Bill to empower ULBs to levy fee for permitting hoardings tabled
The Hindu
Govt. also tables Bill to ensure fair practices in delimitation
A Bill seeking to empower the urban local bodies to levy fee for granting permission for erecting outdoor advertisement boards (hoardings) was tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday.
The Bill was introduced to ensure that urban local bodies do not incur loss of revenue as advertisement tax has been subsumed under the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Karnataka Municipalities and Certain Other Law (Second Amendment) Bill was tabled by Law Minister J.C. Madhuswamy.
The Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill that seeks to provide for constitution of delimitation commission, among others, was also tabled in the Assembly.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”
The festival in Bengaluru is happening at various locations, including ATREE in Jakkur, Bangalore Creative Circus in Yeshwantpur, Courtyard Koota in Kengeri, and Medai the Stage in Koramangala. The festival will also take place in various cities across Karnataka including Tumakuru, Ramanagara, Mandya, Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Hassan, Chitradurga, Davangere, Chamarajanagar and Mysuru.