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Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
Shri Nitin Gadkari urges Automobile Companies to

diversify to alternate fuel or electricity based
public transport
He also appealed to the industry to explore

waterways as alternate and cheaper means of
transport
Posted On: 07 SEP 2018 5:39PM by PIB Delhi
The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River
Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari has called the urgent attention of
automobile companies towards the need for an efficient public transport system in the
country, run on electricity or alternate fuels. Addressing CEOs of Indian and global
automobile companies as part of MOVE: Global Mobility Summit 2018 in New Delhi
today, Shri Gadkari urged them to actively think about diversifying into the public
transport sector, and focus their research and innovation efforts in this direction.
Private vehicles are proliferating rapidly on Indian roads he said, and highways
expansion cannot feasibly keep pace with this growth. We therefore need to encourage
people to shift to public transport, and for this we have to put in place systems that are
efficient and convenient, comfortable and safe.
Shri Gadkari further emphasized the need to bring down the huge cost of petroleum
imports that the country bears, and reiterated his appeal to the automobile sector to shift
to electricity or alternate fuels like ethanol, methanol, bio-diesel or hybrid. He assured
the companies that the government was committed to developing all kinds of fuels –
anything that brought import-substitution, was cost effective, environment friendly and
indigenous.
The minister also appealed to the industry to explore inland waterways and coastal
shipping as alternate and cheaper means of transportation. He said the ongoing Jal Marg
Vikas project on River Ganga was readying the river for transport, and this route, which
will link further to Brahmaputra, will make it possible to transport goods from India
right up to Bangladesh and Myanmar through waterways. He called upon automobile
companies to use this route for transporting their vehicles.
CEOs/ MDs / Representatives from various Indian and global companies including TATA
Motors, TATA Power, Mercedes Benz (India) , Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, Honda
India, Ford and Spicejet attended the Session with CEOs at the summit today. They
deliberated on the challenges and opportunities that their companies faced with regard
to the mobility sector in India and especially in context of the Prime Minister’s call
earlier today to focus on the three C’s of Common, Connected, Convenient, Congestion-
free, Charged and Cutting -edge when talking of the mobility solutions in the country.
Shri Gadkari also chaired the session on Reinventing Public Transport at the Summit
today, where he appealed to stakeholders to give highest emphasis on introducing cost
effective and pollution free public transport systems based on new technology. He invited
the industry to invest in water transport especially for ferrying pilgrims between
Allahabad and Varanasi during Kumbh.
Road Transport and Highways Secretary Shri Yudhvir Singh Malik underlined the need
to shift concentration towards developing more public transport in intercity travel. He
said, we need to substitute personal vehicles with public transport. For this public
transport requires reliability, timeliness and comfort. Indicating that while highways are
carrying about 40 per cent of total traffic, and highway construction has picked up speed,
last mile connectivity still remains a matter of concern. He said, there is over 10 times
growth in number of vehicles in the last 25 years. Number of two-wheelers has exploded,
share of cars is lesser, and that of the buses is down hugely. This has necessitated re-
inventing public transport system in the country.
The two day Global Mobility Summit has been organized by Niti Ayog in New Delhi as a
platform to rethink and deliberate upon ways to move people and goods more efficiently.

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Ministry of Road Transport & Highways

Shri Nitin Gadkari urges Automobile Companies to

He also appealed to the industry to explore

Posted On: 07 SEP 2018 5:39PM by PIB Delhi

(Release ID: 1545341) Visitor Counter : 418

Read this release in: Marathi

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