In India, an Inter State Bus Terminal or Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) is a bus terminus that provides bus service to destinations located in other states. An ISBT may also provide bus services to destinations in the same state. Mostly ISBT Term is used in the Northern Part of India, In the western part of India, ST Stand or State Transport Term is used.
In Delhi, the major Inter-State Bus Terminals operated by Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (DTIDC) include:
At 37 acres (150,000 m2), the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus in Chennai, India, is the largest bus station in Asia.[1] As of 2010, the terminus handled more than 500 buses at a time, and 3,000 buses and 250,000 passengers a day.[2]
Many Indian state governments have their own fleet of buses which are run under their state transport department. As per statistics, the State Road Transport Undertakings (STUs) altogether operates 1,50,000 buses. State-wise bus fleet is as follows
Sr. No. | State/UT | Buses of all STU's |
---|---|---|
1 | Karnataka | 23710 |
2 | Tamil Nadu | 21010 |
3 | Maharashtra | 17773 |
4 | Andhra Pradesh | 11851 |
5 | Uttar Pradesh | 11309 |
6 | Gujarat | 11052 |
7 | Telangana | 9057 |
8 | Delhi | 7140 |
9 | Kerala | 6241 |
10 | Rajasthan | 4405 |
11 | Haryana | 4294 |
12 | Himachal Pradesh | 3358 |
13 | Punjab | 2549 |
14 | West Bengal | 2232 |
15 | Uttarakhand | 1355 |
16 | Chandigarh | 603 |
17 | Goa | 520 |
18 | Odisha | 437 |
19 | Assam | 405 |
20 | Jammu and Kashmir | 373 |
21 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 268 |
22 | Bihar | 223 |
23 | Nagaland | 185 |
24 | Arunachal Pradesh | 164 |
25 | Puducherry | 141 |
26 | Sikkim | 75 |
27 | Meghalaya | 55 |
28 | Mizoram | 49 |
29 | Tripura | 48 |
30 | Madhya Pradesh | Nil |
31 | Jharkhand | Nil |
32 | Manipur | Nil |
33 | Chhattisgarh | Nil |
34 | Ladakh | Nil |
35 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | Nil |
36 | Lakshadweep | Nil |
Many Indian cities have local public city bus services. Here is a list of fleet of government city buses operated as of now in India cities (million plus population).
Sr. No. | City / Urban Area | City bus fleet
of all STU's |
---|---|---|
1 | Delhi (NCR) | 7448 |
2 | Mumbai (MMR) | 4428 |
3 | Kolkata (KMA) | 1377 |
4 | Chennai | 3476 |
5 | Bangalore | 6460 |
6 | Hyderabad | 2982 |
7 | Ahmedabad | 1292 |
8 | Pune | 1480 |
9 | Surat | 741 |
10 | Jaipur | 250 |
11 | Kanpur | 80 |
12 | Lucknow | 132 |
13 | Nagpur | 487 |
14 | Indore | 229 |
15 | Coimbatore | 925 |
16 | Kochi | 203 |
17 | Patna | 70 |
18 | Bhopal | 225 |
19 | Vadodara | 180 |
20 | Agra | 40 |
21 | Visakhapatnam | 605 |
22 | Ludhiana | 65 |
23 | Nashik | 130 |
24 | Vijayawada | 455 |
25 | Madurai | 505 |
26 | Varanasi | 30 |
27 | Meerut | 30 |
28 | Rajkot | 110 |
29 | Jamshedpur | 50 |
30 | Srinagar | 30 |
31 | Jabalpur | 119 |
32 | Asansol | 60 |
33 | Allahabad | 30 |
34 | Dhanbad | 70 |
35 | Aurangabad | 30 |
36 | Amritsar | 93 |
37 | Jodhpur | 40 |
38 | Raipur | 110 |
39 | Ranchi | 70 |
40 | Gwalior | 16 |
41 | Thiruvananthapuram | 100 |
42 | Bhilai | 70 |
43 | Kozhikode | 100 |
44 | Chandigarh (CCR) | 436 |
45 | Tiruchirapalli | 350 |
46 | Kota | 50 |