After two years of an entire ban on bursting of crackers, the UT administration on Friday allowed the usage of inexperienced crackers, however solely on Dussehra, Diwali, and Gurpurb.

As per the choice taken throughout a gathering chaired by UT administrator Banwarilal Purohit, inexperienced crackers will be burst from 8 pm to 10 pm on Diwali and Dussehra (for burning effigies), and from 4 am to five am and 9 pm to 10 pm on Gurpurb.

The determination got here after a report by the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee discovered town’s air high quality throughout Diwali in 2020 and 2021 average/passable.

Green crackers or eco-friendly crackers are manufactured from different uncooked supplies that emit pollution at a 30% lesser charge than their standard counterparts, translating into lesser impression on the setting and lesser well being dangers.

They do not include aluminum, barium, potassium nitrate or carbon, making them eco-friendly. Developed by the National Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, a subsidiary of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, additionally they emit lesser noise.

In the previous two years, inexperienced crackers had been allowed in each Mohali and Panchkula, however there was a blanket ban on crackers in Chandigarh. In 2018, the Supreme Court had allowed the sale of inexperienced crackers with the instructions that fireworks happen strictly from 8 pm to 10 pm solely.

Welcoming UT’s determination, president of the Chandigarh Crackers Dealers’ Association, Devinder Gupta stated, “Lifting of the blanket ban will help traders tide over the huge losses suffered over the past two years.”