The seasonal eco-fascist, NGT, which pops up during Hindu festival just like frogs appear in the rainy season, has issued a notice to Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and four State governments on the ban of firecrackers November 7 to 30 in the interest of public health and environment.
MoEF, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi Pollution Control Committee, Police Commissioner of Delhi and the governments of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan were told to give a response on the matter by a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A.K. Goel.
The tribunal headed by the chairperson was hearing a plea filed by Indian Social Responsibility Network, filed through Santosh Gupta. The Rajasthan government has already banned the sale of firecrackers to ‘save the public from ill effects.’
Firecracker manufacturers and sellers expressed shock over the government’s decision to ban the sale as they have already built inventories and the ban means loss of their livelihoods. “The industry found it difficult to meet the precautionary measures to resume production. Our workers, too, risked their lives under the pandemic threat to produce the fireworks with the sole objective of keeping the people happy during the festival celebrations,” said Indian Fireworks Manufacturers’ Association (TIFMA) general secretary T. Kannan.
“The Environmental Protection Act states that any emission that gets dissolved in the atmosphere within 48 hours is not a pollutant. Studies have proved that fireworks are not all polluting,” he added.
The firecracker manufacturers are already following the guidelines of the apex court and producing green products- which has already increased the cost- but the eco-fascist NGT, filled with elite Communists, does not care for the livelihood of the poor people.
“We are not using any chemicals that pollute. Besides, the additives suggested by the National Environmental Engineering Institute were used to bring down the emissions,” said Tamil Nadu Fireworks and Amorces Manufacturers’ Association Ganesan Panjurajan.
The fireworks industry in Sivakasi employs around 8,00,00 to 10,00,000 people, directly or indirectly with a mind-boggling turnover of about Rs. 60 billion. The ban which was rejoiced with brimming enthusiasm by the pseudo-liberals and pseudo-secular factions of the society has left the firework industry in Sivakasi in tatters.
Around 1,400 fireworks units in Sivakasi will go bankrupt if the decision of elite eco-fascists who are sitting in Air-conditioned rooms (Air conditioner gases are more harmful to the environment) office of NGT is not challenged. The whims and fancies of the NGT people cost livelihoods- sometimes life too- to the thousands of workers in firecracker factories and sellers.
No one is disputing the fact that environmental protection should be a topmost priority but depriving lakhs of workers of their jobs and livelihood is no way to go about it. A middle path for environment protection as well as safeguarding the jobs of these workers was needed.