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Detailed explanation-1: -Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Sh. Nitin Gadkari launched a mobile app named ‘Harit Path’ to conduct monitoring operation of the plantation along the national highways through Geo-tagging and web-based GIS-enabled tools.

Detailed explanation-2: -National Highways Authority of India launched ‘Harit Path’, a mobile app, in 2020. The application is to monitor the location, growth, species details, maintenance activities, targets and achievements of each of its field units for each and every plant under all plantation projects.

Detailed explanation-3: -Notes: Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has launched an application named “Harit Path”.

Detailed explanation-4: -NEW DELHI: The 27-year-old National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the country’s main highway development agency, has got the 20th chairman with the government appointing a senior UP cadre IAS as its new chief.

Detailed explanation-5: -Santosh Kumar Yadav, the senior bureaucrat, was appointed as the Chairman of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Santosh Kumar Yadav is a 1995-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.