Illegal hoardings raise hackles of corporators

Engineers from advertisement department were pulled up the corporators at the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) meeting on Monday, for not bringing down illegal hoardings and flexes in City.

Following allegation by Yediyur Corporator N R Ramesh about the presence of more than 21,000 illegal hoardings across eight Palike zones, corporators demanded Palike Commissioner M Lakshminarayana and Mayor N Shanthakumari to suspend Assistant Commissioner, Advertisement, Manjunatha Swamy for failing to get hoardings removed.

Swamy, however, said there are just 1,017 illegal hoardings as per the reports available with him. Commissioner Lakshminarayana said that a meeting would be held and  list of all unauthorised hoardings of zones published on the website.

The mayor directed the commissioner to conduct an inquiry through Technical Vigilance Committee under Commissioner (TVCC) regarding de-silting works carried out by Palike engineers and place the report in the next meeting.

While Shanthalanagar Ward corporator, K Shivakumar pointed that due to negligent attitude of Chief Engineer for SWD, HC Ananth Swamy, Magrath Road drain work has still not been completed; corporator from Neelasandra Ward, Lokesh Nayak, complained about the overflowing of drain water from SWD in his locality. Ananth Swamy said work at Magrath Road would be completed by March next year.
 
Lakhsminarayana elucidated on SWD improvement works including drain work at Anepalya and building the retaining wall of SWD at Vrishabhavathi Valley  under Rs50 crore fund allotted by chief minister, recently.