Nitin Gadkari launches Harit Path app, stresses on greener national highways

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  Nitin Gadkari launches Harit Path app, stresses on greener national highways

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Key points –

1. Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday stressed the need for utilising modern and green technologies in highways construction besides reducing the cost of road building by at least 25 per cent.
2. The road transport minister also launched a mobile app 'Harit Path' to monitor the plantation along the national highways.

Important details – 

1. The app has been developed by NHAI to monitor location, growth, species details, maintenance activities, targets and achievements of each of its field units for each and every plant under all plantation projects.
2. While inaugurating the mobile app, the minister emphasised on strict monitoring of plantation and transplantation of trees.
3. The minister suggested that specialised persons/agencies should be hired for plantation of trees along the highways.
4. He suggested involving NGOs, self-help groups and horticulture and forest department in this.
5. The officials assured that they will be able to achieve the goal of 100 per cent plantation on highways by March 2022.
6. Gadkari also said that right choice of species suiting local conditions is also very important.
7. He said that specific areas like hilly areas, border areas and coastal areas need different approach and technologies.
8. The minister appreciated the use of such technology in road construction in Andaman and Nicobar and motivated the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd to follow the example in rest of the projects.
9. Meanwhile, the the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in a statement said the mobile app 'Harit Path' launched by the minister will provide digital address to every tree planted along the national highways.
10. To commemorate 25 years of its service to the nation, the National Highways Authority of India has also recently undertaken 'Harit Bharat Sankalp', a nation-wide plantation drive which is in line with NHAI’s commitment to promote environment protection and sustainability.
11. Under this initiative, the NHAI planted over 25 lakh plants in 25 days along the stretches of the national highways between July 21 and August 15, 2020.
12. The drive takes the total cumulative number of plantations done during the current year to 35.22 lakh.
13. In order to ensure 100 per cent survival of the plants, avenue plantation of minimum height of 1.5 metre has been emphasised along the national highways.

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