India, Sept. 27 -- After over nine months, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has a full-time general manager (GM), with the Maharashtra government on Friday appointing IAS officer Sonia Sethi to the post.

The 56-year-old is the first full-time BEST GM since Anil Diggikar's transfer following the December 2024 Kurla bus accident, in which seven people were killed and 40 others injured. The post had remained under temporary charge since then.

Harshdeep Kamble, who was initially posted to the position, had his appointment cancelled within a day. Subsequently, senior BMC official Ashwini Joshi and, later, SVR Srinivas, officer on special duty (OSD) for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project, were assigned addition...