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Gupta said that Diwali is the most important festival of Indian culture and his government has decided to contact the court in view of crores of people who celebrate the festival in the city.
The Chief Minister said, “The Delhi government reiterated its commitment to control pollution effectively and protect the environment and assured full cooperation in the Supreme Court to implement any instruction issued in this regard.”
On 26 September, the apex court allowed certified manufacturers to produce green crackers, but banned its sale in Delhi-NCR without its approval.
The court allowed manufacturers certified by Peso (Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization) to produce green firecrackers along with Neeri (National Environmental Engineering Research Institute).
Reports states that the Delhi government is likely to be aware of the court that if they are manufactured by certified manufacturers, there is no objection to the use of green firecrackers.
He said, “The government can take permission for limited and time to time of green firecrackers on Diwali with any appropriate ban, while assuring adequate enforcement measures to check the use of prohibited traditional firecrackers, assuring measures to take adequate enforcement measures,” he said.
Experts stated that green crackers emit about 30% less pollutants than traditional people and have a limited amount of harmful chemicals such as barium nitrates.
It was in 2017 that the Supreme Court imposed the first temporary ban on the sale and use of traditional firecrackers in Delhi-NCR, assuming that firecrackers are one of the significant contributors for pollution.
In 2018, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-Neeri) developed a new type of crackers called ‘Green Firecrackers’.
In October 2018, the Supreme Court allowed limited use of conditionally certified green firecrackers. The court ruled that only certified green crackers could be used, that too between 8 pm and 10 pm in Diwali night, and only those purchased from authorized vendors would be considered valid.
In 2019 and 2020, the Delhi government imposed a total ban on all types of firecrackers as air pollution levels were in the ‘serious’ category.
The ban continued further and was extended to January 1, 2025 via DPCC notification last year.
With input from PTI