A. Shrinivas Rao is Deputy General Manager – Transportation Engineering, BEST Undertaking, Mumbai, with extensive leadership experience in urban public transport, fleet modernisation, electric bus deployment, depot infrastructure planning, charging ecosystem readiness, wet-lease contract governance, safety compliance and performance monitoring. He has been closely associated with BEST’s transition towards clean, efficient and technology-enabled public mobility, including planning, technical evaluation, prototype approvals, ITS integration, depot electrification and operational readiness of electric buses. His work focuses on practical, scalable and commuter-centric mobility solutions, with emphasis on lifecycle governance, reliability, safety, energy efficiency and institutional capacity building in public transport systems.