Problems Faced By The Firework Industries In Manufacturing Of Green Crakcers - A Study With Special Reference To Virudhunagar District

Abstract

The religious festivals like Diwali, Ganesh chaturthi, Dusshera, Durga puja are celebrated with a lot of fanfare. These festivals are characterised by mega festivities with high value gifting, spending enormous money on loud and bright fireworks. Pollution has been one of the biggest side effects of these celebrations with fireworks being one of the major contributors. Crackers and fireworks are found to be the chief sources of air pollution during Diwali festival. Consumers enjoy fireworks and often use them as means to display their wealth and happiness during festivals. At the other side, it is a position of environmental pollution. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute instructed to manufacture green crackers. Green crackers has less chemical composition. Its smog level is low. Many fireworks industries started to produce green crackers. They faced lot of problems in manufacturing green crackers. In Virudhunagar district, crackers are manufactured only in Sivakasi. In other taluks, whole sale and retail sales of crackers take place. In India, as per National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) report 2022-2023, 1085 fireworks have registered for manufacturing green crackers out of which 90 per cent of the units are located in and around Sivakasi. Hence, 1085 units are considered as population units for fireworks manufacturers. The population is fed into Yamunae formula and samples size determined is 292 at 95 per cent level of significance. Hence, Census survey method has been used. The present study focused focuses on the problems faced by the manufacturers of green crackers.