NHAI join hands with AAI under Adopt-a-Green-Highway Programme

March 29, 2018: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has collaborated with Airports Authority of India (AAI) for developing green corridor along Varanasi Bypass covering 16.55 kilometers of NH 56 and NH 29. A formal Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed towards this between AAI and NHAI recently. Airports Authority of India has agreed to provide financial assistance of five crore rupees for plantations and maintenance work under their CSR funds for five years.

NHAI and AAI have collaborated under ‘Adopt a Green Highway Programme’ as a CSR initiative of AAI. Adopt a Green Highway Programme is an initiative by Green Highways Division of NHAI to engage corporates, public sector units, governmental organisations and institutions under CSR and Public Private Partnership for developing green corridor along National Highways.

This collaboration will encourage other PSUs and Corporates to utilise their CSR funds for Greening of Highways and creation of ecological assets, stated the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.