Chandigarh: In significant developments, the Haryana government has announced a complete ban on exploding, storage and selling crackers in the 14 regencies of the National Capital Region (NCR) which includes Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonīpat, Panipat Regency.
In detail, the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) said the order to ban firecrackers in NCR Regency was part of the preventive measure after the Pandemic Covid-19 and considered the winter approaching where the elderly, children, children with co -Morbidity And others can develop respiratory problems.
A official spokesperson during the closer celebration season from Diwali, Gurpurbab, and Kartik Purnima, Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, people usually explode crackers who can affect the respiratory health of vulnerable groups, in addition to worsening health conditions at home Covid-19 at home isolation.
Thus, in accordance with various directions NGT and the Supreme Court, the State Executive Committee while carrying out strength below Section 24 2005 Disaster Management Act has issued guidelines for strict implementation in the state, he added.
He said there would be a total ban on sales or use of all types of firecrackers in all districts 14 NCR – Bhiwani, Charchi Dadri, Faridabad, Gurugram, Jhajjar, Jind, Karnal, Mahadgarh, Noah, Palwal, Panipat, Palwal, Panipat, Palwal, Panipat, Palwal, Rohtak and Sonipat.
The above direction will also apply to all cities / cities in the state where the average quality of ambient air during November (according to the data available last year) falls in the ‘poor’ category and above, he added.
City / cities where air quality “moderate or below”, only green crackers to be sold and the city / city / area where air quality “moderate or below”, timings to use and explode from the Cracker on Diwali Day At other festivals such as Gurpurbab will be completely from 8pm to 10 nights.
Time will start at 6 am to 8 in the morning at Chatth and 11.5 hours until 12:30 a.m.
on Christmas and New Year’s Eve, he added.
He said the state pollution control board Haryana will issue a list of cities and cities mentioned above separately and make the same available online on their website and also publish the same thing to inform the public.
In the area where the use and outbreak of crackers are allowed, the community firm outages will be promoted.
Certain areas / fields will be identified beforehand and previously appointed by the authorities concerned immediately and the same will be published for public information.
Even for other weddings and events, only green crackers are permitted, he added.
He said sales crackers would only go through licensed traders.
There is no e-commerce website, including Flipkart, Amazon, will accept online orders and online sales effects.
The state pollution control board Haryana will carry out short-term monitoring in the city for 14 days (coming soon) for parameters, namely, aluminum, barium, separate iron from regulatory parameters on the value of short-term air quality criteria (AAQCVS) proposed by CPCB in connection with firecracking burst.
This will help in the generation of data about pollution caused by firecrackers and will assist the rules and quality control of aluminum, barium and iron used in making firecrackers, he added.