Bihar State Road Transport Corporation बिहार राज्य मार्ग परिवहन निगम | |
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Overview | |
Owner | Government of Bihar |
Locale | Bihar |
Transit type | Intercity bus service within State of Bihar and Interstate bus service to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand
International bus services to Nepal[1] Local bus service in selected cities[2] |
Daily ridership | 80,000 |
Chief executive | Sanjay Kumar Aggarwal, IAS[3] (Administrator) |
Headquarters | Bailey Road, Patna |
Website | bsrtc |
Operation | |
Began operation | 1953 as Rajya Transport 1959 as Bihar State Road Transport Corporation |
Bihar State Road Transport Corporation or BSRTC is a state-owned road transportation company in Bihar with compared to other Indian states it is facing financial crisis in term of government funding, which degrade its process of expanding basic infrastructural assets both HR and number of buses in BSRTC, as par to 3 tier cities public transportation system.[4] BSRTC was set up in 1959 under the provisions of Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950. It is wholly owned by the Government of Bihar. In year 2020 Chief Minister of Bihar inaugurated Pataliputra Bus Terminal commonly known as ISBT, Patna. It is the first ISBT of Bihar.