The Hindu 20.08.2014
Coimbatore Corporation removes hoarding
Civic body also cut and dismantled the support structures
Coimbatore Corporation staff removing a hoarding at the SITRA Junction,
near airport, on Avinashi Road on Tuesday.— PHOTO: S. SIVA SARAVANAN
Officials from the Town Planning wing of the Coimbatore
Corporation on Tuesday removed five hoardings and support structures
near the Coimbatore Airport and one place in the East Zone.
According
to sources, following orders from Commissioner G. Latha, the officials
dismantled and removed four hoardings — two atop buildings and two on
the group at the Airport Junction on Avinashi Road.
Another hoarding was atop a building near Varadharaja Mills.
They
said that the people involved in the job not only removed the hoardings
but also cut the metal frames so as to prevent further advertisements
being put up on the illegal structures.
The civic
body was forced to take such drastic action because the people who had
erected illegal structures would renew advertisements within days of the
Corporation removing them from the place.
In this case, the Corporation had given the illegal advertisers due notice and sufficient time to remove the structures.
Those involved did not respond and so the civic body chose to go ahead and remove the hoardings and support structures.
The
Corporation started the action against illegal hoardings sometime last
week by removing two hoardings and support structures on Dr. Nanjappa
Road. And, it was the first time that the Corporation cut open the metal
frames.
The sources said that the Corporation had estimated that there were more than 200 hoardings that ought to be removed.
Corporation
was forced to take drastic action because those who had erected illegal
structures would replace advertisements within days of the civic body
removing them.