A proposal by Ministry for Road, Transport and Highways also called for an exemption on the payment of a registration mark in battery-operated vehicles.
Highways ministry built 13,298 km in 2020-21, up from 10,237 km in 2019-20. However, road construction has not crossed Gadkari's 2017 target of 40 km/day.
By 2024, India’s road infrastructure will be comparable to US & Europe, with access-controlled expressways, public transport running on electricity, Nitin Gadkari said at ThePrint's Off the Cuff.
For existing car models, which are already under production, the deadline for fitting airbags for front-seat passengers is 31 August 2021, according to a highways ministry notification.
Road transport ministry is planning to incentivise owners when they go to buy a new vehicle after getting the old one scrapped. Renewal fee to see a steep increase.
In a letter, the chairman of the court-appointed High Powered Committee Ravi Chopra had attributed the Uttarakhand flash flood to the Rs 12,000-crore road project.
SC ordered on 8 September that width of Char Dham highway will be 5.5m due to ecological concerns in Himalayas. MoD wants it at 7m for security reasons.
Aim is to ensure not just disengagement of troops, but overall de-escalation. Govt in favour of solving tensions through talks as it wants peace with all neighbours including China.
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.