Panaji: The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has asked the PWD principal chief engineer to submit a report by June 16 on the department’s failure to remove illegal speed breakers and rumblers from national highways in Goa despite previous orders. Ponda businessman Nikhil Desai had approached the GHRC over the issue.
According to Supreme Court guidelines, speed breakers cannot be placed on highways, but other speed control measures like the use of CCTV surveillance have to be put in place instead, he said. At first, speed breakers were removed from the highway based on Desai’s letter to the PMO in 2023, however, some of them have now resurfaced.
“Highways are meant for high-speed travel. I have travelled across several states in India but not seen speed breakers placed like this indiscriminately and illegally on highways anywhere else,” said Desai.
He further said that as NHs are constructed through central government funds, the ministry’s specifications cannot be violated in constructing the stretches.
Desai had first decided to raise his voice against the wrong speed control measures after being pained to see patients being transported in rickety ambulances from his hometown in Ponda to the GMC at Bambolim, with the suffering made worse by illegal speed breakers.
Following multiple complaints by Desai to the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH), state govt last year had asked the PWD to remove all the rumbler strips and speed breakers within their jurisdiction within a time-bound manner.
However, the rumblers and speed breakers continue to remain, leading to Desai petitioning other bodies like the GHRC for relief.
According to Supreme Court guidelines, speed breakers cannot be placed on highways, but other speed control measures like the use of CCTV surveillance have to be put in place instead, he said. At first, speed breakers were removed from the highway based on Desai’s letter to the PMO in 2023, however, some of them have now resurfaced.
“Highways are meant for high-speed travel. I have travelled across several states in India but not seen speed breakers placed like this indiscriminately and illegally on highways anywhere else,” said Desai.
He further said that as NHs are constructed through central government funds, the ministry’s specifications cannot be violated in constructing the stretches.
Desai had first decided to raise his voice against the wrong speed control measures after being pained to see patients being transported in rickety ambulances from his hometown in Ponda to the GMC at Bambolim, with the suffering made worse by illegal speed breakers.
Following multiple complaints by Desai to the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH), state govt last year had asked the PWD to remove all the rumbler strips and speed breakers within their jurisdiction within a time-bound manner.
However, the rumblers and speed breakers continue to remain, leading to Desai petitioning other bodies like the GHRC for relief.
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