National Highways from Agricultural Waste Background: CSIR-CRRI and CSIR-IIP have successfully undertaken an indigenous technology transfer titled "Bio-bitumen through Pyrolysis: Roads from Agricultural Waste," creating a significant advancement in India's green road construction. This initiative has laid the foundation for India to become a leading nation in the generation of 'cleaner, greener highways'. In the construction of national highways, renewable materials will be replaced with materials produced from agricultural waste through pyrolysis. The Central Road Research Institute and the Indian Institute of Petroleum are jointly contributing to the construction of these green roads. India is the first country in the world to commercially produce bitumen from agricultural waste. Drone Data Repository Context: Country’s first state level Drone Data Repository has been launched in Madhya Pradesh. It will make administrative process more streamlined, robust and transparent. DDR is a centralized cloud based secure and interoperable digital infrastructure that lays the groundwork for the future of geospatial governance. It stores high quality drone data including the high resolution orthomosaics, 3D terrain models, LIDAR Scans, video imagery, legacy baseline data and multi departmental survey records.
