“Unless Somebody Screams…”: Nitin Gadkari On Highway Projects Execution

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday requested officers to take selections swiftly to hurry up the implementation of freeway initiatives.

Addressing the Annual Nationwide Highways Excellence Award Ceremony, the Highway Transport and Highways Minister regretted that the ministry doesn’t transfer information except anyone shouts for it.

“Until anyone screams, the information don’t transfer within the ministry…at the least 2 per cent of ministry workers who don’t take selections on time, have to be retired,” he stated.

The minister, who is understood for his frank views, additionally identified that officers within the ministry are taking virtually a yr to return the financial institution assure of contractors.

Gadkari stated round 2 lakh circumstances on land acquisition are pending within the Supreme Court docket.

Additionally, talking on the occasion, Minister of State within the Ministry of Highway, Transport and Highways Harsh Malhotra acknowledged the efforts of stakeholders, engineers and staff who’re enjoying an important position in increasing the nation’s Nationwide Highway infrastructure utilizing fashionable practices.

Highways Secretary V Umashankar reiterated the necessity to develop a world-class Nationwide Highway community by growing stakeholder collaboration and urged everybody to attempt for excellence.

NHAI chairman Santosh Kumar Yadav outlined key initiatives undertaken by the authority to leverage fashionable applied sciences to attain excellence within the growth of the Nationwide Highway framework. 

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