Noida admin urges residents to use green crackers to reduce pollution

Gautam Buddh Nagar ministration in Uttar Presh, on occasion of Diwali on Thursday appealed to residents to comply with Supreme Court's guidelines on pollution by using only green crackers during festival.  Supreme Court imposed certain regulations on sale of firecrackers in its October 2018 verdict. verdict only allowed a sale of 'Green firecrackers' in Delhi-NCR region. 

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'Only licensed vendors will be allowed to sell special green crackers'

According to officials, sale of environment-friendly green crackers will begin on Friday in Sector 62, near Ramleela Ground. "Only licensed vendors will be allowed to sell special green crackers. Online sale of crackers is banned," ministration said in a statement. " aim is to check air pollution and people are allowed to burn crackers between 8 pm and 10 pm and only in specified community areas. Burning of crackers is prohibited within 100-metre range of hospitals, courts and educational institutions," it furr said. 

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'It's b planning and implementation'

station house officers will be held responsible for violations of apex court guidelines in ir respective areas, it ded. While ban is in place, residents of region remained clueless about where to buy green crackers from. A local resident of Sector 76, Ankit Saxena stated that "frankly, I have clue where to buy m (green crackers) from till w. re should have been proper awareness about it. So for a long-term good initiative of containing pollution with green crackers, it's b planning and implementation.”  Saxena furr ded, "also, 8 pm to 10 pm window is problematic because that is time for puja and meetings in neighbourhood... All this could have been planned better.” Local trers expressed ir regret about getting little time to sell crackers. "How many green crackers can we sell in just two days. Diwali is on Sunday. This has hit our business," a local vendor said.

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Javekar urged people to only use green firecrackers 

Union Minister Prakash Javekar on October 7 in a press conference urged people to use only green firecrackers during Diwali and ted that government has taken a 'historic initiative' for ir production to reduce pollution. press conference was kept to discuss various issues pertaining to environment. "I would say do t burn firecrackers. I hope that children, students will tell ir parents to t bring firecrackers," Javekar told a press conference here. He furr said that if people wanted to use firecrackers as part of celebrations, y should use only green crackers inste of firecrackers.

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(WITH PTI INPUTS)