section 24
IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF VILLAGE ROADS
The Manipur Highways Act, 1979Infrastructure197947 sections4 chapters
Part II HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES, THEIR POWERS & FUNCTIONS
Statutory text
- (1) The State Government may, whenever it deems it tg be State G necessary in the public interest, by notification in the official gazette Shain Sone. direct a highway authority to take over for road construction and/or highway maintenance any land constituting a village road or track on which authority to the public have, or have established by long usage, a permanent right me over of way, irrespective of whether such village road or track has been lags tracks shown in the Settlement Records as a public way or nof, and whether ment and the ownership of such land vests in the Government or any landlord maintenance. or a proprietary body.
- (2) Such potfication shall be given proper publicity in the locality of the village road or track,
- (3) All such lands taken over by the highway authority as a result of the notification issued uncer section (1), as are not already deemed to be crown property, shall te so deemed for purposes cf Chapter V, apd the provision of that chapter shall apply fully to such lands. 25. (1) Where there is any obligation by law or by custom or Highway otherwise, on any landlord or proprietary body to maintain a village authority to: road or track on which the public bave or have acquired a permanent require the right of way, and such road or track is not in the opinion of Doptictor any highway authority properly maintained, that authority may ISSUE road land to a notice to the landlord or the proprietor to repair the road or track repair the within such a reasonable time and in such manner as may be specified road properly in the notice. where he is © - under obliga- 2) If at the end of the specified period the repairs have not tion to do so. been carried out in the manner specified, and the landlord or the proprietor has not furnished any satisfactory explanation for non-com- pliance, the highway authority may move the State Government to transfer control of the road or track to it or to any other highway authority under sub-section (1) of Section 24. i H (3) The State Goverpment, while directing the transfer of control li of such village road or treck to any highway authority, may determine ; whether any, and if so what, portion of the cost of repair which H the highway authority may incur shall be recovered from the landlord H or the proprietor in discharge of his obligation to maintain the road or track. fhghwey © 26. (1) Where the control of a village road or track has been equre taken over by a highway authority as a result of a notification issued onary under sub-section (1) of Section 24 and the ownership of the land right of constituting the road or track vests in a landlord or proprietary body, thre the highway authority shall acquire by direct negotiation or, failing In villages. negotiation, by resort to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the reversionary rights, if any, of the landlord or proprietary body to the land by paying suitable compensation. To determining the compensation payable under sub-section (1), regard shall be had to the fact that the reversionary Tight is very remote.
- (3) The amount, if aoY, payable by the proprietor under sub- section (3) of Section 25 may be set off against the compensation payable to him under sub-section (1).
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