Inter-State Bus Terminals

In India, an Inter State Bus Terminal or Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) is a bus terminus that provides bus service to destinations located in other states. An ISBT may also provide bus services to destinations in the same state. Mostly ISBT term is used in the Northern part of India. In the Western part of India, Stand or State Transport term is used.

• Pandit Nehru bus station, Vijayawada
• APSRTC complex Inter-State Bus Terminus, Visakhapatnam
• Srihari Inter-State Bus Terminus, Tirupati
• NTR Inter-State Bus Terminus, Guntur

• Rupnath Brahma Inter State Bus Terminus, Guwahati
• Inter State Bus Terminus, Jorhat
• Inter State Bus Terminus, Silchar
• Inter State Bus Terminus, Khanapara, Guwahati

• Pataliputra Inter State Bus Terminus, Patna

• Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 17 (ISBT-17)
• Inter State Bus Terminal Sector 43 (ISBT-43)

• Sri Balaji Swami Trust Sri Dudhadhari Math Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Raipur
• Pandri Bus Stand, Raipur
• Hi-tech Bus Terminus Bilaspur

As of November 2024, Delhi has three operational ISBTs managed by the Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTIDC), with three more planned and approved for construction,^[1] and few more have been proposed.^[2][3]

• Central Delhi

• • Maharana Pratap ISBT (Kashmere Gate), existing: on 13 acres near NH-44 and Kashmere Gate metro station Exit 8. In 2024, it handles 150,000 passengers and 2500 busses (including 500 via NH-44 Delhi-Ambala highway from Haryana, Punjab and Himachal and another 700-1000 to West Haryana and Rajasthan via NH-9 Delhi-Hisar and other roads), building new ISBT at Narela, Tikri, Dwarka, etc will significantly ease the pressure.^[4]

• • Veer Hakikat Rai Sarai Kale Khan ISBT (Sarai Kale Khan), existing: on NH-44, Delhi–Kolkata HSR, Delhi-Alwar RRTS and Delhi–Meerut RRTS interchange, 10 km south of Maharana Pratap ISBT.

• East Delhi (Trans-Yamuna)

• • Swami Vivekanand ISBT (Anand Vihar), existing: on Delhi–Meerut RRTS station.

Approved by Government of Delhi^[1]

• North Delhi
  • Narela ISBT, planned: Narela on NH-44 and Narela metro station^[1] on 10,000 sqm land of DDA of which 50% is encroached which was being freed in 2024.^[4]

• West Delhi

• • Tikri ISBT, planned: near Bahadurgarh on NH-9 and Tikri Border metro station^[1]

• • Dwarka ISBT, planned: Existing bus depot located in Dwarka Sector-22 on UER-II near the Dwarka Sector 21 metro station interchange and the upgraded Bijwasan railway station will be upgraded to ISBT providing connectivity to IGI Airport.^[1] This ISBT, costing Rs4,700 cr and based on Mixed-use transit-oriented development as multimodal transport will be largest than the 3 existing ISBTs in Delhi which are running above the planned capacity. 60% of the area will have the high-density 2,29,000 sq m affordable housing, 20% commercial area of 65,000 sq m and ISBT depot of 27,000 sq m, 100% or 50,000 sq m for public amenities, the rest for passenger services and bus operations. Planned with future needs for the nxt 25 years, it will generate revenue of Rs5,100, including Rs3,700 cr from housing and Rs 1,400 cr from commercial. The project was revived in 2026, and the DPR was being prepared in April 2026.^[5]

• • Aerocity ISBT (IGI), planned: at Delhi Aerocity in New Delhi on NH-48^[2] and Airport Express Metro for connectivity to IGI Airport, Dwarka Expressway, Delhi-Alwar RRTS, etc.

• East Delhi
  • Burari ISBT, not-yet-approved: on intersection of planned UER-II Alipur-Tronica extension and proposed "Signature Bridge-Burari-Manauli-Mirakpur Expressway".

• South Delhi
  • Tuglakabad ISBT, not-yet-approved: between Tughlakabad railway station and Tughlakabad Station metro station on DND–KMP Expressway (NH-148NA).

• Ahmedabad
  • Gita Mandir(Ahmedabad) GSRTC Bus Port
  • Ranip(Ahmedabad) GSRTC Bus Port
• Surat
  • Surat Cantral GSRTC Bus Terminal
  • Adajan(Surat) GSRTC Bus Port
• Vadodara
  • Vadodara Central Bus Station
  • Makarpura(Vadodara) GSRTC Bus Port
• Palanpur
  • Palanpur GSRTC Bus Port
• Mehsana
  • Mehsana GSRTC Bus Port
• Rajkot
  • Rajkot GSRTC Bus Port
• Navsari
  • Navsari GSRTC Bus Port

• Sonipat ISBT, existing: at Sonipat Devilal chowk Sonipat.

