Truck associations have called off the nationwide strike against the new hit-and-run laws, under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.
Protests escalate as truckers denounce the new hit-and-run rules; petrol pumps across the country face rush
This is ahead of the earlier deadline of October this year. The Rs 7,716-crore, six-lane road project is seen as the third Ring Road that will decongest the current Ring Road and Delhi-Gurugram Expressway.
Gadkari said that the journey from Delhi to Dehradun will now be completed in two hours by the end of the year.
Once the country scales the production of green hydrogen, this can be used to drastically reduce the cost of transportation in the country while being sustainable, the minister said
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had come out with a Rs 6,000-crore contract to concretise 397 km of Mumbai roads.
Education on road safety and enforcement of road safety rules is key to improving safety standards in India.
With fuel costs soaring, the truckers are calling on the government to make permanent a minimum-pay system known as the 'Safe Freight Rate' that is due to expire by the end of the year, and to expand benefits for truckers in other industries, including oil tankers.
The truckers are urging the government to provide a minimum wage in the face of soaring fuel prices that are squeezing their finances.
The virus, economic uncertainty and overlapping guidelines keep truckers away from work.
Major industries across the country are hit as the inter-state goods movement has come to a standstill
CNBC-TV18's Prashant Nair & Yash Jain did a ground check on how the government's move to suspend the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes is affecting the truckers and transporters of the country.