Supporting the campaign to have more public transport buses, Maharashtra additional chief secretary for urban development, Praveen Pardeshi said that there was a need to improve the availability of buses for which one needed to increase their demand and not just quantity of buses.

Speaking at a webinar organised titled 'Take the Bus: A Path to Sustainable Future for Maharashtra' by Pune-based organisation Parisar for Sustainable Urban Mobility Network (SUM Net), Pardeshi said he had put in efforts to improve the bus system in Mumbai. "In Mumbai, we reduced the bus fare and improved the predictability of expected time of arrival and reaching the destination," he said.