Seaplanes cost-effective, will revolutionise transport sector: Gadkari

Gadkari said such mode of transport would be made available wherever possible in the country, including Uttarakhand and the Himalayan region.

Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled in sea-plane, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said this mode will revolutionise the transport sector of the country.

Modi flew this morning in a sea-plane from the Sabarmati River to Dharoi Dam in Mehsana district on the last day of campaigning for the Gujarat Assembly elections.

"It is a big revolution in the transport sector of our country," Gadkari told reporters after meeting Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat here.

It has nothing to do with the Gujarat elections, said Gadkari, who was onboard a sea-plane during its trial run at the Girgaum Chowpatty