Cyclone Aila has forced the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) to draw up new safety norms for billboards, which include a ban on sheet metal hoardings.
Over 1,000 billboards were destroyed by the wind and found hanging precariously from buildings and gantries across the city.
The sheet metal roofs of several bus shelters were also blown off.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/aila-forces-ban-metal-billboards-bigger-hoardings-suffer-more-damage
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cyclones
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-habitat
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hoardings
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/municipal-corporations
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/calcutta-d
