Newly-merged villages get PMC deadline for hoardings

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) Sky and Sign Department has decided to take action on illegal hoardings in newly-merged villages in its limits. 

The Sky and Sign Department has issued notification stating anyone wanting to put up hoardings in these 11 villages will have to take permission from PMC. 

While speaking to Sakal Times, Vijay Dahibhate, Head of Sky and Sign Department, said, “We have issued a notification to regularise hoardings in 11 merged villages. We had appealed the same earlier also but got a very poor response. Now, we have issued a second public notice to make people aware of taking permission from the corporation. We have also mentioned in the notice that if the hoardings owner or company do not take permission within up to June 30, we will take action on the hoarding and bring it down.”

According to the corporation statistics, there are more than 300 hoardings in merged villages -- which roughly translates to more than Rs 1 crore in revenue per annum. 

In February 2017, the State government took a decision to merge Lohegaon, Shivne-Uttamnagar, Shivane, Mundhwa Hadapsar-Sade Satara Nali, Ambegaon Khurd, Undri, Dhayari, Ambegaon Budruk, Uruli Devachi and Fursungi into PMC limits.