When the quality of India's much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai expressway "annoyed" Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari... 👀
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00:00Sometimes, I feel it very, very bad for me that I am encouraging cement concrete road
00:06in the country.
00:07My dream is to make electric highway on Delhi-Mumbai highway.
00:12We have to use waste material in the road construction.
00:16And by using of rubber, waste rubber and waste plastic, where we can reduce the cost of construction
00:23and improve the quality.
00:25But for that reason, the bitumen quality is very important.
00:30I just got the opportunity to visit Mumbai-Delhi express highway.
00:35And I was very much annoyed about the quality of bitumen roads.
00:41There was a difference with the quality from contractor to contractor.
00:45As far as the cost of construction is concerned, as far as designing of the project, using
00:49of the raw material, even from alignment to making different, using of different successful
00:55practices and technology in the world.
00:58I do not know what the reason, but somewhere our system opposing for that.
01:04And somewhere, our people who are already in this sector, they are not too much innovative
01:12and I do not know what the reason why they are not accepting the international successful
01:16practices.
01:18So, one of the reason where in the bitumen roads, we can add 10% of plastic and rubber.
01:27Six months before, there was a problem in front of me related with the import of rubber
01:33tyre, waste tyre.
01:36After understanding all the thing, I convinced environment ministry to allow them to import.
01:41So, this conversion of waste to wealth is very important as far as the ecology and environment
01:46is concerned.
01:47I am always very, very keenly interested to how to reduce the use of steel and cement.
01:54Sometime I feel it very, very bad for me that I am encouraging cement concrete road in the
02:00country.
02:02But my vision was to make the quality of construction good and once a time I have taken a decision
02:07to make all cement concrete road.
02:10But because of the habitual habit of the cement industry to make the cartel, I changed my
02:15view and now allowing people to make bitumen road.
02:19This type of psychology, this type of mindset is not good for the country.
02:25They can make more production and getting more profits.
02:28But someone is exploiting the people and taking the advantage of the situation is not good.
02:34So, it is the time for the country that we should create more alternative and more competition.
02:40Everywhere in municipal corporation, there is a solid waste management.
02:44We need to segregate solid waste.
02:47From that we will get glass, metals and plastic.
02:51We can use that plastic into the shader and that can be used for making roads, adding
02:56in bitumen.
02:58And even from metal also we will get the revenue.
03:00My dream is to make electric highway on Delhi-Mumbai highway, making first phase in Delhi to Jaipur.
03:06But we are trying for that.