There is no sense in charging low fares and allowing people to be killed. Subsidy for lower class fares is very high - between 40% and 60%. It needs to be brought down for Railways to keep running, otherwise we will go the way of Pakistan Railway which runs barely 110 trains a day over its 8000 km network. Indian Railway runs 12000 plus trains over a network which is 8 times that of Pakistan but runs 110 times the number of trains.