PEPSU Road Transport Corporation

PEPSU contains 25 cities of Punjab including Moga, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Budhlada, Delhi, Faridkot, Sangrur.

PRTC Bus terminus at Zirakpur, Mohali.
PEPSU Road Transport Corporation
ParentGovernment of Punjab
Founded16 October 1956 (1956-10-16)
HeadquartersNabha Road, Patiala, Punjab, India
Service areaNorth India
Service typeExpress, Rocket Service, Rocket Premium
Depots9
Fleet1142
Fuel typeDiesel
Managing DirectorDr. Bhupinder Pal Singh I.A.S.
Websitewww.pepsurtc.com
PRTC Bus Station at Budhlada, Mansa, Punjab

PEPSU Road Transport Corporation (PRTC), is a bus operator in Punjab state of India, is a state-run corporation headquartered at Patiala. Originally, it was formed as the Road Transport Corporation of the erstwhile state of PEPSU but when it was merged into Punjab, it became the Road Transport Corporation of whole of Punjab. Later in 1966, when Haryana and Himachal were carved out of Punjab, they formed their own Road Transport Companies. It has a fleet of 1142 buses. The PRTC (Pepsu Road Transport Corporation), Patiala was set-up on 16th of October, 1956 under the provision of the Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950 with a view to provide efficient, adequate, economic and properly co-ordinated operation system of Road Transport Services in the State. [1] It commenced passenger transport operations with a meagre investment of ₹ 25.00 lacs and the fleet of 60 buses covering 11,107 daily scheduled kilometers on 15 routes with 345 employees. At present, the PRTC had owned 1142 ordinary buses, 600 routes (including inter-state routes) covering a daily mileage of 349928 kilometers. It has 3,993 employees of which 1022 are regular. [2] PRTC has 9 depot and 15 bus stands across the Punjab located at Patiala, Bathinda, Kapurthala, Barnala, Sangrur, Budhlada, Faridkot, Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Special Cell of KM Scheme at Patiala. Sardar Manmohan Singh Sathiala held the post of Chairman of PRTC form 2000-2002 and introduced Kilometre scheme, initiated GPS system on its buses and built bus stand at historic city of Talwandi Sabo.

Infrastructure
Depot Owned buses Hired buses Total scheduled km allotted
Patiala 8HVAC + 2AC +162 Ordinary Buses=172 3 AC 175 56688
Sangrur 96 2 98 34286
Kapurthala 86 0 86 27314
Bathinda 6 HVAC+144 Ordinary =150 1 151 59064
Budhlada 61 0 61 20264
Barnala 84 0 84 29380
Ludhiana 91 5 Ordinary + 5 AC 101 39924
Faridkot 85 0 85 28445
Chandigarh 10 HVAC+103 Ordinary=113 0 113 42020
Spl. Cell 0 20 Ordinary 20 12543
Total/Avg. 938 36 1075 349928

And total fleet is 2919 [All Fleet Comprises]

  • Punjab Roadways / PUNBUS - 1844
  • Pepsu - 1075

References
  1. "Pepsu Road Transport Corporation". NRIPunjab.gov.in.
  2. "About PRTC – Pepsu Road Transport Corporation". Retrieved 2 November 2019.
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