Thrissur: Soundless digital fireworks which were held for the first time on Thekkinkkad Maidan, the venue of Thrissur pooram fireworks, attracted a good response on Saturday night.
In the digital fire-show, the electronic method is followed instead of using gunpowder to ignite the fireworks.
The 15-minute-long show, accompanied by music, was an attempt by the State government, District Administration and Tourism Department to introduce this mode of fireworks which is widely accepted as being accident-free and causing no sound pollution.
Thousands of people who had gathered near CMS school in the Maidan and on Swaraj Round at 9.45 p.m, after the pulikkali fest ended, were delighted to witness the digital show using ‘Chinese boxes’ which exploded without causing sound pollution.
“It was a new experience for firework buffs who had seen only high decibel dynamite and ‘gundus’ that shook the entire town causing sound and air pollution. And the debris used to fall all over the town after fireworks for Thrissur pooram,” V K Venkitachalam of Heritage Animal Task Force, which had taken a stringent stand against the conduct of traditional fireworks by violating safety rules, told DC.
The digital fire-show had courted controversy after the firm in Athani which allegedly did not have tax registration and licence to store fireworks got the contract from the District Administration to conduct the show.
