Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday stressed the need for utilising modern and green technologies in highways construction besides reducing the cost of road building by at least 25 per cent.
The road transport minister also launched a mobile app ‘Harit Path’ to monitor the plantation along the national highways.
Chairing a meeting via video conference to review ‘New Green Highways Policy (Plantation)’ and discuss use of new technologies in road construction, Gadkari said it should be the ministry’s mission to reduce cost of construction by 25 per cent and for this new technologies are required, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
