00:00In an event held on Saturday at the Mumbai-based Bandra-Kurla complex, Road and Transport Minister
00:14Nitin Gadkari spoke openly about the toll system on toll tax and highways.
00:19He also said that we are going to bring such a policy on tolls that no one will be able
00:25to ask questions about tolls.
00:27Central Minister Nitin Gadkari said during the conversation about increasing the toll tax charge
00:32on a question asked that the Parliamentary session is going on right now, so we will not tell much about this.
00:39But from the upcoming April 1, 2025, we are bringing such a policy that you will be happy
00:46and will not be able to ask any questions about tolls.
00:49Although he refused to tell in detail about this, but said that people are now debating
00:55about toll rates on highways.
00:58He also said that the current toll income of NHAI i.e. National Highways Authority of India
01:04is Rs 55,000 crores and in the next two years it will be Rs 1,40,000 crores.
01:11Central Minister Gadkari further said that I want poor people to invest in highway construction
01:18and we will only offer 8.05% interest for them compared to the 4.5% deposit given by the banks.
01:26Nitin Gadkari said that 65% of our country's population is rural,
01:32which contributes 12% in growth.
01:36The country is moving fast on biofuel and farmers are now not only food providers,
01:42but they are also becoming energy providers.
01:45He said with hope that our agricultural growth rate will increase by 20% in the coming years.
01:53Growth in the agricultural sector will play an important role in becoming the third largest economy in the world.
02:00The Central Minister said that I am happy that the mission I started with biofuel was successful.
02:07Today, 4,000 projects in India are running on bioethanol and bio-CNG.
02:12Regarding the Mega Plan for 2047, he said that we have projects worth Rs 5 lakh crores.
02:18We are building 36 Green Express Highways in the country.
02:22Once these are completed, you will be able to reach Bangalore from Chennai in 2 hours
02:26and Bangalore from Mumbai in 6 hours.
02:29He said that work on the Surat Highway is also underway from Chennai.
02:33Apart from this, we are building 105 tunnels in Jammu and Kashmir.
02:37Nitin Gadkari said that we don't just talk about building Mega Plans.
02:41We will become a developed India by 2047 and we have complete faith in this.
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