Gadkari Bolstering infra creating jobs will be priority

Bolstering countrys infrastructure and creating jobs through small industries will be the priority for senior BJP leader Nitin Jairam Gadkari who took charge as Minister for Road Transport Highways and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Ministries on TuesdayDelhi Nitin Gadkari takes charge as the Union Minister of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises MSME and Pratap Chandra Sarangi takes charge as the Minister of State MoS for MSME pictwittercomKCva0lEUufmdash ANI ANI June 4 2019Known for his administrative prowess and innovative approach in addressing issues Gadkari 62 often dubbed as one of the high performing ministers during the previous term of Prime Minister Narendra Modiled government has been instrumental in pushing infrastructure development and reviving projects stuck for many yearsBolstering infrastructure under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be my priority in addition to propelling countrys growth rate and creating jobs through small industries Gadkari who took charge of the Ministries saidHe was accompanied by his wife Kanchan GadkariOn May 30 he was sworn in as a Cabinet minister after he won the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat with a margin of around 213 lakh votes by defeating his former party man and now Congress member Nana PatoleGadkari is credited with reviving the languishing road projects from the UPA era and putting highway development on a fast trackIn his previous term Gadkari was considered a star performer working on multiple fronts to bid out new projects on innovative Hybrid Annuity Model HAMWhether it is reviving stuck highway projects worth Rs 385 lakh crore or starting cargo shipments on Ganga river Gadkari has been at the forefront of infrastructure development Some of the key projects are Eastern Peripheral Expressway and DelhiMeerut Expressway and Zojila tunnelIn May 2014 he took charge of the Road Transport Highways and Shipping ministries He was also given charge of Water Resources River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry from September 3 2017He was also at the helm of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation ministries from June 4 till November 9 2014Born in 1957 into a middleclass agricultural family in Nagpur he came to the spotlight for giving his city a new face and was also known as flyover man for building a series of flyovers in Mumbai during his stint as PWD minister in MaharashtraNot just during the first term of Modi government Gadkari had played a pivotal role in the successful implementation of the MumbaiPune expresswayElected to the Lok Sabha for the second straight term he had a long inning in Maharashtra politics and was also the youngest BJP presidentGadkari had entered politics as a student leader of ABVP and later joined the Janta Yuva Morcha the youth wing of the BJP He decided to give his life to social work and not continue with the law after the emergency in 1975Top Stories of the dayMumbai 14yearold girl leaves home with Rs 5000 to meet Tik Tok star in NepalMumbai Crime Borivli businessman held for raping 19yearold woman in flatMumbai One dead two injured as two cars collide near Mahalaxmi RacecoursePlant twice the number or pay up for new trees Badlapur man who hacked 860 trees toldMumbai 16storey apartments to accommodate 28000 civic cleanersNo more sea view south Mumbai home for the guard from GovandiMumbai doctors suicide Crime Branch wants custody of three accused doctors in Payal Tadvi caseMaharashtra is fifth worst in ragging cases 10 pc ragging complaints over castebased harassmentDeclare internal assessment marks state board tells junior collegesMake Marathi compulsory in schools political parties sayMumbai Auto crackdown nets RTO record revenueRules to regulate babus conduct on new mediaAfter Dabangg 3 Salman Khan to start shooting for Kick 2Mira Rajput trolled for walking barefoot with heels in hand at Mumbai airportAli Abbas Zafar Didnt alter script for KatrinaTaapsee Pannu Dont feel like an insider dont wish to be oneJacqueline Fernandez receives a special token from a young fanKonkona Sensharmas date with the queer communityTelly tattle Faisal Khan takes up gymnastics Kinshuk Vaidyas next based on SairaatMira Rajput with Shahid Kapoor Shilpa Shetty with family clicked in BandraJuhu spotted Sunny Leone and Daniel Webers outing with twins and Nisha is too cuteKatrina Kaifs candid photos Transformation from Boom to Bharatmidday exclusive Ajinkya Rahane to watch IND vs SA from his hotel balconyWorld Cup 2019 A hattrick of opener hundreds beckons Virat KohliWorld Cup 2019 German footballer Thomas Mueller roots for Virat KohliCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesEdited by midday online desk with inputs from Agencies