Kolkata: It was the story of two cities before and after 8pm, Thursday.
When the clock ticked at 8pm, residents of several environments began to complain of burst into illegal firecrackers.
Flood complaints that lodged in Kolkata police, the West Bengal pollution control body (WBPCB) and Sabuj Mancha NGO showed part of the revelers who used a two-hour window to truly explode firecrackers.
The city witnessed a total of 286 complaints, almost 98 of them had been submitted before 8pm and the rest after that.
Prosecution and arrest jumped almost eight times – starting 88 at 8pm to 797 past midnight.
This is more than 2020 times the puja and the arrest rate of Diwali 708.
Police Kolkata received 168 complaints at the special line and Sabuj Mancha received 74 complaints.
WBPCB received 44 more complaints.
Environmental lovers on the ground on Thursday report better compliance with pollution norms.
“Many people have just rejected fireworks.
Those who violated the norm is a very small minority,” Naba Dutta said, Secretary Sabuj Mancha.
For the second year of running, the maximum complaints and arrests came from the Kolkata added area and its closest environment – Kasba, Anandapur, New Ballygunge, Topsia, Mukundapur, Dhakuria, Naktala, North Behala (true Behala and part of Alipe Baru) with Cossipore, Baranagar.
Howrah again reports maximum violations.
However, it is an area like Sreebhumi, Lake Town, Bangur and Baguihati that appears as the biggest violation hotspot.
“We stayed there for hours.
It sounded like a battlefield.
His call was rampant and the action on the ground was too little,” Dutta said.
The middle kolkata place from Burrabazar-Posta reported many violations.
Decibel Demon roared in several bags such as Burrabazar, Posta, Kalakar Street, Ganesh Chandra Avenue and Pathuriaghata in Central Kolkata.
Apart from the presence of the police in several places, many locals burn firecrackers all night.
But there is good news too.
Some traditional challenging areas – Haridevpur, South Behala, Tollygunge, Hastings, Hatibagan and Shyambazar – noted lower violations.
The police also received criticism for failing to act in certain pockets such as Kasba, Ballygunge and New Naktala despite repeated calls from residents even close to midnight nights, 720 people were arrested.
Bidhannagar police arrested 77 others.
On Thursday, Kolkata police confiscated 1,684kg firecrackers, one of the biggest hair since 2018 when tightening firecrackers were tightened.
Bidhannagar police confiscated 335kg again from the Salt Lake-Lake Town-Baguati belt.
Together, Kolkata police and Bidhannagar confiscated 2.019kg on one day.
While some of them were arrested by the police were given guarantees from the police station after a long detention, some of them would now see certain cases compiled under the explosive law and the West Bengal fire service law.
Although the police got praise to ensure that Covid hospitals mostly remain a silent zone, there are certain exceptions.
Sabuj Manha pays attention to dirty violations near hospital B C Roy, the silence zone that is notified.
“We wondered why it could not be controlled here.
But the government achieved extraordinary achievements by turning the hospital at the silence zone, which was once the previous hot spot,” said one of them.
The police claimed to have received complaints from regions adjacent to private hospitals in Dhakuria.