The Dhaka City Corporation on Thursday night conducted a drive to remove illegal hoardings at different spots of the city.
The DCC's chief waste management officer, Bipan Kumar Saha, on Friday confirmed that six hoardings were removed from different spots of the corporation's zones 4, 5 and 6.
The corporation's executive magistrate Khalil Ahmed said they would continue to conduct drives against illegal and dangerous hoardings Thursday nights in the city.
The magistrate said, in this drive, they targeted Aziz Groups' hoarding on Radhuni Gura Mashla at Shapla Chattar, Lizan Mehedi's two hoardings at Khejurbagan and the Dainik Bangla crossing, Seven Horses Cement's hoarding besides at Paribagh, Unipoll's two hoardings at Farmgate foot over bridge and beside Nilkhet police station, Sumona Gani Trade Centre's hoarding at the Hotel Shonargaon crossing, and Rahimafroz company's hoarding at Fakirapool crossing.
'We targeted the hoardings, especially, for three reasons — they have no proper permission, stand over high-voltage electric wire and are prone to break down on people during storm,' Khalil Ahmed added.
The sources also said the removal work of the hoarding of Seven Horses Cement at Paribagh was left half-done and the hoardings at Farmgate footbridge and Fakirapool crossing could not be carried due to time constraint.
They would be removed in the next drive, they added.
The magistrate said about 70 workers and officials of the corporation and two police platoons took part in the drive.
He also confirmed that the drive was conducted from 10:30pm on Thursday to 4:00am on Friday.
Khalil Ahmed said the corporation had not disclosed which hoardings were to be removed.
According to a DCC statistics, currently, the city has about 3,000 hoardings.
The Section 5 of the DCC outdoor advertising policy says that no advertising board can be installed, on a wall or the roof of any building or on a DCC-owned land or structure, without prior permission of the corporation.
Source: New Age
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