Revenue and Disaster Management Minister K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran on Tuesday told the Assembly that inexperienced workers, increased production and poor handling of finished products are the causes for fire accidents in cracker factories.
Responding to a special calling attention motion in the Assembly on the accident in a firecracker unit in Ariyalur, he said once crackers were manufactured only in Sivakasai, but now almost all the districts have cracker manufacturing units. Of the 1,482 units, 1,085 are in Virudhunagar district.
“Experienced workers from Sivakasi are being employed in firecracker units in other districts to train others. When manufacturing is not done in a proper manner, it results in an accident,” he explained.
