A committee will be constituted to check illegal hoardings in the city, said BBMP Commissioner M Lakshminarayana on Wednesday.
At
the monthly BBMP Council meeting, he said, “The committee will submit
its report by the next Council meeting.” He said the Advertisement
Department lacks discipline and agencies put up the hoarding without
notifying BBMP.
“We need to monitor the safety aspect of the
hoardings and check if they violate advertisement bylaws. I will prepare
guidelines on issuing permission for new hoardings and the same will be
circulated among officials,” he said.
Nagapura Councillor S
Harish said the BBMP collects only Rs 20 crore as advertisement tax
annually while it targets Rs 150 crore.
“The BBMP has not been
able to take down over 2,000 illegal hoardings in the city. The official
figure (1,997) of hoardings in Bangalore is incorrect,” he remarked.
Harish claimed that K R Puram has 20 illegal hoardings along a one kilometre stretch.
Ruling
party leader Nagaraju suggested the Commissioner to write a letter to
BESCOM that it should not supply power to the illegal hoardings.
Chamarajpet Councillor B V Ganesh told the Commissioner to remove
illegal hoardings. Harish again pointed that these advertisement
agencies pay tax to Railways on time.
