{"id":657751,"date":"2026-01-17T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657751"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:07:52","slug":"ngo-slams-nhai-for-blatant-violations-in-highway-projects-before-ngt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ngo-slams-nhai-for-blatant-violations-in-highway-projects-before-ngt\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO slams NHAI for \u2018blatant violations\u2019 in highway projects before NGT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Protection of Culture, Heritage, Environment, Traditions and Promotion of National Awareness (SP-CHETNA), an NGO, has filed a strong rejoinder to the National Highways Authority of India\u2019s (NHAI) counter-affidavit before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), accusing the highways body of \u201cblatant violations\u201d in highway expansion projects.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing NHAI\u2019s compliance claims as \u201cpaper-based\u201d and unverifiable, SP-CHETNA alleged absence of prior environmental clearance, invalid approvals, and non-compliance with the Green Highways Policy, 2015, which mandates compensatory tree plantation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Protection of Culture, Heritage, Environment, Traditions and Promotion of National Awareness (SP-CHETNA), an NGO, has filed a strong rejoinder to the National Highways Authority of India\u2019s (NHAI) counter-affidavit before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), accusing the highways body of \u201cblatant violations\u201d in highway expansion projects. Dismissing NHAI\u2019s compliance claims as \u201cpaper-based\u201d and unverifiable, SP-CHETNA alleged absence of prior environmental clearance, invalid approvals, and non-compliance with the Green Highways Policy, 2015, which mandates compensatory tree plantation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657751","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}