<span style="color: #222222;">As part of the phase-wise reopening of the economy and public activities under 'Mission Begin Again' in Maharashtra from today, several offices in the business district of Bandra Kurla Complex and Lower Parel in Mumbai started functioning.<br />''<br />''Shops in big market areas of in Mumbai including Dadar, Kurla, Colaba and Ghatkopar opened for business with many of them santising their premises before allowing in customers. Besides, in the rest of Maharashtra, except red zones, life is returning to normalcy.<br />''<br />''In Pune, Nashik and Nagpur, shops and other commercial establishments opened in the morning and operated till 7 this evening.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, thousands of office goers hit the streets with their private vehicles resulting into  a huge traffic jam on both Western and Eastern Express Highways of Mumbai.<br />''<br />''People were seen standing in long queues at bus stops in some areas of suburban parts of the city.<br />''<br />''Number of buses of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking hit the city roads by noon.<br />''<br />''The BEST undertaking has decided to operate 250 more buses in Mumbai in addition to their fleet of 1,800 buses  to allow employees of government, private sectors and those who are self-employed to travel as restrictions on movement were eased from today in the state.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has decided to give an ex-gratia amount of Rs. fifty lakh to the next of the kin employed in the civic body and who succumbs due to COVID-19 while working in the line of duty.<br />''<br />''The period of this special scheme is from 1st March 2020 to 30th September, 2020.</span><br />