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Should India announce welfare schemes or go for bullet trains ?

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India has got its first bullet train project on wheels , all praise to the prime minister and his rapport with the Japanese  premier which clinched  such a deal. Why is the Bullet train spending lakh of crores needed  ? The high speed railway is the much needed boost to infrastructure projects and a image booster to the Indian railways to restore its status as  a reliable and comfortable mode of public transportation. Why not invest in improving the existing rail network ? Is not the lakhs of crores invested in the previous decades proof  to the fact that it doesn't improve anything ? Why should this project be undertaken at  such a cost rather than welfare schemes ? Welfare schemes are a socialistic idealogue and we have also seen how many of these schemes simply divert the funds and in the end achieve nothing . World has seen government's  investing in infrastructure and generating jobs as a by product doing better on long run ...

Doklam standoff

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Reference to the original  news article India under Narendra Modi government has shown  a lot of confidence and might in the Region and and upheld its rightful position in the Region. Its matter of great pride to watch India holding its ground in the face of aggression from China. India under the previous governments have always adopted a soft policy against China and all its views were treated as better left unanswered that causing trouble . For a nation that has equal importance in the sub continent this was undermining India's possibility of playing a larger role of being a strong ally to Bhutan, Nepal or Mauritius endangering our influence in the Indian Ocean region at large . At a time when India is actually shining as an economic success story with the best GDP growth rates and holding mightier economic stature and geographical significance in the World , it is an  apt position to hold  and a deligient reply to aggressio...