TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced a complete ban on storage, sale, and bursting of all kinds of firecrackers in the national capital during the festival of Diwali.
Arvind Kejriwal also appealed to the traders in Delhi to not stock up on firecrackers in view of the ban and in order to avoid losses. Taking to Twitter, Arvind Kejriwal said: “In view of the dangerous condition of Delhi’s pollution during Diwali in the last three years, like last year, a complete ban is being imposed on the storage, sale and use of all types of firecrackers.
(This is) so that people’s lives can be saved.””In view of the seriousness of pollution after the stocking of firecrackers by trader… last year a complete ban was imposed late, which caused losses to traders. It is an appeal to all traders (this time) that in view of the complete ban, do not store or sell firecrackers,” Kejriwal said in another tweet.
As stubble burning season set to start, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday had said that an audit by a central agency in Delhi has found the use of Pusa bio-decomposer, a microbial solution for stubble management. He urged the Centre to ask neighbouring states to distribute it for free among farmers.
He said stubble burning in neighbouring states in October is a major factor behind the high level of air pollution in Delhi. “The farmers are not at fault. Governments are at fault because they had to offer a solution,” Kejriwal said.
