Wayside rest area for truck drivers off Trasi beach on NH 66 a non-starter as NHAI disputes compensation awarded to land-owners
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has not constructed a planned wayside rest area for truck drivers at Hosadu on NH 66, leading drivers to continue parking on the Trasi-Maravanthe beach stretch. This inaction stems from NHAI's refusal to pay the compensation awarded to landowners for the acquired land. The absence of a rest area may have worsened the impact of a fatal April 29 accident involving parked trucks and a tourist bus.
- ▪NHAI has not built a rest area at Hosadu due to dispute over land compensation.
- ▪Truck drivers regularly park on both sides of NH 66 near Trasi-Maravanthe beach.
- ▪A fatal accident on April 29 killed three when a bus hit parked trucks on the highway.
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Unwillingness on the part of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to pay the compensation awarded for land acquired to construct a wayside rest area for drivers at Hosadu has resulted in truck drivers continuing to park vehicles on the Maravanthe-Trasi beach stretch on the Goa Border-Kundapura section of Panvel-Kanyakumari National Highway 66.Had the authority constructed such a facility at Hosadu, about 2 km from Trasi beach and abutting the Karwar-Kundapura carriageway, the gravity of the April 29 accident where a tourist bus ferrying students rammed two trucks parked on the wayside killing three of its occupants, could have been lesser, felt K. Venkatesh Kini, an entrepreneur and social worker from nearby Bydnoor.
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