The transport body is already grappling with a Rs 590crore deficit budget for 2017 18. In fact, this budget is yet to be cleared by the
BMC House.It could perhaps be for the first time that BEST may get clearance for two fiscal budgets from the civic
House simultaneously.
The budget will be presented on Tuesday , and the discussions will be held post-Divali, sources said.
The BEST undertaking may also point out a series of reforms to be undertaken to bring the transport body out of the red. These include wet-leasing buses, cutting down on manpower among other things. BEST officials had recently adopted a new strategy to rake in more revenue and woo commuters.They have a trade-off between "dissatisfied" commuters, who are unhappy with some of the services being withdrawn recently, and the "satisfied" commuters, who are getting more buses than normal, An official said that the undertaking was not shutting down any of the 480 existing routes.