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Anticipating dense monsoon rains and the hazard of landslides, the Kodagu territory medication has imposed a month-long prohibition connected the question of dense goods vehicles crossed the territory from June 10 to July 9.
The order, issued by Deputy Commissioner and Chairman of the Regional Transport Authority S.J. Somashekar, is aimed astatine ensuring nationalist information and protecting roads and different nationalist infrastructure during the monsoon season.
The restrictions use to each timber and soil transport vehicles, goods carriers with a registered value exceeding 18.5 tonnes, slug tankers, vessel cargo containers, and long-chassis multi-axle trucks
According to a property release, dense rainfall often weakens roadworthy shoulders and triggers landslides on susceptible stretches successful the hilly district. The continuous question of overloaded vehicles further damages roads, roadworthy cave-ins and postulation accidents.
Essential services, however, person been exempted from the restrictions. Vehicles transporting LPG and fuel, beverage tankers, authorities vehicles, schoolhouse and assemblage buses, and nationalist transport buses, including multi-axle coaches, volition beryllium permitted to operate.
Round-the-clock checkposts volition beryllium established astatine Kushalnagar and Sampaje connected National Highway 275 to guarantee enforcement. Police and transport section unit person been directed to behaviour mobile patrolling and instrumentality enactment against violators.
The restrictions person been imposed nether provisions of the Karnataka Police Act, the Disaster Management Act, the Motor Vehicles Act and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita successful an effort to minimise monsoon-related risks successful Kodagu.
