Aurangabad corporators demand immediate steps to root out illegal media

Even as municipal bodies in different cities across the country are initiating stringent action against those putting up unauthorised and illegal media on the streets, corporators in Maharashtra’s city of Aurangabad had demanded that the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation must take immediate steps to root out all illegal banners and hoardings that dot the city landscape. A Times of India report stated that the corporators attending the civic body’s Standing Committee meeting urged the chairman Gajanand Bharwal to retender the civic body’s owned advertising space in order to encourage and promote authorised media and thereby open up ad tax revenue flows to the civic body.

It was in the absence of takers for tendered advertising space that unauthorised media had mushroomed across the city.