By: M4G Bureau
Last updated : December 05, 2017 6:53 pm
The court stated that existing site owners that they can continue to operate till their license expires
The bench reportedly noted that the IRC has formulated a comprehensive policy through the guidelines on roadside advertisement and these were being followed by the ministry. The bench said, " What is applicable to national highways necessarily has to be applied to state highways as well. Therefore, there cannot be any difference in terms of applicability of the policy”.
On existing hoardings in the state, the bench said there was no difficulty in permitting existing advertisers to go on with their advertisements till expiry of licenses issued to them.