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“Assistant town planning officers have been empowered to file cases against those who nail advertising boards on trees. Coimbatore: Though the city corporation and several NGOs have been regularly conducting drives to remove advertisement boards nailed to trees, they seem to crop up perennially. But, the corporation has done nothing ,” he said.Prasanna Kumar of Lead India Foundation said the organisation had been conducting several drives to remove advertising boards from trees. Trees provide free spaces for advertising, so many exploit them,” he told TOI.“The city corporation had announced that it will impose a fine on those who nailed advertisements on trees. Several big trees in the city’s main areas sport advertisement placards nailed or tied to them.A journey along roads in prominent areas such as Saibaba Colony and RS Puram showed several trees attached with advertisement boards..