the goan I network
PANAJI
It was a rare sunny and dry ‘Chovoth’ this year. Yet despite the conducive weather conditions the skies in Goa weren’t lit as bright with the sparkle of fireworks like in the past.
Traders and wholesalers attributed the subdued sale to lower spending power among the people owing to the mining crisis and salaries, unlike in previous years, being paid by the government at the end of the month.
Sales of fireworks have dipped by around 25 per-cent during this year’s Ganesh festivities and it is not the environment awareness but a cash crunch which has kept people away from celebratory fire-works. One wholesaler from Panaji opined that the discontinuation of mining activity could be the main reason for the decrease in sales of the fireworks.
The sale at his outlet in the heart of Panaji city has dropped by up to 25 percent as compared to last year, Pankar told The Goan.
Since Charturthi began in the midle of the month the salaried class, including government servants also were short of cash. Unlike in the past, the State government did not credit salaries in advance and people found it difficult to splurge their money on fireworks affecting their sales, said another trader from the Panaji Market. On immersion days, fireworks are lit all along the route of the procession carrying the Ganesh idol from the home right up to the immersion point on the banks of the water bodies.
Most of the people feel that their Ganesh chaturthi celebration is not complete if fire works are not burnt in substansial quantity.
Generally relatives and friends who go visiting homes for the festival gift fireworks to the youth in the families they visit.
People normally spend a substantial amount on fireworks, among other things, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Firecrackers are being lit on all the days of the festival and the firepower increases significantly on the immersion day. This is why sale of fire-crackers and other items rises on the second, fifth and other immersion days of immersion.
Suprisingly, this year the sale on these immersion days has not picked up the way it did in the past years, traders told The Goan.
Sparkels, Ground Chakkar, twinkling star, flower pots, baby rocket, Magic Pencil, ‘atom bombs’, snakes cartoons and comets are the different firework items with rates that go up to a thousand rupees per piece. the home right up to the immersion point on the banks of the water bodies.
Most of the people feel that their Ganesh chaturthi celebration is not complete if fire works are not burnt in substansial quantity.
Generally relatives and friends who go visiting homes for the festival gift fireworks to the youth in the families they visit.
People normally spend a substantial amount on fireworks, among other things, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Firecrackers are being lit on all the days of the festival and the firepower increases significantly on the immersion day. This is why sale of fire-crackers and other items rises on the second, fifth and other immersion days of immersion.
Suprisingly, this year the sale on these immersion days has not picked up the way it did in the past years, traders told The Goan.
Sparkels, Ground Chakkar, twinkling star, flower pots, baby rocket, Magic Pencil, ‘atom bombs’, snakes cartoons and comets are the different firework items with rates that go up to a thousand rupees per piece.
