LawgistThe National Highways Act
5Responsibility for development and maintenance of national highways
It shall be the responsibility of the Central Government to develop and maintain in proper repair all national highways; but the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that any function in relation to the development or maintenance of any national highway shall, subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the notification, also be exercisable by the Government of the State within which the national highway is situated or by any officer or authority subordinate to the Central Government or to the State Government.
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All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Declaration of certain highways to be national highways
- 3 Definitions
- 3A Power to acquire land, etc
- 3B Power to enter for survey, etc
- 3C Hearing of objections
- 3D Declaration of acquisition
- 3E Power to take possession
- 3F Right to enter into the land where land has vested in the Central Government
- 3G Determination of amount payable as compensation
- 3H Deposit and payment of amount
- 3-I Competent authority to have certain powers of civil court
- 3J Land Acquisition Act 1 of 1894 not to appl
- 4 National highways to vest in the Unio
- 5 Responsibility for development and maintenance of national highways
- 6 Power to issue direction
- 7 Fees for services or benefits rendered on national highways
- 8 Omitted.
- 8A Power of Central Government to enter into agreements for development and maintenance of national highways
- 8B Punishment for mischief by injury to national highway
- 9 Power to make rules
- 10 Laying of notifications, rules, etc., before Parliament
