Recently there has been a widespread discussion about the Mumbai-Gujarat high speed rail project or bullet train. I am sharing some of my quick views about the same.
Before starting off with any more details, there are no bullet trains in USA as well?
Would it not be better to have a Bullet train between J n K to KanyaKumari? This will act as the vertebrae of the country and will cost less as well. There could be branches along the other routes to other various cities.
The above proposed project is running between a route bby-gujarat where already there are 20 + trains running. Many of them are running under capacity and the tickets can often be bought at a short notice. The time taken for the journey of about 440km is approximately 5.30 minutes to 9 hours.
The cost of a ticket currently is between 300 inr to 2000 inr.
The proposed bullet train will reduce the time of travel to 2 hours and will not halt more than 3 minutes at any of the 12 stations, which means it is targeted to high profile business or political travelers only. the expected cost is about 3300 inr
My logical reasoning would query that if any one would want to travel in a short duration then why will the person not use the flight route which will cost the same or even lesser?
The cost of the project is 1.08 lakh crore (US$17 billion) is it worth to spend so much money just to cater to a small section of the society and there is an alternate available as well?
At the moment Gujarat has been organizing the vibrant Gujarat summit each year and is trying to serve as the marketing state of India, but is it marketing strategically? Most of the investments invited are in land and buildings and stocks.
The proposed route will not serve much purpose for the common man but will be used to mostly sell more land and building to the top 20 percent entities by providing them a convenience of travel and hence increasing the cost of land.
Not only this, in the past couple of decades Gujarat has been silently chewing some of the share of Mumbai's business, and Bullet train setup it will eat up even more of the professional jobs created in areas like BKC e.t.c.
Though i have been a fan of the BJP in the past ,i am sorry to say that each time they come to power the activities are confusing and chaotic with them no different than any other political party hungry for power. In my view trying to profit too much out of land is always not the best way to make money
There are geniuses in the country,who are running the world, can the government get some brains to work to come out with genuine business which by themselves could make profit over the time?
Also as the scriptures say that if the land is cursed ( which it possibly will be with people just profiteering out of it and with debt and other sin money) then the people will have to work hard more to just do away with the curse and that will be the beginning of slavery in India.
Besides do note that Ahmadabad/Gujarat has almost become an NRI state with almost 1 person in each house hold is housed out of India, which is good. But with all the negative energy accumulated in places like Vadodara/ Surat e.t.c the opening up up of the bullet train could possibly diverge the negative energies to other parts of the coutnry
In summary to borrow or take loan for the purpose of comforts of a very few is foolishness to me.
The above are my views, and reflect my side of the picture
Before starting off with any more details, there are no bullet trains in USA as well?
Would it not be better to have a Bullet train between J n K to KanyaKumari? This will act as the vertebrae of the country and will cost less as well. There could be branches along the other routes to other various cities.
The above proposed project is running between a route bby-gujarat where already there are 20 + trains running. Many of them are running under capacity and the tickets can often be bought at a short notice. The time taken for the journey of about 440km is approximately 5.30 minutes to 9 hours.
The cost of a ticket currently is between 300 inr to 2000 inr.
The proposed bullet train will reduce the time of travel to 2 hours and will not halt more than 3 minutes at any of the 12 stations, which means it is targeted to high profile business or political travelers only. the expected cost is about 3300 inr
My logical reasoning would query that if any one would want to travel in a short duration then why will the person not use the flight route which will cost the same or even lesser?
The cost of the project is 1.08 lakh crore (US$17 billion) is it worth to spend so much money just to cater to a small section of the society and there is an alternate available as well?
At the moment Gujarat has been organizing the vibrant Gujarat summit each year and is trying to serve as the marketing state of India, but is it marketing strategically? Most of the investments invited are in land and buildings and stocks.
The proposed route will not serve much purpose for the common man but will be used to mostly sell more land and building to the top 20 percent entities by providing them a convenience of travel and hence increasing the cost of land.
Not only this, in the past couple of decades Gujarat has been silently chewing some of the share of Mumbai's business, and Bullet train setup it will eat up even more of the professional jobs created in areas like BKC e.t.c.
Though i have been a fan of the BJP in the past ,i am sorry to say that each time they come to power the activities are confusing and chaotic with them no different than any other political party hungry for power. In my view trying to profit too much out of land is always not the best way to make money
There are geniuses in the country,who are running the world, can the government get some brains to work to come out with genuine business which by themselves could make profit over the time?
Also as the scriptures say that if the land is cursed ( which it possibly will be with people just profiteering out of it and with debt and other sin money) then the people will have to work hard more to just do away with the curse and that will be the beginning of slavery in India.
Besides do note that Ahmadabad/Gujarat has almost become an NRI state with almost 1 person in each house hold is housed out of India, which is good. But with all the negative energy accumulated in places like Vadodara/ Surat e.t.c the opening up up of the bullet train could possibly diverge the negative energies to other parts of the coutnry
In summary to borrow or take loan for the purpose of comforts of a very few is foolishness to me.
The above are my views, and reflect my side of the picture
