Prathap Simha submits memorandum to MCC Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif
Mysore/Mysuru: Former Mysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha has urged the Mysuru Metropolis Company (MCC) to right away take away unauthorised flex boards and commercial banners put up throughout town, significantly these pasted over signboards, identify boards and signages.
Simha met MCC Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif at his workplace on New Sayyaji Rao Street this morning and submitted a memorandum together with photographic proof, exhibiting flex, banners fully masking metropolis info and information signboards.
Simha warned that if the MCC fails to clear such unlawful installations and forestall their recurrence, he can be compelled to provoke authorized action against the Civic Physique.
The previous MP stated, a number of signboards meant to supply instructions, visitors updates and important civic info have been defaced by flex boards. These unauthorised banners, scale back visibility, create confusion amongst motorists and pedestrians and pose a threat to public security.
Responding to the illustration, Commissioner Asif stated, the MCC has already launched a drive to take away unlawful flex boards and guaranteed that stringent action can be taken to stop the menace from resurfacing.
In his memorandum, Simha additionally acknowledged that the indiscriminate erection of flex boards has broken Mysuru’s aesthetic attraction. “4 years in the past, such unauthorised flexes have been absent in Mysuru. Their current proliferation is harming town’s picture and have to be curbed instantly,” he stated.
Authorized action warned
He urged the Commissioner to direct officers to take away all flex boards affixed to info and information signboards, conduct common inspections to stop violations and provoke authorized proceedings against people and organisations accountable for unauthorised installations.
Simha additional referred to as upon the MCC to register instances underneath the Karnataka Open Locations (Disfigurement Prevention) Act, 1981 and guarantee swift elimination of the banners. Failure to behave, he warned, would drive him and different civic activists to maneuver the Courtroom against the Company.
Later, chatting with reporters, Simha confused that sustaining civic order and preserving Mysuru’s aesthetic attraction are very important for public security, clean visitors motion and town’s popularity as a heritage and clear vacation spot.
“Vacationers coming to Mysuru are seeing solely ugly flexes on info boards and are expressing anger on the metropolis being lowered to a dustbin. In 2011, the MCC Council handed a decision banning flex banners, however it was not enforced,” he stated.
Challenge notices to all political parties
When reporters identified that political parties and candidates are sometimes accountable for placing up such banners, Simha stated, strict action ought to be taken irrespective of occasion affiliation.
“Penalise political parties, together with the BJP, Congress and the JD(S), in the event that they or their followers set up flex banners. Challenge notices to them. I’ve advised the Commissioner to not spare even me. Solely stringent action will cease political leaders from encouraging the set up of flex, banners,” he added.
Former Corporators J.S. Jagadeesh, Sriram and Sathish, Yadavagiri Residents’ Welfare Affiliation President S.Ok. Dinesh, Chamaraja Constituency BJP President Dinesh Gowda, BJP chief Umesh and others have been current with former MP Prathap Simha.
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