DC for removing all advertisement boards installed on public properties.

HYDERABAD -- The Deputy Commissioner Hyderabad Fuad Ghaffar Soomro has directed the municipal authorities to remove billboards and signboards in the light of the Supreme Court's May, 2016, order.

The directives were given through a July 2 correspondence with the officials of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Cantonment Board Hyderabad, District Council Hyderabad, Municipal Committee Qasimabad and Municipal Committee Tandojam.

The letter, officially shared with the media here on Monday, pointed to the May 5, 2016, order of the apex court which had directed that all the billboards and signboards installed on the public property should be removed and no future installation should be allowed.

The court had identified roads, sidewalks, islands in the road center, overhead bridges, underpasses, pedestrian bridges, roundabouts, green belts, pedestrian lanes and...