Nitin Gadkari On The Importance Of Roads

Why did Nitin Gadkari get his father-in-law's house bulldozed once?

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00:00I told my wife that I had put a bulldozer at my in-laws' house.

00:07I was newly married and my in-laws' house was coming in the middle of the road.

00:12The road was being built in Ramtek, so I told my wife that I had put a bulldozer at my in-laws' house.

00:20And I had blown up the road.

00:22This is what leaders should do. They should not commit the sin of saving the opposition.

00:26I have a dream.

00:29I have written in my office that American roads are not good because America is rich.

00:37But America is rich because American roads are good.

00:41This was said by John Kennedy.

00:43Prosperity comes from roads, development happens.

00:47And after building roads, land prices increase.

00:50I am a journalist. We have given farmers one and a half times the market price.

00:56I am a farmer.

00:58And in a very liberal approach, we have given farmers the price of land acquisition.

01:04But I will ask those farmers not to sell their land.

01:08If you go ahead to develop it, you will get more money.

01:13Because I want farmers to become rich.

01:15But when we build roads, the builders and developers buy the land.

01:21And they get the benefit of the rise in prices.

01:24The roads have become kilometers now.

01:27But no one will tolerate those who do bad work.

01:31Whether it is an official or a contractor, they will not be spared.

01:35These are the assets of our country. We are not going to compromise with it.