PATNA: Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC) will introduce around 100 more Volvo buses to connect the state with other neighbouring states within a month.
The contract for operation and maintenance of these buses has been given to two private firms - Girish Infra Private Limited and Royal Cruiser - under public-private partnership (PPP). After the addition of these 100 new buses to the existing fleet of 206 buses running within the state as well as between Bihar and Jharkhand, BSRTC would have a total of 306 buses operational in the state and connecting Bihar with West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odhisa and Jharkhand.
For people visiting West Bengal, BSRTC has planned a 'gift' of 14 air-conditioned Volvo buses with reclining seats, water facility and music system by next month. Out of the 14 buses running between Bihar and West Bengal, Royal Cruiser has been entrusted with the responsibility of running two buses each on Patna-Kolkata, Gaya-Kolkata and Purnia-Kolkata routes under the PPP mode. The responsibility of running the remaining eight buses has been given to Girish Infra Private Limited, also in PPP mode. Two buses each would be running between Biharsharif-Kolkata, Aurangabad-Kolkata, Patna-Kolkata and Rajgir-Kolkata.
Girish Infra Private Limited has also been entrusted with the operation of new buses from Bihar to Jharkhand on eight routes: Patna-Tata, Patna-Ranchi, Patna-Daltonganj, Gaya-Ranchi, Gaya-Jamshedpur, Bhagalpur-Tata, Bhagalpur-Ranchi and Siwan-Tata.
It has also been decided to run buses between Bihar and Chhattisgarh on six routes: Patna-Ambikapur, Sasaram-Jashpur, Chhapra-Jashpur, Motihari-Jashpur, Muzaffarpur-Jashpur and Siwan-Jashpur.
Nine routes have been finalized for running buses between Bihar and Odisha. These are Patna-Rairangpur, Biharsharif-Baripada, Gaya-Puri, Patna-Balasore, Patna-Bhubaneswar, Patna-Rourkela, Sasaram-Rourkela, Dehri-Rourkela and Darbhanga-Rairangpur.
"The contract for running six more buses under PPP mode has been given to three individuals - Bharti Devi, Kunal Sharma and Rajesh Kumar, who would be operating two buses each on three routes: Patna-Ranchi, Patna-Siliguri and Patna-Ranchi," said a senior official of the transport department.
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