Mumbai's BEST buses operating in huge debt, get no govt aid
Maharashtra is spending â¹80,000 crore on metro lines across Mumbai, but no aid is being allotted to the BEST bus service, reports said. The government reportedly ignored BEST's repeated requests to reduce its tax burden. The bus service bears an annual burden of â¹137 crore as various taxes, including a green tax on its vehicles older than 15 years.