Nagpur: It is not as though inveterate takers of leaks in this nation needed further encouragement but they do have it now, that too from the highest quarters. In fact, it might be suggested that union transport minister Nitin Gadkari has found a way to channelize these leaks and harness its full potential.
He has suggested that India must store urine at airports, to avoid urea import. “I have asked for storage of urine at airports. We import urea, but if we start storing urine of the entire country then we will not need to import urea; so much potential it has, and nothing will be wasted,” Gadkari said. While his idea is certainly one with merit, it just seems a crushing waste of space to have giant waste-holding containers, that too at airports, of all places.
Gadkari, who was addressing a gathering of young innovators at the Nagpur Municipal Corporation on Sunday, added, “Other people do not cooperate with me because all my ideas are fantastic. Even the (municipal) corporation will not help, because in government, people are trained to be like (blinkered) bulls who walk in the rut, not looking here and there.”
Speaking on the importance of innovation, the minister cited an example of how bio-fuels can be extracted from natural waste. Even human urine can be used for making bio-fuel and yield ammonium sulfate and nitrogen, the BJP leader said.
Some years ago, Gadkari had claimed to have stored his own urine and use it as fertiliser in the garden at his official bungalow in New Delhi. He also gave an example of use of amino acid extracted from human hair waste, which can be used as a fertiliser. It boosted production at his farms by 25 per cent, he had claimed.
