coimbatore with unauthorised hoardings mushrooming in the city again civic activists have filed a petition with the city corporation seeking action against the violators in the last 15 days alone the corporation had removed about 168 such hoardings installed across the citycorporation officials said that they have launched an extensive drive to remove illegal hoardings we removed most of these hoardings from residential areas several building owners had set them up without getting noobjection certificate from the corporation and the police department an assistant town planning officer saidcorporation officials said that since october 2016 as many as 1198 hoardings were removed from the east zone 2247 from the west zone 1006 from north zone 158 from south zone and 1805 from central zone a total of 6414 hoardings were removed and we are continuing the drive he told toias per norms those who want to set up an advertisement hoarding should get permission from several departments if it is on government buildings to set up temporary hoardings an application has to be submitted to the revenue divisional officersubcollector concerned enclosing the noc from the building owner or aeeade for government buildings noc from the police station concerned and the challan for payment of licence fee for 15 days before the erection of the hoarding after scrutiny of the application permission would be granted for erecting the hoarding for a maximum of six days the revenue earned is shared by the corporation and the district administrationreal estate companies and apartment owners still install hoardings along city roads and inside their campuses without getting permission civic activist sp thiyagarajan said apart from causing road accidents and traffic violations the illegal hoardings lead to huge revenue loss to the government he said