While Mumbai continues to be rocked by the strike called by the BEST Sanyukt Kamgar Kruti Samiti, an action committee representing 12 employee unions that has been asking for meetings with the administration and whose key demands include the merger of the BEST budget and abolition of wet-lease (contractual) arrangements, mid-day met with Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik and posed three burning questions.

What has been decided regarding the strike?
I intervened in the strike, as directed by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. We have had a positive meeting with all 12 bodies of the BEST Sanyukt Kamgar Kruti Samiti. We discussed the issues threadbare and have decided to take up each one with the relevant government department and with the BEST Undertaking. The unions will announce the status of the strike.