New Delhi: The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday requested the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments to impose an entire ban on firecrackers within the areas falling beneath the NCR area. A bench, headed by Justice Abhay S. Oka, stated that the ban already imposed by the Delhi and Rajasthan governments will flip efficient solely when the remaining states impose comparable measures.
The Bench, additionally comprising Justice A.G. Masih, was listening to a public curiosity litigation (PIL) referring to the management of air pollution in Delhi and NCR area.
In the middle of the listening to, the apex courtroom was advised that whereas Haryana had permitted the usage of inexperienced crackers, Rajasthan had imposed an entire ban on firecrackers within the NCR area.
It requested the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments to impose a ban on firecrackers in the identical phrases as imposed in Delhi and posted the matter for additional listening to on January 15, 2025.
Additionally, the highest courtroom directed the governments of Delhi and NCR states to represent groups for strict implementation of the Graded Response Motion Plan (GRAP)-IV norms.
In an earlier listening to, the Supreme Courtroom had requested the state governments of Delhi and adjoining states to take a name on a everlasting ban on the usage of firecrackers.
Asking the state governments to position their stand on file, it had indicated issuing mandatory pointers, together with on the manufacture, storage, sale and distribution of firecrackers.
“The ban on firecrackers might be useful not solely to curb the air air pollution however the noise air pollution as properly. We are going to think about issuing mandatory instructions to the state governments on the problem of ban on use of firecrackers,” it had stated.
Earlier in November, after Diwali, the Supreme Courtroom had remarked that the ban on firecrackers was hardly applied within the nationwide capital and pulled up the Delhi authorities for not implementing the firecrackers ban. It had known as for an affidavit from the Delhi authorities and Police Commissioner detailing the steps taken to implement the identical.
The apex courtroom had steered that the premises of sellers of firecrackers must be sealed, other than implementing a ban on importing firecrackers from neighbouring states.
The Delhi authorities, in September this yr, issued a notification imposing a ban on firecrackers until January 1, 2025, to mitigate air air pollution in winter.
Delhi’s Surroundings Minister Gopal Rai had stated that to maintain the air clear within the nationwide capital, a notification was issued to mitigate air pollution brought on by firecrackers by banning their use within the winter months. The notification additionally banned on-line gross sales and supply of firecrackers in Delhi.
