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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.

  • Rupnath Brahma Inter-State Bus Terminus, Guwahati
  • Inter-State Bus Terminus, Jorhat
  • Inter-State Bus Terminus, Silchar


  • Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 17 (ISBT-17)
  • Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 43 (ISBT-43)
File:Interstate Bus Terminus, (ISBT) Raipur.jpg
(ISBT) Interstate Bus Terminus, at Bhatagoan in Raipur
  • Bhatagaon Inter-State Bus Terminus, Raipur
  • Pandri Bus Terminus, Raipur
  • Hi-tech Bus Terminus Bilaspur

In Delhi, the major Inter-State Bus Terminals operated by Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (DTIDC) include:

  • Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Baramunda, Bhubaneswar
  • Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Badambadi, Cuttack
  • Cuttack Netaji Bus Terminal (CNBT)
  • Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra Inter State Bus Terminal, Amritsar

At Template:Convert, 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]

State government bus

Many Indian state governments have their own fleet of buses which are run under their state transport department. State-wise bus fleet is as follows

Sr. No. State/UT Buses of all STU's
1 Karnataka 24138 Template:Increase
2 Tamil Nadu 21678 Template:Decrease
3 Maharashtra 18449 Template:Increase
4 Uttar Pradesh 11880 Template:Decrease
5 Andhra Pradesh 11522 Template:Increase
6 Gujarat 11052 Template:Increase
7 Telangana 9734 Template:Decrease
8 Delhi 6752 Template:Increase
9 Kerala 5635 Template:Decrease
10 Rajasthan 4400 Template:Decrease
11 Haryana 4294 Template:Increase
12 Himachal Pradesh 3158 Template:Increase
13 Punjab 2986 Template:Decrease
14 West Bengal 2345 Template:Decrease
15 Uttarakhand 1355 Template:Decrease
16 Chandigarh 603 Template:Increase
17 Assam 585 Template:Decrease
18 Goa 565 Template:Increase
19 Odisha 459 Template:Decrease
20 Jammu and Kashmir 373 Template:Decrease
21 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 268 Template:Increase
22 Bihar 223 Template:Decrease
23 Nagaland 185 Template:Decrease
24 Arunachal Pradesh 164 Template:Decrease
25 Puducherry 141 Template:Increase
26 Sikkim 75 Template:Decrease
27 Meghalaya 55 Template:Decrease
28 Mizoram 49 Template:Decrease
29 Tripura 48 Template:Decrease
30 Madhya Pradesh Nil Template:Decrease
31 Jharkhand Nil Template:Decrease
32 Manipur Nil Template:Decrease
33 Chhattisgarh Nil Template:Decrease
34 Ladakh Nil Template:Decrease
35 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Nil Template:Decrease
36 Lakshadweep Nil Template:Decrease

Government city buses

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) 7060 Template:Increase
2 Mumbai (MMR) 4428 Template:Decrease
3 Kolkata (KMA) 1377 Template:Decrease
4 Chennai 3476 Template:Decrease
5 Bangalore 6460 Template:Decrease
6 Hyderabad 2982 Template:Decrease
7 Ahmedabad 1252 Template:Decrease
8 Pune 1480 Template:Decrease
9 Surat 741 Template:Increase
10 Jaipur 250 Template:Decrease
11 Kanpur 80 Template:Decrease
12 Lucknow 120 Template:Decrease
13 Nagpur 487 Template:Increase
14 Indore 229 Template:Increase
15 Coimbatore 925 Template:Increase
16 Kochi 203 Template:Decrease
17 Patna 70 Template:Decrease
18 Bhopal 225 Template:Decrease
19 Vadodara 180 Template:Increase
20 Agra 40 Template:Decrease
21 Visakhapatnam 605 Template:Increase
22 Ludhiana 65 Template:Decrease
23 Nashik 130 Template:Decrease
24 Vijayawada 455 Template:Increase
25 Madurai 505 Template:Increase
26 Varanasi 30 Template:Decrease
27 Meerut 10 Template:Decrease
28 Rajkot 110 Template:Increase
29 Jamshedpur 50 Template:Decrease
30 Srinagar 30 Template:Decrease
31 Jabalpur 119 Template:Decrease
32 Asansol 60 Template:Decrease
33 Allahabad 30 Template:Decrease
34 Dhanbad 70 Template:Decrease
35 Aurangabad 30 Template:Decrease
36 Amritsar 93 Template:Decrease
37 Jodhpur 40 Template:Decrease
38 Raipur 110 Template:Decrease
39 Ranchi 70 Template:Decrease
40 Gwalior 16 Template:Decrease
41 Thiruvananthapuram 100 Template:Decrease
42 Bhilai 70 Template:Decrease
43 Kozhikode 100 Template:Decrease
44 Chandigarh (CCR) 436 Template:Increase
45 Tiruchirapalli 350 Template:Increase
46 Kota 50 Template:Decrease

References

  • Chris Devonshire-Ellis. Doing Business in India. Springer, Apr 12, 2012 pg. 127
Specific
  1. Koyambedu bus terminus gets ISO certification. The Hindu(28 December 2005). Retrieved 16 Oct 2011.
  2. Bus terminus chokes under rush. The Times of India(13 January 2010). Retrieved 16 Oct 2011.