Anything worthwhile in these so far ? <| sep |> probably spoofers like all mystic players <| sep |> He forgot to unleash the dragon . <| sep |> With the ban , you redeploy cops one day a year , only in urban areas . They spot crackers super easily they fine a few people and everyone else gets scared . Not true . Ban would create a black market . You would need a lot more than a few to stop that . With regulation you build up a new department , create new jobs , pay new people for 1 year to do 2 days worth of work and hope the money earned in those 2 years . Not every regulation needs a new department to be created . You can just redeploy police for that one day . Plus since you got a budget from tax money , you could use that to raise awareness about the regulations . You also need an enforcement team I assume of comparable size to the team in case 1 so that people don ' t simply sidestep the law , they need to track smugglers , dealers , and need to proactively work in an investigatory capacity as well , which may require more specialized manpower . The costs here may well be much higher since finding crackers in boxes is much harder than crackers that are being burst . Regulation doesn ' t mean only 1 type of cracker are allowed and not others . It could also come in form of designated areas for bursting crackers . All for literally a few days to a week of real work . Over time firecrackers will go out of style , and this will become yet another useless government department . In the time it takes the department to grow and form , firecracker revenue will be falling , there is little hope whatsoever for this department to ever break even over time . People will then ask why the fuck do we have a firecracker enforcement department ? Similar to how we wonder why the fuck we have a Salt Commissioner of India . Did the delhi govt needed a whole new dept . to implement the oddeven policy ? No . There is no need to set up a whole dept for this one activity . Municipal corporation can handle the designated places and police can oversee that other than designated places people are not bursting crackers . I totally agree with you that overtime crackers would go out of style , and when that happen that would be because of market and not because someone made it happen by force .