No temporary cabins on Puri Grand Road

No rehabilitation or setting up of temporary cabins will be allowed on either side of the Grand Road (Bada Danda) of Puri from the Jagannath temple to Gundicha temple as the road has been accorded the status of a national highway.
An order was passed to this effect by the Orissa High Court here today while adjudicating over a PIL.
The PIL, filed by a native of Puri town, had said that the local civic authority, the Puri Municipality, was contemplating to rehabilitate some local vendors by allowing them to set up temporary cabins and kiosks during the ensuing Rath Yatra.

The petitioner had sought the court's intervention.
On a notice issued by the High Court, the Puri Municipality had filed an affidavit in the High Court giving an undertaking that the national highway shall be not be used in contravention to Section 30 of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) Act.
A division bench of the HC headed by Chief Justice Vineet Saran directed the municipal authorities to abide by the undertaking given by it in the affidavit, said the petitioner's advocate Prafulla Rath.