Nitin Gadkari 'Hydrogen is the future of transport'

Hydrogen is the future of the transportation industry, and the government is conducting trials on 10 routes across the country to test its use as a fuel, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said.

The trials are underway on the Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Konark-Puri, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Pune-Mumbai, Jamshedpur-Kalinga Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi, Kochi-Edappally, Jamnagar-Ahmedabad and NH-16



Visakhapatnam-Bayyavaram routes, the minister said.

The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways was addressing a gathering at the Prawaas 5.0 and Bharat Prawaas Awards event in Gandhinagar on Thursday.

“Our ministry is carrying out a pilot project on 10 routes for hydrogen trials. I am sure the future of the transportation industry is hydrogen, and hydrogen is the fuel of the future. We are working on that,” he said.