Mumbai: BEST now owns just over 1,000 buses

Updated On: 11 July, 2024 06:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar

Information obtained via RTI shows that bus undertaking is nowhere close to owning the minimum mandated number of self-owned vehicles

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Eighty-three more old self-owned buses have been lined up for scrap by December 2024. File pic

The latest RTI figures have revealed that BEST’s own fleet is down to nearly 1,000 buses, with 2,200-plus buses taken by the undertaking on wet lease (contractor-owned with their staff). The data also reveals that BEST no longer has any double-decker buses of its own, and the 50 electric ones running are also on wet lease.

Furthermore , 83 more old self-owned buses have been lined up for scrap by December 2024, more wet-leased buses will be procured soon. On the positive side, it has also revealed that there has been no drop in bus ridership recently. “This is blatant discrimination. Almost a lakh crore is being spent on Metro rail, which has such a poor record, and they are starving BEST, causing misery to millions,” said Vidyadhar Date, a transport activist from AMAB.

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