Delhi-Dehradun Expressway: SC reconstitutes expert body
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reconstituted an expert committee formed by the National Green Tribunal to oversee the compensatory afforestation and other mitigation measures for the Delhi-Dehradun expressway by including some additional members and replacing its chairperson.
The new six-lane highway will reduce the travel time from 6.5 hours to just 2.5 hours as per the plan of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and would have a 12-kilometer elevated road to protect the wildlife and forests.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Aniruddha Bose directed that the chairperson of the expert committee will be CP Goyal, Director-General of Forests in the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
