REGULATION OF MANUFACTURING
& USE OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS & FIRE CRACKERS
For ensuring Safety
of Human Beings, Animals, Properties & To Contain Accidents, Loss of Life
& Property
For Pollution
Free Environment, Healthy Living
APRIL 2016
It is a fact that
there is no accurate data with government/s regarding the quantities of raw
material processed, used in the manufacture of explosives used for mining,
industrial purposes, military applications, & also in the manufacture of
fire crackers, related application in INDIA; also government is nor having
accurate data of the storage, stock location, conditions of storage of the raw
material, finished products of the explosives fireworks (including the individuals
who purchased in retail and stored at their homes for festive occasions, which
were left unused after that festive season/ occasion, which are otherwise lying
for months at homes/ establishments till the next festive season, usually Deepavali,
a potential threat for fire accidents at residential habitations; similarly due
to lack of uniformity in storage, quantities of storage of explosives causing
potential threat for not only blast accidents, but also serious threat of
explosive material going into the hands of terrorists. Anti social elements) as
a result there exist potential threats to loss of lives, property, resulting in
stagnation/ decline of development of the country.
Also serious health
hazards for humans & animals due to excessive pollutions caused (sound,
air, water) due to indiscriminate use of fire crackers every nuke and corner of
India, every now and then, in the name of some or other occasion like
birthdays, marriages, victories, opening and closing ceremonies etc in addition
to Deepavali and other festivals in the religious places resulting in prolonged
illness and loss of working age group people due to health disorders, if there
is no regulation from now onwards the situations will be out of control in future
causing irreparable damage to the future generations, productivity of the
country & development of the country.
As such government
must regulate the manufacture, use explosive materials and also the fire crackers,
with complete ban on use of fire crackers within the city limits, in all public
places, in religious places, etc by ensuring that all activities related to explosive, fire
materials from manufacturers, suppliers,
users, and time, place of use must be within the preview of the government, and
government must maintain the data bank of all the activities in the larger
interest by using the data in multiple
ways.
The first step in
this direction is creation of central unified authority for maintaining integrated
data bank of all explosive material & fire work related acts across the
country, followed by these exclusive measures to ensure safety prevails in the
larger interest.
EXPLOSIVES
[1]
Government
make stringent norms for providing licenses for excavation, processing, supply,
storage of raw material of explosive in nature, used in explosives manufacture,
and there should be uniform procedures across the country, and there should be
standard procedures & design for transportation and storage of raw
material; all storage godowns must be be far away from the habitations.
[2]
Mandatory
registration with government by all end users of explosive raw material & fire
cracker raw material, the quantities, the details of the suppliers. Also
government must make standardisation use of different types of explosive raw
material for different applications for
various uses like mining, construction, military etc
[3]
Mandatory that procurement, sale of raw
material for explosive manufacture through online government department, in
addition online real time sale/ dispatch of quantities by the manufacture,
suppler with real time information to end user & to the government, with
GPS tracking by the manufacturer, distributor, government, end user the
movement of raw material and finished explosives till it reaches end
destination for storage, use ensure exact quantities & quality as intended
delivered without any pilferage/ wilful adulteration, theft enroute.
[4]
All
the raw material and finished products of the explosives transportation in
covered vehicles with electronic locking, so that ensuring unloading at
designated locations (like petroleum fuels transportation) with CC cameras
mounted on the vehicles to record the vehicle driving, as well the electronic
locks and entire vehicle, all the explosive material transport vehicles must be
owned and operated by the manufacturer, else exclusive hire transport vehicles
specially designed as per standards, meant only for transportation of explosive
material which are registered, inspected, approved by the government.
[5]
All
the drivers/ staff in the exclusive explosive material carrying vehicles must
be teetotallers, non smokers, non consumption of any kind of tobacco products, non
drug addicts, and periodic surprise checks by government under camera, online
real time data storage, it should be non bail able criminal offence to indulge
in alcohol consumption, smoking, drugs consumption or indulging in
sex/prostitution while on duty/driving the vehicle carrying explosives, and it
should be mandatory that breath analysers installed inside the cabin of the
vehicle, and every time the driver before switching on the vehicle ignition,
must undergo self breath analyser which records the data online real time. This
measure prevents the accidents on account of alcohol consumption
[6]
Also
it should be mandatory that all vehicles carrying Explosive material must be
equipped two DASH-CAMS inside the cabin one focusing the road from the steering
wheel to record the driving pattern of the driver, one focusing the inside of
the cabin from the driver door side to know what all activities happening in
the drivers cabin of the explosive material carrying vehicle. The Dash Cams
provide the real time video streaming online remotely. This measure ensures
perfect driving by the drivers of these vehicles by and large.
