Summary:
WBPCB has handed more than nearly 1,200 modern sound-measuring gadgets with advanced technology to the police for keeping tab on the sound limit of crackers or loudspeakers. The gadgets will be attached with a printer, which will enable the police to issue challans related to violation of permissible sound limit immediately to the violator. "The awareness campaign has been strengthened with less than a fortnight to go before Kali Puja," the minister said. Forty-eight cracker manufacturing units are registered with the Board and 33 of these are located in South 24-Parganas. "We have instructed the police to identify illegal cracker manufacturing units and take action as per law," Mahapatra said..