{"id":13592,"date":"2016-07-14T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13592"},"modified":"2016-07-14T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:26:20","slug":"national-green-highways-mission-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/national-green-highways-mission-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"National Green Highways Mission launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: National Green Highways Mission was started on-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 5 July 2016<br \/>\n(b) 4 July 2016<br \/>\n(c) 2 July 2016<br \/>\n(d) 1 July 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 1 July 2016 Union Minister of Road Transport &amp; Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari launched the National Green Highways Mission in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>It includes plantation drive on 1,500 km of National Highways at a cost of about Rs 300 crore.<\/li>\n<li>The Mission will employ 15,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>This project may even be linked with the NREGA scheme.<\/li>\n<li>The afforestation is expected to help in sequestering approximately 12 lakh mt carbon annually.<\/li>\n<li>It will be useful for agriculture and rural economy.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Green Highways Project, the government has made it mandatory to set aside 1 per cent of the total project cost of any NH contract to a Green Fund corpus that will be used for plantation purposes.<\/li>\n<li>The Vision document, comprising strategy, mission and action plan for 2016-2026, focuses on core issues, future roadmaps and success indicators for effective implementation of Green Highways Project.<\/li>\n<li>The government aims to expand the network of national highways to 2 lakhs km from present length of 1 Lakhs Km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146720\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146720<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-launches-green-highways-policy\/article7702950.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-launches-green-highways-policy\/article7702950.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/YLIA9Ue6Yn4Jxvlg7iMtYP\/Nitin-Gadkari-kickstarts-national-green-highways-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/YLIA9Ue6Yn4Jxvlg7iMtYP\/Nitin-Gadkari-kickstarts-national-green-highways-mission.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: National Green Highways Mission was started on- (a) 5 July 2016 (b) 4 July 2016 (c) 2 July 2016 (d) 1 July 2016 Ans: (d) Related facts: On 1 July 2016 Union Minister of Road Transport &amp; Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari launched the National Green Highways Mission in New Delhi. It includes plantation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-13592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}