{"id":388446,"date":"2020-12-08T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=388446"},"modified":"2020-12-08T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:38:00","slug":"nhai-says-green-cover-is-contractors-job-ngt-slams-its-indifference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-says-green-cover-is-contractors-job-ngt-slams-its-indifference\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI says green cover is contractor\u2019s job, NGT slams its \u2018indifference\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India has shown a \u201clack of responsibility\u201d and \u201cindifference\u201d to its duties, the National Green Tribunal said this week while directing the agency to comply with the law on maintaining green cover and removing encroachments and illegal access to highways. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, an NGT bench headed by chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel took exception to an affidavit filed by NHAI, which stated that the primary responsibility of protecting highways from encroachment, removing illegal access to them, and planting of trees along the carriageway and median, lay with the project contractor. <\/p>\n<p>The bench observed: \u201cThe guidelines on tree plantations require leaving the space for the plantations upto 30 meters width. Encroachments obstruct compliance of such mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India has shown a \u201clack of responsibility\u201d and \u201cindifference\u201d to its duties, the National Green Tribunal said this week while directing the agency to comply with the law on maintaining green cover and removing encroachments and illegal access to highways. On Thursday, an NGT bench headed by chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel took exception to an affidavit filed by NHAI, which stated that the primary responsibility of protecting highways from encroachment, removing illegal access to them, and planting of trees along the carriageway and median, lay with the project contractor. The bench observed: \u201cThe guidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}