Firecracker industry suffers as Covid lockdown restricts movement, orders

Sivakasi accounts for nearly 90 per cent of the country's firecracker production. Around 1,070 firecracker units, mostly medium and small scale, are located in the district

T E Narasimhan | Chennai
Last Updated at September 7, 2020 13:20 IST

With only four more months remaining for Diwali, by now advance booking for fireworks would have been going on in full swing.

The upcoming Diwali festival is expected to be a dark one for the firecrackers industry at Sivakasi as nearly 30 per cent of the production is already down and new orders are being rarely placed. The recent order by the Supreme Court for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the use of barium nitrate in the manufacturing of firecrackers added more pressure.

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