In a bizarre order, the Bihar government has fixed cooking timings in rural areas to avoid incidents of accidental fire. The government's disaster management department's advisory issued on Monday said that people need to cook either before 9 AM or after 6 PM.
The department said that cooking fire often leads to major fire outbreaks in villages. According to the advisory those violating the order will also be prosecuted under the law. Even puja and havan cannot be conducted during the daytime.
Defending the order, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Prem Chand Gupta said, "It is done to control the fire. This is for the good of the people. The main question is fire needs to be controlled from spreading."
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy hit out at the Bihar government for even trying to tell the people when to conduct puja and havan. He said, "Is Nitish Kumar trying to hint something else by this? By saying that you cannot do puja after a certain time, is it trying to control a large community?"
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