Monday, April 14, 2008

Chennai "Hoarding Free City"

Recent Supreme Court order makes the begining of removing all hoarding in the Chennai City premises. On April 10th while going from Adyar to Teynampet saw lot of people moving around the Hoardings. Massive hoarding ad's were being removed. I though that since Times of India is having its inaguaral issue so it is going for massive ad campaign. But the reality was all the Hoarding were coming down.

And today the Large hoarding on the Kotturpuram Bridge, Teynampet signal, Mount Road are being removed and Gas cutters are being used to remove the massive steel structure. The beauty of Chennai behind the Hoarding is visible now.

Wonder how long this will go on..because the Hoarding industry is worth around INR 500 million. Will the Hoarding lobby press for the change in the act. We have to wait and see..

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