“A regulator would mean going back to licence raj and we are against it,” he said, when asked about setting up one in the roads sector.
Road builders have been asking for one to resolve various contract disputes and renegotiate others.
And, in his Budget speech last year, then Finance Minister P Chidambaram had proposed to set up an independent regulator for the sector, though the Planning Commission said there was no need.
Gadkari said the focus would be on hastening road projects stuck for long. Projects worth Rs 83,000 crore (Rs 830 billion)
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