[7]
Complete
ban on carrying mobile phones / use of mobile phones within the cabin of the
vehicles carrying the explosives; soon they enter the vehicle all the staff/
drivers must deposit in the mobiles in the designated space in the vehicle
cabin; also there should be online real time communication with a national call
centre with the transport vehicles for any communication; they can do
communication with fixed number of family members through calls routed through
the call centre during rest period. And
all the mobile phone service providers in association with national monitoring centre
for explosive material carrying vehicles should deactivate personal mobiles
temporarily for the driving period of 10 pm to 6 am, of the driver and all
staff in the cabin of the vehicle, all the communication through call centre
only (This measure should be applied to all vehicles carrying Inflammable
materials like Petroleum products, Chemicals etc); This measure contains accidents to a great
extent, as it become a common syndrome that most of the drivers use the mobile
while driving, also most of the cleaners watch the so called films, songs,
Pornography, on the mobile phones which will
distract the driving and causing accidents. (DASH CAMS, MOBILE DESPOT,
DE-ACTIVATING DURING DRIVING, ALL EMERGENCY CALLS THROUGH NATIONAL CALL ENTER
WHEN THE VEHICLE IS STILL/ NOT RUNNING is very need of the hour measure that
should be implemented on all heavy vehicles plying in the high ways )
[8]
Mandatory
that government standardise the methods, quantities and types of
explosives for mining activities and
other activities where explosives are use for blasting/ collapsing the
structures etc based on various parameters like soil condition, vicinity to
habitations, amount of dust/ sound/ shock/vibrations generated out of the
explosion etc etc so that maximum safety
is assured.
[9]
All
the end users must specify the details of need for use of explosives in their
place, so that before providing the permission to use explosives the government
experts assess /analysis the need, type, quantity of explosive raw material
enquired through data submitted by the
end user, also carry out the physical inspection by the government experts to
assess the need for explosive materials as well safe use of explosive material
ensuing no accidents/ damage to any other structures/persons within the vicinity
of the place of explosives use and ensure the end user procure the same from
authorised manufactures/ suppliers of the explosive material in the required
quantities and qualities in their territory.
[10]
Mandatory
that all explosive raw material and finished products of explosives carried/
transported to manufacturing units or storage units in different destinations
in a separate transport vehicles which should be specially designed to withstand impact of
shocks due to head on collision accidents (under normal conditions), also with
stand the fire/ blasts (certain extent) like mine proof vehicles, also with
separate colour coding of the entire vehicle, with night vision paints all
along and flags for easy identification of other vehicles/ commuters to understand
that these vehicles are carrying the explosive materials, with all vehicles
drivers are specially trained to drive safely, with minimum number of year of
experience in driving heavy vehicles in these specified territories/terrains,
and it should be mandatory that separate horn/ siren for all explosive material
carrying vehicles and mandatory at least 100 mt distance / gap maintained by
other vehicles when the explosives material carrying vehicles ply on the
highways.
[11]
Also
it should be mandatory that all explosive carrying vehicles play only during
the period of less traffic i.e. after 10 pm and before 6 am even in high ways,
so that the risk of accidents can be reduced, not only due to less traffic, but
also due to less temperatures / heat on the roads in the nights in all seasons.
All the explosive carrying vehicles must be mandatorily equipped with douse
/nap detection & alert devices so that the driver will not fall asleep
while driving.
[12]
Also
all the explosive material carrying vehicles should be checked for full fitness
before it leaves the sight for destination, in addition must carry the trained
mechanic, helper and also spare parts in the vehicles to get repair it in case
of breakdown of the vehicles; Also all the explosive material carrying vehicles
must possess fire extinguisher foam, one kilometre length water carrying pipes
with spray guns and also the full first ait aid kits.
[13]
Also
there should be exclusive specific designated places for halting the vehicles
carrying the explosive material, with mandatory follow of 8 hours duty by the
drivers of the vehicles, and mandatory rest period of one day every vehicle
driver. And also must follow specific
designated roads only to carry the explosive material to minimize the
accidents, safe transportation.
[14]
Mandatory
that all the explosive raw material manufactures and explosive material
finished products manufacturers, transporters, must deposit at least 1/5 of the
projected turnovers or full value of the material/ Rs one crore which ever is higher,
as deposit with the government as security deposit (simple bank interest for
the money deposited to be credited to the account of the manufacturer), in case
of violation of any norms the manufacture must forego its deposit.
[15]
Mandatory
all the explosive material users must deposit a fixed amount of 1/10 of the
turnover or 1 core rupees as a deposit with government explosives department in
case they procure the raw material/ finished
products and they themselves use the material with their employees.
[16]
Also
government must enhance its staff / trained manpower for to safe use of explosives
for different productivity purposes, and provide them on hire to the required,
like mining operation or any other place where use of explosives is required,
in such cases there is no need for fixed deposit from the end users, only the
material and user charges are required to be paid by the end user, as the operations
for use of explosives is carried out by the government trained experts, this
facility can be use only when the end user do not apply / possess permission to
purchase, hold stock of explosive raw material.
