Bamboo crash barriers’ installation planned on highways, expressways

To reduce the use of metallic, fibre, concrete etc in fencing crash barrier along the highways expressways and roads, an innovative way to use home-grown bamboo as crash barriers is being planned in large scale which will also earn carbon credits and translate into large scale employment opportunities both in rural as well as urban spheres.

With the India will become the world’s first country to develop environmental friendly and pure natural crash barriers out of bamboos. The Nitin Gadkari led Road Transport and Highways Ministry has christened it a rustic lingo as ‘Bahu Balli’, where Bahu stands for Strength and Balli is Bamboo pole. The word has been picked similar to the word south India blockbuster Bahubali.