Mangalore City Corporation acts against illegal advertisment hoardings

Mangalore, 13 Jul 2012: Revenue authorities of Mangalore City Corporation led by joint commissioner K Srikanth Rao initiated a crackdown on illegal advertisement hoardings here on Thursday. The civic body staff used gas cutters to bring down unauthorised hoardings in Yeyyadi.

 

MCC commissioner K Harish Kumar said corporation would adopt zero tolerance to such development that mars city’s landscape.

 

To compound matters for those putting up hoardings in prominent locations in the city with an eye on deriving mileage from it, the civic body has decided to get them regularized and use it for government purposes. Harish Kumar told TOI that the city corporation has to spent big sums to remove such hoardings. "Instead, a better use of the same would be to regularise it and use it to display public utility messages including those on malaria," he added.

 

Incidentally, Harish Kumar on Monday had issued a press statement informing all concerned to remove illegal advertisement hoardings displayed on private and revenue lands, buildings, circles, junctions and those displayed on electricity poles.

 

The drive will specifically target advertisements that are displayed without the permission number issued by the city corporation.

 

DEADLINE FOR POSTERS

MCC has set July 31 deadline to all concerned to remove religious, political and cinema posters displayed on compound walls of private and government buildings. "People orowners of property who fail to meet this deadline will be booked under Karnataka Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1981. MCC officials are following up on a resolution adopted by the council of the corporation at its monthly meeting," he added.