Mangalya Shopping Mall fined for installing LED display

Kukatpally: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is coming hard on commercial establishments using LED lights on display boards. To attract customers, commercial establishments set up flashing LED display boards. This is leading to fatal accidents. Based on a complaint from Sai Teja, the vice-president of the Forum against Corruption (FMC), the GHMC fined eight shops on Monday and followed it up by imposing a fine of Rs 25,000 on Pista House at Moosapet on Tuesday.

Several commercial establishments including Touch Mobiles at Kukatpally, True Mobiles at KPHB , Mangalya Shopping Mall, Santosh Dhaba and many more were imposed fines.

V Mamatha, zonal commissioner, Kukatpally zone, said, "The commercial establishments had put up moving LED advertisements without approval."

As per Sections 420 and 421 of the Hyderabad Municipality Act (HMC) Act, 1955, sky-signs and advertisements with electric displays cannot be displayed, retained, or fixed without permission.