Gurugram, Nov. 5 -- The district administration in Gurugram will deploy monitoring teams to check the sale and bursting of illegal firecrackers during the temporary relaxation granted by the Supreme Court for Diwali, deputy commissioner Uttam Singh said on Wednesday, warning that the complete ban on firecrackers will return November 9.

The court has permitted the bursting of only certified green firecrackers on November 7 and 8, between 6am and 7am and from 8pm to 10pm.

Singh said licences of eligible traders had been temporarily restored from November 4 to 6 to facilitate the sale of green crackers approved by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI).

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