A simple rule change to save huge amt of energy.

Give zero import tax for LCD TV and Monitors.
Just that rule change by the GOI.

Lets do some maths here.
There are about 50 million Computer users in India ( or more and increasing.)
Each CRT monitor consumes 120 Watts.
Say 5 hours a day = 600 watts./day

Take LCD monitor:
Consumption: 50 watts.
Say for 5 hours: 250 watts / day

Savings:
So if we substitute a CRT with a LCD monitor, the energy saving is 350 watts / day / computer.
At Rs 2 per unit: This is 2 x 0.350 = 70 Paise / day in Savings. or Rs 255 / Year.

For 50 Million computers that would be = 12750 Million Rs. / Year.
Enough to run 10,000 schools or clinics free of charge.?
Plus that much energy saved, less grid loading and less money to be paid for foreign oil.

Now, apply the same rule for LCD TVs.
India has about 100 million TVs
The energy savings would be even higher.

But to this day, there is no such pro-active policy. why ?
The Finance ministry/ commerce are a typical text book case of unimaginative thinking.
No vision, no concepts.
Just Paper mandarins running a ministry.

Bombay is having now 7 hours of power cut daily due to shortage.
The same or even more power shortage is all over India.

Really a crazy situation.
A situation that can be solved or mitigated by simple paper rule change.

Which you present here is really a very distant thinking and to execute such things we need daring people to take decision, it is not possible in Democracy , either a Dictator or Govt. like China or Saudi can take such steps..
In India .. forget about it.

This rule change is a simple administrative procedure.
There is no need for parliament to approve or anything like that.
It is perfectly within the power of the finance ministry to do it.

It has nothing to do with democracy. (Of course like I said earlier, they use democracy for their inability to think out of the box). Too much ego also.

Man china must be our example...... If we just follow them then tats enough....... we can improve a lot...... Wow man.......... they are great..... Though they have corruption like india, they still execute so many things with full planning . Great improving for them...

It sounds bad that we are talking about other's success instead of doing something for our country but it is fact.. china was liberated in 1949 and is 40 yrs ahead of India in terms of development.