<span style="color: #222222;">The National Green Tribunal, NGT has expressed concern over the large scale encroachments along national highways. It also directed the government to evolve an effective monitoring mechanism in this regard.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Hearing a plea, the green panel said that the monitoring mechanism should deal with the future policy with regard to highways to be constructed, already constructed and roads where constructions have already been made.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to file an affidavit within two months in this regard.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that large scale encroachment on highways by illegal constructions had made it difficult to implement the policy of plantation of trees.</span><br />