Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
(
; born 27 May 1957) is an Indian politician from
Maharashtra
[2]
who is the current
Minister for Road Transport & Highways
in the
Government of India
.
[3]
He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways currently running his tenure for over nine years.
[4]
Gadkari earlier served as the President of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) from 2009 to 2013.
[5]
He is also known for his work as the Public Works Department Minister of the State of
Maharashtra
, where, under his leadership, a series of roads, highways and
flyovers
across the state were constructed.
He currently represents the
Nagpur constituency
in the
Lok Sabha
and is a lawyer by occupation. He previously also served as a Minister in various departments which includes Water resources and River development, Shipping, Rural Development and MSME. During the cabinet reshuffle on 7 July 2021, the portfolio for the
Ministry of MSME
which was under him was reassigned to
Narayan Rane
, another
BJP
MP from
Maharashtra
as a part of cabinet expansion. He is often referred to as the "Expressway Man of India" by the media due to his initiation of the
Mumbai-Pune Expressway
and contributions to the development of
expressways
and other road infrastructure.
[6]
[7]
The
World Economic Forum
has recognised him as the "pioneer of
public?private partnership
(PPP) in the road sector in India".
[8]
Under his tenure as Minister of Road and Transport, Indian highway network grew by 59% within 9 years.
[9]
Early life
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]
Gadkari was born into a
Marathi
family
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
in
Nagpur
, India to Jairam Gadkari and Bhanutai Gadkari on 27 May 1957.
[15]
[16]
During his adolescence, he worked for the
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
and the student union
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
. He completed
M.Com.
and
LL.B.
from
Nagpur University
.
[17]
Political career
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Gadkari served as the Minister of
Public Works Department
(PWD) of the
Government of Maharashtra
from 1995 to 1999 and restructured it from top to bottom.
[18]
He has served as the president of the
Maharashtra state
unit of BJP.
[19]
Gadkari strongly supported
privatisation
while he campaigned for investments in infrastructure from
private firms
. He addressed several meetings between private investors,
contractors
, builders and various
trade organisations
and diverted large amounts of budgeted projects towards privatisation. Subsequently, the state government allocated
?
7 billion for rural connectivity. Over the next four years, all-weather road connectivity in
Maharashtra
was extended to 98% of the population. The project aimed to connect 13,736 remote villages which remained unconnected since independence by road.
[20]
[21]
It also helped ameliorate
malnutrition
in remote
Melghat
-
Dharni
area of
Amravati
district, which previously had no access to medical aid,
ration
or educational facilities.
The Union Government appointed him as the Chairman of
National Rural Road Development Committee
. After a series of meetings and studies, Gadkari submitted his report to the central government and gave the presentation to
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
, then
Prime Minister of India
. His new report was accepted and
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
, an ambitious rural road connecting scheme worth ?600 billion, was launched.
[22]
[23]
He received the Late Madhavrao Limaye Award by Public Library Nashik, for Most Efficient Member of Parliament for 2020-21.
[24]
[25]
Positions served
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- Minister, Govt of
Maharashtra
[26]
- Chairman, Purti Group of Companies
[26]
- President,
Bharatiya Janata Party
,
Maharashtra State
[27]
- Leader of Opposition
,
Maharashtra Legislative Council
[26]
- Former Minister for Public Works Department,
Maharashtra State
[26]
- Member of Legislative Council
,
Maharashtra State
[26]
- Elected to the
Maharashtra Govt. Legislative Council
in 1989 from graduates constituency,
Nagpur Region
[26]
- Re-elected in 1990
[26]
- Re-elected in 1996 and elected unopposed in 2002
[26]
- Inducted in the
Maharashtra State
Government Cabinet as the Minister for Public Works on 27 May 1995
[26]
- Member of the High Powered Committee for
Privatisation
,
Government of Maharashtra
[26]
- Chairman,
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation
,
India
[26]
- Guardian Minister for
Nagpur
District, Govt. of
Maharashtra
[26]
- Chairman, Mining policy Implementation Committee, Govt. of
Maharashtra
[26]
- Chairman, Metropolis Beautification Committee, Govt. of
Maharashtra
[26]
- Leader of Opposition,
Maharashtra
Legislative Council
, Chairman
National Rural Road Development Committee
[26]
- Chairman, Review Committee of PWD at Govt. of
India
[26]
- State President of
Bharatiya Janata Party
,
Maharashtra
[28]
- National President of
BJP
,
India
[29]
As Public Works Department (PWD) Minister, Maharashtra, 1996?99
[
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]
As PWD Minister of
Maharashtra
, Gadkari played a crucial role in expediting the construction of the
Mumbai-Pune Expressway
.
