The Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) has started drives to remove all affixed posters, banners and festoons in the city, ahead of the ICC T-20 World Cup scheduled to be held this year from March.
The drives had started since January 23 and the SCC has already removed about 2,000 posters, banners and festoons from the city. The corporation’s Chief Conservancy Officer Md Hanifur Rahman deployed a team of eight members to run the drives.
Since the initiative, the SCC had conducted drives in the city’s Bandarbazar, Surma Market, Jindabazar, Chowhatta, Abmorkhana, Naya Sarak, Jail Road, Naiorpool, Sobhanighat, Satellite City, Shibganj, Mirabazar, Subidbazar, Rikabibazar, Lamabazar, Taltola, Shahi Eidgah and Dhilagar area.
Hanifur Rahman said: “The drives were run to maintain a neat and clean environment in the city for the upcoming T-20 World Cup.”
He said some of the commercial organisations had affixed their company’s posters and banners at different places in the city but they have removed them. Actions would be taken against the companies if the posters were put up again, he added.
Hanifur said: “The corporation will also start drives against illegal billboards in the city after the completion of the current tasks.”
