MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will on Tuesday remove the remaining hoardings put up on Government Railway Police (GRP) land at Chheda Nagar in the eastern part of Mumbai, where 14 people lost their lives when a billboard collapsed during a dust storm. Went. Was. , an official said.
At least 14 people were killed and 74 injured when a 100-feet tall Ilega billboard collapsed on a petrol pump in Ghatkopar during a dust storm and unseasonal rain that lashed the city on Monday.
The civic body has prepared a plan to demolish the remaining hoardings on GR land, the official said.
BMC had earlier said that it had issued a notice to M/s Ego Media Pvt Ltd for erecting the fallen hoarding at the petrol pump and police have registered a case of culpable homicide against company owner Bhavesh Bhinde and others. Like murder.
Speaking to a senior official, the N-ward assistant municipal commissioner had issued a notice to an advertising agency to remove the hoardings with immediate effect, but the civic body is yet to receive any response.
He said, the GRP has informed that it does not have the necessary equipment to remove the remaining hoardings and has requested the BMC to remove them.
The hoardings have been installed one after the other and are to be demolished one after the other, the official said, without specifying the timeline for the demolition.
Another civic official said the hoardings were put up on the Eastern Express Highway, which connects Mumbai to Thane.
They have been kept at a distance of about 100-150 meters from each other, he said.
Although BMC allows a maximum hoarding size of 40x40 square feet, the size of the illegal hoarding that came down was 120x120 square feet.
At least 14 people were killed and 74 injured when a 100-feet tall Ilega billboard collapsed on a petrol pump in Ghatkopar during a dust storm and unseasonal rain that lashed the city on Monday.
The civic body has prepared a plan to demolish the remaining hoardings on GR land, the official said.
BMC had earlier said that it had issued a notice to M/s Ego Media Pvt Ltd for erecting the fallen hoarding at the petrol pump and police have registered a case of culpable homicide against company owner Bhavesh Bhinde and others. Like murder.
Speaking to a senior official, the N-ward assistant municipal commissioner had issued a notice to an advertising agency to remove the hoardings with immediate effect, but the civic body is yet to receive any response.
He said, the GRP has informed that it does not have the necessary equipment to remove the remaining hoardings and has requested the BMC to remove them.
The hoardings have been installed one after the other and are to be demolished one after the other, the official said, without specifying the timeline for the demolition.
Another civic official said the hoardings were put up on the Eastern Express Highway, which connects Mumbai to Thane.
They have been kept at a distance of about 100-150 meters from each other, he said.
Although BMC allows a maximum hoarding size of 40x40 square feet, the size of the illegal hoarding that came down was 120x120 square feet.
