Road Transport and Highways Ministry to mitigate landslide, avalanche hazards on highways; inks pact with DRDO

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari chaired Road Transport and Highways Ministry has inked a pact with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in order to utilize its expertise in providing sustainable steps to mitigate landslide as well as avalanche hazards on the national highways. The minister, in a written reply to Rajya Sabha on Monday, said an MoU was signed between the Road Transport and Highways Ministry and DRDO on January 20. The minister was quoted in a PTI report saying that the pact is intended at utilising the expertise of the organization in providing sustainable landslide, avalanches along other geo-hazard mitigation measures on the NHs.