‘Mumbai Has 1,025 Hoardings’: BMC’s Tall Claim Amid Scores Of Illegal Billboards, Ignored Checks, Renewals

The BMC earns around Rs 200 crore annually from the licensing for billboards and hoardings. The BMC’s rules don’t apply to hoardings on railway land, which, according to official records, houses 179 hoardings. The hoarding that collapsed in Ghatkopar on Monday was standing illegally on a railway land