While the department has undertaken massive drives to remove illegal structures between January and May 2016, when it has removed a total of 8,352 China LED Accent Lights manufacturers Suppliers banners, hoardings, and posters, the license departments at the ward level have barely carried out any demolition drives in June. A civic official from the department on condition of anonymity said, “All sorts of banners come up during festivals, including Ganesh festival, Ramzan, Eid and Diwali. Our workers are too scared to go out on the field,” the official added. While it is mandatory for the police to accompany civic officials on duty to pull down illegal hoardings or structures, the police is already over-burdened with the duty of maintenance of law and order for the festival, and cannot provide security to BMC officials, the official said. If civic officials approach the hoardings with the intention of pulling them down, many times they are faced with angry locals, who have a stronghold in the area or who are working for political parties.Illegal hoardings: Bureaucrats run scared This Ramzan month, work of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s license department has hit a major roadblock.

Officials said that in almost 90 per cent of the cases, prior permissions from the license department are not taken. “We have not received an update from all the 24 wards about work done in June, but it is negligible anyway. end-of. Unlike the stringent action that we follow against illegal hoardings every month, we have to be more cautious during Ramzan and Diwali, in case we end up hurting the sentiments of the local residents. He added it would help if there was an organised structure for giving permissions for hoardings during Ramzan and Diwali, like there is during Ganesh festival celebrations. This Ramzan month, work of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s license department has hit a major roadblock. Sometimes commercials selling relevant goodies that target a particular audience during the festivals also come up.”The most common banners that prop up during the month of festivals are of political personalities wishing the community. The department, which is responsible for pulling down illegal banners, posters, and hoardings that deface Mumbai, has not been able to take down many Ramzan hoardings owing to fear of physical violence towards its on-duty officials from local party leaders, sources from the license department said