Bhubaneswar, April 17 -- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday arrived in Bhubaneswar to lay foundation stones and inaugurate development projects worth Rs 4,000 crore, as part of a major infrastructure push in Odisha.

According to Odisha BJP President Manmohan Samal, foundation stones for 25 projects worth Rs 4,000 crore will be laid and inaugurated. In addition, a declaration for new projects worth another Rs 4,000 crore will also be made.

On Wednesday, Gadkari chaired a meeting with Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The meeting focused on integrating road safety into the school education system.

In a post on X, the Union Minister shared statistics about road accidents and wrote, "In 2023 alone, over 11,000 lives were l...