New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Sunday said states that have banned sale of firecrackers should compensate firecracker traders for the losses suffered by them due to the ban. CAIT in a statement demanded that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and chief ministers of other states should “compensate the firecracker traders for the losses they have accrued due to ban on sale of firecrackers”.
The traders’ body also termed the order of Delhi Pollution Control Committee dated November 6, 2020 which states that there will be a “complete ban” on bursting and sale of all kinds of fire crackers from November 7-30, 2020 in the territory of NCT of Delhi, as “null and void and a blatant violation of order of Supreme Court of India“.
In 2018, the Supreme Court had banned the use of polluting firecrackers and allowed the sale of “green firecrackers” in a bid to…