The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has agreed to bear the cost of land acquisition for compensatory forestry alongside the highways in Uttar Pradesh.
As per the agreement reached between the NHAI and the UP government and ratified by the cabinet here today, the authority would pay the cost of land acquisition to the state government for the compensatory forestation.
The NHAI, in the process of executing several road projects in UP under the National Highways Development Programme, has urged the UP government to exempt it from the provisions of the Forest Act, 1980, for preventing the time and cost overrun on the road-widening projects in UP.
The NHAI is executing several projects in the state as part of the Golden Quadrilateral and the East-West Corridor project. The state government has taken the decision following the intervention of the Centre.
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