We often hear and read that many hoardings or the banners fallen during cyclones or heavy winds, which sometimes caused severe damages. In the previous year I.e., 2019 September, we have seen a traumatic incident in Chennai where a 23year old girl was seen dead due to the illegal roadside banner. On basing those situations the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad passed a new go restricting the height of the banners.
What is GHMC ?
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is the civic body that oversees Hyderabad, the capital and largest city of Telangana. It is the local government for the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Its geographical area covers most of the urban development agency the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA)
Such type of Municipal Corporations are created for the administration of big cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, etc,. They function through four main organs namely council, mayor, standing committees and commissioner.
GHMC co-ordinates with various other government organisations like HMDA,HMR,HMW & TSRTC, Hyderabad Traffic Police, etc. for delivering basic urban services. It conducts many works like Building and maintenance of roads, streets and flyovers; street lighting; maintenance of parks, open spaces, city sanitation works; registering births and deaths are all conducted by GHMC.
GHMC is headed by a Municipal commissioner, an IAS officer. It is responsible for administration and providing basic infrastructure to the city.
The New GO :-
Hoardings are the common things we always see in any city or town. There are many companies and employees involved in this sector. Hoardings are nothing but advertisement. These days advertising is the good sector to develop one’s own business.
Hyderabad being a very big city, it is the scope for many companies to advertise and promote their products. In every turn of the city we can find a banner advertising some or the other product. We see hoardings at an extreme height. We can find many hoardings placed on three storied and four or more storied buildings.
During natural calamity times like cyclones and storms, we see many trees, electric poles and hoardings falling down. Trees are something that cannot be restricted, electric poles are mostly placed in places far away to residentials. But hoardings are something being placed upon high buildings, which causes damages during storm and cyclones by falling down. There are many incidents occurred due to this reason. Many times the fallen banners have blocked the road, there are also many situations where the broken hoardings have fallen on electric poles and interrupted the electric supply to the citizens.
On basing these situations, the GHMC passed a new GO 68 which stated that the height of the hoardings is restricted to 15feet. As soon as lockdown phase ends the GHMC wants all the hoardings above 15 feet to be removed and the banners coming further shall be only in the height of 15feet.
By passing this new go, the GHMC expects to reduce the number of incidents and damages to be caused by hoardings. One of the person from the GHMC says
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Author: D Sravya Reddy,
Ifim Law School, 1st year / student
