Recently Prime Minster Modi signed several trade agreements with foreign countries costing crores of rupees for the development of India. Most of the agreements are based on highly technology such nuclear reactors which are of no use to 700 million people living in villages.
At present the BJP Policy helps only the upper middles class spending money on the manufacture of luxury goods and cars and none for the poor and the starving people in India.
One such daft project is to spend on high speed train from Mumbai to Ahmedabad in his own state costing more than 9000 crores which is not top priority while people in Mumbai suburban trains have to travel like monkeys hanging on the footboard and every day dozens of people die and nobody has done to build additional tracks or double the lines since the population in India has increased three times.
The shameful thing is that trains are overcrowded that people are travelling on the top of the trains in North India and several are them are hit by overhead cables and die. Indian railways operate manual signals and this costs accidents due to human error... They do not provide enough long distance trains since it operates single tract only and it takes more than 15 hours for intercity trains to one city to another. It I also difficult to get tickets.
Suit Boot Man (SBM) Modi talks about bullet train when the government cannot provide additional resources to improve the railway system and Gujarat is only part of India.
Modi is obsessed with high technology, People should object to the scheme and instead the money 9000 crores should be used for several projects to improve rail services instead one of one project.
Arun Vaidyanathan
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