Since from the last one and a half month the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has removed more than 9,000 illegal hoardings and covered 7,000 wall defacements which carried politicians' names.
There are many government departments who are working for the ideal implementation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). License department from the BMC is one of them. On the very first day after the code of conduct, BMC official pulled down 1,500 illegal hoardings, posters, banners from private and public places on March 10. In the last one month, BMC has removed 8,657 unauthorized hoarding in public properties and 350 in private properties.
Among the 24 wards, Goregaon (P/South) ward saw the most hoardings removed at 1,126, followed by Dahisar (R/North) at 714. Among private properties, Mulund (T ward) topped the chart with 205. As per the code of conduct, the BMC has to cover every public sign that bears the name of political leaders. BMC has covered 7,399 signs in public places in one month which have politicians name on them. Of these, 1,105 removed from the Byculla, the most than any other area.
The BMC has filed police complaints in 44 cases of illegal hoardings.
Once an illegal hoarding is located, the BMC is supposed to take action against the offender under the Maharashtra Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1995. A letter is sent to the police station concerned and the police then file an FIR. "Even the concerned people know the seriousness of the model code of conduct, so the number of offenders has decreased," said an officer from the BMC.
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- BMC has removed more than 9,000 illegal hoardings and covered 7,000 wall defacements which carried politicians’ names
- Official pulled down 1,500 illegal hoardings, posters, banners from private and public places on March 10
