A joint squad of Police, Raipur Municipal Corporation and revenue officials would be formed for five cities of the State to stop bursting of crackers by citizens beyond 10 pm as per the directives of the Supreme Court.
Official sources in Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) informed that a joint meeting of officials of district administration, police department, Petroleum and Explosive Security Organization and CECB was held on Friday which discussed in detail about strictly abiding by the Supreme Court directives on use of crackers.
Station House In-charge of respective police station areas along with revenue officials and officials of Raipur Municipal Corporation would carry out patrolling in their respective areas after the scheduled period of bursting of crackers i.e. after 10 p.m.
The monitoring work would be done from seven days prior to festival of Diwali in all the major cities of the state namely Raipur, Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raigarh and Korba.
Teams would also inspect the dealers of crackers to check that they are not storing crackers beyond the prescribed decibels.
In between November 1 to 7 , police department and CECB would also measure the pollution level, sources said.