After the state administration decided to inform the High Court that it has withdrawn a law that was hastily passed last year, commercial hoardings won’t return to Bengaluru. The advertisement for the Brihat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP)
Earlier this month, the Urban Development department wrote to the Karnataka Advocate General outlining the government’s position against hoardings, which had previously defaced public places and resulted in a longstanding prohibition.
The Advocate General is anticipated to make this disclosure at the hearing scheduled for this week in court, where a petition challenging the constitutionality of the advertisement laws that allowed for the display of the subsequently outlawed hoardings has been heard
The petitioner had asserted that the regulations were against several hoardings-related orders made by the High Court. The meeting in August 2021, which was presided over by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and attended by mini…Hoardings were prohibited because they are an eyesore and go against the BJP’s election platform, as well as MLAs. Bommai also revoked the notification that abolished the long-standing restriction on hoardings, which was issued on July 26, 2021.
The UDD refers to the meeting in August 2021, which was presided over by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and attended by ministers and MLAs, in which it was resolved not to allow hoardings because they are an eyesore and go against the BJP’s election strategy. This letter was seen by DH.
Some of these dangerous for drivers’ placards are frequently spotted in districts like RR Nagar, Yeshwanthpur, Govindarajanagar, and KR Puram, among others. The BBMP has not carried out its vow to search the factories that make these hoardings.
Political flexes are risky to delete, thus BBMP administrators have chosen to do so every day without imposing any penalties.
The chief engineers and joint commissioners have been instructed to take out flexes every day. According to BBMP Special Commissioner (Revenue) Deepak, the violators will be held financially responsible for the expense of removing the hoardings. ..
“As per the Rules, the violations can be imprisoned for a period of six months.”
