In its ongoing thrust against unauthorised show of banners, boards and posters crossed the city, the BMC has written to officials and representatives of governmental parties, societal organisations and businesses calling them to each region billboards and banners which person been installed without permission.
On Thursday, the civic assemblage said that strict enactment is being initiated against those who are displaying banners, boards, posters without support successful nationalist places. The civic assemblage said that show of governmental arsenic good arsenic non-political advertisement boards are lone permitted successful the abstraction allotted by the BMC. These permitted pockets see 1,017 boards, 2,311 autobus stops and 32,531 kiosks.
In airy of the directives from the High Court, the BMC has prohibited show of immoderate hoarding, banner and poster on swathes and footpaths successful the metropolis without the anterior support of the civic authority. The BMC is empowered to instrumentality ineligible enactment against the proviso of the ‘Maharashtra Prevention of Defacement of Property Act-1995’ arsenic good arsenic sections of the Mumbai Municipal Act 1888.
Despite the eviction drive, show of unauthorised hoardings stay rampant successful the metropolis prompting the civic assemblage to present constitute letters to the governmental parties, societal organisations, businesses etc. DMC (Special), Chanda Jadhav connected Thursday said that the enactment has been initiated arsenic per HC orders. In its letter, the BMC has appealed to violators to guarantee nary billboards, banners and posters are displayed without permissions. DMC (Special) conducted a gathering with officials crossed the 24 wards, instructing them to initiate a strict eviction thrust against the unlicensed hoardings.
The BMC has appealed citizens to emblem immoderate unauthorised boards connected the toll-free fig 1916.
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