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MUMBAI: Daily BEST bus ticket sales have dropped by 26% in the past one year, committee member Suhas Samant ( Shiv Sena ) told the budget meeting on Friday. It dipped to Rs 2.2 crore in 2018,” he told panel members. He demanded a probe into why BEST, given Rs 11 crore by the state to launch Tejaswini women buses, did not launch the project. “The management should explore options to procure Rs 22 crore so that it can disburse bonus at the earliest,” he said. “Average sales of daily monthly passes also dropped from 384 in June 2017 to 266 in the same month this year..