Kathmandu, January 2:

The Revenue Department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has sent warning letters to some 50 commercial organisations asking them to register their hoarding boards placed at different parts of the metropolis with the KMC, a revenue officer said today.

“We have already sent warning letters to some 50 companies whose hoarding boards have not been registered with the KMC,” said Hari Kunwar. The KMC started to keep tab of the illegal hoarding boards in the city more than a month ago.

Kunwar said around 50 per cent of the companies that had received the letters were already in touch with the department. “Some claimed that they were unaware of the need for registration,” he said, adding, there were many companies who had ignored the KMC directives on the placing of the hoarding boards. The hoarding boards of the companies that had not registered with the KMC were found in 10 different wards of Kathmandu.

Kunwar said the department aimed to collect revenue worth Rs 20 million in the next fiscal year from the hoarding boards. The department had collected Rs 3.5 million from the hoarding boards in the previous fiscal year, and this fiscal year, the figure more than doubled at Rs 8.1 million.