Nitin Gadkari’s promise to IAF chief: Airstrip in 15 days instead of 1.5 years

Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday his department had achieved a couple of feats in recent times, besides building an airstrip for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 15 days.

Speaking at the inaugural of an emergency landing strip for IAF planes on the Satta-Gandhav stretch on National Highway 925 in Barmer, Gadkari said IAF chief RKS Bhadauria had said it usually took one-and-a-half years to build an airstrip. “I told him that we will construct these for you instead in 15 days of good quality,” the Union minister was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.