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PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
Nationalisation of passenger transport services in the Chandrapur district, which now forms part of the Nagpur Division of
the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, was started
in 1953. The services were initially run by the Central Provinces
Transport Services, which was subsequently purchased by the
State Government in 1955 and renamed the Provincial Transport
Services, Nagpur. After the reorganization of States in November 1956, the operations were looked after by a separate department under the former Government of Bombay, called the Transferred Road Transport Undertakings Department. With effect from July 1st, 1961, this department was abolished and the Provincial Transport Services, Nagpur along with the State Transport Services in the Marathwada Region, were amalgamated with the Bombay State Road Transport Corporation. The reorganized corporation was named the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.
The operations in the Chandrapur district were first started in 1953 with three routes, viz., Nagpur-Chandrapur. Wardha Chandrapur, and Nagpur-Chimur, which were operated from the depots outside the district.
By the end of December 1964, there were 7 routes serving Chandrapur district with a total route length of 882 km. All the operations in the district are managed by depots at Nagpur and Wardha. [The depot at Chandrapur was started subsequently, in the year 1968.]
All light and heavy repairs are carried out at the divisional workshop, Nagpur.
For the convenience of the travelling public in the district, the Corporation has provided a temporary bus station at Chandrapur and a bus stand with refreshment rooms at Warora. The details of the routes, number of trips operated and the number of passengers travelled per day on each route are given in the following statement: -
Route |
Distance in kilometres |
Number of single trips per day |
Number of persons travelled per day |
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
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Nagpur-Chandrapur (via Umrer) |
158.2 |
4 |
320 |
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Nagpur-Chandrapur (via Warora) |
202.0 |
8 |
996 |
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Chandrapur-Wani |
72.4 |
4 |
310 |
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Chandrapur-Chimur |
104.0 |
2 |
197 |
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Chandrapur-Nagbhir |
103.8 |
2 |
133 |
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Chandrapur-Aheri |
124.4 |
2 |
166 |
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Chandrapur-Dhanora |
118.4 |
2 |
108 |
Private Bus Operators.
The hilly and woody region of Chandrapur district and
innumerable rivulets made it impossible for the State Transport
to undertake operations extensively in the district. The State
Transport is running its services only on few routes which cover
only an insignificant area of the district. This fact gave rise to
a number of private stage carriage operators.
The total number of such private operators in the district was 9 and the number of routes, on which they ran their services, was 32.
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