By Sanjeev Kumar patro
Bhubaneswar: Diwali 2024 is only 48 hours away. This is the glitziest festival of India that honours light and bursting of the joy via crackers. This has been a festival of light and sound – the Deepam (earthen lamps) and the fire works or fire crackers.
With the passing days and age, the festival of light and sound slowly turned into a day where the Mother Nature is smeared with smoke of pollutants. In order to burst their joy out, denizens started bursting cracker that emanates double 'S' – Sound and Smoke.
When reached to such a pass, the Council for Scientific Industrial Research and NEERI (National Environment Engineering Research Institute) have brought in the concept of Green Crackers in India. To which even the country Apex Court, Supreme Court of India, has ordered in 2018 to ban all conventional crackers and allowed sale and manufacture of only Green crackers in the country. Many states have banned normal crackers, they allowed sale of green crackers only. Here is the list given below.
* Delhi
* Maharashtra
* Rajasthan
* Karnataka
* Odisha
* Bihar
* Punjab
* Haryana
* Kerala
*Tamil Nadu
* West Bengal
In the above context, here are frequently asked questions about GREEN CRACKERS in India.
What is “Green Cracker”?
Ans. Fireworks/firecrackers made with reduction in size of shell, elimination of ash usage, reduced usage of raw materials in the compositions, non use of barium nitrate, and use of additives as dust suppressants to reduce emissions with specific reference to particulate matters (PM*), SO2 and NO2.
*PM10 reduction of 30 %
*A minimum of PM2.5 reduction by 20%
*Rest gaseous emission by 10% (mass of gases emitted based on composition)
How to identify “Green Crackers”?
Ans. The identification may be done by seeing the CSIR NEERI Logo. The scanner may be downloaded using ‘CSIR NEERI Green QR Code app” from Google Play Store.
What is the difference between “Conventional Firecracker” and “Green cracker”?
Ans. Read the Table below
Who certify “Green Crackers”?
Ans. CSIR-NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CSIR- NEERI).
Is there any logo or QR Code to identify Green Crackers?
Ans. Yes, there is both Logo and QR code present to identify the “Green Crackers”. All of them are mentioned below.
Logo of Green crackers
QR code of Green Crackers
