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Lok Sabha
Despite instructions issued to the State Governments from time to time not to permit erection of advertisement hoardings and display boards in National Highway Land and to remove Any unauthorised advertisement hoardings/display boards wherever erected, advertisement hoardings and display boards are still existing at several locations along National Highways.
Policy on roadside advertisement has been specified by the Government through Publication No.46 of 1972 of the Indian Roads Congress titled as “A Policy of Roadside Advertisements”. Since the erection of hoardings, advertisement boards, statues etc. are a source of distraction to traffic, their erection is not permitted on National Highway Land. Informatory signs of public interest are, however, permitted. Under the policy of private sponsorship of road signs and greening of National Highways, the private entrepreneurs are allowed to depict the name/logo of their company in a sign of specified dimension.
This information was given in the Lok Sabha today in a written reply by the Minister of state for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Shri K.H. Muniyappa.
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