The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (BEST) undertaking has pressed the panic button as its self-owned fleet is about to be reduced to just 1,100 buses by March 2024. It has sought financial assistance from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to buy more buses.

At present, the undertaking has a fleet of about 3,124 buses, 1,637 of which belong to wet-lease contractors while the remaining 1,487 belong to the BEST. As per a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on June 11, 2019, it is mandatory and legally binding on the BEST administration to maintain a fleet of 3,337 self-owned buses in its fleet and that for every bus scrapped, the civic body will fund a new one.