[17]
Mandatory
that all in-house users of explosive raw material for blasting in the mines or
in any other place, all the explosive material users must be qualified/get
required certification from the government for understanding the nature,
quantities, method of use of explosive material, and for obtaining the
certification in use of explosive raw material, there should be minimum education
qualifications, and all such certified
persons must work only in registered organisations/ industry in a permanent
employment (with complete ban on working on freelance/ temporary bases, it
should a non bail able criminal offence to work temporary bases/ in un
registered organisations) and all those
certified persons in explosives use should be under constant monitoring of the
government, and must report their where about to government, also must get
their licences / certification to get renewed every year.
Also all the
in-house users of the explosives like all mining / excavation agencies both
private and government must built the storage capacitates of explosives that
are just sufficient for one month
operations on an average, with every 15 days the stock should be procured
to fill the balance buffer stock. All
the storage places must be under high resolution CC camera surveillance, all
the storage and handing should be done under CC camera recording. The PESO
–Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation, should have full-fledged data
with quasi judicial powers to work in tandem with local police to contain any
deviations; all the licences details of all category users must be online with
information, update online real time to local police, about storage, transport,
usage of explosive material.
Also it should be
mandatory that all the explosive material used in the defence, military should
be under joint accountability of military as well as explosives department of
civil administration; and every single gram of the explosive material and every
single single weapon used for testing/ routine military exercises’ must be
accountable, recorded in the CC cameras, all the storage, issue of the material
should be online, and the fire safety of the explosive material should be joint
responsibility of military as well as central explosives department (more
accountability of the military to CFEES of DRDO- Centre for Fire, Explosives
and Environment Safety rather than advisory & supportive role.. in order to
ensure no scope for any pilferage/ corruption.
In a nut shell as
far as Explosive material used for industrial and military purposes, Government
should have data bank of the users of explosive material (raw material,
finished products to be used to detonate) like mines etc; also online real time
data of the stock piling of explosive raw material quantities and qualities
with each of the end user establishments/ industries; also it should be made
mandatory before use of the explosive material there should be online real time
permission from the government for the use of the explosive material (whether the end user is
private, PSU, Govt. Dept), need for use, place of use, quantities of use,
safety measures etc; also government must use the Geo Mapping of all the sites
where explosive material is used and Satellite Imagining of the localised
territories of explosion/ blast to monitor the mines/ explosives use in the
open sites 24/7, so that all explosives
used can be identified with intensity of the blast, contain all illegal,
illegitimate use of explosives; in addition it should be mandatory for the
explosive material users must record the use of the explosive material blasting
from preparation of the material to explosion on the high resolution video
recording and up loaded to the government website online real time, in addition
all mining explosives operators must install electromagnetic equipment at fixed
distance from the explosions site to record the sound decibels generated, also
to record the impact, intensity of the explosion/blast earth vibrations in that
vicinity territory etc with online real time data flow at the central servers
of the user and government authorities
to ensure only required quantities as approved by the government as per
standards, as per pre approved online permission to use the explosives are
followed by the end user; in case of violations severe punishments should be given
to the end user for violation of safety norms.; also daily audit for the
quantities of explosive material
manufactured in the country, stock with the distributors/ end users should be
made (including in the demesnes establishments, with data of the defence use
concealed, made as classified data), with monthly once surprise checks for on
field stock positions at all locations of explosive material related organisations
(including defence establishments); also mandatory that all explosive users in
the mines and construction must adopt the dust control measures to minimize the
dust pollution in the vicinity of the blast/explosion. Also it is a fact that
due to explosive material being used indiscriminately by the mining operators
across the country, causing severe pollution in the vicinity of the mines,
causing life risks for the mining labour, in addition causing severe health
discords to the mining workers, also loss of billions of rupees of revenue to
the government public exchequer due to illegal mining activities, as majority of
the mining activities requires use of explosive material, All these can be
avoided/ marginalised.
These measures
ensure safety of the use of explosive material, prevents illegal mining/
illegal use of the explosive material, also it contains that explosive material
being diverted/ used by the anti social/ terror groups for creating terror
activities in the country.
FIRECRACKERS
As far as the fire
crackers manufacturing and use is concerned
It is a fact that Deepavali
is the occasion that fireworks display is a custom/ tradition followed in India
from ancient times as a symbol of victory over darkness and leading life
towards light, even though no were in any religious texts mentions that one
should celebrate Deepavali with chemical fireworks/ crackers/ sound generating
bombs disturbing the environment, causing health hazards to people, causing
trauma/loss of life for other creatures like animals, birds, also to the
ecology, still it being practiced as a custom, may be continued. Ideal that if
all religious leaders endorse only lighting of oil lamps i.e. deepa’s (diyas)
during the Deepavali festival or any other occasion as a symbol of bringing
light to the lives from darkness/ ignorance, and for prosperity, happiness of
the people, rather than burning the chemical based so called fire crackers,
also endorse to practice lighting of a oil lamp every day at home as a symbol
of light in life.
