Definitions.

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Corporation” means the Telangana Road Development Corporation established under section 3; (b) “Government” means the State Government of Telangana. (c) “Local Authority” means,- (i) A Gram Panchayat, a Mandal Praja Parishad or a Zilla Praja Parishad constituted under the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 1994; (ii) a Municipality or a Notified Area Committee constituted under the Telangana Municipalities Act, 1965; (iii) A Municipal Corporation constituted under any law for the time being inforce relating to Municipal Corporations; (d) “National Highway” means any highway for the time being declared as a National Highway under section 2 of the National Highways Act, 1956; (e) “Notification” means a notification published in the Telangana Gazette and the word „notified‟ shall be construed accordingly; (f) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (g) “Road” means the ground appropriated for public travel or forming a communication between one place and another and includes a highway, openway, passage street, square, court alley, bridge, foot track, path, sidewalk or lane, whether surfaced or unsurfaced and whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way and also includes; (i) any land acquired or demarcated with a view to construct a road along it; (ii) any slope, berm, borrowpits, foot paths, pavements and side catch and boundary drains attached to such road; (iii) all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriage ways and other structures constructed on or across such road; and (iv) all trees, fences, posts, boundary and land marks and other road accessories and materials and material stocks on the road; (h) “Regulation” means regulations made under this Act.