MANGALURU: Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), which has the responsibility to check the use of flex banners and hoardings, itself has violated the rules. Despite the ban, the MCC has placed a huge flex hoarding right in front of its office.Paradoxically, the flex hoarding lauds the city's achievement for bagging "Best City Under Solid Waste Management in India 2018" award under the Swachh Survekshan 2018. Recently, the Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat was also in the soup after using flex banners for the promotion of Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018.The hoarding put up by the MCC thanks Mangaloreans for making "Mangaluru City stand first in quality of life (in India) and 48th in the world in 2018". It highlights other achievements of the city that bagged various other awards like "Open Defecation Free City 2018" and "Best Practices in Utilisation of Waste Water" with pictures.Gayathri Nayak, MCC deputy commissioner (revenue), told STOI that she will take necessary action. "It was not brought to my notice before installing the hoarding. I will check with other departments to see who put up flex board there and will take action," she said.TOI had highlighted similar instances where gram panchayats used flex banners to promote Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018 campaign. When Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat placed flex banners in front of gram panchayat offices to promote Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018, villagers brought it to the notice of social activists and questioned the logic of using it for the cleanliness campaign.Now facing the heat is MCC, which was recently in the news after the transfer of an officer in its revenue section who carried out drive against flex hoardings in the city.

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