KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday observed that the creation of a pothole or crater on a road can only be construed as a \u2018man-made disaster\u2019 under the provisions of the Disaster Management Act. The court directed the district collectors to act within their statutory powers. \u201cThe officers under various district collectors – in their capacity as heads of Disaster Management Authority – must be instructed to visit and watch every road and ensure that all of them are kept free of disaster, lest another accident happens,\u201d said Justice Devan Ramachandran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday observed that the creation of a pothole or crater on a road can only be construed as a \u2018man-made disaster\u2019 under the provisions of the Disaster Management Act. The court directed the district collectors to act within their statutory powers. \u201cThe officers under various district collectors – in their capacity as heads of Disaster Management Authority – must be instructed to visit and watch every road and ensure that all of them are kept free of disaster, lest another accident happens,\u201d said Justice Devan Ramachandran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}