Cup disaster is good

Nayan Dave & Shweta Singh / TNN / Mar 26, 2007, 21:21 IST

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Had India entered the Super 8, production loss would have become inevitable.

RAJKOT/SURAT/VADODARA: Thank god, it is over! That is the unanimous refrain of some industrialists, traders and the like, affected by absenteeism, bleary-eyed workforce and dipping sales, over the ouster of India from the World Cup 2007.
Be it Hitesh Bagadai, president of Rajkot Chamber of Commerce and Industries (RCCI), industrialist Parakramsinh Jadeja, Delhi Public School principal Arun Jee or Rashmi Patel, owner of Galaxy Cinema in Rajkot, the refrain is common.
Similar sentiments are being expressed by multiplex owners, restaurateurs and some businessmen in Surat and Vadodara. For the last fortnight there has been a slump in business activities, output of workers has gone down, many students were not concentrating on studies and occupancy was down significantly in cinema halls, is what they have to say.
Anyway, says Bagadai, cricket players are not playing for their country, but for advertising contracts.

Besides, they are representing a cricket board and not India, so why get so involved at the cost of work? Had India entered the Super 8, production loss would have become inevitable, he adds.
The craze for cricket would have definitely affected students' performance in their exams, said Arun Jee. Like Rashmi Patel, even Surat's Fame Raj Empire multiplex manager Dinar Kadam and Vadodara's Chandan Theatre marketing manager Sheetal Singhi have become hopeful that they would not be incurring losses as late shows will now see more people coming.
Sandip Davar, owner of the Sugar N Spice in Surat, says he was losing nearly 20 per cent of his business due to the late night matches.

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