HC orders enforcement of rules on erecting flex boards
The Hindu
‘Parties, individuals must adhere to the regulations’
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the strict enforcement of the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies (Permission for Erection of Digital Banners and Placards) Rules, 2011, while granting permission to erect flex boards, festoons, buntings, cut-outs and the like on roads and pavements.
Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu directed the officials concerned to grant permission for the erection of digital banners and placards, strictly in accordance with the 2011 Rules, and ensure that parties as well as private individuals adhere to the stipulated regulations.
The interim orders were passed on a couple of petitions, including one which complained of a 13-year-old boy having been electrocuted while erecting flagpoles to welcome Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi to a marriage in the family of a DMK cadre in Villupuram on August 20. The boy had died after an iron flagpole he was erecting came in contact with a live overhead cable.
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