In the last few
decades it becomes a fashion to use the fire crackers/ display of fireworks on
every other occasion, especially in the marriages functions, since India is
having over 65% youth population with average age of marriages is 25 to 35
years, and as of now over 10 million marriages are occurring every year in
India, and most of the marriages fire crackers used/ fireworks display (the
quantities may vary depending up on the financial status of the married couples
families income). Also it is a fact that most of the cities are becoming
concrete jungles and urban population on the rise due to migration from rural
India to urban India all due to happening of developments, and most of the
habitations are thickly populated and hardly any sufficient open spaces. Also
it is fact that road to vehicle population density is very less in India with
more vehicles on less roads, also it is a fact most of the marriage venues are
within the city limits and people take procession from their homes to marriage
function venue, along with display of fire crackers on road side, also display
of fire crackers at the venues is a potential threat not only to the
bystanders/ passers on the road/ at function places, but also to the household
in the vicinity of the function halls with potential chances of fire accidents,
accidents due to lack of safety measures/ precautions following in display of
fireworks; In addition also causing
heavy amounts of pollution due to traffic stagnations on the roads on account
of burning of the fire crackers on the roads leading to health discords in
millions of people commuting/ plying on the roads, living in the vicinity of
the territories, in addition to heavy pollution due to noise as well as
chemical gases, dust/ waste from the burning of fire crackers, with hospitals,
within the vicinity/ en-route the marriage function places & Procession of the marriage function (so
called Barath), as India having millions of cardiac patents, Millions of aged
elderly people, millions of infants/ young children due to millions of new
marriages, are getting affected due to indiscriminate use of crackers, which
certainly disturbing/ deteriorate the harmony/ health of the vicinity of the population
in every territory; All leading to loss
of productivity of the country, developments activities will effect due to loss
of millions of man-hours, due to loss of
millions of life’s directly and indirectly due to non regulation of Fire
crackers manufacturing, also unregulated indiscriminate use of fireworks by the
individuals; All these draw backs can be contained by regulating the
manufacture and use of Fire crackers.
1)
Mandatory
that government formulate standard
designs of fire crackers, with quantities of materials and type of
chemicals use, and the amount of heat generated, smoke generate, the amount of
decibels of sound generated, the length and breadth of trajectory in case of
fire crackers that goes vertical or horizontal etc, and classification of the
fire crackers / grading of the fire crackers, and based on the grades, the use
of fire cracker locations / territories can be specified; also based on the
classification/ grading the age limit for use of the types of fire crackers
should be fixed.
2)
Also
government set the limits for emissions of pollutant gases on account of fire
crackers by improving R&D, like the vehicles emission, and every
manufacturer must adopt the standards by up grading the use of less pollutant
chemicals in the fire crackers.
3)
All
the manufactures must get licence only by paying fixed deposit in the
government, and all the manufacturing units should be in located in isolated
locations with all safety measures in place, also all the workers working in
the manufacturing of the fire crackers must be
register with government, to prevent under aged employed in the
manufacturing of fire crackers; also standard uniform pay for all the employees
engaged in the fire crackers manufacture, with uniform working conditions,
uniform work output to pay, across the country.
4)
All
the staff/ employees engaged in manufacture and distribution, sale of fire
crackers must get training from National Civil Defence Collage – NCDC Nagpur,
in Civil Defence and Disaster Relief
Management, and every worker must have adequate knowledge of safety,
rescue operations in case of accidents, and every worker must become a
volunteer in case of any accidents.; in addition all the apartments, gated
communities, RWA security staff must be mandatory get trained in Civil Defence
and Disaster Relief Management so that
causalities can be minimized to a great extent in the occurrence of any
unfortunate accidents. Also all students aged above 18 years must get basic
training in future in Civil Defence and Disaster Relief Management.
5)
All
the manufacturing of fire crackers under CC cameras, all the fire crackers must
be packed with bar coding in each pack; in addition all loading, un-loading of material in boxes
under cc cameras with bar-coding of the boxes, and tracking the destination of
boxes of crackers; all fire crackers should be sold in boxes and not loose; All
the boxes should be made of recyclable (mandatory to return by the buyer along with security deposit for the
Plastic box, non return of the box may lead to not only losing the security
deposit for the box, but also fine of certain amount; this measure is necessary
to reduce the use of paper carton boxes
to save water; also it is ideal to make use of alternative bio degradable
material i.e. other than paper like jute threads etc to make the fire crackers
to reduce the use of the papers in fire crackers.
