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Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation

Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation, abbreviated GSRTC, is a Government State Transport Undertaking of Gujarat for passengers facilitating with road public transport in moffusil / city services. GSRTC operates within the state of Gujarat, India and neighboring states. It has a fleet of 8703 buses.

Overview

Central Bus Station of Ahmedabad

GSRTC has been incorporated since 1 May 1960 with 7 divisions, 76 depots and 7 divisional workshops, which has been expanding. The public undertaking is covering 98% of the villages and 99% population of Gujarat in addition to plying to major cities of the country (in long-distance routes).

Infrastructure across the state:

Daily operation with:

Divisions

GSRTC has 16 divisions:

Also in Ahmedabad division Gandhinagar depot has some special buses referred as Vikas Route .

Depots

New Bus Terminals

Vadodara Bus Station

It is as per the vision of the Prime Minister when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat to facelift the bus terminals with facilities that are available at international airports. The government has already built six such bus terminals - two in Ahmedabad at Gita Mandir and Ranip, two in Vadodara at Central and Makarpura, at Surat and Mehsana.

Central Bus station of Ahmedabad

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani now proposed to build ten modern district level bus terminals at Amreli, Bhuj, Bharuch, Rajkot, Nadiad, Navsari, Modasa, Patan and Palanpur at a cost of Rs.913.30-crore with facilities for commercial activities. Boat jetties are also planned along with helipads. Every bus station will offer direct flights to Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru. GSRTC is training its drivers to fly helicopters and planes to start service. All these ten bus terminals, to be designed, built, operated and transfer model, will have a digital display, variable message sign boards, CCTV cameras, surveillance system, deluxe waiting hall, tourist information centre, cloakrooms, restaurants, food courts, plaza, budget hotels, and multiplex for commercial activities, besides Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) administrative office, parcel room, maintenance workshop and fuel pumps. The bus terminals will have a clause for maintenance and repairs as and when required for 30 years.

Passenger

GSRTC purchased 1500+ new buses including air conditioned, Sleeper coaches Volvo buses in 2009 and also purchased 1000+ new Intercity Mini buses in 2017.[6]GSRTC daily 28 lakh kilometre with 40000 trips and catering daily 24 lakh passengers ... GSRTC provides online and mobile phone ticket booking facility.[7][8] It also provides wi-fi internet service in Volvo buses for free.[9] Currently the fleet of buses having online ticket booking facility includes Express, Gurjarnagri, Sleeper and Volvo buses.[10]

CCC GSRTC
Command & Control Center, Central Office, Ranip, Ahmedabad,Gujarat

GSRTC has established its Command & Control Center of GSRTC at Central Office, Ranip, Ahmedabad. 24 × 7 rigorous monitoring of various parameters in CCC (Command & Control Center) & DCCC (Division Command & Control Center) through various IT tools, i.e.,

Technical

It has built up many technical facilities. Including:

Services

Volvo Services

Intercity Services

etc. and many more Intercity services to and from major cities of Gujarat.

Service types

Buses used

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c "About us". GSRTC. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ^ "GSRTC contact number".
  3. ^ "GSRTC performance". GSRTC. October 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Leadership". GARTC. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Gujarat : Three IAS officers shifted, M A Gandhi is VC&MD, GSRTC". Legend Officers. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  6. ^ "GSRTC gets 1,500 new buses". The Times of India. TNN. 8 February 2009. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  7. ^ Thakkar, Mitul (20 July 2005). "GSRTC to launch online ticket booking". Business Standard. Ahmedabad. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Booking GSRTC ticket through mobile phone to be possible". DeshGujarat.com. 12 August 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Now, surf the internet on GSRTC's Rajkot-Ahmedabad buses". The Times of India. Rajkot. TNN. 18 December 2011. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  10. ^ "Book GSRTC E-Tickets online easily". www.gsrtctimetable.in. Ahmedabad. 19 November 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

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