Bus Services
MSRTC runs bus services starting from the basic bus service for the masses to the Air conditioned bus service meeting the world class standards. The types of services run by MSRTC are:
Ordinary: A basic bus service provided by MSRTC. The buses are in red livery. The service is meant to connect entire Maharashtra together. This includes smallest of towns irrespective of the road or revenue conditions. The main motto of this service is not profit making but the service of people from masses. The buses are fairly comfortable, extremely economical and offer various concessional services for Senior Citizens, Students, War widows, Freedom fighters and so on. This for sure one trend setting example of public service with a class and has been serving Maharashtra for ages. Major fleet of MSRTC consists of these buses.
Parivartan: Parivartan in Marathi means 'change'. This is the changed face of the ordinary red bus service. A successful attempt by MSRTC to offer comfortable service to masses. The buses consist of a 2x2 seating arrangement and offer better comfort. These are slowly replacing the ordinary buses from the fleet and are also responsible for 'change' (Parivartan in urban people's mindsets about the ordinary ST bus services. The fare structure fo Parivartan buses is same as that of the ordinary buses and all the concessions can also be availed.
Asiad: The first ever comfortable bus service in the country meant to ferry the sports persons of the Asiad games which took place in 1982 is now become in an inevitable part of Maharashtra's intercity transport. The Asiad is a Non Air-Conditioned, Semi-Luxury bus service with 2x2 seating arrangement. The Asiad service was recognized by Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister during 1982 as this was the first Government built, owned and operated bus service offering world class comfort at that time. Later on MSRTC used these beautiful white and green buses with a blue band on their lucrative Dadar-Pune sector and got an overwhelming response from the commuters. MSRTC decided to keep the service in operation on this route and started producing more Ashaid buses at their workshops. Slowly the Asiad services were introduced on other sectors. Today Asiad buses run between all the cities in Maharashtra. The Ashiad livery was modified in 2010 with a shiny white paint and a purple colour. A few popular Asiad bus routes in the state are: Dadar - Pune, Nashik - Pune, Sangli-Pune Station, Miraj-Nashik, Tasgaon- Pune, Aurangabad - Pune, Thane - Pune, Satara - Mumbai, Nasik - Mumbai, Kolhapur - Pune, etc. The buses on these route ply with an interval of 15 minutes to 1 hour on a daily basis.
Shivneri: Yet another example of the corporation in keeping with the time. Shivneri is an Air-conditioned bus service of MSRTC between important cities. Most of the services are operated by the world class Volvo - B7R buses in a light blue livery. The services were started on Dadar - Pune sctor and now MSRTC operates Shivneri bus services on many select routes. Currently MSRTC operates Shivneri buses on following routes in a descending order of frequency & number of services: 1. Dadar (Mumbai) - Pune (Pune Station) 2. Borivali (Mumbai) - Pune (Swargate) 3. Aurangabad - Pune (Shivajinagar) 4. Thane - Pune (Swargate) 5. Sangli - Pune Station 6. Nashik - Pune (Shivajinagar) 7. Mumbai (Borivali) - Shirdi 8. Mumbai (Mumbai Central) - Panjim (Goa) 9. Mumbai (Mumbai Central) - Hyderabad 10. Pune (Swargate) - Bangalore 11. Jalgaon - Pune (Shivajinagar) 12. Nanded - Pune (Shivajinagar) 13. Nagpur (Ganeshpeth CBS) - Pune 14. Kolhapur - Pune (Swargate) 15. Nagpur (Ganeshpeth CBS) - Hyderabad (JBS, MGBS) 16. Pune (Swargate) - Udaipur. Plans for starting long haul routes like Mumbai - Bangalore, Nagpur - Aurangabad, etc. are in process.
Sheetal: The latest entrant into the long list of bus types operated by MSRTC. These are airconditioned semi-luxury buses with 2x2 seating arrangement. The pricing is slightly higher than the Asiad buses, but significantly lower than the Shivneri buses. As of 2010, these buses have been introduced only on the Dadar - Pune Station route, though there are plans to introduce them on other popular routes like Pune - Nasik, Pune - Aurangabad, etc.
MSRTC City-Bus: An intracity & semi-urban service arm MSRTC providing services that cater to the transportation needs of mid size and smaller towns which do not have their own transportation services.
MSRTC Daily conducted tours: MSRTC operate daily conducted tours by Asiad buses to the tourist destinations around Aurangabad like Ellora, Ajanta and Daulatabad wherein they also take a note of the tourist destinations in the city. Tour 1: Aurangabad CBS to Ajanta Caves, Bibi-Ka-Muqbara, Pan-Chakki and back to Aurangabad CBS Tour 2: Aurangabad CBS to Ellora Caves, Daulatabad Fort, Bibi-Ka-Muqbara, Pan-Chakki and back to Aurangabad CBS
Yatra (Festivity services): A seasonal service targeted at travellers visiting various festivities of Maharastra.
Parcel Courier service: MSRTC buses also provide the use of their buses for shipping cargo or courier services.
Tourism packages: Along with normal bus services MSRTC provides package tours whereby you can buy a single ticket to travel a selective group of tourist places in Maharastra. The groups are mostly clubbed together based on the district they belong to.
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