6)
All
the workers working in cracker manufacturing should be given training in safety
/ precautions needed in manufacturing process, handling of the explosive,
flammable material, Also government must make standardisation of manufacturing
process and equipment, and all the manufacturing units must have standard
equipment, safety apparatus, all the workers/ staff involved in manufacture
distribution of the fire crackers need to be provided with special medical care
and periodic health checkups for ensuring they are not subjected to severe
occupational health disorders due to prolonged contact with the chemical
substances, ban on manufacture with bare hand, all the workers must wear safety
gears , masks, gloves, apron, shoes, etc.
7)
Fixing
the maximum percentage of wastage of raw material in the manufacturing process,
all the waste raw material / processes waste should be accounted for and given
back to the government explosives department for re use/ safe disposal of the
material.
8)
Also
sale of finished fire craters through government requisition by the individuals
who wish to procure, only through prior online requisition from government with
automatic permission number for fixed quantities after getting basic details of
the purchaser like AADHAAR number, voter id card number, address, contact
details, the place of use, the purpose of use, the person who uses them; all
the sale from the customers to retailers to distributers to manufactures should
be online real time data with government, and all sale must be mandatory quote
the online government permission for that quantities of purchase by that
individual in the online real time sale bill; this measure ensures complete accountability
of sale of items, also the retailers will adhere to sale within the time limit
of operation of sale, also all sale must be under CC camera; complete ban on
loose sale of the fire crackers/ ban on temporary outlets of fire crackers even
during the Deepavali festival season; geo mapping of the fire crackers
manufacturing units, retailers.
9)
Mandatory
that all use of fireworks/crackers display on any occasion other than Deepavali
festival should be only in large open sites with no habitations/ office establishments/
Godowns/ water bodies of any nature in the nearby vicinity (at least one
kilometre away from the vicinity of habitations), (in the separate designated
places by the government) that too only
on obtaining the prior approval from the government for display of fireworks,
and each firework display should be allowed only on making fixed amount
deposited in the government as a safety security deposit, and
the quantities of fireworks/crackers, type of crackers, should be restricted
based on the chemicals quantities, pollution emission (air and sound) by the
government, and any violation of the stipulated regulations or any accidents
occurred during that fireworks display,
then the individuals/ institutions has to forego the deposit in addition to being
liable for punishments for culpable homicide, and the deposited amount should
vary based on the quantities and types of fireworks displayed, also depending
up on the zone of the vicinity of the fireworks display.
10)
No
permission for fire crackers storage, use in the vicinity of hospitals, nursing
homes, old age homes, government welfare hostels, and in the vicinity of
petroleum products store like Fuel stations, LPG Gas Godowns, also within the
vicinity of fresh water bodies etc; with complete ban of use of firecrackers
within 500 mt radius of hospitals even during Deepavali by the residents in
that vicinity, with complete ban on use of sound generating bombs in the
residential habitations even during the Deepavali occasion.
11)
Complete
ban on fireworks use, display during the functions like birth days, weddings,
or any celebrations of political party victories, sports matches victories,
opening/ closing ceremonies of any events of what so ever nature (individual,
local, regional, national, international events) or any other event in the residential, commercial
establishments, on the roads, near the function halls, stadiums etc in all
public places, however they can display the fireworks in designated locations
as specified by the government which are far away from the habitations/
industrial zones after following the standard safety norms.
12)
Only
for Deepavali fire crackers can be
allowed to use at individual locations with stringent norms to ensure safety
precautions are followed by every household and every user, in addition only
such fireworks are allowed to use which do not contain explosive material/ that
do not generate sound, Also government must fix the limit of quantities of
fireworks/ crackers per house hold (not per person) sale & use during the
festival of lights; fireworks display should not be linked to the economic
status of the household, (which is otherwise prevailing at present, the more
the financial wealth of the household, the more the fireworks display, the more
the pollution they are causing, in addition making more risk of safety of the
people in the vicinity causing the poor to suffer for the luxury/so called ego
centric happiness of the elite); complete ban on sale & use of bombs/ sound
producing explosives/ fire crackers of any capacity/ intensity to individual/
commercial users for Deepavali, or any event, also ban on sale & use of
flower pots, rockets to individuals during Deepavali in the apartments, gated
communities, RWA; however only in city out skirts, designated places government
may allow the use of these kind of fire crackers including Bombs/ sound
generating crackers within the permissible limits of decibels, within the
permissible limit of trajectory of the rockets under separate licence/ permit
to use under the supervision of government safety experts by paying additional
fees.
13)
It
should be mandatory that all fireworks/ fire crackers purchase by individuals
in household/ institutions for what so ever occasion including Deepavali should
be through bank payment/ mobile wallet or by cash at designated locations (cash
payments should be 10% extra cost than normal cost); Also only one in a family
should be eligible to purchase the fire crackers per household on any occasion
including Deepavali per single location of display of fire crackers.
