Nitin Gadkari

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Nitin Jairam Gadkari (listen) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is the current Minister of Road Transport & Highways of India and the Shipping Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Government of India.

Gadkari served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2010-13.

He is also known for his work as the State of Maharashtra's Public Works Department Minister, where under his leadership, a string of roads, highways, and flyovers have been built throughout the state, including the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, India's first six-lane concrete expressway.

Gadkari is closely associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is headquartered in Nagpur's home constituency.

He currently serves for the Nagpur constituency in the Lok Sabha, as both a lawyer and industrialist by profession.

Background and education

Nitin Gadkari was born in Nagpur, India, to Jairam Gadkari and Bhanutai Gadkari on May 27, 1957. He served with the Bharatiya Morcha and the student union Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad during his youth. He earned his M.Com degree. L.L.B. and L.L.B. Nagpur University is a university in Nagpur, India.

Personal life

Nitin Gadkari is married to Kanchan Gadkari and they have three children, Nikhil, Sarang, and Ketki. Nikhil's elder son, who is married to Rutuja Pathak and Sarang Gadkari, is married to Madhura Rodi. The Gadkar family follows a vegetarian diet.

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Political career

Nitin Gadkari served as the Minister of Public Works (PWD) of Maharashtra's Government from 1995 to 1999 and restructured it from top to bottom. He has served as the president of the Maharashtra state unit of the BJP.

Gadkari favored privatization, but he pressed for reforms in infrastructure from private companies. He attended several meetings with private investors, architects, designers, and several trade groups, who all agreed that substantial budgeted funds would be diverted to privatization. The state government also invested 7 billion for rural connectivity. All-weather road links in Maharashtra has been extended to 98% of the population over the next four years. The initiative was designed to link 13,736 remote villages that had been unconnected since independence by road. It also helped alleviate hunger in the remote Melghat-Dharni district of Amravati district, which had no access to medical assistance, ration, or educational facilities.

He was appointed Chairman of the National Rural Road Development Committee by the Union Government. Gadkari submitted his report to the central government and then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee, after a series of meetings and studies. His latest study was accepted, and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, an ambitious rural road connecting scheme worth 600 billion, was unveiled. For 2020-21, he was nominated for Most Efficient Member of Parliament by Public Library Nashik.

Gadkari, Maharashtra's PWD Minister, served a crucial role in expediting the building of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. The government of Maharashtra conducted feasibility studies for the new expressway to be operated on a toll basis in 1990, but it was only after Gadkari assumed power as the PWD Minister that the project was finally launched. On a Build-Operate-Transfer basis, Gadkari entrusted the construction of Mumbai-Pune expressway to MSRDC in March 1997, with the ability to collect toll for 30 years. The tender notice was distributed in leading newspapers all over India and also on the internet. Due to the widespread media, 133 tenders were sold, and 55 tenders were received on December 18, 1997. After a careful and financial analysis, tenders were accepted and work orders were sent to four contractors on January 1, 1998. Following tenders for widening of the Khandala and Lonavala bypass works, they were welcomed. The tenders were released on August 24, 1998, and orders were released on September 4, 1998. The first sections of the Expressway were opened in 2000, but the entire route was completed, opened to traffic, and made fully operational from April 2002.

The other major achievement of Gadkar as state minister was the building of 55 flyovers in Mumbai, which reduced the city's traffic jams dramatically.

In December 2009, Gadkari was elected president of the BJP. The BJP had lost two consecutive Lok Sabha elections and needed a fresh start this year.

Gadkari's book India Aspires, co-authored with Tuhin Sinha, spells out the country's growth plans in great detail. In Gadkari's growth strategy, greater institutional support for green energies, alternate fuels, and efficient waste management are all important.

Gadkari, the party's president, re-emphasised on Deen Dayal Upadhya's values of Integral Humanism and Antyodaya (upliftment of the poor). At the same time, several cell groups within the party were established to track the progress made by various BJP state governments and come up with new policy inputs.

In January 2013, Gadkari resigned as the party's president.

