The State of Maharashtra State Transport Corporation abbreviated as MSRTC or simply ST. It is the state bus service of Maharashtra, India with 16,500 buses that overflow 7 million passengers daily on 18,700 routes. It serves routes to towns and cities within Maharashtra and adjacent states. Apart from locations within the state of Maharashtra, the MSRTC service also covers destinations in neighboring states. It also offers a facility for online booking of tickets for the 18,700 routes.
The State Road Transport Corporation of the State of Maharashtra was established by the Government of the State of Maharashtra in accordance with Section 3 of the RTC Act of 1950. The MSRTC is operating its services under the approved transportation scheme by Highway published vide Notification MVA 3173/30303-XIIA of 29.11. 1973 in the official gazette. The area covered by the scheme is the entire area of the state of Maharashtra. The company is in the process of operating and contracting transportation services throughout the state of Maharashtra, except S.T. Of the Law of MV and another exception published in the scheme. The first bus was marked from Pune to Ahmednagar in 1948. Following the history that saw this development, we return to the decade of 1920, when Several entrepreneurs began their operations in the scene of public transport. Until the Motor Vehicle Act came into force in 1939, there were no regulations controlling its activities, and this resulted in arbitrary competition, unregulated fares. The application of the law rectified the issues to an extent. Individual operators were asked to form a union on defined routes in a given area. This also proved to be beneficial to travelers as a sort of set schedule, with a schedule, collection points, drivers and fixed ticket prices. The state of affairs continued until 1948, when the then Bombay State Government, with the late Morarji Desai as local minister, began its own state road transport service called Bombay State Transport. And the first blue and silver bus departed from Pune to Ahmednagar. The driver and the driver used to wear khaki uniforms and cap hats. There were 10 brands of buses in use at that time - Chevrolet, Fort, Bedford, Seddon, Studebaker, Morris Commercial, Albion, Leyland, Commer and Fiat. In the early 1950s, two luxury trainers were also introduced with Morris Chassis Commercial. These were called Neelkamal and Giriyarohini and used to walk on the route of Pune-Mahableshwar. They had two for two seats, curtains, interior decoration, a clock and green glasses.