MoRTH Secretary Anurag Jain and other senior officials welcomed Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Ministers of State Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra at the Transport Bhawan premises here.
Union Minister Niting Gadkari said that 40 bypasses are going to be built in Uttar Pradesh at a cost of Rs 41,000 crore.
Union road transport and highways Minister Nitin Gadkari inspected the Zojila tunnel with J&K Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday.
Spelling glad tidings, the work on the 360-kms long Mumbai-Goa National Highway (NH-66) will be completed by the year-end and the thoroughfare will be opened for traffic in January 2024, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has sanctioned Rs 1,292.65 crore under the Bharatmala Pariyojana for the development of 32 km long 6-lane access controlled greenfield highway from Chandrasekharapuram to Polavaram on (NH-544G) Bengaluru-Vijayawada Economic Corridor in Hybrid Annuity Mode in Andhra Pradesh.
The Union minister said the park will have facilities for all 21 types of disabilities. It will have facilities like a touch-and-smell garden, hydrotherapy unit, water therapy and independent rooms for mentally challenged children and mothers.
Gadkari announced this while addressing the CII's Global Economic Summit, adding that the product will be of great help to the contractors.
Gadkari said that the natural beauty of Mandla and Kanha National Park have always attracted tourists.
The Union Minister added that the success of this pilot project will create an ecosystem of electric vehicles and make India a global leader in the manufacture of these electric vehicles.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday emphasised the need for a reduction in logistics costs from the current around 14 to 16 per cent to 10 per cent with "cooperation, coordination and communication" among stakeholders.
