The district administration has identified nine places where shopkeepers will be allowed to sell fire crackers during Deepawali festival in the district. The administration will provide license to the shopkeepers on temporary basis for five days from October 19 to October 23. Interested persons willing to procure such licenses can collect application forms from City Magistrate office and the last date for submission of such forms is October 16 (5 pm), said Additional DM Jharna Kamthan while chairing a meeting with district officers on Thursday. Stringent actions will be taken against those who are caught selling fire crackers without license or pitching their shops out of the demarcated areas in the district, he added.
Additional DM Kamthan directed the district officers to ensure that no one will be allowed to install temporary shops for selling fire crackers unless they procure license from the department concerned during Deepawali festival in the district.Kamthan said that nine places have been identified in the open areas where shops for fire crackers will be allowed to be set up.
The demarcated areas are Parade Ground in the Dalanwala area, Ramleela Ground in Cantt area, Dussehra Ground in Premnagar, ITI Ground in Patelnagar area, Bannu School Ground in Nehru Colony area, Dussehra Ground in Clamant Town area, Block Ground, Tapowan in Raipur, open ground in front of Sai wedding points in Vasant Vihar and Ramleela Ground Keshavpuri Naibasti in Doiwala.
The district officers have been directed to issue licenses for above places to the shopkeepers. The areas where sale of fire crackers have been stopped are the stretch from Paltan Bazaar Kotwali to Clock Tower, Dhamawala Bazaar Kotwali to Babugang Aahat Bazaar Chowk, Moti Bazaar, Paltan Bazaar, Old Sabji Mandi to Hanuman Mandir, Hanuman Chowk, Jhanda Mohallah, Ramleela Bazaar, Band Bazaar, Anand Chowk to lakshman Chowk, Dispensary Road, Clock Tower to Chakrata Road, Chakrata Road to Hanuman Mandir, Survey Chowk to DAV (PG) College, Karanpur Road and other busy and crowed areas in the city. The officers concerned will seize firecrackers if one is found selling them at the places the administration has kept out of the demarcated areas. Shopkeepers will be charged with challans on violation of the rules.
ADM Kamthan directed the sub-district magistrates to inspect the identified areas where firecrackers shanties will be allowed to be set up and submit a report along with police station in-charge over the issue by Friday.