The National Highways Authority of India has developed a mobile App called Harit Path recently.
Its Aim is to monitor location, growth, species details, maintenance activities, targets and achievements for each and every plant under all plantation projects.
The app will monitor the plantations through geo-tagging and web-based GIS enabled monitoring tools.
It emphasizes on strict monitoring of plantation and transplantation of trees.
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways suggested that specialised persons/agencies should be hired for plantation of trees along the highways.
It plans to involve NGOs, Self-help groups and Horticulture and Forest department for the purpose.
This will be done to achieve the goal of 100% plantation on highways up to March 2022.
The photographs along with data of the plants captured using Harit Path App shall be uploaded every 3 months on NHAI’s AI powered Big Data Analytics platform – Data Lake.
