Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation


Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation abbreviated is a Government State Transport Undertaking of Gujarat for passengers facilitating road public transport in moffusil / city services. GSRTC operates within the state of Gujarat, India and its neighboring states. It has a fleet of 8,322 buses.
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Overview

GSRTC has been incorporated since 1 May 1960 with seven divisions, 76 depots and seven divisional workshops, which has been expanding. The public undertaking is covering 98% of the villages and 99% population of Gujarat in addition to serving major cities of the country via long-distance routes.
Infrastructure across the state:
  • 16 divisions
  • 125 depots
  • 263 bus stations
  • 1554 pickup stands
Daily operation with:
  • 40,000 employees
  • 8703 buses
  • 8500 schedules
  • 47462 trips
  • 32.50 lakhs km
  • 25 lakhs passengers of population
  • It covers 18,551 villages of Gujarat out of total 18,676 'villages
  • It has iconic one-of-its-kind Bus Ports in 6 major cities of Gujarat
  • Technological up-gradation in major departments i.e. IT, technical, HR etc.
  • GSRTC daily facilitates 1.3 million obligatory passengers including students out of total 2.5 million passengers by operating 8530' obligatory trips.

Divisions

GSRTC has 16 divisions:
  1. Ahmedabad division referred as Aashram
  2. Amreli division referred as Gir
  3. Bharuch division referred as Narmada
  4. Bhavnagar division referred as Shetrunjay
  5. Bhuj division referred as Kutch
  6. Godhra division referred as Pavagadh
  7. Himmatnagar division referred as Sabar
  8. Jamnagar division referred as Dwarka
  9. Junagadh division referred as Somnath
  10. Mehsana division referred as Modhera
  11. Nadiad division referred as Amul
  12. Palanpur division referred as Banas
  13. Rajkot division referred as Saurashtra
  14. Surat division referred as Surya Nagri
  15. Vadodara division referred as Vishwamitri
  16. Valsad division referred as Daman Ganga
Also in Ahmedabad division Gandhinagar depot has some special buses referred as Vikas Route.

New Bus Terminals

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 Eight such bus terminals - two in Ahmedabad at Gita Mandir and Ranip, two in Vadodara at Central and Makarpura, two in Surat at Surat Cantral GSRTC Bus Terminal and Adajan one each in Palanpur, Rajkot and Mehsana. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani proposed to build ten modern district level bus terminals at Amreli, Bhuj, Bharuch, Rajkot, Nadiad, Navsari, Modasa, Patan 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 helicopter 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 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.
GSRTC daily covers 28 lakh kilometre with 40000 trips and catering daily 24 lakh passengers...
GSRTC provides online and mobile phone ticket booking facility. It also provides wi-fi internet service in Volvo buses for free. Currently the fleet of buses having online ticket booking facility includes Express, Gurjarnagri, Sleeper and Volvo buses.

Command & Control Center and IT Initiatives

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

Technical

It has built up many technical facilities. Including:
  • Three level maintenance and repair facility - 126 depot workshops, 16 divisional workshops and a central workshop
  • 7 Tyre retreading plant

Services

Volvo Services

A.C.Luxury Services

Dhanera to Ahmedabad

Intercity Services

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

Service types

  • Volvo Seater
  • A. C. Seater
  • Gurjar Nagri Express
  • Deluxe Express
  • Midi Bus
  • Luxury Coach
  • Electric Intercity Bus
  • Sleeper Bus

Buses used & awards

Buses used