The Indian Express recently visited the Nungi wholesale market in South 24 Parganas districts to talk to firecracker manufactures and sellers. However, only three manufactures in the Nungi area have obtained licence from the district administration to make firecrackers but most of them were unwilling to talk to the newspapers
The decision came in the backdrop of discontent brewing among fireworks traders after the government brought in several curbs following explosions in two illegal factories in East Midnapore's Egra and North 24-Parganas's Duttapukur