Gadkari won the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Nagpur constituency and gained. Vilas Muttemwar, the Democratic presidential candidate, was defeated by a margin of 285,000. He held his position in 2019 by a 216,000 margin over Nana Patole of Congress.

In May 2014, Gadkari became the Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Shipping. Out of the stalled programs he inherited, ones worth 1 billion (US$13 billion) were cancelled, others worth 350 billion (US$4.4 billion) were rebidding. He accelerated road building in the country from 2 km/day to 16.5 km/day in his first year and then 21 km/day in the second year, and 29 km/day at the end of 2018. He reserved a fraction of the total projects awarded during his tenure, worth more than a billion dollars (US$25 billion) for trees and beautification.

Gadkar retained the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, while the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation were upgraded with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises on May 31, 2019. Gadkari intends to push highway construction in 2020 to 68 km/day, with a target of 25000 kms per day in 2022-23. Gadkari drove to parliament in a hydrogen powered Toyota Mirai vehicle, aligning with Atmanirbhar Bharat's green fuel conversion and fuel self sufficiency. He encouraged people to use green fuel cars.

On October 28, 2020, Gadkari, who was virtually present at the inauguration of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), made a scathing critique of the NHAI officials and bureaucracy.

Industrial career

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For tax purposes, Gadkari has identified himself as an agriculturist. He also established "Ketaki overseas Trading Company" fruit exporting company. He owns a total of 17 sugar plantations in Vidarbha, which are part of the Purti group. When Nitin Gadkari began as PWD minister in Maharashtra in 1995, he floated Purti Power and Sugar Ltd (now Purti Group). The companies came into the media spotlight in 2012 as a result of fraud found by RTI activist Anjali Damania, the Income Tax department investigated a number of companies in Purti and discovered more than a dozen of these to be bogus addresses, which revealed more than a dozen of them to be bogus addresses. Three other investment firms were discovered co-located with Somani Group, but no one knew of them. Following this, Delhi Chief Arvind Kejriwal rebutted the charges accusing Gadkari of misconduct. However, Kejriwal apologised unconditionally after Gadkari brought a defamation lawsuit against him.

When the Purti company had suffered losses of Rs. 1, the Purti group had suffered losses of Rs. The firm IRB, which had obtained lucrative road contracts under Gadkari's term as PWD minister, lent the group Rs. 6 million. Purthi's turnover of Rs. 1.64 billion was higher than Purthi's. 1.45 billion dollars. When asked why he did not get a loan from banks, Gadkari explained that the balance sheets of the company were not in a good shape, so he had asked his friend Dattatray to assist him. In addition, Gadkar's son Nikhil was suspected of being an IRB director at the time. Gadkari argued that it was not improper to have contractors invest in one's companies.

The news of these allegations emerged just a few months before Gadkari planned to run for re-election as the BJP's president. Gadkari was scheduled to appear at several rallies for the 2012 Himalayan Legislative Assembly election. Gadkari's presence, according to India Today, is "affecting BJP's anti-corruption drive." On October 30, Gadkari called off his planned rallies in Bilaspur and Solan.

Gadkari's chances of clinching a second innings in early 2013, when many senior politicians said that the I-T indictment of the Purti organisations had damaged his image, and Gadkari was not re-elected. Gadkari told the Times of India that he did not resign until the inquiry revealed him innocent. According to some RSS programmers, his departure was the result of infighting. Gadkari threatening the I-T officers as "when our party comes to power, there will 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." The I-T officers union reacted angrily to these remarks and demanded an apology.

The Income Tax Department discovered that Gadkari's companies had evaded Rs. in May 2013. Such benami investments and other activities have resulted in the loss of 70 million. On the 30th of April, the nation's longest-serving monarch was in charge of the Olympics. Manish Tewari, the former prime minister of India, apologised to Nitin Gadkari when he was dragged in to a defamation lawsuit filed by the latter. This apology was based on the judicial commission's statement that Gadkari had no involvement or was unaware of the fraud. The Income Tax department of Maharashtra's state cleared Nitin Gadkari's name and gave him a clean chit on Wednesday, saying there is no probe currently underway.

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