Potholes on roads a man-made catastrophe: Kerala HC

By Express News Service

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday noticed that the creation of a pothole or crater on a street can solely be construed as a ‘man-made disaster’ underneath the provisions of the Disaster Management Act. The courtroom directed the district collectors to behave inside their statutory powers. “The officers under various district collectors – in their capacity as heads of Disaster Management Authority – must be instructed to visit and watch every road and ensure that all of them are kept free of disaster, lest another accident happens,” stated Justice Devan Ramachandran.

The courtroom additionally directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to file a report concerning the motion taken towards the concessionaire (contracting agency) within the wake of the latest loss of life of a scooter rider on the nationwide freeway at Athani close to Nedumbassery. The state authorities knowledgeable the courtroom concerning the steps taken towards the concessionaire underneath the penal legislation and to repair constitutional tort legal responsibility on it.

The courtroom directed the district collectors to behave proactively to avert artifical disasters on roads and cautioned them that each additional accident must be defined by them in future. The courtroom noticed that the extra the courtroom delves into the difficulty of dangerous roads, it turns into obvious that it was a results of both corruption or insouciance, and in most of them each.

For a lot of the roads, it was a seamless saga of development, dilapidation, and development once more which occurs in fast succession no less than as soon as in a yr or a number of instances. Therefore, one has to look at the angle of corruption. The uncorroborated enter pointed to an enormous deficiency in the usual of labor as a result of the allotted sources didn’t attain the desired terminal.

Appearing for PWD, senior authorities pleader Okay V Manoj Kumar submitted that the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau had begun inspections on all roads and the particular person entrusted with its administration and development together with engineers and contractors will likely be held answerable for any irregularity.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday noticed that the creation of a pothole or crater on a street can solely be construed as a ‘man-made disaster’ underneath the provisions of the Disaster Management Act. The courtroom directed the district collectors to behave inside their statutory powers. “The officers under various district collectors – in their capacity as heads of Disaster Management Authority – must be instructed to visit and watch every road and ensure that all of them are kept free of disaster, lest another accident happens,” stated Justice Devan Ramachandran.

The courtroom additionally directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to file a report concerning the motion taken towards the concessionaire (contracting agency) within the wake of the latest loss of life of a scooter rider on the nationwide freeway at Athani close to Nedumbassery. The state authorities knowledgeable the courtroom concerning the steps taken towards the concessionaire underneath the penal legislation and to repair constitutional tort legal responsibility on it.

The courtroom directed the district collectors to behave proactively to avert artifical disasters on roads and cautioned them that each additional accident must be defined by them in future. The courtroom noticed that the extra the courtroom delves into the difficulty of dangerous roads, it turns into obvious that it was a results of both corruption or insouciance, and in most of them each.

For a lot of the roads, it was a seamless saga of development, dilapidation, and development once more which occurs in fast succession no less than as soon as in a yr or a number of instances. Therefore, one has to look at the angle of corruption. The uncorroborated enter pointed to an enormous deficiency in the usual of labor as a result of the allotted sources didn’t attain the desired terminal.

Appearing for PWD, senior authorities pleader Okay V Manoj Kumar submitted that the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau had begun inspections on all roads and the particular person entrusted with its administration and development together with engineers and contractors will likely be held answerable for any irregularity.