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‎Mãnjhã- related hazards

Pdewan at 14:42, 10 August 2017

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[[Kite flying: Pakistan]]

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	The deaths were reported from Rajkot, Morbi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara city, Khambhat, Mehsana, Surat, Bharuch and Banaskantha. The 108 ambulance service also received 35 calls about Uttarayan-related accidents in two days. In Rajkot, a person was crushed under the train when he ran on the tracks to catch a kite. A 45-year-old person died after falling off the terrace while flying kites while a 14-year-old was electrocuted while trying to remove the kite stuck in a wire.		The deaths were reported from Rajkot, Morbi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara city, Khambhat, Mehsana, Surat, Bharuch and Banaskantha. The 108 ambulance service also received 35 calls about Uttarayan-related accidents in two days. In Rajkot, a person was crushed under the train when he ran on the tracks to catch a kite. A 45-year-old person died after falling off the terrace while flying kites while a 14-year-old was electrocuted while trying to remove the kite stuck in a wire.
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		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F08%2F31&entity=Ar01106&sk=82F2C2EC&mode=text August 31, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: Mãnjhã- related accidents in 2019, Delhi.jpg\|Mãnjhã- related accidents in 2019/ Delhi <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F08%2F31&entity=Ar01106&sk=82F2C2EC&mode=text August 31, 2019: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	At the colourful shop stacked with paper kites and thread spools in the Walled City’s Lal Kuan, 13-year old Mohammad Irfan demands ‘pakka manjha’. “Saddi is used by kids,” the teenager, himself a kid, says of the regular cotton thread. “You need stronger material to win in patangbazi.” He doesn’t seem to know — or perhaps asks for it fully knowing — that it’s now over two years since the National Green Tribunal banned the use of Chinese manjha, the synthetic thread coated with glass and abrasives.
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		+	Competitive kite-flying in Old Delhi soars in the weeks leading to Independence Day. Manjha is essential for the objective of cutting the strings of rival kite-flyers. But both NGT and Delhi government have prohibited the sale and use of Chinese manjha. Many shops, accordingly, have begun to stock treated cotton thread, but as the injury to a motorcyclist in Shahdara on Thursday showed, there still is a demand for the banned nylon stuff that sellers are quietly fulfilling for customers.
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		+	At Lal Kuan, the hub of the capital’s kite wholesale trade, Rahul Kumar, a third generation kite and thread seller, reveals that during the off season only a dozen kite shops operate, but over 50 shops come up in the kite-flying season. “The business is actually dying,” sighed Kumar. “I am perhaps the last generation in this business. Kids now play PUBG instead of flying kites.” It is perhaps to make the most of the season that leads unscrupulous sellers to meet the demand for Chinese manjha.
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		+	Chinese manjha is not actually manufactured in China, but in the neighbouring state. A seller explained that the epithet was impressionistic of the low price of this variety of kite string. Traditional cotton threads 5,000 metres long cost around Rs 1,000, but the so-called Chinese version is priced at just Rs 250-300.
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		+	Difficult to find for the casual buyer perhaps, but for an ardent air dueller there are sellers ready to bend the law. The trade has gone underground after repeated raids by police and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, but shops can direct insistent buyers to the handful of stores that still stock the prohibited item. On July 29, a raid on one such store unearthed a big volume of Chinese manjha, leading to the arrest of the shop owner. Over 28 cases of this sort have been registered this year, most in outer Delhi.
		+	Wary of the law, one Lal Kuan seller declared, “I won’t sell something that can cost someone his life though there are some who do oblige customers they know.” Others, given the negative publicity around the razor sharp string, even refused to acknowledge its existence in the area.
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		+	The dangers of using the glass-coated manjha are underlined by frequent news about two-wheeler riders, animals and birds being lacerated by the string. Sunil Jain, honorary secretary of Shri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir Charity Bird Hospital in Chandni Chowk, said on Friday alone the hospital got 40 birds injured by the insidious kite string. In August, over 1,000 birds were treated for cuts. “We find pieces of glass and manjha threads stuck in the wings or wrapped around the neck of the birds,” Jain said.
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		+	Thursday’s injury to the motorcyclist in east Delhi has provoked Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goyal into directing Delhi’s chief secretary, Vijay Kumar Dev, to get to the bottom of the continuing defiance of the ban by kite stores.
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 Earlier in December, the green panel had imposed an interim nationwide ban on the use of glass-coated manjha, citing that it posed a threat to the environment. The bench had said the ban would apply to nylon, Chinese and cotton manjha coated with glass and had directed the Manja Association of India to submit a report to CPCB on its harmful effects.
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 Earlier in December, the green panel had imposed an interim nationwide ban on the use of glass-coated manjha, citing that it posed a threat to the environment. The bench had said the ban would apply to nylon, Chinese and cotton manjha coated with glass and had directed the Manja Association of India to submit a report to CPCB on its harmful effects.
 =See also=
 [[Kite flying: Pakistan]]