Stop irregularities in ad hoardings: Corporators
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Cutting across party lines, corporators on Thursday asked GHMC officials to either stop irregularities in advertisement hoardings or make “Greater Hyderabad a hoarding-free city”, on the lines of Chennai. The twin issues of illegal hoardings and non-functioning streetlights rocked the GHMC general body meeting on Thursday.
Hafeezpet corporator V. Jagadeeshwar Goud said cases of chain snatchings, murder attempts, and sexual harassments are on the rise in and around Hitec city and Hafeezpet areas due to lack of proper street-lighting. Former deputy mayor Jaffar Hussain Meiraj of MIM said if GHMC officials cannot check corruption in the advertising section and break the nexus between some unscrupulous staff members and representatives of advertising agencies, which is leading to losses worth crores for the corporation, it is better to either regularise all unauthorised hoardings to raise revenues or remove them all.
Mr Hussain said there are more than 5,000 illegal hoardings in Hyderabad, though official records show less than 2,500. A couple of private agencies, he pointed out, collected more than Rs 40 crore in advertisement tax on neon and glow signboards on shops but have not paid the amount to GHMC. The mayor directed the GHMC commissioner to submit a detailed report on the status of legitimate and unauthorised hoardings to the Standing Committee for taking a final decision.
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