India, Aug. 8 -- Aamchi Mumbai Aamchi BEST (AMAB), a civil society platform comprising commuters and activists from different organisations, held protests at various locations in the city on Thursday, seeking improvement in bus services operated by the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking. Protestors also submitted a memorandum enlisting around half a dozen key demands, including discontinuation of the practice of wet leasing buses, to officers in-charge of 21 BEST depots across the city.

The protests, which drew over 100 participants, were held a day after a row erupted over two departments of the state government naming two separate Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers as general manager of the cash-str...