Ban on firecrackers in 23 states, NGT to pronounce crucial verdict for Diwali!
NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal will on Monday (November 9) hear and pronounce its order on the imposition of a brief ban on sale and use of firecrackers throughout 23 states and UTs amidst the double whammy of the air pollution disaster and the coronavirus pandemic. The Green Tribunal is predicted to announce its order at round 10:30 am right now.
Earlier this week, the NGT had sought response of the Union Environment Ministry, the governments of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, the Central Pollution Control Board, the Delhi Police Commissioner and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee on whether or not using firecrackers must be banned from November 7-30.
On Wednesday, the tribunal expanded its ambit of listening to instances on air pollution by use of firecrackers past the Delhi-NCR area and issued notices to 19 states and Union Territories the place air high quality is past norms.
On Wednesday, alluding to 122 non-attainment cities in 23 states and Union Territories, which have been persistently exhibiting poorer air high quality, the inexperienced tribunal stated that it could have to contemplate path to ban use of fireside crackers through the interval air high quality is past a threshold to guard the well being of the susceptible teams.
Non-attainment cities embody Delhi, Varanasi, Bhopal, Kolkata, Noida, Muzaffarpur, Mumbai, Jammu, Ludhiana, Patiala, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Kolkata, Patna, Gaya, Chandigarh and so on.
Licences on the market of firecrackers suspended in Delhi
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police, on Sunday, suspended all licences issued for the sale of firecrackers within the nationwide capital and stated that additional motion shall be taken on the instructions of the NGT. “All licences issued for the sale of firecrackers have been suspended and further action will be taken on NGT directions,” Delhi Police tweeted.
Delhi Police additionally arrested seven individuals for allegedly promoting firecrackers within the nationwide capital regardless of the ban and recovered almost 600 kgs of firecrackers from them.
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