A meeting was held by the District Administration to discuss about the where to permit to open shops of crackers a meeting was held at district administration on Tuesday.
During meeting ADM Finance Jharna kamthan disclosed that administration have identified nine places including Parade Ground in Dalanwala area, Ramleela Ground in Cantt, Dusshera Ground in Premnagar, RTI Ground in Patel Nagar, Bannu School in Nehru Colony, Dusshera Ground in Clement Town, Block Ground Tapovan in Raipur, Empty ground opposite Sai wedding point in Vasant Vihar and Ramleela ground in Doiwala area. He clarified that license would be issued for these areas only.
Paltan bazaar, Arhat bazar, Moti bazar, Hanuman chowk, Jhanda colony, Dispensary road, Chakrata Road, Survey Chowk to DAV College and all heavily crowded places have been denied permission to open the cracker shops. As these places have narrow roads where fire brigade reach would be difficult.
She instructed the city magistrates to hold a meeting in their area with all the temporary cracker shop owners. She stressed that areas that come fire prone area should not have any shops. Also the shops would have to be 200 meters away from crowded areas and no license should be issued for ‘kaccha shops’. Total number of license will be declared by 26th October after discussing and investigating upon them. She warned of severe actions will be taken against everybody whosoever run crackers shop without license and those who set up shops other than named areas. In case anyone found selling without permission then all goods would be seized. During the meeting ADM Pratap Baah, City Magistrate lalit Narayan Mishra, SP Ajay Singh were also present in the meeting.