The RMC has intensified its campaign to remove illegal hoardings from the capital. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has asked the president of municipal’s Town Planning and Building Permission department Jasbeer Singh Dhillon and Town Planner Sandeep Bagde to rid the city from illegal hoardings in one week. She asked Bagde to regularly review the progress of drive against illegal hoardings besides monitoring it.
Nayak further instructed Bagde to ensure that the advertising agencies may not erect any hoarding without getting registered with the municipal. In addition, she said that the advertising agencies should also display their registration numbers and validity period on the hoardings.
The RMC is also posing stern face against the illegal hoarding being erected on the rooftops. The officials have been asked to blacken the illegal hoardings erected over the rooftops, serve notices to the advertising agencies to quickly remove the hoardings and caution the house owners who provide space for hoardings to the agencies on rental basis without RMC permission.
Nayak has made it apparent that the municipal would not tolerate any negligence towards the security of the people. “The areas having large hoardings at the rooftops are more prone to accident, especially during the bad weather conditions. The RMC will ensure to remove all these hoardings at the earliest,” she said.
Notably, the RMC’s new hoarding policy has come into effect from April 1, 2010. The Town Planning and Building Permission department has warned the agencies that they would have to pay heavy fine against erection of illegal billboards in the city. In addition, the illegal hoarding owners would have to pay the annual rent apart from deposition of double the amount of the display fee.
On Friday, the RMC removed several illegal hoardings, banners and posters pitched indiscriminately at roadsides as well as on trees and electric poles in different parts of the city.
The municipal officials admit that the illegal hoardings, banners and posters at roadsides cause inconvenience to the commuters.
The advertisers and the people who put up banners, hoardings illegally or stick handouts on electric poles without municipal’s permission not only violate the civic law but also obstruct city beautification works, the officials said.
They further said that the advertising agencies, different political parties and social organisations lack civic sense owing to which they pitch posters and banners and erect hoardings in city disregarding municipal warnings during some event or programmes, but never remove such publicity materials.
The areas where hoardings, banners and posters were removed on Friday were – Vivekanand Nagar, Pension Bada, near Vivekanand Complex, near Kalimata temple, near Dr Ambedkar hospital, Fafadih chowk, near Ashoka Tower chowk and Lodhipara chowk.
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