14)
All
the fireworks purchased should be displayed / exhausted only on the designated
date/occasion including Deepavali day;
the storage for fire crackers by the end users should not be more than 48
hours, i.e. the fire crackers should be allowed to procured by the end users
only 24 hours before the use (on any day use including Deepavali occasion,
since the items required are ordered online, and payments made online, the
customers can visit the designated nearest store to collect the packs, so that
sourcing one day before or on the day of Deepavali should not be an issue.); it
should be criminal office to sell/
procure any fire crackers without permission from government or well before the
designated due date (24 hours).
15)
Mandatory
that all the manufacturers, suppliers, sellers. Traders, consumers must provide
the daily inventory of quantities manufactured, the quantities sold, to whom
they sold (by providing sale only with government approved people in approved
quantities in approved method of sale) online real time.
16)
Complete
ban on storage, use of firecrackers by the individuals/ household/
organisations at their will and wish/ whims and fancies, only for Deepavali day
as a respect for tradition/ customs allowed to display fireworks symbolically
in limits, without storing/stocking them after Deepavali in the event of non
use/ surplus after use on Deepavali; the end users must return back the un-used
stock within 24 hours of the due date of usage permit; also it should be
mandatory to provide a default affidavit while getting the online permit to
purchase the firecrackers that the purchaser provide an online affidavit that
they will use them on the designated occasion and will mandatorily inform
government online regarding any leftover/ unused fire crackers within 24 hours
after the end of the designated date & time of use/permit. The online
return affidavit filed soon after the expiry of the designated date and time must
contain, quantities of purchased / procured by them are fully used / some stock
left with them, and in case the stock left with them inventory should be made
within 24 hours of the expiry of the designated date and time, and they should
return back the left over/ un used fire crackers in the plastic boxes to the
place/store where they procured.. and all the unused fireworks should get only
50% the value of the firework cost, as these fireworks are safely stored till
they are sold to others in future; There should be designated persons from the
sellers to collect the left over firecrackers from the purchasers in the
territories for certain amount of additional pay; In case of violation of this norm and store
the fire woks by the individuals in their household/ habitations irrespective
of quantities should attract heavy penalty; the penalty should be 10 times the
cost of the items procured/ purchased by the individuals, if the quantities are
beyond permitted limits should attract imprisonment; this measure ensures more
safety in use of the fireworks by the individual / institutional persons.
17)
Also it should be the responsibility of the
associations of apartments, gated communities, RWA in the cities/ towns and the
gram panchayats/ gram sabhas in the villages to report to the government for
any violations done by the households in that territory by holding the stock of
the fire crackers or display of the fire crackers after the designated dates,
or use of fire crackers by the minors without parents/ elders or minors using
non permitted fire crackers; failure to inform the government for violation by
members of the associations/ residents in that territory should lead to equally
liable for punishments for wilful act of encouraging violation of the law, also
in case of occurrence of any accident due to non preventing of display of
fireworks by its members/residents other than designated permitted days, then
the association management must be liable for culpable homicide charges; This
measure further ensure proper storage of the fireworks by the seller, and use
of the fireworks as was allowed by the law on the designated dates and
permitted fireworks, will drastically reduce the risk of accidents at the users end get
reduced drastically.
18)
Also
in case the religious festivals uses the fire crackers as tradition, only
symbolically minute or miniscule non explosive fire crackers can be permitted
to use, however such use should under the supervision of a government fireworks
safety authority, local police, and under/by Civil Defence and Disaster
Relief Management trained persons presence with video recording
of such display, also all such places should have emergency medical
facilitates, also fire dowsing mechanisms such as water tankers etc in place,
and such traditions allowed should be charged heavily from the visitors of the
religious place and also from the religious
trusts, the amounts collected should be heavy, per individual visitor
1000 Rs and per religious trust per single day Rs 10 Lakhs (when for darshan of
religious temples the payments are several thousands in all major hill station
temples, then Rs 1000 charging per visitor who wish to enjoy the fire crackers
as a part of religious tradition must be prepared to pay, in addition if the
religious trust wish to celebrate the fireworks, they should pay a minimum
amount of Rs 10 Lakhs, from their collections); Also a written submission of
affidavit online by all the trustees of the religious trust that they follow
the regulations & norms and are personally liable for any accidents
occurred on account of flouting the stipulated norms; all the fireworks use/
display under multiple high CC cameras monitoring real time video streaming
online for public scrutiny, and all the permissions for fireworks display
should be made online 24 hours before the use/ display of the fireworks.
19)
Government
making age limits for use of different fire crackers and all fire crackers use
only under the supervision of parents in case of minor children, non bail able
punishments with heavy fine for parents for allowing the children to use the
fire crackers without parental supervision.