[30]
In 1990, the
Government of Maharashtra
conducted feasibility studies for the new expressway to be operated on a toll basis, however, it was only after Gadkari took over as PWD Minister
[31]
that the construction of this project was fast-tracked. Gadkari entrusted the work of the construction of
Mumbai
-
Pune
expressway to
MSRDC
in March 1997 on Build-Operate-Transfer basis with permission to collect toll for 30 years. The tender notice
[32]
was published in leading newspapers all over India and also on the Internet. Due to the wide publicity, 133 tenders were sold and on 18 December 1997, 55 tenders were received. After technical and financial evaluation, tenders were accepted and work orders were given on 1 January 1998 to four contractors. Thereafter tenders for widening of the
Khandala
and
Lonavala
-
Khandala
bypass works were invited. The tenders were received on 24 August 1998 and orders were issued on 4 September 1998. The first sections of the Expressway opened in 2000, and the entire route was completed, opened to traffic and made fully operational from April 2002.
The other major achievement of Gadkari as state minister
[33]
was the construction of 55 flyovers in Mumbai, which eased the city traffic problems significantly.
As President of BJP, 2009?2013
[
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Gadkari was appointed the president of the
BJP
in December 2009. This was considering a tough phase for the
BJP
as the party had lost two successive
Lok Sabha
elections and needed a quick revamp.
[34]
In his book
India Aspires
, co-authored with
Tuhin Sinha
,
[35]
Gadkari spells out his development ideas for the country in great detail. Increased institutional support to green energy, alternate fuel and effective waste management hold special importance in Gadkari's development plan.
[36]
As
BJP
party president, Gadkari, re-emphasised on legendary Jan Sangh leader Deen Dayal Upadhya's principles of
Integral Humanism
and
Antyodaya
(upliftment of the poor). At the same time, various cells
[37]
[38]
were constituted within the party to regularly monitor the develop work undertaken by various
BJP
state governments and to come up with new policy inputs.
Gadkari resigned as party president in January 2013.
[39]
[40]
2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections
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]
Gadkari contested 2014 Lok Sabha election successfully from
Nagpur
constituency and won. He defeated Congress party candidate
Vilas Muttemwar
by margin of 285,000. He retained his seat in 2019, defeating
Nana Patole
of Congress party by 216,000 margin.
[2]
Union Minister
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Gadkari became the
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
and
Minister of Shipping
in May 2014.
Out of the stalled projects he inherited, projects worth
?
1 trillion
(US$12 billion) were terminated and others worth
?
350 billion
(US$4.2 billion) were put up for rebidding.
He increased the pace of road creation in the country from 2 km/day to 16.5 km/day in his first year and to 21 km/day in the second year and end of 2018 30 km/day.
He reserved an amount of one per cent of the total projects awarded in his tenure worth
?
2 trillion
(US$24 billion) for trees and beautification.
During the
Second Modi ministry
, Gadkari retained
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
, while the Ministry of Shipping and
Ministry of Water Resources
, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation were replaced with
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
on 31 May 2019.
[45]
Highway construction pace post 2019 was 36 km per day in 2020 and Gadkari aims to take it to 68 kms per day with a target of 25000 kms in 2022-23.
[46]
[47]
In line with the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat green fuel adoption and fuel self sufficiency Gadkari drove to the parliament in a hydrogen powered FCEV Toyota Mirai car. He asked people to opt for green fuel vehicles.
[48]
Gadkari, who was virtually present at the inauguration of the headquarters of the
National Highways Authority of India
(NHAI) on 28 October 2020, made a speech that was highly critical of the
NHAI
officials and bureaucracy.
[49]
[50]
[51]
Gadkari has been praised for several initiatives by both BJP and Congress leaders as well as critics, most notably for increasing blend of ethanol in gasoline, encouraging mixing plastic in asphalt-bitumen roads, as well as launching the
Bharat NCAP
.
[52]
[53]
The Bharat NCAP has been launched on the lines of Global NCAP,
[54]
which is based on
Latin NCAP
2016.
[55]
Due to absence of safety features in cars made for India, which was noted following the crash testing of a few models in 2014, Gadkari mandated safety features such as ABS and 6 airbags(earlier 2 airbags) for cars sold across India.
[56]
[57]
While he received praise for trying to make roads and cars safer, some automakers criticized this decision, stating that adding safety features will drive up prices of vehicles and make them unaffordable.
[58]
Khasdar Sanskrutik Mahotsav
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Gadkari, organises Khasdar Sanskrutik Mahotsav every year in Nagpur. The event focuses on India's diverse cultural heritage, encompassing traditional arts, music, dance, and literature. The Program Involves Various Bollywood celebrtities, singers and performers including
Hema Malini
,
Mika Singh
,
Amit Trivedi
and
Adnan Sami
.
[59]
[60]
2024 general election
[
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]
In March 2024, he was announced as the BJP candidate from his home constituency Nagpur in the
2024 General Elections
.
