It’s not new that BEST is in serious hot water. The Undertaking has for long been in dire straits, going so far as to allow full body advertisements on every bus in the fleet to canceling all AC buses. But what is the reason? Lack of innovation? Yes.
The oldest transco in India has been unable to keep up with the times, forcing it into this situation. Why?
Simple. The lack of innovation due to toxic competition, with toxic being the key word. You’ll soon realise why it’s important.
BEST is an autonomous agency of the MCGM. Thus, the MCGM isn’t liable to bail out BEST if it ever needs to. Other transcos, such as DTC, MTC, BMTC, NMMT, PMPML, all get bailed out by their municipal bodies/state governments.
Further, due to BEST’s core competition being NMMT and TMT, both of which are sarkari bodies, innovation won’t happen.
