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People in the National Capital Region may not be able to use firecrackers to celebrate festivals and marriage ceremonies as the Supreme Court on Friday said it would ask Centre not to issue fresh licences to sellers and suspend the existing licences to tackle the pollution crisis.
Ruling out the proposition to ban the use of firecrackers as a measure to curb rising pollution levels, a bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur, Justices A K Sikri and S A Bobde said that ban on use was not feasible as it would be difficult to implement the order.
The bench said it was mostly children who used firecrackers and it would be almost impossible for enforcement authorities to implement its order. It said a ban on sale was the most feasible way to control using of crackers in the city. “How can our order to ban the use of firecrackers be enforced? What could be done to a 10-year-old child if he uses firecrackers despite our order? It would be difficult to enforce our order. Our order should be enforceable,” the bench said.
The court said cutting off the supply of firecrackers in the NCR would be an effective way to curb the practice of using firecrackers in the city. It said firecrackers were not being manufactured in the NCR so no order was required to stop them from carrying their business and its order should be confined to the selling of crackers.
“Union of India can be asked to suspend the existing license granting to wholesale sellers. We would ask the government not to issue a fresh license and the existing license should not be renewed. License to store firecrackers be also suspended and the sellers would be given time to dispose of their existing stock by taking them out of the NCR,” the bench said.
The court was hearing a bunch of petitions, including one filed by three infants, seeking the court’s direction to ban the use of firecrackers in Diwali and other festivals. The infants – two six-month-oldsArjunGopal and AaravBhandari and 14-month-old ZoyaRaoBhasin – had last year moved the SC through their advocate fathers to seek several measures to mitigate pollution and exercise their right to clean air guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
The court, which had refused to ban crackers last year, is examining the issue as the pollution level has gone up alarmingly this year. Expressing concern over pollution, the bench said that 30% of children in the city were suffering from asthma and the sale of firecrackers could be banned in public interest. The court said that it was not only human beings, but animals and birds too were suffering and drastic measures needed to be taken to resolve the crisis. (Source: The Times of India)
Questions
1. Why will the people in the National Capital Region not be able to use firecrackers to celebrate festivals and marriages?
2. Why did the Court feel that it would be almost impossible for enforcement authorities to implement the order?
3. What was the most feasible way of controlling the use of crackers in the city?
4. Are firecrackers manufactured in the NCR?
5. What does the Supreme Court want the Union of India to do regarding the issue of licences?
6. Why is the Court examining the issue which it had refused to ban last year?
7. What did the Court feel concerned about the health of children in the city?
8. What did the Court observe about animals and birds in this regard?
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