Dhaka, Feb. 19 -- Chattogram City Corporation Mayor Shahadat Hossain has launched an operation to remove illegal billboards, declaring that the port city will be cleared of all such structures.

During eviction drive at Kazir Dewri intersection around 3pm on Thursday, the mayor said no type of billboard would be permitted in the city and that some had been put up during the election period without consulting the authorities.

"We are now seeing these structures. We are trying to identify who installed them," he said. "Since we have not yet been able to identify those responsible, we are removing them ourselves."

The mayor led the removal of billboard pillars installed along the road adjacent to Chattogram Circuit House.

He said digital ...