BHOPAL: A day after Madhya Pradesh home and transport minister Bhupendra Singh tweeted, inviting Delhites to celebrate Diwali with crackers in the state, the MP government banned the manufacture, sale and use of high-decibel sound generating crackers on Diwali.
The state’s environment minister Antar Singh Arya, said that with high-decibel crackers being highly inflammable and deafening, their usage increased noise and air pollution levels, adversely affected humans and environment as a whole.
In view of the government notification issued by the union ministry of forest and environment, the manufacture, sale or use of crackers which generate noise levels exceeding 125dB(AI) or 145dB(C) will be banned, the minister said on Wednesday.
In conformity with the Supreme Court directives to check noise pollution, the use of noisy crackers will be banned from 10 pm to 6 am, Arya said.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Chhattisgarh government too had banned high decibel crackers.
On Tuesday, the state’s home and transport minister tweeted “Madhya Pradesh mein patakhe jalakar Diwali manane ki poori swatantrata hai. Umang ke saath Diwali manaeeye, Delhi ke mitron ko bhi MP mein amantrit kijiye (there is full freedom of celebrating Diwali with bursting crackers, celebrate Diwali with enthusiasm. Friends from Delhi are also invited).”
Singh also tweeted “Umang, aveg, utsah, josh sahit praffulata se diwali manaye, MP sarkar poore varsh paryayvaran sanrakshan ke liye kaam karti hai, kisi ek din nahi (celebrate Diwali with full fervour, MP government works throughout the year for environmental conservation and not just on a single day).”