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The Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services (TNFRS) Department has granted No Objection Certificates (NOCs) to 6,630 impermanent firecracker shops crossed the State for the upcoming Deepavali festival.
Applicants who person obtained NOCs indispensable inactive unafraid commercialized licences from the District Revenue Officer (DRO) successful their respective districts oregon from the Commissioner of Police successful cities earlier commencing operations, officials clarified.
A elder TNFRS authoritative said the section had received 9,549 applications for impermanent cracker shops this year. Among these, 6,630 were approved, 2,499 were nether process, and 401 were rejected arsenic of Friday. Last year, the section received implicit 10,000 applications and issued 6,585 NOCs crossed the State.
In the bluish region, which includes Chennai, 1,036 applications person been received truthful far, of which 416 person been cleared and 600 are pending. “These volition beryllium processed soon,” the serviceman said.
According to the TNFRS guidelines, a store cannot run solely based connected an NOC and a valid constabulary licence is besides mandatory. The fireworks indispensable beryllium stored lone successful non-flammable, enclosed, and unafraid sheds to forestall unauthorised access. Each shed indispensable beryllium located astatine slightest 3 metres isolated and 50 metres distant from immoderate protected structure, and they should not look each other.
The usage of lipid lamps, state lamps, oregon unfastened flames successful oregon adjacent the sheds is strictly prohibited. Only fixed electrical lighting attached to walls oregon ceilings is permitted, with switches mounted firmly and a maestro power provided for each enactment of shops.
The section besides warned that storing oregon selling fireworks successful wedding halls, commercialized complexes, oregon residential buildings is not allowed. If imported oregon Chinese-made crackers are recovered successful their stock, the NOC volition beryllium instantly cancelled, and ineligible enactment volition beryllium taken against the licence-holder, it added.
