Local Government in Ancient India c12.27

c12.27

The village public-works also included the public roads, the maintenance of which was one of the duties of the assembly. This is clear from no. 9 of 1898 which reports ‘that a certain road in the village of Uttaramallūr had been submerged under water (probably owing to heavy rain) and became unfit to be used even by cattle. Consequently, the village assembly decided that the road should be widened. Accordingly land had to be acquired by purchase from the ryots of the village. The duty of acquiring the land and making the new road was assigned to the “garden-supervision” committee.’