Power to acquire land for execution of highway scheme

When the competent authority has sanctioned the highway schemes prepared in pursuance of Section 7 and arranged the necessary finances for its execution, the Highway Authority shall proceed to carry out the work and may, for this purpose (a) enter into and perform all such contracts on behalf of the competent authority as may be considered necessary; (b) make arrangements for the acquisition of the lands required under the scheme by outright gift or purchase by agreement, with the owner or owners, or failing such agreement, by resort to the provision of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (I of 1894) as amended from time to time: (c) the diversion or closure of any existing highway or a section of such highway; (b) the demarcation and for preparation of layouts of all or any of the lands so acquired for different purposes; (c) the laying out of footpaths, cycle tracks and special traffic lanes for any kind or class of vehicles, the designing and setting of parking bays and petrol, filling and service stations and other road side amenities, the location of advertisement boards and billboards; (d) the construction or reconstruction of the roadway including its widening, leveling, surfacing, bridging, severing, draining, water supply and street lighting arrangements and planting of roadside trees; (e) the layout of access roads at suitable distance connecting the highway or the proposed highway with the adjoining properties; (c) turn, divert or close either temporarily or permanently any existing highway or portion thereof: and (d) regulate, subject to such rules as may be prescribed in this behalf, the kind, number and speed of vehicles using any highway or portion thereof by means of barrier, diversion roads or other means.