Mumbai: All 400 Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) buses that were withdrawn on February 22 owing to three incidents of fire in less than a month are back on city roads. The undertaking on Tuesday reintroduced the last 30 of these CNG-run buses.
Lokesh Chandra, general manager, BEST confirmed that all 400 non-AC buses on wet lease operated by M/S Mateshwari Urban Transport Ltd, are back in operation. The undertaking has, however, not stated the reasons for the fire incidents nor what they found during the 20-days of inspection of these buses.
With these buses reinstated, BEST undertaking’s fleet will normalise once again to 3,300 buses, which includes 1,300-odd wet lease buses.
