We all know that the Telangana High Court ordered to ban the sale and use of fire cracker a day before the Diwali festival, which has caused trouble to several hundred traders who have set up temporary stalls for The Diwali Festival and stored crackers in advance. Now sellers get supreme court relief, as the court allows to sell and use it in two hours windows.
Without space to store crackers, if they can't sell all the stocks within two hours, they'll be on the road, they say. All their hopes of repairing losses during the lockdown are now in balance in those two hours.Uday, owner of Prabhu Crackers in Nallakunta, lamented, "The main problem is to store these crackers if they are not sold. They are punished by storing them at home, as they fall into the category of explosives. We don't know what to do with these crackers. Already, 50 per cent of the business has been affected by the Kovid-19 epidemic. The ban has put us in big losses," he said.
Since the business revenue is high by selling crackers, many have set up temporary stalls by going for finance options or mortgaged gold jewellery. Each owner has bought at least 4 lakh stock from Rs 50,000 to Rs 75,000 for the establishment of stalls. The rent of the stalls is another huge cost. "I took money from a friend to set up the stall. Suddenly, they announced the ban and now I don't know how I'm going to repay him," says Nihal, adding that he hopes that cracker sales will help him pay off the debts he had made during the lockdown.
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The Supreme Court amended the Telangana High Court order to ban the sale and use of crackers