Violation of safety regulations by cracker vendors is a matter of concerns these days as the city is having densely populated commercial and residential areas and many cracker shops housed side-by-side in Bokaro district.
According to the district administration official sources, only 175 vendors were executed temporary license to sell crackers in the district includes 110 in Bermo and 65 in Chas block of the district.
Far from the densely populated area the district administrative executed licences to sell firecrackers near Garga Bridge and Ramrudra High School ground but thousands of shop are illegally selling crackers flouting the basic safety norms not only in the city areas but in the rural pockets of the districts too.
Amidst administrative officials are conduction raids on such vendors, sell goes ‘on’. The cracker vendors are hardly bothered to abide by any of the safety guidelines, said Anand a resident of Ram Nagar Colony Chas. The cracker shops are found in the lanes and by-lanes where no tanker can reach such congested lanes, he said.
“The situation is similar in several areas across the district”, said Shankar.
According to the safety guideline, “There should be a minimum distance of at least three metres between two shops selling firecrackers and the sellers must have to keep a fire extinguisher, sandbags along with enough water storage but none of the vendors found following the guidelines”, said a fire official.