diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 83249e1..d25ec9c 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ asgiref==3.8.1
     # via django
 async-timeout==4.0.3
     # via redis
-backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1
+backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1 ; python_version < "3.9"
     # via
+    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   celery
     #   kombu
 billiard==4.2.0
diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index 575cfa1..900d76c 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ Django<3.3
 # This file contains all common constraints for edx-repos
 -c common_constraints.txt
 
-# # breaking changes in CLI and dropped support for python3.5 in celery 5.0
-# celery<6.0.0
+# backports-zoneinfo comes by-default in newer versions of python
+# it gives error while building wheel with python>=3.9
+backports.zoneinfo ; python_version < "3.9"
diff --git a/requirements/production.txt b/requirements/production.txt
index 22e5d15..5105632 100644
--- a/requirements/production.txt
+++ b/requirements/production.txt
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ async-timeout==4.0.3
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   redis
-backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1
+backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1 ; python_version < "3.9"
     # via
+    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   celery
     #   kombu
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index 5b1a130..5ace49c 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ async-timeout==4.0.3
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   redis
-backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1
+backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1 ; python_version < "3.9"
     # via
+    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   celery
     #   kombu