No plan to ban firecrackers: Environment minister Choubey tells Lok Sabha

Says SC had only come down on conventional fireworks, but had allowed green crackers that release fewer emissions

The union government has no plan to ban firecrackers, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey told the Parliament on Monday.

“There is no proposal to ban firecrackers,” the minister said in Lok Sabha.

He added the Supreme Court had come down on the manufacturing and sale of conventional fireworks, but had allowed 'green' crackers whose particukate emissions were at least 30 per cent lower than conventional ones.

Green firecrackers are based on a new and improved formulation, and are designed to relaase fewer emissions than conventional ones, not only of particulate matter and but