Will report, shut down establishments with unlawful hoardings, Hisar MC cautions

The municipal corporation of Hisar has chosen to file a First Information Report (FIR) and close the office of the institution that is showing the unlawful hoardings due to the prevalence of hoardings and posters around the city.

MC Commissioner Pradeep Dahiya gave harsh instructions today to anybody found guilty of posting posters or erecting hoardings at a meeting with representatives of civic bodies.

Vandalism against the town will not be permitted. The MC teams have been instructed to monitor the offenders. Action would be taken in accordance with the law under the Haryana Prevention of Defacement of Property Act if any posters or hoardings are discovered on green belts, bus line shelters, public restrooms, or any other unauthorized location, he said.

Sources claim that the MC recently carried out a similar campaign in which it ordered organizations and people to take down any hoardings or signs that had been erected in areas of the town without permission.

Although some organizations and/or people followed the instructions, some fifty hoardings relating to sports were found to have remained. These were taken out and confiscated by us. We will henceforth penalize such institutions/individuals before returning the hoardings to whomever asks the MC authorities to do so, an official said.

Political parties as well as institutions were putting up posters and hoardings across the town, according to Trilok Bansal, an activist with the NGO Hamara Pyar Hisar.