Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has taken several initiatives to promote use of state of the art and green technology in construction of National Highways. These include, use for waste materials/by-products/organic materials such as fly-ash, slag, crumb rubber, modified bitumen, waste plastic, recycled aggregates, geosynthetics, jute, coir, etc. and processes like recycling, cement treated sub-base/ base, soil stabilisation, etc.

All States in the country are likely to get benefit under Bharatmala Pariyojana.

183.34 lakh trees have been geotagged with the help of “Harit Path” mobile app.

 This information was given by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

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MJPS