Gadkari bets on electric mobility, PPP, retail investors for infra growth

Gadkari called road accidents his biggest failure as the road minister

There are two things that one can always expect from Nitin Gadkari: candour and new age infrastructure ideas. As chief guest at the India@75 Platinum Perspectives organised by Business Standard, the union minister for road transport and highways (MoRTH) demonstrated both in equal measure.

In a fireside chat with BS, Gadkari kept the audience engaged while replying to questions on the theme of ‘Past, Present and Future’. “In the old days, there were communist parties, socialist parties, and swatantra parties at the fore. Today, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, eradication of poverty is our main mission. For