Haryana Government has notified the Haryana Road Infrastructure Protection Act, 2017 to provide for prevention of misuse, damage, unauthorised use and encroachment of the road infrastructure in the state.
Various activities would be prohibited under this Act and these would be determined with reference to the land records maintained by the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, said an official spokesman.
A Government spokesman said that in the event of failure to comply with the orders passed, the competent authority would take necessary steps to restore the status at the cost of the person, in addition to the penalty which may extend to Rs 5,000.
He said that the prohibited activities included encroach upon the Government land under road infrastructure; to raise any permanent, temporary or movable structure on or from road infrastructure; to misuse a road by erecting workshop and carrying out commercial activities including tethering of livestock on road infrastructure; to block or damage roadside drainage and cross drainage system; to divert water, sullage or muck to the road infrastructure; to stack or throw excavated earth or debris or any other material on road infrastructure; to dig or damage road infrastructure without permission from competent authority and to install unauthorized hand pump, bore well or petrol pump on road infrastructure.
The spokesman said that the other activities which would be prohibited under the Act included damage or uproot roadside plantation, nurseries, hedges and other landscape items on the road infrastructure; to display unauthorized hoardings on road infrastructure; to erect unauthorized welcome gates and arches on the road infrastructure; to damage road infrastructure due to mining in the area; to erect or construct any structure on the road infrastructure; to erect or construct a place of worship on the road infrastructure and any other activity which is declared by the Government, by notification in the official gazette, to be prohibited activity.
He added that offences under this Act would be cognizable and non-bailable and triable by the Magistrate of the first class.