Nitin Gadkari
Nitin Jairam Gadkari, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, has recently launched the Indian Bridge Management System (IBMS) in New Delhi to ensure proper and timely upkeep of bridges. IBMS is developed to create an inventory of all bridges in the country and rate their structural condition so that timely repair and rehabilitation work can be carried out based on the criticality of the structure. IBMS is the largest platform in the world owned by a single owner, with database that could exceed 1,50,000 bridge structures.