Addressing the Indian Road Congress meeting, Shri Gadkari said that he had committed to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi that Road Transport, Shipping and Inland Waterways will yield Two Percent extra to the GDP of the country. He said that the Highways sector is passing through a bad phase and 19 out of 51 road projects had to be dropped for different reasons. He also lamented that not a single kilometre of highway network could be added in the month of July and pulled up officials and other stake holders to speed up the process to achieve the target of building 30 kms of highways per day in the next two years. Admitting that impediments like land acquisition bill, environmental clearances and Defence and Railways land had stalled many projects, the Minister informed that upto 80 percent of the projects stuck for environment and forest clearances have been solved and land acquisition process and clearances from Railways and Defence are being expedited. Shri Gadkari urged the Indian Roads Congress to concentrate on Research and Development and Designing as per the global standards. He said, this is the right time for the road sector and there will be no dearth of resources including foreign funding but all should focus on time-bound completion of projects.
Courtesy: pib.nic.in
2 comments:
This is pending for too long. I hope they consider the pains of the professionals who get transferred between cities and end up paying the road tax multiple times and also harassed by the RTO officials who behave like it is still the British Raj and the peopel are their subjects.
Hope BJP implements this soon. Good to see our government caring for the problems of the common man.
it's. a nice step to linked rto with e governance, but I think there is a huge needs to modify motor vehicles act, reduce formalities, seize vehicle in rare cases, release vehicle on less formalities etc, specially compulsion of helmet in city areas, ir encourage bribe.
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