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The arterial NSC Bose Road, wherever the pedestrian abstraction has already been encroached upon by vehicles, hawkers and shops, faces a caller occupation — amerciable banners.
The banners person been installed close astatine the entranceway of the Madras High Court and crossed the road, reducing the already constricted roadworthy abstraction for pedestrians.
A cardinal commercialized stretch, the NSC Bose Road successful George Town houses the Madras High Court, Deputy Commissioner of Police office, respective nationalist assemblage banks, and shops. It is besides an integrated transport hub, featuring the Broadway Bus Terminus and a metro station.
Advocate R. Sudha Ramalingam, said a ample fig of immense vinyl banners had been enactment up connected the NSC Bose Road margins by candidates for the upcoming Tamil Nadu-Puducherry Bar Council election. She said these oversized flex banners had been installed connected bladed woody logs and tied to electrical poles oregon the store signboards, abutting the main road, posing information hazards to motorists.
She besides complained that alternatively of protecting the law, advocates were flouting it with impunity.
The advocator has filed a ailment with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) done the online portal.
S. Umapathy, a slope employee, said that though the GCC had paved a footpath, pedestrians were incapable to usage it due to the fact that of encroachment by hawkers, forcing them to locomotion connected the constrictive road.
One of the banners had fallen owed to beardown winds connected Thursday evening, but it has not yet been removed. Officials from the Revenue and Finance Department and the Works Department of the Greater Chennai Corporation, who were not alert of the issue, said they would cheque whether support was sought for erecting the banners, and region it successful lawsuit they were illegal. “A committee was formed by the GCC to cheque connected problems related to amerciable banners; it volition reappraisal this too,” an authoritative said.
A GCC authoritative said the banner that fell whitethorn not person been authorised by the GCC oregon the Collectorate, and whitethorn person been erected illegally utilizing governmental influence, akin to galore different banners, which is simply a unsafe trend. Deputy Mayor M. Magesh Kumaar besides said the GCC officials would region the banners if they were recovered to beryllium illegal.
