Vijay Rao 1512 days ago

Mr.Rakesh Mohan may be right in saying that the combined cost of Eastern and Western dedicated freight corridors may be less than the cost of the bullet train between Ahmedabad-Mumbai. Mr.Mohan may miss many points in his arguments. They are a) in the history of this country no railway minister had ever taken initiatives in developing the railways as the present one is doing under the leadership of Mr.Modi.b)One should know by collaborations only we can learn the latest of technologies in the world. If you happen to collaborate with Japan,France,Spain etc.you will get the best of the technologies. China has not developed anything new. It is only a copy cat nation. Magnetic Levitation trains were developed by the Germans and while constructing the line from the Shanghai airport to its station the Chinese have mastered the art. They are now exporting the activities to other countries at a cost lower than that of the Germans the parent nation. c) WE HAVE ENGINEERING COLLEGES APLENTY. Please let me know how many engineers can do something the foreign countries are doing. We have ensured development of commercial engineers but not technical engineers who are fit in running the administration of technical designs developed on the drawing board. How many innovative engineers have been developed by the engineering colleges. Though we have achieved independence long time ago it has taken 65 years to do the things what is being attempted now.