The Gazetteers Department

The nationalisation of road transport in Wardha district, which now forms a part of the Nagpur Division of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, was started as early as in 1946. Initially services were run by the Central Provinces Transport Services which was subsequently purchased by the State Government in 1955 and was renamed as the Provincial Transport Services, Nagpur. After the reorganisation of States in November 1956, the operations were looked after by a separate department under the erstwhile Government of Bombay called the ' Transferred Road Transport Undertakings Department.' With effect from 1st July, 1961, the Transferred Road Transport Undertakings Department was abolished and the Provincial Transport Services, Nagpur, alongwith the State Transport Services in the Marathwada region, were amalgamated with the Bombay State Road Transport Corporation and the reorganised Corporation was named as the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.

Organisation.

For administrative convenience of operating the transport services, a division has been created at Nagpur. It comprises Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur, Yeotmal, Amravati and Bhandara districts. The Divisional Controller who is a Class I Officer is the head of the division. He is under the immediate control of the central office of which the General Manager is the administrative head. He is assisted by the following departments, viz., (1) administration, (2) traffic, (3) mechanical engineering, (4) accounts and audit, (5) statistics, (6) security, (7) stores, (8) civil engineering, (9) secretarial, (10) legal, (11) central workshops and (12) organisation and methods. As the head of the division, he is responsible for the State Transport operations in the Nagpur Division and is assisted by 12 Class II Officers.

As far as administration and traffic are concerned there are three officers under this head of activity. The Divisional Traffic Officer is in charge of all matters relating to traffic and operation. He is assisted by the Divisional Traffic Superintendent. The Labour Officer looks after all the matters relating to labour relations with the administration as also publicity. The Divisional Accounts Officer and the Divisional Statistician look after the work in connection with accounts and statistics. The technical side of the division is looked after by the Divisional Mechanical Engineer. Besides, there are as many Depot Managers as there are depots. The Depot Managers are wholly responsible for the working of the respective depots in the division.

Depots.

The operations in the Wardha district were first started in 1946 with ten routes viz., Wardha-Nagpur, Nagpur-Hinganghat, Wardha-Chandrapur, Hinganghat-Warora, Wafdha-Sindi, Wardha-Deoli, Hinganghat-Samu-drapur, Warora-Wani, Wardha-Waigaon, and Wardha-Hinganghat. The route length of these routes was 503.2 kilometres. The first depot in the district was started at Talegaon on January 1, 1958 with 12 vehicles. By the end of December 1965, sixteen vehicles were attached to Talegaon depot operating on four routes with a total route length of 138.5 kilo-metres. Besides the routes emanating from Talegaon depot, there were 23 routes emanating from depots outside the district but serving the needs of Wardha district.

Nagpur division, of which Wardha district forms a part, was holding 390 vehicles plying on 249 routes with a total route length of 11,304 kilometres. The vehicles put on road have, on an average, a seating capacity of 44.10 excluding the seats of the driver and conductor. The average daily kilometre run by these vehicles during December 1965, was 67,031. They carried on an average 1,00,664 passengers per day.

Maintenance.

The light and heavy repairs to the buses are carried out at the divisional workshop which is situated at Nagpur. After the operation of every 24,000 kilometres the vehicles are routed by the depots to the divisional workshop for preventive maintenance. Regular daily and weekly servicing and 8,000 kilometres docking for maintenance are carried out in the depot workshops. There is one depot workshop situated at Talegaon.

For the convenience of the travelling public in the district, permanent bus stations have been constructed at Hinganghat and Talegaon and temporary bus stations have been constructed at Wardha, Jamb and AshtL In addition to these amenities, there are four refreshment rooms, four betel-nut stalls and a fruit stall and a book stall provided at different bus stations in the district. The Corporation also provides welfare facilities to its employees. A dispensary and a rest room is provided at Talegaon. There are no goods operations conducted by the Corporation in the district.

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