In case child uses the fire crackers beyond their permitted aged / type
of crackers or without supervising of parents, the child should be booked for
juvenile crime and should be sent to juvenile homes, and the parents should be
booked for culpable homicide. Complete ban on use of fireworks by the minor
children other than Deepavali day, even for Deepavali the minimum age for use
of fire crackers should be 10 years age or 5th standard onwards,
this measure further ensure safety in use of fireworks, risk of accidents get
reduced.
20)
Also
all the educational institutions and media must educate the students, people
few days prior to Deepavali regarding the permitted fireworks for the age
groups and also the beast standard ways and means to use the fireworks, with
standard safety measures and measure to take immediately in case of any
unfortunate event of fire accidents occurred during fireworks display in their
vicinity.
21)
Mandatory
to wear cotton dress (ideal specific types of dress codes for men, women
designs approved by the government which will ensure more safety, easy to get
rid of fire in case of accidents) by the people who wish to participate in the
fireworks, it should be mandatory that all those who display the fireworks
during Deepavali or on any occasion must wear the standard dress, in addition
all those who wish to stay within 10 mt radius of the fireworks must wear the
standard dress code; this measure certainly reduces the casualties in the event
of fire accidents on account of fire crackers. Failure to wear prescribed dress
made of cotton should attract penalty of Rs 10,000 per person; in case of any
accident occurs and the victims get burn injuries on account of wearing non
cotton dress, non-specified dress the persons should be fined for 50,000 Rs.
22)
Also
there should be mobile App to be downloaded by all sections of people,
mandatory for all associations of apartments, gated communities and RWA to use
the app to click the photographs of violations and the APP should automatically
get up loaded to the central server of government and then to the local
territory officials for necessary action based on the GPS position of the photo
clicking.
23)
Standard
uniform costs for all the fire crackers, and heavy one time environmental
pollution tax on all the crackers, the cost of crackers based on the quantities
of pollution it emits due to burning of the cracker.
24)
Also
government inspect the manufacturers, retailers, homes on random bases for
asserting whether they adhere to standards, the quantities and quartiles of
manufacturing, storage etc each house hold who are using the crackers, stored
it property, the stored quantities, and in case of violation of rules the head
of the family (earning member) must be liable for punishment of illegitimately storing
the dangerous substances at home/ establishment.
25)
Non
bail able criminal offence for sale and use of fire crackers in the banned
territories; Also stringent punishments for violations, in case of accidents
caused due to violation of use of fire crackers/ manufacturing/ selling/ use by
the individuals, the concerned violator not only faces the imprisonment, but
also in the event of death caused due to fireworks use illegally/ un authorised
by violating the standard norms, then the properties of the violator/ guardians
of the violator (in case of minor, for allowing the minor to use the fireworks)
should be confiscated by the government and government disposed off the
property and the amounts generated will be deposited in the government account
to provide compensation to the victim’s families.
26)
There
should be fixed compensation for all accident victims from the government
throughout India, for the accidents victims on account of fire crackers, are
compensated from the corpus fund, and all the treatment for the victims for
lifelong should be the responsibility of the government, all the education/
skill training for the children, un employed youth of the family of the
diseased, should be the responsibility of the government, in case un married
bread earner of the family lost life/ lost the capacity to do employment in all
such cases not only providing shelter,
also lifelong free ration and substantial monthly fixed amount should be paid
to the victim/ victims family, also free water and free electricity to a
certain minimum quantities should be provided to victims who lost life or
livelihood on account of fire accidents.; also government bear the minimum
standard expenses for the marriage of the un married daughters of the victims
of the fire accidents.
27)
Also
ideal that government designate specific open places in each block/Mandal for
display of fireworks for all occasions throughout the year.; Also government
must provide crackers on concession to be displayed at a mass fire cracker
display in a designated areas for the Deepavali occasion, to encourage citizens
to use mass display of fireworks government must provide 20% concession on cost the actual cost of the
fire crackers to be used by them at the mass fire crackers display in the
specific common designated place in the block / Mandal; and the entry for visitor should be nominal
charges for those who wish to just be a spectator to the display of fireworks;
This measure will of of great use for all those who are living within in the
restricted firecrackers display zone i.e. living within 500 mt of hospitals, to
enjoy Deepavali in the mass display ground; also this measure will be of great
facility for all those who are living in apartments, gated communities with
limited scope for display of fire crackers due to restrictions of use due to
limited space, can enjoy a lot in the mass display of fireworks; this measure
reduces the use of fireworks at the individual household in the urban areas,
especially in the apartments/ high rise buildings and also in the slums where
the space is a constraint, thus reduced pollution, in addition that people
symbolically light the traditional oil lamps at home during the festive
occasions following religious customs and then they visit the common designated
place for participation in the common fireworks display. This measure will be
huge success as many children, youth love to enjoy the spectacular fireworks
display for hours together of different varieties, at the same time many other
vendors selling eateries, sweets, some arties etc will get increased; also this
measure may develop permanent visitors/ permanent business for firecrackers as
well other business like eateries,
articles etc as there are marriage/ birthday occasions comes throughout
the year and some or other people every day do display some or other quantities
of fire work display; this measure may become some tourist attraction in some
places near to tourist destinations. Government should construct several sizes
of permanent structures, in addition the provision for multi cuisine
traditional foods for celebrating birthday functions / marriages in these
places so that many will celebrate the functions there only. This measure also provides
substantial employment directly and indirectly. Ideal that government run electric operated/
CNG / metro rail connectivity for mass
transport to these destinations in the block/ Mandal, with mandatory condition
that people who wish to use the facilitates/ visit must use the multi mode
transport, with entry to these designated exclusive fireworks display/ function
place through reading of bar coded tickets of multimode mass transport, else
pay more for entry, so that people will
avail the facility, in addition reduce the vehicular pollution drastically, as
in this vicinity already pollution caused due to fireworks display, so that the
reduction in vehicular pollution will certainly balance the pollution levels in
the vicinity to a tolerable limits.
