National Highways Authority of India will undertake a unique initiative to plant Miyawaki plantation on land parcels adjacent to National Highways in and around Delhi-NCR. A total land area of over 53 acres has been identified for this purpose to realise the vision of saturating National Highways with green cover. Road Transport and Highways Ministry said that plantation is expected to be complete by end of August.
The Ministry said that some of the sites proposed for development of Miyawaki plantations along the National Highways include land area along Haryana section of Dwarka Expressway, Sohna on Delhi – Vadodara section of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Chabri and Kharkhara interchanges on Ambala – Kotputli corridor National Highway in Haryana, Duhai interchange on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway near Ghaziabad and Meerut-Najibabad section of NH-34 in Uttar Pradesh.
Miyawaki plantations is a unique Japanese approach to ecological restoration and afforestation development. This method aims to create dense, native, and biodiverse forests in a short period of time. These forests retain ground water and help to recharge the ground water table.
