Green Highways Project - An Update

Update on Green Highways Project

In my post on National Green Highways (October 16, 2015), I had written about the environment friendly initiatives undertaken by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to increase tree cover across the nation. To recall, this involved the plantation of native species of trees along the highway medians and on either side of the national highways.

Environmentalists will be glad know that that this initiative was not just on paper but has been widely implemented in different parts of the country.

The following table provides an update on the project and state of progress over the past 3 years.

Year	Type of Agency	Length of Project (in kms)	Estimated Project (In Crores)	Plantation Progress
				Target No. of plants	Physical Achievement
2016-17	Government Agency	933.00	149.10	8,56,840	2,72,657
	Private Agency	611.00	121.58	8,00.648	3,51,328
2016-17 Subtotal		1,544.00	270.68	16,57,488	6,23,985
2017-18	Government Agency	1,155	151.88	9,72,473	925
	Private Agency	40.00	3.00	20,000	7,800
2017-18 Subtotal		1,195	154.88	9,92,473	8,725
2018-19	Government Agency	538	52.46	3,57,017	-
	Private Agency	1.6	0.10	-	-
2018-19 Subtotal		540	52.56	3,57,017	-
Grand Total		3,278	478.12	30,06,978	6,32,710

More details on specific project are available on the NHAI website: http://nationalgreenhighway.org/ongoing-national-highway-development-project.

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