Updated On: 02 April, 2021 08:17 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
As per a senior BEST official a significant part of the ticket box collection was used to give monthly salaries to around 40,000 staffers. This included packets of coins of Rs 5 and Rs 10 denomination and cash of Rs 10, Rs 50, Rs 100 denominations up to Rs 15,000 as part of salary

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BEST employees are still getting Rs 15,000 as part of their salary in cash and coins of Rs 5 and Rs 10 denomination.
BEST panel member Sunil Ganacharya asked at a committee meeting on Wednesday, why cash in crores was not being deposited in bank accounts and was still lying at depots and BEST’s cash room at Wadala for the past two months, stated a report in The Times of India.