Poor services, non-payment of salaries and rising debt are only some of the challenges that the BEST Undertaking is currently grappling withCrumbling under massive financial strain, the 112-year-old Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking seems to be staring into the abyss. Birth and death of AC busesA decade back the BEST decided to introduce AC buses — the first of its kind for Mumbaikars. “At that time, the BEST buses were carrying at least 84,000 passengers every day in these AC buses. In the last two years, 75-80 per cent of its AC bus fleet have been simply parked inside the bus depots. Finally earlier this May, they condemned the entire AC bus fleet as it went into extinction.

Source: dna August 12, 2017 01:30 UTC