LIC AAO Model Paper 5

The Government on 29 September 2015 unveiled a Green Highways Policy 2015 under which road developers will need to earmark 1 per cent of a project's total cost for planting of trees and shrubs along national highways. Under the policy, land acquisition will be part of the detailed project report. The planting of trees, mainly fruit and shade-providing trees and shrubs, and their maintenance will be outsourced through a bidding process to agencies empanelled by a ministry authorised agency.