{"id":626605,"date":"2024-01-05T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=626605"},"modified":"2024-01-05T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T06:11:16","slug":"nhai-isro-collaboration-to-develop-green-cover-index-aims-sustainable-transformation-of-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-isro-collaboration-to-develop-green-cover-index-aims-sustainable-transformation-of-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI- ISRO collaboration to develop \u2018Green Cover Index\u2019, aims sustainable transformation of highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ISRO\u2019s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) to develop and report a \u2018Green Cover Index\u2019 for the extensive network of the Indian National Highways. <\/p>\n<p>NHAI\u2019s collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) satellite centre data will take three years to map the entire highway network, promoting environmental awareness and sustainable development. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the inaugural assessment, the endeavor seeks to regionally quantify the Green Cover Index. Subsequent cycles will employ scientific methodologies to assess green cover growth patterns annually,\u201d Union Minister of Road Transport &amp; Highways Nitin Gadkari mentioned on X. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ISRO\u2019s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) to develop and report a \u2018Green Cover Index\u2019 for the extensive network of the Indian National Highways. NHAI\u2019s collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) satellite centre data will take three years to map the entire highway network, promoting environmental awareness and sustainable development. \u201cIn the inaugural assessment, the endeavor seeks to regionally quantify the Green Cover Index. Subsequent cycles will employ scientific methodologies to assess green cover growth patterns annually,\u201d Union Minister of Road Transport &amp; Highways [&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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626605","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=626605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}