Indian stations where public buses start or end their routes
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.
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,[1] and few more have been proposed.[2][3]
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.[4]
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.
Bahadurgarh ISBT, existing: at Bahadurgarh south bypass in the east of Bahadurgarh near Tikri Border, 1.6 km southwest of Pandit Shree Ram Sharma metro station, 4 km southeast of Bahadurgarh Railway Station on Delhi-Hisar rail line, 13 km southeast of Asaudha Railway Station on Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC).
Rajiv Chowk ISBT, planned: next to under-construction metro and under-construction RRTS stations of Delhi-Alwar line at NH-48.[5]
At 37 acres (150,000 m2), the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.R. Bus Terminus in Chennai, India, is the second largest bus station in Asia.[8] As of 2010, the terminus handled more than 500 buses at a time, and 3,000 buses and 250,000 passengers a day.[9]
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
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).
