The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Under-taking (BEST) on Wednesday said it was taking all its 400 wet-leased CNG buses off Mumbai roads with immediate effect after one of these buses caught fire in Andheri earlier in the day.
With this, three incidents of such buses catching fire have been reported within one month.
In view of these incidents involving TATA CNG buses operated by M/S Mateshwari Limited, BEST has decided to take all 400 buses off roads till the OEM (original manufacturer) and operator take necessary corrective measures to ensure that such incidents do not happen in future, said BEST General Manager Lokesh Chandra in a statement.
