Don’t use pillars as notice boards, MMRDA official appeals
Metro Line 6 pillars at Powai bereft of posters on Tuesday. Pic/Sameer Markande
In the wake of a mid-day report highlighting the presence of illegal posters on pillars of the under-construction Metro Line 6 near the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) in Powai, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has swung into action.
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“We have removed stickers and posters that were illegally pasted on pillars of Metro Line 6 near IIT-B. We would like to appeal to the people to avoid pasting any kind of posters or stickers on the pillars of the under-construction line,” said an MMRDA official, requesting anonymity. The Metro line will connect Swami Samarth Nagar at Lokhandwala Complex in Andheri West to Vikhroli.
On June 6, in the report: ‘Posters emerge on Metro 6 now, as babus turn a blind eye’, this reporter noted how nearly two weeks had gone by since mid-day, on May 23, red-flagged the pasting of political posters on pillars of Metro Lines 7 (Andheri to Dahisar) and 2A (Dahisar to DN Nagar), which is a violation of the Metro Railways Act. Ostensibly encouraged by the authorities overlooking the illegal deed, political workers carried out similar activities on Line 6.
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