Chennai, Aug 29:
A Single Window Clearance system has been formed after deliberations between Chennai Corporation and district collector to look into the applications seeking grant of licence for erection of hoardings in City.
This was informed to the first bench of Madras High Court comprising of Chief Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice R. Mahadevan which had earlier expressed disappointment over the repeated violation of ban on illegal hording in the city and made it clear that if the menace is not stopped by the authorities concerned, a court committee would be appointed to take over the task.
The judges were hearing a Public Interest Litigation ( PIL) moved by K. Muthukrishnan seeking action against illegal hoarding.
It was submitted to the court that the collector in consultation with the commissioner of corporation of Greater Chennai Corporation issued proceedings for forming a committee where in the personal assistant (general) to the collector was nominated as convenor to conduct weekly committee meetings and take decision on the request submitted by the applicants.
The committee will consist of applicant or representative of the application in the present cases, concerned Tahsildar, assistant commissioner of police and executive engineer of concerned zone of Chennai corporation.
The committee will be convened once in a week and during the meetings all applications submitted during the week for grant of licence seeking erection of hoardings will be taken up for consideration and appropriate orders issued as per law.
Assistant commissioner of police will decide over no objection certificate is required from traffic point of view from a police officer not below the rank of deputy superintendent if police can be obtained as per section 3( b)(iii) of Chennai City Municipal Corporation Licensing of Hoardings and Levy of Collection of Advertisement Tax Rules, 2003.
Tahsildar and the executive engineer of Chennai Corporation zone would decide whether the applications in Form-I are in accordance with and fulfills all requirements of Hoarding Rules, 2003.
The committee will recommend whether the licence in Form- II can be granted to the applicant or not, specifically to the collector of Chennai district ( licensing authority) for necessary action. The committee should strive to dispose of all applications in Form-I for grant of licence for erection of hoardings within one month positively.”
“We also agree that this methodology should also be implemented in Kancheepuram district also,” the Bench noted while listing the case to October 31..
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