Chairman of the advertisement ad hoc committee Neerja Jain inspects several locations where unipoles were installed illegally. Tribune Photos
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 15
Advertisement ad hoc committee chairman Neerja Jain has again raised the issue of illegal unipoles installed in the city. Mayor Jagdish Raja asked Joint Commissioner Harcharan Singh and superintendent of Advertisement Department Mandeep Singh to accompany Neerja to check unipoles.
Jain in a recently held meeting with the mayor had pointed out major flaws like dereliction of duty by staff members. She also talked about the contractor responsible for utter failure of the advertisement tender. Neerja Jain urged the mayor to find anomalies.
Jain in a statement issued to the media on Monday said during the inspection it was observed that all 33 unipoles that were installed at various locations were in violation of advertisement bylaws and policy formulated by the state government.
While highlighting some of the rules she mentioned that no unipole or hoarding can be installed within 30 meters i.e. 90-ft of any chowk, road intersection, but many unipoles were installed at intersections like PAP Chowk, Amardass Chowk etc.
She said the distance between two unipoles must be 75 meters i.e. 210 feet, but on many locations unipoles were installed parallel to each other with no distance in between thus violating bylaws.
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