The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has moved the Bombay High Courtseeking modification, for this year, to a high court order directing the authorities to set up a grievance mechanism to enable citizens to complain about noise pollution and illegal mandaps and pandals on roads/footpaths during festivals.

The civic body informed a division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Revati Mohit Dhere that already 57 permissions had been given to Ganesh mandals to erect pandals. The BMC claimed that it had been following a policy since 2011 for issuing such permissions, in accordance with the traffic police, to ensure citizens were not inconvenienced.............Read more

Source web page: DNA