Aaditya Thackeray – Minister, Maharashtra Govt. :

The BEST double-decker, now electric!

CM Uddhav Thackeray and I have been personally keen on reviving Mumbai’s iconic double-decker buses.

While doing so, the BEST is procuring 900 of them, fully electric and emission-free. As we increase our BEST fleet, ultimately to 10,000 electric/clean alternate fuel buses, our aim is to have maximum double-decker buses, as this increases our capacity.

I thank BEST chairman Ashis Chemburkar ji, GM Lokesh Chandra ji, and the committee of BEST for honouring our suggestion.

Along with Mumbai, I have requested municipal commissioners of other cities who are procuring electric buses to also add double-decker electric buses into their fleets on busy routes.