To check and prevent the rampant encroachments and disturbances on the highways in Nagaland, the state government has decided to strictly enforce the rules and regulations protecting the highways in the State.
In exercise of the power conferred by Sub Section (1) of Section 21 of the Nagaland Highways Act, 1967, commissioner and secretary, Works & Housing department, Temjen Toy in a notification reiterated that no person without the prior written permission from the Highway Authority shall:
- Construct, form or lay out any means of access to or from a highway
- Erect or re-erect any building or structure or make or extend
- Materially alter any existing building or make/extend any excavation
- Construct approach/link roads, form or lay out any works or upon land between the highway boundary and the building line determined in respect of the Highway Act
- Quarry or excavate along the road side or alter the level of land by lowering, raising, digging, or filling up or construct
- Lay out any means of access to or from the highway, upon land lying in between the building and the control lines determined in respect of the highway
- Make encroachment on any road, street, path, way or land which is declared to be a highway under Section 6 of the Act
- Dumping of earth and garbage.
Further, the notification has asked the deputy commissioners or officers authorized on behalf of the government to penalize and evict those who violate the Act or fail to comply with the order.
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