Operation Flex! – Star of Mysore

In a midnight drive, Metropolis Company removes unlawful hoardings, flex boards and banners

Mysore/Mysuru: As half of efforts to revive Mysuru’s heritage character and strengthen its bid for the ‘Cleanest Metropolis’ tag in Swachh Survekshan 2025-2026, the Mysuru Metropolis Company (MCC) launched a midnight drive yesterday to take away unlawful flex boards and banners put up throughout the town.

Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy had earlier directed officers to clear all unauthorised flexes, banners and hoardings.

Performing on the orders, MCC groups eliminated banners from a number of areas, together with the Outer Ring Street at Shaktinagar, Devegowda Circle at Yaraganahalli on Bannur Street and areas close to Kukkarahalli Lake, amongst others.

Chatting with Star of Mysore this morning, the Deputy Commissioner stated the MCC Commissioner had been instructed to make sure the elimination of all unlawful banners and flexes throughout the town.

Permission should

In his order, the DC made it obligatory for organisations, establishments and members of the general public to acquire prior permission from the respective native physique earlier than erecting  any banner or flex.

Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy warned that violators would face motion beneath the Karnataka Open Locations (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1981, as amended in 2020, which offers for a high-quality of as much as Rs. 1,000, imprisonment of as much as six months, or each.

As well as, Sections 133 and 136 of the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964, prohibit the show of unauthorised ads and empower native our bodies to take away them.

Officers clarified that banners and flexes could also be displayed solely after securing due permission and strictly for the interval specified. They should be eliminated as soon as the permitted length expires, failing which authorized motion will observe.

Mysuru Metropolis Company Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif advised Star of Mysore that the elimination drive has begun in earnest and expressed confidence that the town would quickly be cleared of unauthorised banners and flexes.