• Bahadurgarh ISBT, existing: at Bahadurgarh south bypass in the east of Bahadurgarh near Tikri Border, 1.6 km southwest of Pandit Shree Ram Sharma metro station, 4 km southeast of Bahadurgarh Railway Station on Delhi-Hisar rail line, 13 km southeast of Asaudha Railway Station on Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC).

• Rajiv Chowk ISBT, planned: next to under-construction metro and under-construction RRTS stations of Delhi-Alwar line at NH-48.^[6]

• Kherki Daula Inter State Bus Terminus, planned - announced in 2023 over 15 acres of Sihi village near Kherki Daula toll plaz where Dwarka Expressway meets Delhi-Jaipur Highway NH48.^[7] it is located next to the Delhi-Alwar RRTS - Kherki Daula station and Gurugram Heliport Hub.^[8]

• Panchgaon Inter State Bus Terminus, planned, located next to the Delhi-Alwar RRTS - Panchgaon station, NH-48 and Western Peripheral Expressway (WPE).^[8]

• Birsa Munda Bus Terminal, Ranchi
• Dhanbad Bus Stand, Dhanbad
• Mango Bus Stand, Jamshedpur
• Inter State Bus Terminal, Deoghar

• Bengaluru
  • Kempegowda Bus Station (Majestic Bus Station)
    • Karnataka (except Mysuru district & Kodagu district services)
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Telangana
    • Maharashtra
    • Goa
  • Mysuru Road Bus Station
    • Karnataka (only Mysuru district & Kodagu district services)
    • Tamil Nadu (except Luxury Express services and Hosur services)
    • Kerala
    • Puducherry (except Luxury Express services)
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee Traffic and Transit Management Center (Shantinagara Traffic and Transit Management Center)
    • Tamil Nadu (only Luxury Express services)
    • Andhra Pradesh (only services via Old Madras Road)
    • Puducherry (only Luxury Express services)
  • Krishna Rajendra Market Bus Station (Kalasipalya Bus Station)
    • Karnataka (only Bengaluru Urban district, Bengaluru Rural District, Chikkaballapura district, Kolar district)
    • Tamil Nadu (Hosur services)
  • Basaveshwara Bus Station (Tumakuru Road Bus Station)
    • Current Defunct
• Mysuru
  • Mysuru Central Bus Station
• Mangaluru
  • Managaluru Central Bus Station
• Hubballi
  • Hubballi Central Bus Station
• Dharwad
  • Dharwad Bus Terminal
• Belagavi
  • Belagavi Central Bus Station
• Kalaburagi
  • Kalaburagi Central Bus Station
• Ballari
  • Ballari Central Bus Station
• Hosapete Vijayanagara
  • Hosapete Vijayanagara Central Bus Station
• Yadagiri
  • Yadagiri Bus Station
• Bidar
  • Bidar New Bus Station
• Gadaga
  • Gadaga New Bus Station
• Udupi
  • Udupi New Bus Station
• Koppala
  • Koppala New Bus Station
• Karwar
  • Karwar Bus Station
• Shivamogga
  • Shivamogga Central Bus Terminal
• Ranebennuru
  • Ranebennuru Bus Station
• Bagalakote
  • Bagalakote Navanagara Bus Station
• Vijayapura
  • Vijayapura Central Bus Station
• Kolar
  • Kolar Bus Station
• Chikkaballapura
  • Chikkaballapura New Bus Station
• Pavagada
  • Pavagada Bus Station
• Chikkodi
  • Chikkodi Bus Station
• Gokak
  • Gokak Bus Station
• Indi
  • Indi Bus Station
• Jamakhandi
  • Jamakhandi Bus Station
• Humnabad
  • Humnabad Bus Station

• Thiruvananthapuram
  • Thampanoor Central Bus Station
  • KSRTC SWIFT Bus Terminal, Anayara
• Ernakulam
  • Vyttila Mobility Hub
  • Ernakulam Bus Station
• Kannur
  • Thavakkara Bus Terminal
  • Kannur Bus Station
• Kollam Bus Station
• Kottarakkara Bus Station
• Pathanamthitta Bus Station
• Thiruvalla Bus Terminal
• Alappuzha Bus Station
• Kottayam Bus Station
• Pala Bus Station
• Thrissur Bus Station
• Palakkad Bus Terminal
• Kozhikode Bus Terminal
• Sulthan Bathery Bus Station

