The Times of India 01.12.2010
NMC to file criminal offence for pasting pamplets, ads on public property
NAGPUR: Citizens should, now, think twice before pasting advertisements, pamphlets and other advertising material on Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) property like traffic signals, electricity polls, road dividers, walls etc. The NMC health department has directed its civic cops to register criminal offences against those pasting posters, pamphlets or found defacing the public property.
The NMC health department had recently registered such offences under Prevention of Defacement of Property Ordinance-1995 at Sadar police station against three persons including Pankah Behre, Rahul Urkande and Ashok Waghmare for illegally pasting pamphlets on NMC property. Such cases will be registered against the violators in Ambazari and Pratap Nagar police station where most of the NMC properties have been defaced by the citizens for their vested interests.
NMC health officer (sanitation) Dr Milind Ganvir informed that advertisements and pamphlets—inviting interested parties to work from home, attend spoken English classes, take home tuitions etc—have been pasted on most of the garbage bins, road dividers, traffic signals in Laxmi Nagar, Bajaj Nagar, Pratap Nagar, Shankar Nagar, Rahate Colony and Civil Lines areas spoiling the beauty of these areas and cause damage to the NMC property. “Hence forth anyone found pasting such material on public property will not only be fined but criminal cases will be registered against him”, he warned.
The NMC health department had recently registered such offences under Prevention of Defacement of Property Ordinance-1995 at Sadar police station against three persons including Pankah Behre, Rahul Urkande and Ashok Waghmare for illegally pasting pamphlets on NMC property. Such cases will be registered against the violators in Ambazari and Pratap Nagar police station where most of the NMC properties have been defaced by the citizens for their vested interests.
NMC health officer (sanitation) Dr Milind Ganvir informed that advertisements and pamphlets—inviting interested parties to work from home, attend spoken English classes, take home tuitions etc—have been pasted on most of the garbage bins, road dividers, traffic signals in Laxmi Nagar, Bajaj Nagar, Pratap Nagar, Shankar Nagar, Rahate Colony and Civil Lines areas spoiling the beauty of these areas and cause damage to the NMC property. “Hence forth anyone found pasting such material on public property will not only be fined but criminal cases will be registered against him”, he warned.
