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Tree Transplant
Tree Transplant

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Environmental clearance used to often slow down
the pace of development projects. This led to stalling
of the construction of highway, expressway, green
expressway for long periods of time. If a project was
approved, the condition was to plant the equal number
of trees which have been cut. But the forward thinking
of the Central Government has changed this whole
system. Now tree transplanting is becoming part of
every project. An example of its success can be seen
in the construction of India’s first grade separate urban
expressway- Dwarka Expressway. 12,000 trees have
been transplanted on this 29-km-long expressway…

Under the Bharatmala Project, 22 greenfield 12,000 trees were transplanted on Dwarka
corridors are to be constructed by 2025 at Expressway i.e., 84 per cent success rate
a cost of Rs 3.10 Lakh Crore. This includes First, pesticide is sprayed on trees. Then
the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, which once space is created by digging around the tree
completed, will reduce the journey of 1,320 without damaging the roots
km from 24 hours to 13 hours. In such a Manure is added to its roots and a boundary
situation, the technique of transplanting is formed in the mud. It is left for 20-25 days.
trees will now be included in every project Then it is packed along with the soil attached
This new technology will lead to to the roots
development and will also protect the The tree is then left for 15 days so that it
ecology and environment. There can be no can survive by itself. It is then transplanted
bigger contribution of humanity towards elsewhere with the help of a machine
environment that the need to cut down Geotagging, web based GIS enabled
trees is obliterated and the country can also surveillance, location, development, species
progress details, maintenance are carried out through
It costs Rs 25,000 to transplant a tree. Harit Path app

New Motor
37 1,37, 625 Introduction Vehicle Act
of Fast Tags
km national highway km increase in Freedom from Working towards
constructed now length of highways in long queues at the achieving zero road
daily. In 2014, it was 7 years. Earlier it was highway toll plaza fatalities vision on
12 km 91,287 km Indian roads by 2030
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