The Haryana government on Thursday 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.

A spokesman of Law and Legislative Department said that 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.

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The official 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 unauthorised 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 to damage or uproot roadside plantation, nurseries, hedges and other landscape items on the road infrastructure; to display unauthorised hoardings on road infrastructure; to erect unauthorised 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 said that on occurrence of any activity prohibited, the competent authority would issue an order directing the person to stop forthwith the prohibited activity.

Wherever, necessary, the authority also orders the restoration of status of the road infrastructure to its original position within a period of three days.

An order of the competent authority would clearly describe in writing the prohibited activity and also indicate by way of sketch, the location of the occurrence of prohibited activity, the extent of such activity and the damage already caused or being caused.