Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said highway works worth Rs 11,000 crore were underway for Tamil Nadu-Puducherry connectivity
The statement from the Union Minister came just days after the eighth meeting of the Nepal-India Oversight Mechanism
The road is expected to be a two-lane road with paved shoulders, which will also be four-lane wide at certain stretches
Union minister Nitin Gadkari said industry players should adopt innovative methods and new technologies to improve cost efficiency and construction quality of infrastructure projects
The minister also called for broadbasing support for innovations and entrepreneurship so that bonafide new talent also gets a chance to grow
Union minister Nitin Gadkari said there is a need for a policy on public private partnership (PPP) model for an intelligent traffic system to reduce road accidents
The policy is expected to encourage customers to go in for new purchases which will be backed-up by government incentives in lieu of their old vehicles
Alternative fuel like ethanol, methanol, bio diesel, electric and bio CNG besides LNG were the fuel for future and should be promoted, he said and added a roadmap was being readied for fuel policy
Union minister Nitin Gadkari will lay foundation stone of and inaugurate 11 highway projects worth Rs 4,300 crore in Uttar Pradesh on September 1, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry said
Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that road projects of Rs 50,000 crore would be completed by 2023 in Madhya Pradesh and assured that in two years the state would have a world-class highways network
Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said there is a need to modernise the public transport fleet and promote use of green fuel like bio-CNG, ethanol, methanol as well as electricity.
Apart from optic fibre, transmission and gas pipelines, a large number of industrial clusters are planned on its side
Union minister Nitin Gadkari stressed the need for utilising modern and green technologies in highways construction besides reducing the cost of road building by at least 25 per cent
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stones of Rs 3,000-crore highway projects in Manipur and said the government will soon take up additional projects worth Rs 16,023 crore in the state.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stone of highway projects worth Rs 3,000 crore for Manipur on Monday through a virtual ceremony, the government said on Friday.
The Minister said China's 70 per cent of exports pertained to ten sectors and asked industry players to research on various sectors
The minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs said automobile and micro, small and medium enterprises are the two growth engines of the country's economy
Nitin Gadkari said that he will write to Commerce Ministry and Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the export of PPE kits, facial masks and sanitisers
Wants textile industry to explore use of new materials like bamboo, says he will speak to PM to allow export of PPE
Gadkari also said that the government aims to increase MSMEs' contribution to the GDP to 50 per cent and in share of exports to 60 per cent