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Delhi,The government today said that it will introduce Motor Vehicles Amendment
Bill in the next session of Parliament to end malpractices in Regional
Transport Offices (RTOs) across the country. Union Minister for Road Transport
and Highways Nitin Gadkari said here that the Amendment Bill is being
made, based on the best practices of developed countries like USA, Canada,
Singapore, Japan, Germany and the UK. He said, the Motor Vehicles Act has
become obsolete and it needs to be changed for ending corruption in RTO
offices. He said, the transport department will be linked to e-governance for
bringing total transparency and easy and hassle-free services to the people.
Addressing the Indian Road Congress meeting, Shri Gadkari said that he had
committed to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi that Road Transport, Shipping
and Inland Waterways will yield Two Percent extra to the GDP of the country. He
said that the Highways sector is passing through a bad phase and 19 out of 51
road projects had to be dropped for different reasons. He also lamented that
not a single kilometre of highway network could be added in the month of July
and pulled up officials and other stake holders to speed up the process to
achieve the target of building 30 kms of highways per day in the next two
years. Admitting that impediments like land acquisition bill, environmental
clearances and Defence and Railways land had stalled many projects, the
Minister informed that upto 80 percent of the projects stuck for environment
and forest clearances have been solved and land acquisition process and
clearances from Railways and Defence are being expedited. Shri Gadkari urged
the Indian Roads Congress to concentrate on Research and Development and
Designing as per the global standards. He said, this is the right time for the
road sector and there will be no dearth of resources including foreign funding
but all should focus on time-bound completion of projects.
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