India, May 24 -- Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday asked the Goa government to use the state's road infrastructure built by the central government to attract more tourists and promote infrastructure such as the viewing towers.

Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of observatory tower and viewing gallery to be built atop the new cable-stayed bridge across River Zuari in Goa, the minister said the project was the fulfilment of his dream to have iconic infrastructure like the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

"Goa receives lakhs of foreign tourists a year. It is the primary destination for charter tourists in India. The state must use the infrastructure to draw even more tourists to its shores,...