Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav made an optimistic plan of introducing high-speed bullet trains that would run at more than 300 km/hour in the Interim Railway Budget. However, the long-drawn plans for Maglev trains running on magnetic tracks proposed for six routes in Mumbai metropolitan region is still biting dust.

The feasibility report for Maglev trains was supposed to be submitted by a German based company named Vossing for these six routes. A senior bureaucrat involved in the project said, "The project hasn't moved much since it's idea was floated in 2007."