It has been two years that a 33-year-old woman sweeper of BEST has been struggling to get back her job, which she had got after her father, a former employee of the undertaking, passed away. She was dismissed from service in 2018 after she stopped going to work because of the harassment she faced from drug addicts in the Bandra bus terminus area, where she was posted in 2017. Over two years without a job, she and her 53-year-old mother, have been living in a deplorable condition.
Both of them live at a relative's place in Virar because they can't afford a place of their own. The woman had joined BEST in 2011 and was posted at the Mumbai Central Bus Terminus. She started complaining of harassment by the drug addicts after she joined the Bandra Terminus in 2017. Neither did the depot manager and other seniors take any action, nor did they inform the police.

'Not allowed inside'

Speaking to mid-day, she said, "My father passed away in 2009 and I got the job in his place. After completing five years at the Mumbai Central Bus Terminus, I was deployed at the Bandra West Terminus just outside the station.