BEST Does Its Best To Provide Relief To Rain-Hit Mumbaikars
The Mumbai civic body's transport wing Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) has moved in to fill the void created by suspension of suburban train services due to heavy rains by operating over 100 extra buses.
BEST has been operating the extra buses since Tuesday to ferry commuters stranded at various places, an official of the civic undertaking said.
We ran 109 extra buses on important routes yesterday and today too, we are running additional buses on the Colaba-Thane route.Manoj Varade, Spokesperson, BEST
The suburban train network, which carries over 65 lakh passengers a day, is the lifeline of the financial capital. BEST provides support to the transport network with a fleet of nearly 4,000 buses.
Meanwhile, thousands of people who were stranded overnight in offices and other places made their journey back home after train services on the western and central railway were restored.
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Services on the Western Railway resumed around midnight last night, while trains on the Central Railway's (CR) mainline section between CSMT and Kalyan started this morning. However, the harbour line, also run by the CR, still remained suspended.
However, many preferred to stay back in offices and resume duty on Wednesday.
Pramod Harlalka, a sub-broker, who could not go home in neighbouring Thane district's Bhayandar yesterday, said he will resume work after the stock market opens.
Slamming the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for "poor disaster management", Harlalka said, "It seems the tall talks of the BMC has been washed away in rains. There was no system in place to tackle the situation and we were left at God's mercy. Now I would not be going to my home today, as stock market will open in a while," said Harlalka who have his office in Kalba Devi in South Mumbai.
A few Mumbaikars said the Maharashtra government should have declared an official holiday. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday advised people to step out of their homes only if there is an emergency.
"Since the chief minister did not declare a holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, people will have to go to their offices. Those who were stranded will have to either go home and return quickly for work today or stay put and continue working," he said.
"A little imagination on the part of the government would have spared a large number of office-goers of this ordeal," said S Balakrishna, a social worker.
Bank holidays are declared by Central/state governments under the Act.
On Wednesday, nearly 300 mm rain in 12 hours paralysed the maximum city. Religious places, municipal schools, railway stations, offices and corporate parks turned into temporary homes for people who were stranded.
Vakola water logging is clear now. Traffic on Western Express Highway is clear both on south and north bound.
August 29, 2017The BMC has cancelled the leaves given to its staffers and asked them to report for work.
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