The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways set five world records this year, including building a 1………75-kilometre highway stretch in just 105 hours and 33 minutes, and the credit went to a dedicated team of engineers, contractors, consultants and workers, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday.
2…The 75-km continuous single bituminous concrete road was constructed between Amravati and Akola on National Highway 53, he said.
“The credit for all this does not go to me, but to the engineers, contractors, consultants, workers who toiled through day and night,” the minister said at the ‘Pandurang Abaji Raut Amrut Mahotsavi Satkar’ event here.
He stressed on the need to increase ethanol production from sugarcane to bolster the country’s fuel needs and to make it an energy exporter.