trichy one of the multipurpose initiatives of the civic body to beautify the city while avoiding unauthorised advertisements is no longer serving its purpose colourful wall paintings in several parts of the city are fading with time and turning ugly for it has not been restored even once after it was painted in 2011 at a time when unauthorised advertisements political and commercial were taking a toll on the citys beauty the civic body roped in professional painters to fill the empty wall space in public places with beautiful paintingsthe mahatma gandhi memorial government hospital the district court thillai nagar mannarpuram airport areas and dig office were selected for the purpose landscapes colourful illustrations highlighting the need to conserve nature and messages to keep the city clean were highlighted in the paintingsthis was a pet project of former city corporation commissioner k veera raghava rao who felt that the paintings would beautify the city and at the same time check pasting of unauthorised advertisements in public places said a senior official from the city corporation a total rs 585 lakh was spent by the civic body to execute the workhowever his successors did not find reason to continue the work and this has resulted in mushrooming of unauthorised advertisements in the city none of the successive corporation commissioners thought of rejuvenating the fading paintings once beautified with colourful paintings walls on the busy streets of the city are now sporting advertisement posters and banners said a ranjith priyan a resident of thillai nagareven though the civic body is empowered to take action against those engaged in unauthorised advertising sources from the corporation say that there is huge political pressure against such actionciting an example a senior official from the city corporation said a company that pasted its advertisements on a sign board sporting the bus route at a corporation bus stand was fined rs 10000 as per corporation rule however the official could not act against the violator owing to huge political pressure