national highways

Close to 800 trees, varying between 10-15 feet, have been planted along NH 44, using Tripura-based IFS officer Prasada Rao’s low-cost method to increase the green cover.

The Delhi-Meerut expressway with multiple lanes, is all set to cut down travel time significantly.

Workers in toll-booths are subject to driver cruelty quite regularly.

Countless lives are lost due to road accidents involving speed-breakers each year.

Though NHs link major cities and towns through remote locations across the country, hardly any hospitals or ambulance services concentrate on the route, making it very difficult for timely medical help to reach the accident victims.

The proposed National Highway Grid will include 27 vertical and horizontal highway corridors that will crisscross and connect with each other to improve ease of travel.

The Green Highways (Plantation and Maintenance) Policy, for planting trees on national highways has been finalised. Under this policy, one percent of the cost of national highway development projects will be set aside to plant trees on 97,000 km of existing national highways and around 40,000 km of new roads that we will be added to the network over the next few years.