{"id":328256,"date":"2020-11-02T05:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328256"},"modified":"2020-11-02T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:52:14","slug":"rajasthan-government-bans-sale-and-bursting-of-firecrackers-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-government-bans-sale-and-bursting-of-firecrackers-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan government bans sale and bursting of firecrackers in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-40-ias-officers-transferred\/ashok-gehlot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307308\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307308 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ashok-gehlot-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ashok-gehlot-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ashok-gehlot-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ashok-gehlot-556x420.jpg 556w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ashok-gehlot.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a>Rajasthan government on Monday decided to ban the sale and bursting of firecrackers in the state to protect COVID-19 patients and the public from the smoke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Informing about the decision taken by his government, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a tweet said, &#8220;State govt has taken the decision to ban the sale and bursting of firecrackers in order to protect health of #COVID19 infected patients &amp; public from poisonous smoke emanating due to fireworks.In this challenging corona pandemic time,protecting lives of ppl is paramount for govt.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Gehlot further said, &#8220;The poisonous smoke emanating from fireworks is a health hazard for #COVID19 patients as well as those suffering from heart ailments &amp; breathing problems. In such a situation, people should avoid fireworks during Diwali.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Instructions have been given to ban the temporary license for the sale of firecrackers and that fireworks should also be stopped during wedding &amp; other functions,&#8221; Gehlot added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan government on Monday decided to ban the sale and bursting of firecrackers in the state to protect COVID-19 patients and the public from the smoke. Informing about the decision taken by his government, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a tweet said, &#8220;State govt has taken the decision to ban the sale and bursting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[1578,9515,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328257,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328256\/revisions\/328257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}