The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Ban sought on erection of digitally printed banners

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Ban sought on erection of digitally printed banners

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has ordered notice to civic authorities on a public interest litigation petition to ban erection of digitally printed banners on pavements and road margins.

The First Bench comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice Chitra Venkataraman ordered the notice, and posted the matter to June for further proceedings.

In his petition, K.R. Ramaswamy of Chennai submitted that indiscriminate erection of small and big digitally printed hoardings all over Chennai caused obstruction to pedestrians as well as vehicular movement. The civic bodies are deprived of their revenue as the mandatory rubber stamp for wall posters is not insisted upon the case of these banners, he said. While tax is collected for each and every wall poster and for even unobtrusive shamiana, the digitally printed banners alone are escaping the burden. He said major traffic junctions and other conspicuous places like the banks of Cooum river at Chintadripet and Egmore, had got crowded with huge digitally printed banners. He prayed for the immediate removal of all hazardous banners erected by political and communal groups, endangering the lives of people.

Mr. Ramaswamy urged the court to direct the respondent authorities to ban such banners and regulate them in Chennai as well as other parts of the State by collecting revenue as per the provisions of the City Municipal Corporation Act.

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