Post-festival flex removal in Bengaluru turns ‘routine’ and ‘eyewash’

The clearance of flexes and banners along city streets by the city’s corporations has become a “customary process” after every festival, following a failure to prevent their installation in the first place. These flexes and banners, that come up featuring local politicians wishing people for festivals, are not even removed immediately, but only after these festivals, essentially after they have served their purpose, rendering these post-festival drives an “eyewash”.

R. Rajagopalan, convenor, Bengaluru Coalition, a collective of civil society organisations, said corporations do not take proactive steps to prevent illegal flex and banners from coming up and only take reactive measures making such drives “an eyewash”.