Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, met Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan in Mumbai on Thursday to seek support for the cause of the National Road Safety Mission in India.
“Union Minister Shri @nitin_gadkari Ji called on Shri @SrBachchan Ji in Mumbai today,” Office of Nitin Gadkari said in a tweet.
According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, in India itself about eighty thousand people are killed in road crashes annually which is thirteen per cent of the total fatality all over the world.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highway’s aim is to provide road safety information for road users to encourage safer road user behaviour among current and prospective road users and reduce the number of people killed and injured on roads every year.