NHAI Announces Green Highways Excellence Awards 2026 Winners

The correct answer is 86. The release calls the response encouraging and puts the number of nominations received from across the country at that figure. The split by category is worth carrying with it, since a question may ask for any one of the three: 27 nominations came in for Avenue Plantations, 36 for Median Plantations and 23 for Plantation in Land Parcels. After an initial screening, 15 nominations were shortlisted for the final assessment, five in each category. Options A, C and D are invented figures that appear nowhere in the release. Candidates should also note who could apply, because that too has been asked: NHAI field offices, concessionaires, contractors, government agencies, non-government organisations and private agencies working on plantation projects along National Highway projects, all through the NHAI online portal.

The correct answer is the survival rate of plantations. The release states that the evaluation used a comprehensive assessment framework in which the survival rate carried the highest weightage. The other parameters were counted too but not weighted as heavily: site-specific plantation action plans, the timing of plantation operations, the size of pits, the quality of planting material, protection measures, implementation as per the approved design, species diversity, suitability and the use of native species. Options A and B therefore name real parameters, which is exactly why they mislead; the question asks which one stood highest. Option D is not a parameter at all in this framework. Special emphasis was also laid on quality, sustainability, effectiveness and whether a practice could be replicated more widely across the National Highway network, and each entry had to supply geo-tagged photographs, drone videos and survival-rate data.

The correct answer is the Green Highways Policy, 2015. The release states that NHAI instituted the awards in 2025 as mandated in that policy, and describes them as reinforcing the Authority's commitment to joining environmental sustainability with the development of the National Highway network. Two dates therefore sit in one sentence and are easily swapped in the examination hall: the policy is of 2015, while the awards themselves began in 2025. Options A, C and D are policies that do not exist in this release and are the sort of plausible-sounding names an examiner invents. To fix the answer in memory, link the policy to the three prize categories it produced, namely Avenue Plantations, Median Plantations, and Plantation in Land Parcels covering clover leaves, interchanges, toll plazas and service areas.