Team Herald
PORVORIM: In what could give major relief to hundreds of liquor outlets operating along the State highways that falls with the ambit of the Supreme Court verdict, the Goa Government on Friday introduced an amendment to the State Highways Act proposing to declare highways passing through municipal areas as urban roads.
Transport Minister Ramakrishna Dhavalikar introduced the Goa Highways (amendment) Bill 2017 before the State Legislative Assembly.
The amendment will empower the State to declare State Highways within the limits of the Corporation of the City of Panaji and municipal councils up to the distance terminating to national highways as urban roads.
Further, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar introduced the Goa Information Technology Development (amendment) Bill 2017. The Bill seeks to amend section 14 of the Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007. “This will enable to implement the IT investment policy with the changing dynamics of the IT and to remove the difficulties in implementation of the Act,” it stated.
