PANAJI
District Magistrate, North has imposed prohibitory orders to undertake digging or cutting of any of the public roads and their shoulders including on all the city and village roads without prior written permission.
No person or an agency, organization, Government Department, local body, public sector undertaking will carry out digging or cutting work unless they get permission from the office of the District Magistrate, North Goa.
The prohibition shall not apply to any road digging done by any government public utility service providing departments such as electricity, BSNL and PWD for urgent repairs of electric cables, telecommunication cables and pipelines. Also digging by local bodies for repairs of road and diversion of water in emergency cases shall not attract restrictions contained in the order.
The emergency digging shall be covered immediately within less than 6 hours of digging and properly paved/cemented within 24 hours.
Any person, agency or department contravening this order will be liable for punishment under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code. This order has come into effect from June 01, 2021, and shall remain in force for 60 days.
