Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation Lucknow

of the Road Transport Act, 1950 with the following objectives:

For the development of the road transport sector correlated to which would be the overall development of trade & industry. For coordination of the road transport services with other modes of transport. For providing or causing the provision of an adequate, economical & efficiently coordinated road transport service to the residents of the state. At the time of establishment of the Corporation it had a fleet of 4253 buses which were operating on 1123 routes. The corporation's earned kilometers operated at that time were 228.8 million kilometers. While the total number of passengers carried by its buses totalled 251.3 million. By the end of the decade the fleet of the corporation had attained a strength of 5679 buses, the operations had increased to 1782 routes. As a result of this increase in operations, the earned kilometers totalled about 395.3 million kilometers, while the total numbers of passengers carried totalled over 449.1 million. The end of the VI five year plan saw a further increase in all operational parameters being achieved by the corporation. With the increase in fleet strength of 6198 buses, the earned kilometers of the corporation rose to 425.7 million kilometers. During the VII five year plan emphasis was placed on strengthening the fleet of the corporation. By the end of the plan period the fleet had risen to 8161 buses from the initial strength of 6198. By 1989-90, the Corporation operated 2525 routes covering 648.6 million kilometers and carrying 471.2 million passengers. During the VIII five year plan 2722 buses were replaced with new buses however 3142 buses were auctioned and the fleet at the end of 1996-97 became 7463 buses. During the IX five year plan 2427 buses were replaced and 3785 buses were auctioned, At the end of 2001-02 the Corporation had 6105 buses. In the Xth five year plan 5274 buses were inducted and 4818 buses were removed from fleet. At the end of 2006-07 the Corporation had 6561 buses apart from 784 hired buses operated under its control. In the XIth five year plan 4518 buses were inducted and 4189 buses were removed from fleet. At the end of 2011-12 the Corporation had 6890 buses apart from 1763 hired buses operated under its control. During the XIIth five year plan period the Corporation targets to purchase 8450 new buses to bring its fleet size to 13040 by the end of the plan period in 2017. The Corporation has also commenced the operation of High end buses and non stop inter city services (PLATINUM LINE & GOLDLINE). Infrastructure

The corporate office of the corporation is situated at Lucknow. The Corporation has been reconstituted on 30.10.03 with the services in the state of Uttaranchal firming a separate corporation. For efficient functioning the corporation has been divided into 20 regions of which 1 region operates urban & sub-urban services. Each region has a regional workshop where major repair and maintenance work as well as assembly reconditioning work is performed. Each region has been further divided into operational units called depots. The total number of depots in the corporation is 108, including car-section. Each depot has a depot workshop attached to it to provide supportive maintenance facilities. For heavy maintenance and repair of vehicles, reconditioning of major assemblies, renovation of buses and construction of bodies on new chassis, two Central workshops have been established in Kanpur: Central Workshop, Rawatpur and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Workshop, Allen Forest. Eight tyre retreading plants are established at Agra, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Ghaziabad, Bareilly, Kanpur, Saharanpur, Allahabad, Moradabad and Etawah to provide in-house tyre retreading facilities. For repairs and maintenance of staff cars belonging to the State Government and the Corporation, a separate unit named Car Section is established in Lucknow. For imparting training to drivers and technical staff, a Training School is established in Kanpur.