Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said the government will open driving schools across 120 aspirational districts and 500 backward blocks over the next five years. The initiative targets youth employment at large scale, aiming to create one crore jobs by training drivers. It also seeks to tackle India’s growing driver shortage while improving road safety through structured training.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari urged India to build stronger post-harvest infrastructure, warning that surplus production will depress farm prices without cold storage, processing plants, and value-addition facilities. He also floated a bigger vision of farmers as future energy providers to cut import dependence, tying energy security to agricultural output and better supply chains.
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