This Article is From Nov 21, 2014

Nitin Gadkari on Creaking Infrastructure, Rickety Development: Highlights

Union Minister for Transport and Shipping Nitin Gadkari

New Delhi: Addressing the HT Leadership Summit, Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, says prosperity of a country comes from its roads.

Following are the highlightsof his address:

  • Prosperity of the country comes from its roads
  • There was a standstill on projects of at least Rs 2,80,000 crore
  • After the new government came in many projects have been cleared, but projects worth Rs 50,000 crore are still problematic
  • Within two years -Roads and Shipping, Inland Waterways -I'm confident that these will contribute at least 2% of the GDP
  • Driving licenses to be issued by a computer and not RTO. There will be a transparent no corruption system 
  • Will start buses based on bio fuels. Will encourage all alternative fuels
  • Within 2 years, we will construct at least 30 kilometres of road in a day... I'm confident that this is the target for me and I will complete it
  • There are some things in my hands and for some questions I have no answer. Railways clearances have already been solved
  • I'm confident we'll succeed in converting all problems into opportunities
  • Every year we have accidents because of wrong designing... we will rectify that... to save the lives of the people - the government will spend on improving design, take responsibility of safety
  • In NHAI there is no axis control system - you can improve the quality of the road but this is a mistake with design



.