Mercedes Benz willing to supply vehicles running on clean fuel: Gadkari

Mercedes Benz has written to the road transport ministry to convery its ability to supply vehicles that can run on clean fuels like bio-diesel and ethanol.

Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said the company has written to him informing of its ability to supply all forms of vehicles which can run on environmentally less polluting forms of fuels. He also said that the government will begin work on planting trees along national highways under the Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification and Maintenence) Policy, 2015.

He was speaking at a consultation session organised by environmental NGO TERI between the National Highways Authority of India and environmental and forest specialists to deliberate on the feasibility of relocating and transplanting grown trees along highways. Since it requires significant and constant effort in planting and sustaining saplings, which have often been seen to die out in the past in similar government initiatives, transplantation had been chosen, said an NHAI official.

Gadkari said all necessary funding for labor and mechanisation will be provided by the ministry, which will soon start allotting select patches of national highways to such bodies for afforestation and planting trees on an experimental basis.

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