This week, State transport minister Diwakar Raote got a lesson in trivia when he learnt that The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) runs 68 bus routes outside the island city and suburbs.


Diwakar Raote 

Due to the colossal losses that the BEST bus service is facing — the revenue deficit is of nearly Rs 2.26 crore per day, according to RTI activist Anil Galgali based on a response to a query filed by him — the undertaking had requested the state government to waive toll for its buses plying outside Mumbai.