PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation removed illegal banners and posters put up along Sinhagad Road areas. A majority of them were put up ahead of a ground-breaking ceremony of a proposed flyover. Activists raised objections against the banners saying that they were defacing the area.
PMC officials said as many as 126 such unauthorised publicity material was removed from poles, footpaths and road dividers.
“These publicity materials were put up without permissions. The civic administration will file criminal offences against repeated offenders. The civic body conducted the drive in association with the sky-sign department, local ward office and anti-encroachment department,” Madhav Jagtap, head of PMC’s anti-encroachment department, said.
The PMC had started drives against illegal publicity materials in August. The actions had stopped due to the pandemic and after a backlash of an anti-encroachment drive near Ambil Odha.
The drive has been carried out at some of the 11 merged villages too. Illegal constructions spread over 50,000 sqft were razed across civic areas. The civic administration plans to expand the drive in the recently merged 23 villages.
