Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways & Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises (MSMEs), Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the upstream carriageway of Mahatma Gandhi bridge over River Ganga through video conference in Bihar on Friday.

The Ministry of Railways had invited 12 requests for qualifications (RFQs) for private participation in the operation of passenger train services to over 109 origin-destination route pairs through the introduction of 151 modern trains or rakes, which shall be in addition to the existing trains operated on the network.

These trains are going to run on the routes where there the demand for train services are higher than the existing capacity. The driver and guard of the trains will railway officials. The safety clearance of trains will be done by Railways only.

Amitabh Kumar, Director General of Shipping & Additional Secretary to the Govt of India on Tuesday said that shipbuilding was a high priority area for the government and it was trying various methods to incentivise it.

In a significant move, the Ministry of Railways has invited request for qualification (RFQ) for private participation for operation of passenger train services on 109 origin-destination (OD) pairs of routes through introduction of 151 modern trains or rakes.

Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State for Steel has assured the industry that the government was taking all necessary steps to reduce the logistics cost in India help the end users.

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Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), on Tuesday said that priority of the government is to develop indigenous, low carbon, sustainable, economically viable, pollution-free and cost-effective transportation system, which also provides comfort to the poor.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that any crisis also provides us with an opportunity and the country must use this challenging time as a turning point to become atmanirbhar or self-reliant.