Prance Macabre
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Hoardings
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Aila forces ban on metal billboards - Bigger hoardings suffer more damage
Cyclone Aila has forced the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) to draw up new safety norms for billboards, which include a ban on sheet metal hoardings. Over 1,000 billboards were destroyed by the wind and found hanging precariously from buildings and gantries across the city. The sheet metal roofs of several bus shelters were also blown off.
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Courting trouble
Supreme Court orders worry Mumbai residents Mobile hoarding vans that advertise brands, bollywood films, saas-bahu serials among other products will remain on Mumbai roads, said a September 4 Supreme Court order. The same day, the court ordered redevelopment of dilapidated buildings built before 1940. These orders overruled Bombay High Court
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Twin trouble
Faced with growing congestion in the city, a doctor in Mumbai filed a petition in the high court. The petition was against mobile hoarding vans parked along the roads. The court upheld the petition and banned the vans citing reasons of safety and traffic congestion. The high court also cracked its whip on the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, which it claimed had failed to check the growth
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EPCA report on Delhi outdoor advertising policy
The Honorable Supreme Court in its order dated 27.4.2007 directed EPCA to examine and file its opinion on the Outdoor Advertisement Policy prepared by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Further in its directions of 25.4.2008 the Hon
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EPCA report on the outdoor advertisement policy of the MCD as applicable also to the area under the NDMC
The Honorable Supreme Court in its order dated 27.4.2007 directed EPCA to examine and file its opinion on the Outdoor Advertisement Policy prepared by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. EPCA has held consultations with different city agencies concerned with the policy, as well as heard the representation of different groups who have direct involvement in the matter.
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Glaring aberrations
Glow signs using diesel gensets at bus stops have increased in Delhi. So has the pollution
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SANE RULING
The Supreme Court has ordered the removal of "all hoarding by roadsides' in the capital which it said were hazardous and a disturbance to traffic. In its earlier court order, the court had directed
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Green code
APPEARANCE is definitely more important than substance, or so our advertisers believe. They have adopted a 'green code' which determines the aesthetics of outdoor advertising. For instance,