Shas­tri Boodan

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port will crack down on heavy trucks us­ing unau­tho­rized roads. 

This an­nounce­ment was made by Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Sen­a­tor Ro­han Sinanan when he spoke with Guardian Me­dia on Sat­ur­day night fol­low­ing a cul­tur­al show for del­e­gates of a three-day Hin­di Con­fer­ence at the NCIC Na­gar, Ch­agua­nas.

Sinanan said that even though there are many roads that lim­it the weight of some ve­hi­cles, dri­vers sim­ply ig­nore the signs and pro­ceed on these road­ways caus­ing dam­age to the in­fra­struc­ture.

Sinanan said, “ There is an ex­ist­ing law, any ex­ist­ing heavy ve­hi­cle has to be li­censed and you have to go to the trans­port board and they give you spe­cif­ic routes to trav­el on, un­for­tu­nate­ly, a lot of these re­strict­ed ve­hi­cles try to take short cuts and so on and they go on roads that are not de­signed. It’s a mat­ter of en­force­ment, the law ex­ists and it’s a mat­ter of en­force­ment which we will be step­ping up up­on.” 

Sinanan said his min­istry is putting sys­tems in place to have weight-re­strict­ed routes po­liced by traf­fic war­dens and law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties.

“It's un­fair that these heavy trucks will go in and dam­age the roads and in some cas­es, the same truck own­ers are the ones we have to pay to re­build the road," he said.