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, Stand or State Transport term is used.
- Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 17 (ISBT-17)
- Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 43 (ISBT-43)
As of November 2024, Delhi has three operational ISBTs managed by the Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTIDC), with three more planned and approved for construction, and few more have been proposed.
Existing
- Maharana Pratap ISBT (Kashmere Gate), existing: on 13 acres near NH-44 and Kashmere Gate metro station Exit 8. In 2024, it handles 150,000 passengers and 2500 busses (including 500 via NH-44 Delhi-Ambala highway from Haryana, Punjab and Himachal and another 700-1000 to West Haryana and Rajasthan via NH-9 Delhi-Hisar and other roads), building new ISBT at Narela, Tikri, Dwarka, etc will significantly ease the pressure.
Planned
Approved by Government of Delhi
Suggested
- East Delhi
- Burari ISBT, not-yet-approved: on intersection of planned UER-II Alipur-Tronica extension and proposed "Signature Bridge-Burari-Manauli-Mirakpur Expressway".
- Sonipat ISBT, existing: at Sonipat Devilal chowk Sonipat.
- Rajiv Chowk ISBT, planned: next to under-construction metro and under-construction RRTS stations of Delhi-Alwar line at NH-48.
- Kushabhau Thakre Inter State Bus Terminal, Bhopal
- Nadra Bus Stand, Bhopal
- ISBT, Jabalpur, Jabalpur
- Gwalior Bus Stand, Gwalior
- Nana Kheda Inter State Bus Terminal, Ujjain
- Shaheed Raja Bhau Mahakal Bus Stand, Ujjain
- Inter-State Bus Terminus, Indore
- Sarwate Inter State Bus Terminal, Indore
- AICTSL Bus Stand, Indore
- Navlakha Inter State Bus Terminal, Indore
- Gangwal Inter State Bus Terminal, Indore
- Teen Imli Bus Stand, Indore
- Nayta Mundla Bus Stand, Indore
- Atal bihari vajpayee ISBT,Satna
- Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra Inter State Bus Terminal, Amritsar
- Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Inter State Bus Terminal, Jalandhar
- Bhagwan Valmiki Inter State Bus Terminal, Hushiarpur
- Amar Shaheed Sukhdev Inter State Bus Terminal, Ludhiana
- Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Inter State Bus Terminal, Mohali
- Maharana Partap Inter State Bus Terminal, Pathankot
- Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Inter State Bus Terminal, Gurdaspur
- Shaheed Bhai Mani Singh Ji Interstate Bus Terminal, Sangrur
At , the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.R. Bus Terminus in Chennai, India, is the second largest bus station in Asia. As of 2010, the terminus handled more than 500 buses at a time, and 3,000 buses and 250,000 passengers a day.
- Kanpur
- Amar Shaheed Major Salman Khan Inter State Bus Terminal Kanpur (Jhakarkatti ISBT), Kanpur
- Varanasi
- Chaudhary Charan Singh Bus Depot
State government bus
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
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).
References
- Chris Devonshire-Ellis. Doing Business in India. Springer, Apr 12, 2012 pg. 127
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