BBMP guns for film posters, graffiti

BBMP guns for film posters, graffiti
G Manjusainath, Bangalore:

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wants the City cleaned up of loud and gaudy film posters and eye-sore graffiti.

While that may appear to be an uphill task and comes a tad too late, BBMP’s proposal to fight film posters and wall graffiti is well-intentioned.

The City municipality plans to impose a penalty on film producers and directors as well as private companies manufacturers who use posters and graffiti on public property to advertise films and products. It is not clear whether political parties, who also use graffiti on walls and other public property, would be penalised.

With its mantra of a ‘Beautiful Bangalore’, BBMP intends to wipe clean the City’s walls and public places defaced by film posters and graffiti.

The move stems from BBMP’s newly appointed commissioner Bharatlal Meena’s belief that sticking posters and writing graffiti is amounts to defacement of public and private property which is expensive and labour-intensive to remove.

Ugly sight

During field visits to various parts of the City since taking over as BBMP Commissioner, Meena was peeved by the sight ugly of public property like government buildings, under-passes and fly-over pillars plastered with layers of film posters and wall-writings.

Recently, Meena convened a meeting of all BBMP joint commissioners and chief engineers, giving them strict instructions to wipe clean all public places of graffiti and posters.