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Mumbai: ‘No self-owned buses at Mulund depot’
Updated On: 01 April, 2024 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
Unions threaten stir, say buses operated by private owners taking over facility
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The BMC’s budget has proposed to give the BEST Rs 800 crore as a grant. File Pic/Satej Shinde
Mulund has become the first bus depot devoid of self-owned buses, trade unions have alleged terming it a breach of agreement. Unions have now threatened mass protest, seeking restoration of buses to the depot. This means the BEST’s own fleet from Mulund depot has been decreasing to such an extent that soon there will not be any buses left and that the fleet of buses leased and operated by private owners and their staff will be completely taking over the depot.
“In a memorandum of understanding signed by the trade union and the then-municipal commissioner in 2019, the undertaking was expected to maintain a fleet of 3,337 self-owned buses. We were given assurances, but the fleet has been going down and down and this is now the limit,” Shashank Sharad Rao, general secretary of BEST Transport Workers’ Union said. “The self-owned bus fleet of the undertaking has come down to 1,100 buses, despite legally binding on the undertaking to maintain 3,337 buses, which is shocking,” he added.
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