[61]
Industrial career
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During his career in politics, Gadkari set up a number of private industries and companies.
[62]
These include ?
- Poly sack Industrial Society Ltd ? founder and chairman
[26]
- Nikhil Furniture and Appliances Pvt. Ltd ? promoter and director
[26]
- Antyodaya Trust ? founder and member
[26]
- Empress Employees Co-operative Paper Mills Ltd ? founder and chairman
[26]
- Purti Power and Sugar Ltd / Purti Sakhar Karkhana Ltd ? promoter
[63]
Gadkari has registered himself as an
agriculturist
for tax purposes. He also started a fruit export company under the banner of "Ketaki Overseas Trading Company".
[26]
He owns a total of 17 sugar plantations in
Vidarbha
under the banner of the Purti group. Gadkari floated the Purti Power and Sugar Ltd (now Purti Group) in 1995,
[64]
when he started as PWD minister in
Maharashtra
. In 2012, the companies came into the media glare based on irregularities unearthed by RTI activist
Anjali Damania
, the Income Tax department investigated a number of firms that had invested in Purti, and found more than a dozen of these to be bogus addresses.
[65]
Another three investing firms were found co-located with the Somani Group, but no one knew of these firms.
[66]
Following this, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal amplified the allegations accusing Gadkari of irregularities. However, Kejriwal apologised unconditionally after Gadkari filed a defamation case against him.
[67]
In 2010, when the Purti group had incurred losses of Rs. 640 million,
[68]
the firm
IRB
, which had obtained hefty road contracts under Gadkari's term as PWD minister, loaned the group Rs. 1.64 billion, which was higher than Purthi's turnover of Rs. 1.45 billion. When questioned on Marathi channel
IBN-Lokmat
, about why he did not avail a loan from banks, Gadkari explained that the balance sheets of the company were not in a suitable state, so he had requested his friend Dattatray to help him out.
[69]
Also, Gadkari's son Nikhil was allegedly a director with IRB at the time. Gadkari argued that there was nothing wrong in having contractors invest in one's firms.
[70]
The news of these allegations broke a few months before Gadkari was to seek re-election as president of the BJP. At the time, Gadkari was to address several rallies for the
2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
.
India Today
reported that BJP leader
Shanta Kumar
had suggested that Gadkari's presence was "affecting
BJP
's anti-corruption campaign."
[71]
Subsequently, Gadkari cancelled his scheduled rallies at Bilaspur and Solan on 30 October.
In early 2013, in the elections for BJP president, for which Gadkari was "close to clinching a second innings"
[72]
his chances unravelled with several senior leaders suggesting that the I-T indictment of the Purti groups investments had damaged his image,
[73]
and Gadkari was not re-elected.
[74]
Gadkari told the
Times of India
that he was stepping down until the inquiry proved him innocent.
[75]
Some RSS functionaries have suggested that his exit was the result of infighting.
[76]
Subsequently, Gadkari threatened the I-T officers, saying "when our party comes to power, there would be no
Chidambaram
or
Sonia
to save them (I-T officials)"; Gadkari said,"Earlier CBI was doing Congress's bidding and now the I-T people are following suit."
[77]
The I-T officers association took umbrage at these remarks and demanded an apology.
[78]
Eventually, in May 2013, the
Income Tax department
assessed that Gadkari's firms had evaded Rs. 70 million via such
benami
investments and other practices. On 30 April. 2014, then Congress union Minister
Manish Tewari
apologised to Gadkari when he was dragged in to a defamation suit by the latter. This apology was based on the judicial commission mention that Gadkari had played no role or had no concern with the scam.
[79]
On 13 May 2014, the Income Tax department of
Maharashtra
state cleared Gadkari's name and gave him a clean chit saying there is no investigation presently pending.
[69]
[80]
[81]
Personal life
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Nitin Gadkari is married to Kanchan Gadkari and they have three children, Nikhil, Sarang and Ketki.
[82]
[83]
His eldest son Nikhil is married to Rutuja Pathak
[84]
and Sarang Gadkari is married to Madhura Rodi.
[85]
Gadkari and his family follow a
vegetarian
diet.
[13]
Event
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In August 2019 Gadkari created controversy when he stated that he had advised the then
Union Finance Minister
to sack the
RBI
Governor because the latter was inflexible and adamant.
[86]
In 2009, seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead with bruises all over her body in a car allegedly owned by Gadkari and parked near his home. Maharashtra's
Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
tried twice to close the case, but was rejected by local courts. Mr Gadkari's employees claimed that the girl accidentally locked herself in the boot of the car and died of suffocation. The girl's mother, however, claimed she was murdered. Yogita's post-mortem report said that she was smothered to death.
[87]
In popular culture
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In 27 October 2023, a Marathi language biopic titled
Gadkari
was released in
Maharashtra
.
[88]
See also
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References
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