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PUBLIC TRANSPORT

State Transport.

The State Transport undertaking has been catering to the needs of passenger transport on an increasing scale. The undertaking is owned and managed by the Government of Maharashtra as a public utility concern run on commercial lines. The parent body, the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation is a statutory Public Corporation.

Nationalisation of passenger transport services in the Yeotmal district which now forms part of the Nagpur Division of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation was started in 1946. The services were initially run by the Central Provinces Transport Services which was subsequently purchased by the State Government in 1955 and 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.

The operations in the Yeotmal district were first started in 1946 with five routes viz., Yeotmal-Nagpur, Yeotmal-Dhamangaon, Yeotmal-Ralegaon, Yeotmal-Wardha and Yeotmal-Babhulgaon, which were operated from Yeotmal depot. The total length of these routes was 328.0 kilometres.

By the end of 1965, 66 vehicles were attached to Yeotmal depot operating on 18 routes with a total route length of 1,288.1 kilometres. Details about the routes and number of trips operated are given in the following table: —

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STATE TRANSPORT ROUTES AS ON 31ST JANUARY 1974

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Besides the routes emanating from Yeotmal depot, there were 8 routes emanating from depots outside the district but serving the needs of the district. Details of such routes are given in the following statement:—

The Nagpur-Division of which the Yeotmal district forms a part, held 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 excluding the seats of the driver and conductor. The average daily kilometres operated by these vehicles during December 1965 was 67,031 carrying, on an average 1,00,664 passengers per day.

The light and heavy repairs of the buses are carried out of the Divisional Workshop which is situated at Nagpur. Further, after the operation of every 24,000 kilometres the vehicles are routed by the depots to the Divisional Workshop for preventive maintenance. In addition, there is a depot workshop at Yeotmal where daily and weekly servicing and docking for maintenance are carried out. In all 66 vehicles are attached to this workshop.

More and more routes which are at present operated by private owners of transport services are being gradually brought under the working of the State Transport Corporation.

Amenities to Passengers.

For the convenience of the travelling public in the district, temporary bus stations have been constructed at Yeotmal, Pusad, Babhulgaon, Kalamb and Mokhad.

The Corporation also provides welfare facilities to its employees. A dispensary and a rest room are provided at Yeotmal. A Cooperative Society of its employees is also formed at Yeotmal.

Private Passenger Transport.

Besides the State Transport Services there were ten private stage carriage operators in the district which are mentioned below—

(1) Adilabad Motor Service, Pandharkawada.

(2) Parwa Motor Service, Pandharkawada.

(3) Shri B. J. Yerawar Motor Service, Yeotmal.

(4) Shri Datta Motor Service, Yeotmal.

(5) Kapeshwar Motor Service, Yeotmal.

(6) New Samarth Motor Service, Yeotmal.

(7) New Samarth Transport Company, Yeotmal.

(8) The Samarth Transport Company, Private Ltd., Yeotmal.

(9) Maratha Motor Service, Darwha.

(10) Shri K. S. Naik Motor Service, Darwha.

Goods Transport.

Transport of goods and merchandise is not undertaken by the State Road Transport Corporation. Besides the Railways, goods transport is in the hands of private owners of motor trucks. The goods vehicles, both public and private carriers, registered and licensed in the district in 1966 were 281 and 44, respectively.

There were 36 private goods transport services in the district in 1966. They were found at the following places:—

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