Orissa High Court directs collectors to ban sale & use of manja thread  

The court docket additionally directed the involved Collectors to take a name on the ban of manja thread in Bhubaneswar & Cuttack through the Hockey World Cup 2023.

Cuttack: Orissa High Court at present directed the Cuttack district collector to impose a ban on the sale and use of manja (glass coated) thread. The court docket additionally requested the district administration to take stringent motion in opposition to those that both promote or use manja thread.

While conducting a listening to of two Public Interest Petitions (PILs), the High Court bench comprising Chief Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Murahari Sri Raman suggested Odisha authorities to provide you with a tenet on the preparation, sale and use of manja by April 3, 2023.

The court docket additionally directed the involved Collectors to take a name on the ban of manja thread in Bhubaneswar & Cuttack through the Hockey World Cup 2023.

There is a practice of flying kites through the Makar Sankranti in Odisha. However, many individuals use unsafe kites which trigger hurt to folks, animals and birds. Not solely this however there are additionally cases of individuals being killed after coming throughout the manja thread of the kites. Since then a number of PILs have been filed on the court docket over the ban of such unsafe kite threads.