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The caller postulation umbrellas installed by a Hyderabad-based advertizing steadfast astatine 86 postulation junctions successful Mangaluru are neither of usage to the Mangaluru Traffic policemen successful manning traffic, nor to Mangaluru City Corporation successful getting further advertisement revenue.
Except for a fewer junctions, the postulation policemen are forced to beryllium connected the roadworthy to antheral the postulation and they seldom get accidental to beryllium successful the umbrella. “In the lack of strategy for policemen to power postulation signals from the umbrella, policemen person to beryllium connected the roadworthy to antheral the traffic,” said a metropolis constabulary serviceman progressive successful postulation management.
For a little period, astatine immoderate junctions, postulation policemen beryllium nether the postulation umbrella to instrumentality remainder for fewer minutes earlier resuming duty.
The postulation umbrellas are astatine junctions wherever metropolis postulation policemen are seldom posted for manning traffic. It includes junctions namely City Hospital, Mallikatte, Shivabagh, Marnamikatte, Morgans Gate, Koti Chennayya, Mangaladevi, Clock Tower, Ballalbagh, S.P. Circle, Car Street T-Junction, Badriya School, Navbharath Circle, Padil, Gorigudde, Arkula, Volachil, Kotekar Beeri, Thokkottu Overbridge, Kannur Junction and Vamanjoor Junction.
Most of the postulation umbrellas, which person a fixed revolving seat and a table, are gathering dust. The postulation umbrella astatine Karangalpady junction, which is adjoining autorickshaw park, has not lone gathered dust, but discarded is besides recovered wrong it.
It was successful September 2021 that the past Mangaluru Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar permitted Hyderabad-based Sri Balaji Ads to acceptable up, escaped of cost, postulation umbrellas astatine 86 locations for a play of 9 years from 2021. The steadfast was asked to instrumentality anterior support of MCC for mounting up the postulation umbrellas. The steadfast was permitted to show their 5’X5’ advertisement connected each 4 sides of the apical of each umbrella for the play and it was besides asked to support the structures.
It is lone precocious that these umbrellas were installed. Only a fistful of postulation umbrellas person advertisements.
The MCC officials said these caller postulation umbrellas volition assistance the corp get further advertisement revenue. Strangely, the MCC is not mapping the advertisement abstraction connected postulation umbrellas successful the process motorboat of app for booking and renewal of advertisement hoarding licenses.
Owner of a well-known advertisement agency, who did not privation to beryllium named, said it was unusual that an advertisement bureau from different State has been allowed, against norms, to marque usage of advertisement abstraction for 9 years. “In different parts of the State, elected representatives person not allowed installation of these umbrellas,” helium said.
In a property league held recently, Mangaluru City South MLA D. Vedavyasa Kamath had expressed his absorption to Government’s determination to inquire an advertisement bureau to instal postulation umbrellas and let it to marque usage of advertisement abstraction for a agelong period.
