Dandiya raas and garba event organisers will now have to ensure that stalls offering food there are fire compliant. In addition, they will not only need to give a written declaration saying their venue is fire compliant, they will also have to get a no-objection certificate from fire officials. With hardly a week left for Navratri to begin, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) also wants mandals to seek permissions for pandals online, as it was done during Ganeshotsav.

The approvals and rejections will be given after seeing whether mandals have followed the orders of the High Court. The orders include that no mandal should encroach footpaths and disturb pedestrians right to walk. Apart from pandals being fire compliant, they should also ensure that traffic is not obstructed because of a pandal on the road.