Only 800 unipoles in Ghaziabad are legal

  • | Monday | 14th January, 2019

GHAZIABAD: Only 800 unipoles in Ghaziabad have been put up as per legal provisions while the rest are all illegal, the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation has informed the district administration. The list also mentions the locations at which the unipoles have been erected,” municipal commissioner Chandra Prakash Singh told TOI.The municipal corporation has simultaneously begun a drive to dismantle unauthorised unipoles, banners and hoardings. The drive was also important in the city because the administration has been cleaning and sanitising the city as part of Swachh Survekshan, 2019.“We have submitted the complete list of nearly 800 legal unipoles installed in the city to the administration. I had been threatened with life after filing a PIL in the matter in the high court. Though there was a police complaint along with clear CCTV footages of the incident, police did not take any cognizance of the matter,” said federation president Alok Kumar.

GHAZIABAD: Only 800 unipoles in Ghaziabad have been put up as per legal provisions while the rest are all illegal, the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation has informed the district administration. The administration had sought this information from the civic body ahead of a drive to dismantle unauthorised hoardings, banners and unipoles to make the city skyline clean.The drive was undertaken following a unipole collapse on Meerut Road on January 3 in which three persons in an SUV had a close shave even as the vehicle was damaged apart from an autorickshaw. The drive was also important in the city because the administration has been cleaning and sanitising the city as part of Swachh Survekshan, 2019.“We have submitted the complete list of nearly 800 legal unipoles installed in the city to the administration. The list also mentions the locations at which the unipoles have been erected,” municipal commissioner Chandra Prakash Singh told TOI.The municipal corporation has simultaneously begun a drive to dismantle unauthorised unipoles, banners and hoardings. Officials said the drive is being undertaken periodically in the same manner as anti-encroachment drives are launched against roadside hawkers and vendors.The Federation of Apartment Owners Association of Ghaziabad had filed a PIL in Allahabad high court in 2014 against the menace of illegal hoardings and banners that obfuscate road signages and impede smooth vehicular movement.On the basis of the high court’s directions, the municipal corporation had formed a set of bylaws for unipoles and hoardings.“There is a mafia that controls illegal unipoles and hoardings in the city. It has strong connections. I had been threatened with life after filing a PIL in the matter in the high court. Though there was a police complaint along with clear CCTV footages of the incident, police did not take any cognizance of the matter,” said federation president Alok Kumar.

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