Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari has said that besides Swachh Bharat, the Centre aims to make India a pollution-free country by encouraging the use of alternative fuel on a large scale.

He was speaking after inaugurating a bus manufacturing facility of Sweden-based Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt. Ltd. at Narasapaur Industrial Area near Kolar on Tuesday.

The Centre will not hesitate to trash ‘the redundant’ Motor Vehicles Act in order to facilitate the use of ethanol.

Utilisation of locally available resources for generating energy to run vehicles and to produce biogas and biodiesel is important, he stressed.

Mr. Gadkari said the transport system in most States in India, including Uttar Pradesh, was not good. However, it is very good in Karnataka, he said.