BEST, your buses are dying. With more and more buses on hire, BEST's own bus fleet is dwindling. While around 150 buses, including 15 double deckers, have been scrapped in the lockdown period of past four months, 900 more, including 60 double deckers are lined up for scrap next year.

"We have raised a red flag, and shot off a petition to the BEST management. They should take this up seriously before it is too late in the day to realise. This is an appeal from us bus lovers to intervene at the right time to save the buses from the scrap torch," bus enthusiast Harshad Joshi, who has sent off an "earnest appeal" to the BEST Undertaking this week, told Mid-Day.