Overview
- NHAI will convert highway verges into continuous pollinator habitats to reduce ecological stress that is harming pollination services and agricultural and horticultural productivity.
- Field offices will identify suitable highway stretches and vacant NHAI land based on local agro-climatic conditions, with detailed site lists yet to be released.
- For 2026–27, the plan targets at least three pollinator corridors and about 40 lakh trees, with roughly 60% of plantings under the Bee Corridor initiative.
- Corridors will use native trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses with staggered flowering, including Neem, Karanj, Mahua, Palash, Bottle Brush, Jamun and Siris.
- Clusters of flowering trees will be spaced about 500 metres to 1 km to align with typical bee foraging distances, with guidance to retain flowering weeds and beneficial dead wood.