<p>The civic-run <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/exclusive-borivli-hawkers-menace-mr-commissioner-how-are-you-going-to-reclaim-this-road-asks-state-human-rights-commission-23437826" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST)</strong></a> undertaking plans to have 1200 e-double deckers, aims to have more than 50 per cent e-buses in fleet by 2025-26, reported the PTI.</p>
<p>In a press release issued during the day, the metropolis' premier road transport undertaking said it has set an ambitious goal to have 100 per cent zero-emission electric bus fleet by 2026-27.</p>
<p>An order has been placed for 2,650 single-decker electric buses, it added.</p>
<p>On Thursday, BEST general manager Anil Diggikar presented the undertaking's Rs 9439.56 crore budget to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner and administrator Bhushan Gagrani for 2025-26.</p>
<p>"In the Rs 1 lakh surplus budget, BEST's estimated deficit is of Rs 2086.33 crore, as its electric supply wing is estimated to get a profit of Rs 46.18 crore, but the transport wing is estimated to face a deficit of Rs 2131.51 crore. Capital expenditure for 2025-26 is expected to be Rs 1849.24 crore, while showing an expected Rs 2812.03 crore grant from its parent BMC during the financial year," the release said, according to the PTI.</p>
<p>BEST needs Rs 679.51 crore for filling the gap in its capital expenditure, the release pointed out.</p>
<p>"Currently, BEST has a fleet of 3,166 buses, including 2,081 hired vehicles and zero-emission e-buses There are plans to buy 273 big-sized and 237 mid-sized air-conditioned single-decker e-buses as well as scrapping 520 self-owned buses that will complete their codal-life soon," the release said, as per the PTI.</p>
<p>In line with its commitment to provide uninterrupted public transport services, BEST has already issued an order for procurement of 2,100 single-decker electric buses, of which 205 have been received, it said.</p>
<p>This shift is expected to reduce carbon emissions and improve the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Air-Quality-Index-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>city's air quality</strong></a>, the release stated.</p>
<p>BEST also reiterated the plan to procure 1,200 double-decker electric buses, of which 50 are already part of the fleet, the release stated on Friday.</p>
<p>The release, however, did not disclose by when these double-decker buses will be inducted in the fleet.</p>
<p>Sources said the public transport body has already cancelled the work order issued to a bus manufacturer for supplying 700 double decker buses, while the company whose double decker buses are plying on wet lease model has not supplied a single vehicle since the last several months, the news agency reported.</p>
<p>BEST has scrapped all fossil fuel-run double-decker buses in its fleet long back as their codal life was over.</p>
<p>BEST operates services in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Mira-Bhayandar with a fleet of more than 3,000 buses and has a daily ridership of 32 lakh.</p>
<p>(with PTI inputs)</p><p>
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