Karachi to cut down billboards to size

City administrator bans installation, relocation of billboard, mandates approval of DG TSS&DTC for NoCs.

KARACHI: In what could be described as a winter clean up of the megalopolis, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has banned installation and relocation of all types of signboards, billboards and hoardings in the city.

KMC Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed while chairing a meeting in his office on Tuesday, said that the image of city was being tarnished due to the random and unsystematic installation of signboards. Henceforth he mandated that any no objection certificate (NoC) for every signboard would require an approval from the Director General Technical Services and Senior Director Transport and Communication.

Syed issued directives to remove all signboards, other than the auctioned hoardings on Sharae Faisal, Shahrahe Pakistan and Shahrahe Quaideen, immediately.

The city administrator said Shahrahe Quaideen after reconstruction will be the biggest corridor of the city in which four lanes for each track has been constructed. He said that the construction of storm water drain with RCC covering has not only widened the road but also made this corridor the widest road in the city.

Syed said that the size of bill boards on Sharahe Quaideen should also be reduced since large signboards on various locations caused obstruction in traffic vision.

He instructed said that all precautionary measures should be adopted in installation of hoardings along with the consideration of recommended standards and size