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RESIDENT SPEAK: Save public property from posters, retain beauty of the city

Of late, there has been an upsurge in defacement of public property in the sub-city.

RESIDENT SPEAK: Save public property from posters, retain beauty of the city

Shobhit ChuhanCourts have repeatedly emphasised on the need to protect public property, which is in effect belongs to the public. But the way the very public ruins it it seems the message has not sunk in the people, as yet. For proof of this, take a round of Dwarka.

Of late, there has been an upsurge in defacement of public property in the sub-city. One comes across hundreds of thousands posters and and handbills put up anywhere and everywhere. What is more intriguing is that they can be found in the most unseemly places like public toilets, metro pillars, walls of shopping malls, departmental stores etc.

Fed up with the widespread defacement of public property, filed an FIR against the Chief Minister of Delhi. 

I hope the Delhi Police will take action and set things right,  at least in Dwarka.  

Who is responsible for this? 

While political parties are at the forefront in defacement of the public properties, people from other walks of life are not lagging behind. 

Political party workers stick posters and handbills to woo voters during the time of elections, but they have invented many more reasons to deface the walls. To congrtulate their leaders on their victory, greeting on their birthdays and even thanksgiving for fulfiilling their promises and commitments to the public.

Of late, even lawyers, whose job it's to protect the spirit of the law, found it handy tool to reach out to their voters at the time of bar elections. Students have long been doing it while contesting union elections. This indulgence defies logic. Which voter, they think would vote them after seeing the posters?  

Businessmen and traders routinely indulge in this illegal activity to promote their business. 

There exists a special law to protect public properties. Some of these violators are those who are supposed to protect the public property. 

Recently, the Delhi Government has launched Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses in the city. Sadly, these buses too were not spareds by the stickers.

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