Section 5
Functions, Duties And Power Of The Board
The functions, duties and powers of the Board shall be as follows:
(a) To repair and maintain the roads,
(b) To collect the tolls leviable for the use of roads or other additional tolls and recover penalties under this Act,
(c) To submit recommendation to Government of Nepal on fixing the road or fuel toll to be collected pursuant to this Act, additional tolls and fines to be collected for plying the motor vehicle contrary to the specified standards,
(d) To provide suggestion to Government of Nepal on fixation of tolls,
(e) To formulate the integrated annual programmes on the road repair and maintenance,
(f) To make available funds to the road-related bodies to repair and maintain roads,
(g) To spend the prescribed amount of money to repair and maintain the roads from which the toll pursuant to this is collected,
(h) To rebuilt, rehabilitate and upgrade the roads as prescribed, (i) To make action plans to make cost effective the expenditures to be incurred in the repair and maintenance of roads,
(j) To select the roads on the specified grounds and cause them safeguarded,
(k) In cases where an agreement is concluded between Government of Nepal and any body or organisation that such body or organisation would bear the expenses required for the repair and maintenance of roads, the Board shall bear the expenses to be incurred on behalf of Government of Nepal,
(l) To make effective the repair and maintenance of roads, (m) To approve annual budget and annual programme of the Board,
(l) To perform other functions as prescribed.