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Build Top-Class Roads, Or I Will Put You Under The Road Roller, Gadkari Warns Contractors, After SC Observations
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The Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, Nitin Gadkari has firmly warned road contractors over the issue of accidental pothole deaths. The warning from Gadkari comes hours after the Supreme Court (SC) expressed its concern on road quality and termed the 14,000-plus deaths - higher than deaths in terror attacks- as ‘unacceptable’.
“I told many big contractors that if the quality of roads you build is bad, I will put them under a road roller,” said Gadkari, as reported by Financial Express.
Gadkari hailed the current government and said that the construction rate of roads, which was 2 km per day earlier, is now 28 km and claimed that the target is to build 40 km of road per day.
Furthermore, Gadkari claimed that 70-80 per cent cleaning of the tremendously polluted Ganga river will be completed by end of March and said that by March 2020, the river will be 100 per cent clean. Gadkari defended the decline in the second quarter GDP growth rates by saying that India is still the fastest growing economy.
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