The BEST undertaking has said the targeted increase of its bus fleet will be used to benefit the upcoming Mumbai Metro network. While the undertaking has planned to step up the bus fleet to 10,000 buses over a period of the next five years, the MMRDA is building a metro network of 10 lines with a 337 km master plan.

BEST now has about 386 electric buses. BEST undertaking plans to take up the fleet to 10,000 buses and a new set of electric buses will start arriving by September 2022.