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Inter-State Bus Terminals

Indian stations where public buses start or end their routes

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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, Stand or State Transport term is used.

01Andhra Pradesh

02Assam

03Bihar

04Chandigarh

  • Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 17 (ISBT-17)
  • Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 43 (ISBT-43)

05Chhattisgarh

06Delhi

As of November 2024, Delhi has three operational ISBTs managed by the Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTIDC).

07Gujarat

08Haryana

  • 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.

09Jharkhand

10Karnataka

11Kerala

12Madhya Pradesh

13Maharashtra

14Odisha

15Punjab

  • 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

16Rajasthan

17Tamil Nadu

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. As of 2010, the terminus handled more than 500 buses at a time, and 3,000 buses and 250,000 passengers a day.

18Telangana

19Uttarakhand

20Uttar Pradesh

  • Kanpur
    • Amar Shaheed Major Salman Khan Inter State Bus Terminal Kanpur (Jhakarkatti ISBT), Kanpur
  • Varanasi
    • Chaudhary Charan Singh Bus Depot

21West Bengal

22State 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

Sr. No. State / UT Buses of all STU's
1 Karnataka 22343
2 Tamil Nadu 19989
3 Maharashtra 15512
4 Uttar Pradesh 14110
5 Gujarat 11653
6 Andhra Pradesh 11193
7 Telangana 9375
8 Delhi 6297
9 Kerala 6241
10 Haryana 4005
11 Himachal Pradesh 3302
12 Rajasthan 2981
13 Punjab 2818
14 West Bengal 2232
15 Uttarakhand 1247
16 Chandigarh 642
17 Goa 520
18 Odisha 437
19 Assam 405
20 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 268
21 Bihar 223
22 Jammu and Kashmir 221
23 Nagaland 185
24 Arunachal Pradesh 164
25 Puducherry 141
26 Sikkim 75
27 Meghalaya 58
28 Mizoram 49
29 Tripura 48
30 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 25
31 Ladakh 20
32 Madhya Pradesh Nil
33 Jharkhand Nil
34 Manipur Nil
35 Chhattisgarh Nil
36 Lakshadweep Nil

23Government 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) 6592
2 Mumbai (MMR) 3928
3 Kolkata (KMA) 1377
4 Chennai 3476
5 Bangalore 5587
6 Hyderabad 3101
7 Ahmedabad 1477
8 Pune 1650
9 Surat 1136
10 Jaipur 100
11 Kanpur 98
12 Lucknow 115
13 Nagpur 730
14 Indore 188
15 Coimbatore 815
16 Kochi 20
17 Patna 131
18 Bhopal 120
19 Vadodara 200
20 Agra 40
21 Visakhapatnam 615
22 Ludhiana Nil
23 Nashik 250
24 Vijayawada 410
25 Madurai 460
26 Varanasi 30
27 Meerut 30
28 Rajkot 110
29 Jamshedpur Nil
30 Srinagar Nil
31 Jabalpur 40
32 Asansol Nil
33 Allahabad 30
34 Dhanbad Nil
35 Aurangabad 135
36 Amritsar Nil
37 Jodhpur Nil
38 Raipur 67
39 Ranchi 30
40 Gwalior 16
41 Thiruvananthapuram 132
42 Bhilai 50
43 Kozhikode 100
44 Chandigarh (CCR) 464
45 Tiruchirapalli 350
46 Kota Nil
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