The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has set a target to remove within a week all bamboo frames and temporary hoardings that were put up before Durga Puja, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Sunday.

The KMC commissioner issued a “communiqué” on Saturday saying the “temporary hoardings which have been installed before the onset of festive season” would have to be removed within seven days.

The commissioner’s communiqué, however, did not address the issue of the bamboo frames on pavements on which the temporary hoardings were installed.

On Sunday, Hakim said the frames would also be removed within a week.

This newspaper reported on Saturday that iron poles dug into the road and pavements were still standing along a 250-metre stretch of Rashbehari Avenue, between Priya cinema and Mahanirvan Math. The Tridhara Sammilani Durga Puja committee had installed the poles to display digital advertisements.

On Sunday, the iron poles were no longer there. Debashis Kumar, a mayoral council member of the KMC and one of the organisers of the Tridhara puja, had promised to get the poles removed.