Prohibited activities

There shall be the following prohibited activities under this Act, namely:- (i) encroachment on government land under road infrastructure; (ii) construction of any permanent, temporary or movable structure on or from the road infrastructure; (iii) misuse of road by doing peripheral construction including animal tethering and executing commercial activities on road infrastructure; (iv) obstructing or damaging the drainage and cross drainage system along the road; (v) diverting water, sewage or filth towards the road infrastructure; (vi) stacking or throwing excavated earth or debris or any other material on the road infrastructure; (vii) digging or damaging the road infrastructure without permission from the competent authority; (viii) installing unauthorized hand pump, bore well or petrol pump on road infrastructure; (ix) damaging or defacing approach road, return wall and wing wall, parapets, railings, lighting system, protection works, tunnels and their allied structures and other structures such as road shoulders, shoulders, retaining walls, breast walls, toe walls, cross drainage and road side drains, road junctions, medians, speed breakers, rumble strips, street lights, traffic signals, barricades, crash barriers, sign boards, kilometre stones, direction posts, boundary posts, furlong posts, road identification sign infrastructure, pedestals, benches, toll booths or plazas, wayside amenities like rain shelters, lay-byes, bus bays, public conveniences, parks and open spaces, and construction or any other structures including bridges, road overbridges, flyovers and underpasses made to facilitate road transport and road maintenance; (x) damaging or uprooting road side plantation, nurseries, fences and other landscape objects on road infrastructure; (xi) displaying unauthorized hoardings on road infrastructure; (xii) peripheral construction of unauthorized welcome gates, arches etc. on road infrastructure; (xiii) damaging road infrastructure due to mining in the area; (xiv) peripheral construction or construction of any structure on road infrastructure; (xv) peripheral construction or construction of temple on road infrastructure; (xvi) any other activity, which has been declared as prohibited activity by the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette.