In keeping with the philosophy of the Prime Minister to ‘make in India’, the railway minister wants French companies to 'open shop' in India because the BJP government wants to eradicate the age-old concept that it is not easy to conduct business in India is difficult.
His invite was in the curse of addressing a seminar on Indian-French railways.
He explained that the intention of the Indian Railways is to plan for collaboration in the area of developing high-speed train network because there are premium commuters who are do not mind paying a high price while wanting to reach their destination faster.
This group of commuters desires better amenities and would not grudge shelling out more.
It may be recalled that during the visit of the Prime Minister to Japan in August, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had promised public and private investment worth $35 billion in India over the next five years. Japan had also agreed to offer financial, technical and operational support to India for introduction of bullet trains – this was a project to Narendra Modi and a high priority project high of the Indian government.
On the bullet train front China has also shown interest to participate and a team of Railway officials of the Rail Vikas Nigam are expected to go to Beijing to pursue the Delhi-Chennai high-speed corridor project – it would be 1754-Km long, the longest in India. The high-level team would complete necessary formalities with their Chinese counterparts for carrying out the feasibility study.
Obviously, the future of travel by trains in India appears to be bright – the only thing that the government needs to ensure that it does not turn out to be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. With so many countries at work to provide India the much needed platform of boasting of bullet trains, someone must ensure that there is no stepping on toes.
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