Prosperity of nation comes from road: Gadkari
Addressing the 'HT Leadership Summit' on Friday in New Delhi, the minister said, the Government is eyeing to improve the quality and safety of the road in coming years.
Maintaining that prosperity of the country comes from its roads, Gadkari said, "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. "
He said, "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."
He asserted that within two years -Roads and Shipping, Inland Waterways will contribute at least 2% of the GDP.
Gadkari said, Government is giving impetus to use of alternative fuels.
He said, "Will start buses based on bio fuels. Will encourage all alternative fuels."
Gadkari admitted that there are areas of concerns.
"There are some things in my hands and for some questions I have no answer."
But he maintained that Government will succeed in converting all problems into opportunities.
"Railways clearances have already been solved," he said.
He added, "Driving licenses to be issued by a computer and not RTO. There will be a transparent no corruption system. Within 2 years, we will do at least 30 kilometres in a day...I'm confident that this is the target for me and I will complete it."
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