Diwali 2023: From Mumbai, Ludhiana to Delhi here's list of cities with limited time window for bursting of crackers
TOI report around 80 licenses for selling crackers have been revoked. Permission to sell and burn green crackers will only be given if air quality on AQI index is registered below'200' level which seems unlikely in the current situation when air quality is over 400 mark. Gurugram district administration on September 28 issued an order imposing a ban on production, sale and storage of all types of firecrackers.
The order came into effect on November 1 and will conclude on January 31. This order excludes green firecrackers, which will be allowed for a limited time during Diwali, New Year's Eve, Christmas, and Gurpurab. The window for bursting firecrackers has been restricted between 8 pm to 10 pm.
On Christmas and New Year's Eve, the window will be from 11.55 pm to 12.30 am. Ludhiana district administration issued directions with respect to use of fire-crackers on Diwali, Christmas, New Year, and Guru Purab event with the window for bursting fire-crackers being between 8pm and 10 pm while on Christmas and New Year eve the time would be from 11.55 pm to 12.30 am. On Guru Purab bursting of firecrackers will be permitted for one hour in the morning, from 4 am to 5 am, and one hour in the evening, from 9 pm to 10 pm.
Use of fire-crackers in silence zones, including 100-meter radius of hospitals, educational institutions, courts and religious places, is banned. The Bombay High Court on November 6 permitted bursting of firecrackers for 3 hours, between 7 pm to 10 pm, on Diwali. All construction activities in Mumbai were also instructed to be halted till Diwali, in view of worsening air pollution situation.
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