Now there will be four but not 18 states in the hearing to be held on Thursday. 14 more states are included. It has been reported that air quality in these 14 states is also less than the standards.
A petition has been filed in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for banning firecrackers. The first hearing has been held on this petition. The second hearing is on 5 November. But before this, the NGT has sent a notice to four states in Delhi-NCR and sought a response. Also, asked whether firecrackers should be banned from 7 to 30 November keeping in mind the public health? But before this hearing, the NGT has made a big change. Now 14 more states have been included in this hearing. Notice has also been sent to them.
Whether or not firecrackers will run in 18 states will be decided in NGT on Thursday
While hearing the petition on Tuesday, the NGT issued notices to Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, and Haryana for the next hearing. But now 16 more states have been included in this hearing where the air quality is low. These states are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. Now, these states will also present their side in the hearing to be held on November 5.
Fireworks have been banned in Odisha and Rajasthan In
view of the situation of air pollution, there has been a demand to ban fireworks in many states. Due to this, the governments of Odisha and Rajasthan have already issued a notification to ban the purchase and sale of firecrackers. Not only this, except the green firecrackers, the Delhi government has imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the common firecrackers. The Central Government has also spoken of great fines and punishment for spreading air pollution.