 3%, with India vs
Bangladesh touching a high of 7.25%.
To reach the finals, India would have played at least
seven more matches.
Considering a TV Rating of 7.25%, at least 5.8
million people would have watched the match. This would have resulted in a
productivity loss of 371.2 million man hours (5.8 million x 8 hours x 8
matches), apart from stress faced by mothers during exams.
About 3% of
81 million TV viewers (2.4 million) were ardent cricket fans and would have sat
through all eight hours in the remaining 28 matches. Thus overall, Indian team’s
ouster would result in a productivity gain of 481 million man hours of work
(28x2.4x8 man hours), if put to use.
The Sri Lankans have given a boost
to the Indian economy by saving 54,902 man years of work (one year = 8,761
hours). Indians can build seven phases of the Golden Quadrilateral connecting
Delhi, Mumbai,
Kolkata and Chennai spread over 5,846 kilometres all over again, with this time
saved.
A daily wage skilled labourer in Delhi earns Rs 17 per hour. If put to
productive use, the 481 million man hours can produce Rs 817 crore of GDP, which
is 63% more than BCCI’s annual revenues of Rs 500 crore, last year. It’s 401%
more than the Rs 163 crore losses, corporate India has predicted to incur due
India’s ouster.
The state
electricity boards are also thanking Sri Lanka for the great favour. A TV
consumes 45 watts per hour. Assuming a viewer will now switch off his TV by 12
midnight, it will save Rs 135 watts at least per viewer (not considering the
electricity consumed by other appliances running simultaneously.)
This
will save the electricity boards 324 million watts of electricity ( 3.24 lakh
kilowatts) in just 28 days. According to estimates, SEB losses in
India will touch Rs 1 lakh crore by
2008.
If disappointed viewers completely switch off their TVs for eight
hours, it will save the government at least 8,64,000 kilowatts, along with many
more lives — at least three Indian citizens have been reported to die due to
cardiac arrest or suicide after India’s defeat at the hands of
Sri
Lanka. |
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