New Delhi, Jan. 17 -- The Society for Protection of Culture, Heritage, Environment, Traditions and Promotion of National Awareness (SP-CHETNA), an NGO, has filed a strong rejoinder to the National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) counter-affidavit before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), accusing the highways body of "blatant violations" in highway expansion projects. Dismissing NHAI's compliance claims as "paper-based" and unverifiable, SP-CHETNA alleged absence of prior environmental clearance, invalid approvals, and non-compliance with the Green Highways Policy, 2015. SP-CHETNA flagged unsigned tables, non-geo-tagged photographs and sparse plantation on the ground, despite NHAI's claim of planting 90,350 saplings. The NGO also cited...