Development in any segment is a welcome theme but we need to set priorities for the betterment of the society as a whole. In a state like Kerala, there are more demanding issues such as providing clean drinking water, relief to poor desparate farmers, improvement in the healthcare conditions, educational assistance to the poorest but deserving and needy, etc. It is an endless list.

Nobody in the modern world is against a highway project but we need to ralize that a project of this magnitude needs substantial amount of money. Private parties may invest but will collect it back with a profit. Ultimately, the common man will have to bear the burden. Initially, let us make him capable of surviving so that he can travel on the fast track.

A Keralite