NEW DELHI: The government will use space technology to monitor the progress of its green highways project. Under the new policy, government will do geo-mapping of trees planted along highways to keep a track of their survival rate. Minister for roads, highways and transport Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that trees planted along India’s 96,000 km highway network would be monitored through Indian Space Research Organisation’s BHUVAN and GAGAN satellites. Both satellites are based on the remote sensing system and are GPS aided. “A monitoring center would be set up to keep a check on the project. We’ll use space technology for monitoring and payment would be made to contractors only on the basis of survival rate of trees,” Gadkari said while unveiling the green highway policy. The government has an ambitious plan of converting its existing 96,000 km of national highways into green corridors. Gadkari said that all upcoming expressways would also be planned as green corridors. “We would spend around Rs 5,000 crore in five years towards this initiative,” he said As per the policy, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will act as a fund manager for maintaining a green fund and releasing payments based on… Read full this story
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