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For all these reasons, the report said the government must past orders `at the earliest' in the larger public interest. Officials insisted that meetings as well as the `report' were completed before the apex court delivered its verdict banning liquor sale and service along national and state highways. "The report spoke of escalation of project costs due to delay in NOC , different safety and quality of road stretches within municipal limits, maintained by different departments, and said urban local bodies end up paying several crores to NHAI and state highways towards road cutting charges.Urban local bodies are already facing paucity of funds to carry out their mandatory obligations, the report said. CHENNAI: Forced to close more than 3,300 liquor outlets and bars along national and state highways since April 1, following a Supreme Court order, the Tamil Nadu government has now dug out a report, apparently submitted on November 11, 2016, recommending that highways be brought `directly under' corporations and municipalities concerned.The `report', prepared by commissioner of municipal administration G Prakash, cites `administrative reasons' to bring highways under urban local bodies such as corporations and municipalities through which those roads pass. The move would bring more than more than 2,345 km of national and state highways under the control of corporations and municipalities.Listing reasons to bring highways under urban local bodies, the `report', a copy of which is available with TOI, said implementing road projects, water supply, underground drainage system, storm water drains and street lights got delayed since they required `no objection certificate' from state highways and National Highways Authority of India.It stressed on the need to have a uniform policy on formation and maintenance of roads, and said: "It has become a felt need from the administrative point of view that all other roads under state highways and national highways to be brought directly under control of the urban local bodies through which those (roads) are laid.
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