Jaipur: Firecrackers business back with a bang after silent 2020 | Jaipur News

Jaipur police had issued nearly 900 temporary licences to sell firecrackers to various traders across the city (Representative image)

JAIPUR: As the ban on sale of firecrackers was lifted this year, people in the city made the optimum use of this opportunity.
Compared to 2019, the firecrackers sale in the city on Diwali this year was almost double as per figures of the association of firecrackers traders.
Traders said they did not anticipate customers would come in such numbers and had limited stock that was sold out on Diwali night itself.
Jaipur police had issued nearly 900 temporary licences to sell firecrackers to various traders across the city and the city already had 200 firecrackers sellers having permanent licence.
“It appears that the sale was almost double compared to 2019. On Choti and Badi Diwali, majority of the firecracker sellers had got all their stuff sold out. Also, it was seen that many despite having some stock of firecrackers at home came to purchase it,” said Mustafa Saeed who owns a firecrackers shop at Hawa Mahal market in the city.
Zahir Ahamed, president of a firecrackers association, said, “A rise in the sale was witnessed. At some place it was a 50% rise while at many places the firecrackers sale was just double compared to what we had in 2019. Customers were happy to purchase firecrackers.”
However, Jaipur police stated that with their strict vigilance and licensing norms no fire incident due to firecrackers was witnessed near and around the shops selling firecrackers. “We had constituted patrolling team that were visiting every shop to see if they had fire extinguishers and other resources to meet the emergency. Also, unlike every year we did not allow the firecracker sellers to sell firecrackers on the next day of Diwali,” said Haider Ali Zaidi, additional commissioner of police, law and order.
Also, it was seen that police were little soft on the firecrackers sale especially they did not check if the firecrackers sellers were actually selling green firecrackers or not.
Likewise, while lifting the ban the government had specifically asked the public not to burst firecrackers after 10 pm but it went on throughout the Diwali night.