Only green fire crackers allowed in Punjab on Diwali: Meet Hayer
October 27, 2023 - PatialaPolitics
Only green fire crackers allowed in Punjab on Diwali: Meet Hayer
The Punjab government will allow the use of only green crackers and that too for a short duration on Diwali, Gurpurab, Christmas and New Year, the state’s Environment Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said on Friday.
He said that only licensed traders would be allowed to sell permitted firecrackers and no e-commerce site or others shall accept online orders within Punjab.
According to an official statement, the minister said that with the Diwali, Gurupurab, Christmas and New Year approaching, the environment department will allow only green crackers “that do not use barium salt or compounds of antimony, lithium, mercury, arsenic, lead or strontium chromate”.
Only green crackers will be allowed to be burst from 8 pm to 10 pm on Diwali, from 4 am to 5 am and from 9 pm to 10 pm on Gurpurab, and from 11:55 pm to 12:30 am on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, Hayer said.