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National Highways
Supreme Court issues directions to Union Government to enhance safety and address encroachments on National Highways
“It is the obligation of the Central Government to maintain the National Highways. The maintenance of highways includes the obligation to keep them in good condition. It also includes keeping them free of encroachments and, most importantly, providing adequate safety measures to reduce the possibility of accidents.”
Centre versus State| Who has the power to make law declaring any land within a State as a national highway? Supreme Court answers
Supreme Court: Dealing with the question whether the Parliament was competent to enact the National Highways Act, 1956 and the National Highway
Prior environmental clearance required before commencement of actual construction of a National Highway, not at the planning stage: SC
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar*, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari, JJ has held that it is not necessary for
Telangana HC | State to ensure availability of ambulances on National and State Highways as migrant workers including of pregnant women are using highways to reach destination
Telangana High Court: A Division Bench of Raghvendra Singh Chauhan, CJ and B. Vijaysen Reddy, J. directed the State to ensure that ambulances
Uttaranchal HC directs petrol pump owners to permit ‘free use’ of toilets
Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Rajiv Sharma and Lok Pal Singh, JJ., while deciding a writ petition-public interest litigation,
Karnataka HC refuses to direct State Excise Dept. to consider applications for renewal of licences of vendors having shops at National Highways
Karnataka High Court: While passing the order in a set of writ petitions filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution