Published on : 30 Sep 2025, 1:01 pm

Paonta Sahib–Guma section of NH 707

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on September 26, 2025 , directed the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to disclose the status of compliance relating about the throwing of muck generated during construction of roads and plantation of trees in the Shivalik range of the Himalayas. NGT also asked MoRTH to submit a fresh status report disclosing the progress.

The matter related to construction extending up to a length of 97/103.55 km in Himachal Pradesh. MoRTH undertook the process of two-lane upgradation of the existing single-lane Paonta Sahib-Guma section at National Highway 707.

The Union ministry filed the Mitigation Measures and Management Plan and the court directed it to disclose the

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