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The deceased were among the 7 people hired by the contractor to erect an advertisement hoarding for a private company on the Salem-Cochin bypass road.
For the past several years, illegal hoardings had been repeatedly put up at a corner site near Sai Nidhi Hotel, Sector 5, Airoli-Mulund Bridge Highway. The AAP Airoli team noticed it and brought it to the notice of NMMC.
Activists opined that illegal hoardings block motorists' vision and could lead to fatal accidents but the authorities have paid no heed. If anyone else attempts to take them down, it could spark a bog fight since the banners are usually put up by influential local leaders.
We received over 100 complaints out of which only a tenth of them were acted upon by BMC officials. This is worrisome. It is high time the top brass in the municipality exercised authority and read out the riot act to the defaulting officers.
Municipal corporations removed 27,206 hoardings in the state and collected a fine of Rs 7.23 crore in a special drive conducted in the state on August 3 & 4 as against merely 1,693 hoardings were removed in the city over a period of 10 days, the Bombay High Court was informed on Monday.