India, June 22 -- After a 3-day strike, BEST buses will be back on the roads today. The BEST Sanyukt Kamgar Kruti Samiti, a collective representing 12 BEST employee unions, including wet-lease operators, in a statement on Sunday morning, had said that the agitation would continue until the government gave a definite commitment on their demands. On Sunday night, in a meeting with deputy CM Eknath Shinde, transport minister Pratap Sarnaik and union leader Sachin Ahir, the government acceded to many of these.

The unions had raised a series of demands, including the absorption of wet-lease employees into BEST, procurement of 5,000 BEST-owned buses, fresh staff recruitment, promotions for senior employees and protection of BEST properties fro...