Agency takes up hoarding issue with Corpn.

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MARCH 31. An out-door advertising company has ``taken up'' the matter of removal of its hoardings with the Chennai Corporation after some of the billboards were removed as part of a civic body drive. ``We do not have a single unauthorised hoarding,'' the agency claimed.

The Corporation drive is in accordance with an order of the Madras High Court, which upheld Section 326-J of the MCMC Act and said that all hoardings visible to traffic could be removed.

The agency, Seven Star enterprises, said: ``Our hoardings have been removed not because they are unauthorised but because of the High Court judgment and according to the Chennai Corporation they attract Sec.326-J of the Act dealing with visibility to traffic.''

The hoarding near Chennai Central was put up with ``due permission from the Collector of Chennai'' but the Corporation as per the new Act had not granted permission, based on the Court judgment. The agency said that it had paid advertisement tax for its hoardings till March 31.

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