Mysore/Mysuru, March 17 -- Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which is leaving no stone unturned to maintain the Clean City image, has set its eyes on illegal flex boards, advertisement boards and other customer-centric boards put up on footpaths marring the beauty of the city and leaving the pedestrians high and dry, on the flip side.

Yesterday, several such illegal advertisement boards were removed from the footpaths of commercial establishments like mobile phone shops, hotels, clinics and hospitals in MCC Zone-3 jurisdiction, with the help of earth moving vehicle.

This initiative is mainly aimed at enabling free pedestrian movement. Apart from removing such boards, including the poles, the roofing sheets of the shops protruding towards t...