Letters: A bullet train for whom?

Govt should improve roads all over India, provide better health care in rural and semi-urban areas

With reference to Shreekant Sambrani’s article, “Discounting the bullet train” (September 19), at a time when the country is struggling with employment problems, setting up domestic industries with high employment potential should be the need of the hour.
 
A mammoth investment of Rs 1.1 lakh crore, with a loan component of Rs 88,000 crore, 0.1 per cent interest payable over a 50-year period and a moratorium of 15 years is indeed a big step by India at this juncture, that too, to fulfil the personal ambition of the Prime Minister.
 
Even as the country struggles with burgeoning current