Govt working on developing electric highways: Nitin Gadkari

The government is working on developing electric highways as it is economically viable, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday.Gadkari has earlier said that making India's first electric highway between Delhi and Jaipur is his dream."My idea about the electric highway is that NHAI will give right of way...Today, I had a discussion with the Power Ministry, I am trying to get electricity at the rate of Rs 3.50 per unit, otherwise, the commercial power rate is Rs 11 per unit," Gadkari said at the ACMA annual session here.The minister noted that it is easy for the power ministry to give electricity to a government company at a cheaper rate."Electric highway is very very economically viable...I will give all t.....