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Japanese skill and technology should be utilised to make our current trains safe, clean and punctual with improved speeds

With reference to “Like demonetisation, bullet train project will kill everything: Chidambaram” (September 30), P Chidambaram is absolutely correct in his assessment that the Japanese funding can be more profitably used in running safe trains. This is not to say that bullet trains are not needed. Whether we need a bullet train now should be considered in the light of our priorities. The cost of the train at around Rs 1.1 lakh crore, which equals or exceeds our current Budgets on — to cite two important areas — education and health, which together is around Rs 1.2 lakh crore. If