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Indias oldest bus fleet trains its newest drivers hardest. But the accidents involve veterans
Inside a modest classroom at the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) training centre in Dindoshi, CCTV footage of recent road accidents flickers across a projector screen. An instructor pauses after every clip, rewinds the video and asks a room full of trainees the same question. What could the driver have done differently?Around 30 trainees sit quietly, watching. Some are first-time recruits hoping to drive Mumbai’s red buses. Others have returned after years away and are doing the course again.“Whenever an accident occurs, two families are ruined, theirs and yours. Financial compensation alone cannot placate a grieving family,” Ninad Shirodkar, Deputy Depot Manager of Training at the Dindoshi centre, tells the class.
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