PANJIM: The North District Magistrate has imposed a ban of 60 days on digging and cutting of all types of roads during monsoons citing these activities pose imminent danger and disruption to the life of motorists, pedestrians and general public.
The order by North District Magistrate Ajit Roy states that immediate preventive measures are necessary to ban the road digging including National Highways, State highways, major district roads, road-shoulders, lanes, thoroughfares etc so as to ensure public life and safety.
“No person, agency, organisation, government department, local body, public sector undertaking etc shall undertake any digging or cutting of any of the public roads and its shoulders including on all the city and village roads without prior written permission from the undersigned,” reads the prohibitory order by Roy.
This prohibition, which has come into force with retrospective effect from June 1, however does not apply to any road digging done by any government public utility service providing departments such as electricity, BSNL and PWD for urgent repairs of electric cables, telecommunication cables and pipelines. Digging by local bodies for repairs of road and for diversion of water in emergency cases shall also not attract restrictions contained in the order.