New Delhi, April 3 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all NCR states to create the machinery for effectively implementing the firecracker ban, and ensure that preventive as well as coercive steps are taken against violators.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan asked the NCR states to file affidavits regarding the machinery they propose to set up for effective implementation of the firecracker ban.

The top court remarked that the report submitted by the Union of India states that if green crackers are burst, the emission is 30 per cent less than the conventional firecrackers.

Unless it is shown that the pollution caused by the "so-called Green crackers" is a bare minimum, there is no question of giving them a relaxat...