 An RTI reveals that over 40% of train seats go vacant on the Mumbai-Ahemdabad route and 44% on the Ahemdabad-Mumbai route. The Indian railways is losing over 14 crores per quarter on this specific route alone. Strangely, this is the segment that the Modi government has chosen to make bullet train track at a huge cost of 1,10,000 crores, an amount that is five times more than the railway safety fund itself. On a route that is not even profitable. How is the government looking to make profit out of the bullet train project when a single ticket for this bullet train is estimated to be around 3,000 to 3,500 rupees, whereas an air ticket for the same route costs around 2,000 rupees? How is the government looking to break even against a loan of rupees 88,000 crores taken from Japan when 94% of rail passengers in this country are from low-income background? Why has the government not looked at a more passenger heavy route like trains that are on the Bihar route? Who is this bullet train meant for? The 94% who travel in second-sleeper class and unreserved? Or just 5% of India's elite?