Under this policy, the government has made it mandatory to set aside one percent of the total project cost of any highways contract to a "Green Fund" corpus for plantation.
The Green Highways Policy scheduled to be launched by Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on September 29 makes it mandatory for road builders to set aside 1 percent of the total project cost for plantation.
Speaking at a panel discussion on 'What is the role that the bureaucracy expects from public affairs professionals', Road Transport and Highways Secretary Vijay Chhibber said there is a need to address the basic issues in the system.
The Roads Ministry plans to award Rs 8500 crore of projects this year, 13 of them under the hybrid annuity project model proposed last week.