The government flagged off its Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification and Maintenance) Policy 2015, the aim of which is to help the environment, help local communities, and generate employment by planting trees along all the highways in the country.
The target for the first year is to cover 6,000 km of highways.
The target for the first year is to cover 6,000 km of highways.
What is Green Highways Policy?
Funding:
The Green Highways Policy scheduled to be launched makes it mandatory for road builders to set aside 1 per cent of the total project cost for plantation.
1 per cent of the project cost will be transfered to a green corpus which will be utilised anywhere across the country and local community, self help groups, and registered NGOs would be empanelled for it.
Bidding & Implementing:
The government has authorised IHMCL, a company promoted by NHAI for empanelling of plantation agencies and only empanelled agencies will be allowed to bid for planting work on the National Highways.
Plantation scheme has been classified under various categories including tree plantation along the highways turfing with grass and shrub and planting on median based on study of local flora and vegetative cover.
The plan is to grow three layers of trees and bushes. The first will be of bushes so that if a vehicle goes off the road, it does not collide with something life-threatening. The second will be of medium-sized trees and the last will be of tall fruit trees. Only species indigenous to the area would be planted.
Funding:
The Green Highways Policy scheduled to be launched makes it mandatory for road builders to set aside 1 per cent of the total project cost for plantation.
1 per cent of the project cost will be transfered to a green corpus which will be utilised anywhere across the country and local community, self help groups, and registered NGOs would be empanelled for it.
Bidding & Implementing:
The government has authorised IHMCL, a company promoted by NHAI for empanelling of plantation agencies and only empanelled agencies will be allowed to bid for planting work on the National Highways.
Plantation scheme has been classified under various categories including tree plantation along the highways turfing with grass and shrub and planting on median based on study of local flora and vegetative cover.
The plan is to grow three layers of trees and bushes. The first will be of bushes so that if a vehicle goes off the road, it does not collide with something life-threatening. The second will be of medium-sized trees and the last will be of tall fruit trees. Only species indigenous to the area would be planted.
Monitoring & Audit:
There will be an agency to monitor the progress of plantation which will also conduct performance audit. The survival should be 90 per cent after raising the plantation of one year and fee will be released on annuity basis
The growth of plants will be monitored for five years.
There will be an agency to monitor the progress of plantation which will also conduct performance audit. The survival should be 90 per cent after raising the plantation of one year and fee will be released on annuity basis
The growth of plants will be monitored for five years.
Benefits:
Employment opportunities
The local community will get the rights to the non-timber produce from the trees
Environmental benefits
Employment opportunities
The local community will get the rights to the non-timber produce from the trees
Environmental benefits
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