India's auto industry has leapfrogged to BSVI in record time: Nitin Gadkari

Gadkari said the government is fully cognizant of the industry's contribution in India's manufacturing growth and the fact it's the biggest employment generator

Four years ago, a tweet by Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had set the cat among the pigeons in India’s automobile industry. “My colleagues — Prakash Javadekar, Anant Geete, Dharmendra Pradhan — and I have taken the unanimous decision to leapfrog from Bharat Stage (BS)-IV to BS-VI directly from April 1, 2020,” read the post.

Four years since, a lot has changed. Automakers in India have nearly completed the onerous task Gadkari had chalked up.  

In his address to industry leaders at the AutoExpo in Greater Noida, Gadkari, who has often pulled up automakers for showing resistance