NMC to take down hoardings in 15 days, withdraws tender
Nagpur: The
Nagpur Municipal Corporation
(NMC) on Thursday assured it will remove all
advertisement banners
erected under a now-withdrawn tender within 15 days and fully adhere to the revised 2022 advertising rules going forward.In an affidavit filed before the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court in response to PIL (No54/2024) filed by Citizen Forum for Equality through counsel Tushar Mandlekar, NMC stated that its commissioner decided to cancel the questioned tender process.
The civic body also confirmed that all hoardings installed under that tender will be dismantled within the stipulated period.The HC, on April 1, held that the NMC's reliance on Rule 29 of Corporation's earlier
Outdoor Advertisement Policy
of 2001 was misplaced. It directed that civic body's e-tendering for hoardings must conform to
Maharashtra Municipal Corporation
(Regulation & Control of the Display of Skysigns & Advertisements) Rules, 2022, not the outdated policy invoked earlier.
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