“Will make India's road as good as the ones in the US before 2024.” Nitin Gadkari hit all the right notes in his latest Parliament speech. Can he deliver?
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00:00Now I am telling you that after this, within three months,
00:04within 60 kilometers, there will be only one toll,
00:07if there is another one, then it will be stopped.
00:09I have decided,
00:11that we will prepare 1000 contractors in the country,
00:15who can only do the work of transplantation.
00:18We will not break the tree, we will transplant it.
00:23Honorable President,
00:25I have said many times that
00:27our roads are connected to our prosperity.
00:32And that is why, since I have been working in this field,
00:35John Kennedy,
00:37I always remember one of his words,
00:40and he had said that
00:41American roads are not good because America is rich,
00:45but America is rich because American roads are good.
00:49I want to assure this organization,
00:52that before 2024 ends,
00:55India's road infrastructure will be equal to that of America.
01:05And I know that because of this, employment will be created,
01:09because of this, there will be growth,
01:12because of this, employment potential will increase,
01:15because of this, agriculture growth will increase,
01:17and with that, tourism will also increase.
01:19Honorable President, I request you,
01:22that only in Jammu and Kashmir, we are working for 60,000 crores.
01:27The Jhojila tunnel that is being built,
01:30I was fortunate for the first time,
01:32that your Kashmir is like heaven, how beautiful it is.
01:35In the Jhojila tunnel, right now,
01:371000 people are working inside,
01:40in minus 8 degrees.
01:42And the deadline for the work to be completed is 2026.
01:45I told them to complete it before 2024.
01:48So I think this will be a historic work.
01:51I have decided,
01:53that we will create 1000 contractors in the country,
01:57who can only do transplantation work.
02:00We will not break trees, we will transplant.
02:03I often say this,
02:05that innovation, entrepreneurship, science, technology,
02:08research, skilled and successful practices,
02:11we name it as a knowledge.
02:13And conversion of knowledge into wealth is the future.
02:16And you people gave me suggestions yesterday,
02:18I accepted your suggestions.
02:20One, someone said, I am forgetting the name,
02:22President Maharaj.
02:23He said, on the Aadhaar card,
02:25maybe Srinivas Patil ji said,
02:27on the Aadhaar card,
02:29after which there is Aadhaar card and toll there,
02:31so after seeing the Aadhaar card,
02:33assume that it should be issued a pass immediately.
02:35So I suggest,
02:37wherever such tolls are made,
02:39and there are local people there,
02:41they will make a pass with the Aadhaar card.
02:43Secondly, there is no toll within 60 km.
02:47And some places are open.
02:49Today I assure Sadan,
02:51many times this is wrong,
02:53it is illegal.
02:55I repeatedly say,
02:56but we get money,
02:57so I say yes to the department.
02:59He has fought with me for so many days,
03:01Mr. Bhole.
03:03Now I am telling,
03:04after this,
03:05within three months,
03:07within 60 km,
03:08there will be only one toll,
03:10if there is another,
03:11then there will be another.
03:13Because people definitely need money,
03:16which means people should not be troubled.
03:18We talked about road safety.
03:20In this,
03:22now we have a lot of ways to improve road engineering.
03:25I am the minister of the automobile industry.
03:27Many industries got angry with me.
03:29Because I made 6 airbags mandatory for the economic model.
03:34So they said the cost will increase.
03:36So I said the cost will increase,
03:37so let it increase.
03:39If the poor die, let them die.
03:41Is it like that here?
03:43After this,
03:44in this country,
03:45economic model,
03:46even if it is a small nano model,
03:48every car will have 6 airbags,
03:51we have made it mandatory,
03:53so that our people do not die.
03:55Now this pollution,
03:57of the road,
03:59of diesel,
04:00this is also a problem.
04:02I have been pursuing this for 15 years.
04:04And now I will invite you,
04:07to come to my house next week in this session.
04:09I will give you a tour in a car running on hydrogen.
04:12We need public transport on electricity.
04:15Stop the buses of petrol and diesel.
04:18I came to Kashmir,
04:20I told LG sir,
04:22that I was watching your buses,
04:24everyone leaves the horn and goes.
04:26There are such buses in Bihar.
04:28There is no need to honk.
04:30In Uttar Pradesh, in Bihar,
04:32Yogi ji came to meet me the day before yesterday,
04:34I said take electric buses.
04:36Now 900 electric buses are coming to Mumbai.
04:37500 buses are coming to Pune.
04:39200 buses are coming to Nagpur.
04:41These are electric buses.
04:43Let me tell you,
04:45the times have changed.
04:47So in the coming time,
04:49you should come up with proposals
04:51for roadways and cable cars.
04:53I will help you make all this
04:55with the money of the Indian government.
04:57I want to assure you.