Also government
must ensure that fire department is having trained manpower with equipment in
the safe disposal of unused explosives of various types and capacitates, and
trained latest equipment and technologies, and all such trained persons must be
made available in all mandal’s,/ in such locations which enables the fire /
explosive disposal experts reach the site within the shortest possible time
like 108, medical ambulances; also all
the mandals/ designated places of fire / explosive disposal teams (ideally should be located in the police
stations) must have equipment, which enable safe explosions within the limited
covered bags that contains the intensity of heat, shock generated from the
blast within that covered box, so that it marginalises the intensity of
accidents, as some explosives is highly risky to carry from the place of
explosives, for safe disposal in isolated locations, all such cases specialised
equipment is necessary to dispose off the explosives in the location where they
were found, safely.; also all the mandals /blocks have fire extinguisher
equipment water tankers that source the water from the semi treated semi sewage
water (i.e. water collected from the wash basins, bath rooms) in the nearby
vicinity storage of such waters to save
fresh waters. Also it should be
mandatory that all house hold, apartments, gated communities, RWA, industries,
commercial establishments must possess the fire extinguishers in various
capacitates, and provide training for all citizens to use the fire
extinguishers, also government conduct periodic audit for the functioning of
the fire extinguishers in every household/ associations of apartment buildings,
gated communities, RWA, industrial / commercial units.
Also government
must make it mandatory that all government and private hospitals and nursing homes must admit, treat free of
cost the patents related to any accidents, especially the fire accidents, also
it should be made mandatory that 50% of the experts in the burn injuries or
neurological and bone experts from the neighbouring districts/ across the
country should be made available within few hours after any unfortunate
incidents of accidents occurred in any remote place of INDIA where the
casualties are more/ mass destruction/ major accident happens. This measure
ensure better, quicker treatment and recovery of the accident victims due to
specialists in that particular field based on the type of the accident,
especially the fire accidents, and certainly reduce the number of causalities.
Also complete
cordoning if the accident site soon after the accidents, complete ban on
visitors t the accidents any other persons other than the rescue and relief team
members irrespective of their designation in the government or political and
public life in the country, to ensure no hampering of any relief and rescue
operations till the rescue and relief operations are fully over; also complete
ban on relatives of the victims visiting the accident site or hospitals,
including all persons in the government with any designation, all persons in
political and public life, only after due first-aid and once the condition of
victim patents get stabilised the relatives should be allowed to visit the
hospital, this measure is necessary to reduce the risk of infections for the
injured patents, also to reduce the undue pressure due to emotional outburst of
the patents relatives on the doctors, medical staff who are treating the
patents. Also complete ban on coverage
of the media the victims in the hospitals, also complete ban of airing the so
called sound bites/ interviews of the victims families / survivors till the
rescue operations are over and till treatment of the patents are taken care at
least one week; Also only one media channel should be allowed to cover the
accident site that too only from distance and not within the cordoned area.
Also it should be
made mandatory that the military/ air force, civil aviation helicopters, flights
operate and accommodate the expert doctors and medical staff from the far away
locations to ferry them to the designated location of the accident site/
hospitals where the patients are placed; also all the ambulances operated in
the district by the government and 80% of the ambulances of private hospitals must
be under the duty of ferrying of the accident victims in case of accidents
occurred in that district by default.
The above measure
ensures safety in use of explosives, fireworks, reduces the occurrence of
accidents on account of explosives / fireworks thus saving lives and millions
of man-hours on account of preserving health of the people and saving precious
life’s of humans and animals, environment, National Security, thus enabling
occurrence of more productivity, sustained development and inclusive growth in
the country.
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JAI HIND
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