Akshay Deshmane Dna

• Soon, driving licences will be delivered to your home

  It's time to say goodbye to long queues at Regional Transport Offices. The motor vehicle department's plan of delivering driving licences and registration documents of vehicles to people's homes by post will see the light of day in a fortnight or so. DNA had in April 2009 reported about the transport department's plan to implement the scheme.Transp...

• Mumbai: Caught driving drunk? Time to go back to school

  If transport commissioner Dilip Jadhav has his way, all persons caught driving under the influence of alcohol may have to undergo a short course, with counseling sessions, lessons about responsible driving, sensitization with traffic rules, among other things.

• Mumbai: Want to register vehicle? Pay via internet

  Soon, you can stop worrying about bribing RTO officials to get your new vehicles registered. By early March next year, the transport department expects to fully implement its e-payment scheme in all 45 RTOs across the state. This scheme will enable you to register your new vehicles by making the payment for it through a software developed by the Na...

• BEST forum for grievance redressal lies idle for 6 yrs

  It has been six years since BEST launched the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum to address complaints of its power consumers. However, it has received only 147 complaints till date. Its website (www.cgrfbest.org.in), started on May 31, has not received even one. Shirish Deshpande of Mumbai Grahak Panchayat said the low number of complaints does no...

• Union leader slams BEST, police for driver's death

  At a press conference on Thursday, BEST union leader Sharad Rao came down heavily on the BEST administration, city police and sections of the media for unfairly criticising late BEST bus driver Atmaram Gaikwad for the accident in Bandra on Monday which killed a three-year-old girl. Rao also demanded that the BEST administration pay Rs25 lakh as com...

• BEST Diwali gift: An AC commute for you

  You can expect to hop into an air-conditioned Volvo bus for your daily commute in Diwali. The first two buses out of the batch of 50 Volvos are expected to join the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking's (BEST) bus fleet in the first week of November. The buses will run on the present routes for air-conditioned, long-distance buse...

• Mumbai: Soon, black-and-yellow cabs will be a call away

  If all goes well, two months hence, you will be able to book your daily ride in the black-and-yellow taxis by calling a call centre, which will arrange a taxi for you at your location. The reason: the transport department's 'Call Taxi' scheme has got a push after a few modifications to the original. In the coming days, the transport department will...

• BEST bus ride across the sea link soon

  You may soon board a roofless BEST bus and enjoy a 7-minute ride on the Bandra-Worli sea link. The BEST plans to approach the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) for a tie-up, so that this new service is started soon.This idea was placed before the general manager of the BEST, OP Gupta, by committee member Dilip Patel on Thursday aft...