Nitin Gadkari, who participated in India TV's Samvaad on Modi government's 8 years in power, revealed how he was made Union Minister to take care of roads and highways.
PM Modi began with his foreign visits to meet counterparts, discuss what India wants and can give, like all prime ministers but with one difference, his unique style of making a personal relation with them.
The pace of development both on approval of projects and execution has been impressive unlike situation during previous governments when projects were merely passed on paper but less execution on the ground.
Apart from felicitating connectivity for locals, Ganga Expressway will also be an industrial corridor.
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.
In a series of tweets, the Road Transport and Highways Minister also said he has sanctioned the widening and strengthening work of NH-334A to two lanes with a budget of Rs 227.06 crore in Uttar Pradesh.
A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud passed the order on appeal filed by Citizens for Doon, an NGO, challenging NGT order passed on Oct 6 declining to interfere in the matter.
According to 'winter action plan' issued by Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration, 'police have been asked to ensure that vehicles not destined for Noida or Greater Noida use bypasses or peripheral expressways.'
Nitin Gadkari said with an investment of Rs 11,000 crore, the 313 km long Ambala-Kotputli highway will transform the road infrastructure of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to construct 594 km-long expressway between Prayagraj and Meerut, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Saturday.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said the economic corridor will reduce the travel time between the two cities by half from current 3 hours to only 90 minutes.
Districts including Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahar, Amroha, Sambhal, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rai Bareli, Pratapgarh, and Prayagraj will benefit from the construction of this Ganga expressway.
In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Gadkari said, out of total length of the project, 350 km has already been constructed and works for construction of 825 km is in progress.
The expressway will pass through 10 districts - Thane, Nashik, Ahmednagar, Jalna, Aurangabad, Buldhana, Washim, Amravati, Wardha and Nagpur, besides giving connectivity at strategic points to another 24 districts of the state's total 36 districts.
Commenting on the incident, police said the injured workers have been rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will ease the current load of heavy traffic on Pune-Mumbai Expressway, once the under-construction greenfield expressway is operational.
Road accidents are still rising on the Western Peripheral Expressway or the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway which was made operational in 2019.
In a reply to a query by Banda-based activist Kuldeep Shukla, senior manager of the state Forest Department, Atul Asthana, said that the UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) has cut 1,89,036 trees for the project.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said the first phase of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway from Nagpur to Shirdi will be thrown open to public on May 1, 2021.
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has informed that his ministry will take up the task to built the greenfield link to the upcoming Jewar Airport in Noida.
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