Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Gadkari said that to minimize the impact of frontal and lateral collisions to the occupants seated in both front and rear compartments, it has been decided that 4 additional airbags be mandated in the M1 vehicle category.
Nitin Gadkari urged the people of Goa to vote for the BJP with a sizeable majority in the upcoming Assembly polls.
Gadkari will also inaugurate Pohekar Multi-speciality Dental Hospital at 01:45 pm in Nagpur.
Nitin Gadkari also launched the first Intelligent Transport System on 6 Lane Eastern Peripheral Expressway at Dasna, Ghaziabad.
Ahead of the UP polls next year, BJP has amped up its campaigning in the state. Nitin Gadkari and CM Yogi Adityanath will be going to a tour to Jaunpur today.
After the Modi government came to power, he said the government reviewed 406 stalled road projects worth Rs 3.85 lakh crore and restarted them. The restarting of these projects saved banks from the non-performing asset (NPA) of about Rs 3 lakh crore.
A significant focus of the visit will be on projects to improve the road infrastructure, which will make travel smooth and safer, and also increase tourism in the region.
The strategic 900 kilometre-long Chardham project worth Rs 12,000 crore aims to widen roads and provide all-weather connectivity to four holy places -- Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath -- in Uttarakhand.
These are strategically important for swift movement of defence forces along with agricultural, industrial and socio-economic progress of the region, the highways ministry said.
Built at a cost of Rs 42,000 crore, the Expressway starts from Chand Sarai village in Lucknow. It will pass through Lucknow, Barabanki, Amethi, Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur.
"The problem is there is China which has fully developed its infrastructure, so tomorrow if we have to transport big trucks, machinery then it would need at least 10-metre wide roads otherwise we wouldn't be able to do it," Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
During the event, the Prime Minister will also dedicate over 223 km of completed & upgraded road projects, constructed with an estimated cost of over Rs 1180 crore at different NHs for boosting connectivity to Pandharpur. The event will take place via video conferencing, it said.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari further said electric cars manufactured by Tata Motors are not less good than electric cars manufactured by Tesla.
"Gadkari is a great example of how a people's representative can work for the development of the country," Sharad Pawar added.
The group has now launched a new firm - SUNSUL Technology - that will focus on innovation in the green energy sector.
Addressing the annual session of industry body PHDCCI, the road transport minister said that his ministry has spent Rs 60,000 crore on road infrastructure development -- an effort that also helped in reducing air pollution in Delhi.
Addressing the annual session of industry body PHDCCI, Gadkari further said that the govt is working to develop an ethanol economy.
Speaking to reporters at the Z-Morh tunnel site, Union Minister Gadkari said his ministry is also building 20 tunnels of a total length of 32 km in Jammu and Kashmir and 11 tunnels of a total length of 20 km in Ladakh.
Nitin Gadkari said that politics is considered as satta karan (power politics ) but this is not the true meaning of politics.
Nitin Gadkari also batted for adopting a low-cost broad gauge metro line to connect Pune with other western Maharashtra districts and proposed to rope in private travel operators to operate them.
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