The responsibility of the BEST Undertaking should be taken up by the BMC as decided by the Memorandum of Understanding which noted that their budgets should be merged - refused permission for a morcha from Byculla to Mantralaya to highlight this issue, hundreds of BEST employees filled Azad Maidan on Wednesday to push for the demands.

“The merger of the BEST budget with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) budget will be the final solution to the undertaking's financial problems. It was Shiv Sena’s promise, we just reminded them,” Shashank Sharad Rao, convener, BEST Workers Joint Action Committee said.