• Kushabhau Thakre Inter State Bus Terminal, Bhopal
• Nadra Bus Stand, Bhopal
• ISBT, Jabalpur, Jabalpur
• Gwalior Bus Stand, Gwalior
• Nana Kheda Inter State Bus Terminal, Ujjain
• Shaheed Raja Bhau Mahakal Bus Stand, Ujjain
• Inter-State Bus Terminus, Indore
• Sarwate Inter State Bus Terminal, Indore
• AICTSL Bus Stand, Indore
• Navlakha Inter State Bus Terminal, Indore
• Gangwal Inter State Bus Terminal, Indore
• Teen Imli Bus Stand, Indore
• Nayta Mundla Bus Stand, Indore
• Atal bihari vajpayee ISBT,Satna

• Pune
  • Pune Station Bus Stand, Pune
  • Shivajinagar Bus Station
  • Swargate Bus Station
• Pimpri-Chinchwad
  • Pimpri-Chinchwad Bus Stand
• Nashik
  • Nashik C.B.S (Central Bus Stand)
  • Mahamarga Bus Stand
  • New C.B.S (Thakker's Buzzer)
  • Mela Bus Stanak
  • Ozar Bus Stand,
  • Sinnar Bus Stand
• Mumbai
  • Mumbai Central ST Bus Stand
  • Jogeshwari Bus Stand
  • Parel ST Bus Stand
  • Dadar ST Bus Stand
  • Kurla ST Bus Stand
  • Boriwali ST Bus Stand
• Nagpur
  • Nagpur Bus Stand, Ganeshpeth
  • Imamwada Bus Stand
  • Wardhmann Nagar Bus Stand
• Thane
  • Vandana Bus Stand
  • Thane C.B.S (Central Bus Stand), Khopat
• Kalyan
  • Kalyan ST Bus Stand
  • CIDCO ST Bus Stand
• Aurangabad
  • Aurangabad C.B.S. (Central Bus Stand)
• Kolhapur
  • Kolhapur C.B.S (Central Bus Stand)
  • Sambhaji Nagar Bus Stand
• Solapur
  • Solapur C.B.S (Central Bus Stand)
• Jalgaon
  • Jalgaon Bus Stand
• Ahmednagar
  • Tarakpur ST Bus Stand
  • Pune Bus Stand
  • Malikwada Bus Stand
• Navi Mumbai
  • Panvel ST Bus Stand
• Amravati
  • Amravati ST Bus Stand
  • Rajapeth ST Bus Stand
  • Badnera ST Bus Stand

• Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bus Terminal, Bhubaneswar
• Cuttack Netaji Bus Terminal
• Angul Bus Terminal
• Bhawanipatna Bus Terminal
• Jharsuguda Bus Terminal
• Puri (Malatipatpur Bus Stand, Puri Bus Stand)
• Sambalpur Bus Terminal

• Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra Inter State Bus Terminal, Amritsar
• Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Inter State Bus Terminal, Jalandhar
• Bhagwan Valmiki Inter State Bus Terminal, Hushiarpur
• Amar Shaheed Sukhdev Inter State Bus Terminal, Ludhiana
• Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Inter State Bus Terminal, Mohali
• Maharana Partap Inter State Bus Terminal, Pathankot
• Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Inter State Bus Terminal, Gurdaspur
• Shaheed Bhai Mani Singh Ji Interstate Bus Terminal, Sangrur

• Hindaun City Bus Depot, Hindaun
• Sikar Bus Depot, Sikar
• Sindhi Camp, Jaipur
• Jodhpur Bus Stand, Jodhpur
• Udaipur City Bus Depot, Udaipur

• Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.R. Bus Terminus (Towards coastal districts via ECR)

At 37 acres (150,000 m²), the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.R. Bus Terminus in Chennai, India, is the second largest bus station in Asia.^[9] As of 2010, the terminus handled more than 500 buses at a time, and 3,000 buses and 250,000 passengers a day.^[10]

• Kilambakkam K.C.B.T Bus Terminus (Towards Southern Districts and operates TNSTC and SETC)
• Madhavaram Mofussil Bus Terminus (Towards Andhra and some TNSTC buses are operated to Salem, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Puducherry, Kumbakonam and Trichy).
• Kuthambakkam Bus Terminus (ongoing construction) (Towards western parts and Bengaluru)
• Panjappur Integrated Bus Terminus, Tiruchirapalli.

• Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station, Hyderabad
• Jubilee Bus Station, Secunderabad
• Nizamabad bus station, Nizamabad

• Inter-State Bus Terminal, Almora Almora
• Inter-State Bus Terminal, Dehradun (Hill Bus Depot), Dehradun
• Inter-State Bus Terminal, Haldwani Haldwani
• Inter-State Bus Terminal, Haridwar, Haridwar
• Inter-State Bus Terminal, Rishikesh, Rishikesh
• Inter-State Bus Terminal, Rudrapur Rudrapur

• Agra
  • Idgah Bus Stand
  • Inter State Bus Terminal (Agra ISBT), Agra

• Ayodhya
  • Faizabad Bus Depot

• Azamgarh
  • Inter State Bus Terminal Azamgarh (Azamgarh ISBT), Azamgarh

• Gautam Buddh Nagar district
  • Noida ISBT Sector 82
  • Greater Noida ISBT Bodaki
  • Jewar Airport ISBT

• Kanpur
  • Amar Shaheed Major Salman Khan Inter State Bus Terminal Kanpur (Jhakarkatti ISBT), Kanpur

• Lucknow
  • Alambagh ISBT
  • Kaisarbagh Bus Stand
  • Gomti Nagar City Bus Terminal
  • Awadh Bus Stand
  • Charbagh Bus Stand

• Mathura
  • Mathura ISBT

• Prayagraj
  • Zero Road ISBT

• Varanasi
  • Chaudhary Charan Singh Bus Depot

• International Bus Terminus, Kolkata
• Karunamoyee Bus Terminal, Kolkata
• Babughat Bus Stand, Kolkata
• Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus, Siliguri

Many Indian state governments have their own fleet of buses which are run under their state transport department. As per statistics, the State Road Transport Undertakings (STUs) altogether operates 1,50,000 buses. State-wise bus fleet is as follows

Sr. No.	State / UT	Buses of all STU's
1	Karnataka	22343
2	Tamil Nadu	19989
3	Maharashtra	15512
4	Uttar Pradesh	13041
5	Gujarat	11373
6	Andhra Pradesh	10737
7	Telangana	9094
8	Delhi	7683
9	Kerala	6241
10	Haryana	3787
11	Himachal Pradesh	3302
12	Rajasthan	2981
13	Punjab	2818
14	West Bengal	2232
15	Uttarakhand	1247
16	Chandigarh	642
17	Goa	520
18	Odisha	437
19	Assam	405
20	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	268
21	Bihar	223
22	Jammu and Kashmir	221
23	Nagaland	185
24	Arunachal Pradesh	164
25	Puducherry	141
26	Sikkim	75
27	Meghalaya	58
28	Mizoram	49
29	Tripura	48
30	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	25
31	Ladakh	20
32	Madhya Pradesh	Nil
33	Jharkhand	Nil
34	Manipur	Nil
35	Chhattisgarh	Nil
36	Lakshadweep	Nil

Many Indian cities have local public city bus services. Here is a list of fleet of government city buses operated as of now in India cities (million plus population).

Sr. No.	City / Urban Area	City bus fleet of all STU's
1	Delhi (NCR)	7978
2	Mumbai (MMR)	4428
3	Kolkata (KMA)	1377
4	Chennai	3476
5	Bangalore	5587
6	Hyderabad	2801
7	Ahmedabad	1477
8	Pune	1650
9	Surat	875
10	Jaipur	201
11	Kanpur	80
12	Lucknow	145
13	Nagpur	540
14	Indore	188
15	Coimbatore	925
16	Kochi	203
17	Patna	70
18	Bhopal	155
19	Vadodara	180
20	Agra	40
21	Visakhapatnam	605
22	Ludhiana	65
23	Nashik	130
24	Vijayawada	455
25	Madurai	505
26	Varanasi	30
27	Meerut	30
28	Rajkot	110
29	Jamshedpur	50
30	Srinagar	30
31	Jabalpur	119
32	Asansol	60
33	Allahabad	30
34	Dhanbad	70
35	Aurangabad	30
36	Amritsar	93
37	Jodhpur	40
38	Raipur	110
39	Ranchi	70
40	Gwalior	16
41	Thiruvananthapuram	100
42	Bhilai	70
43	Kozhikode	100
44	Chandigarh (CCR)	464
45	Tiruchirapalli	350
46	Kota	50

• Chris Devonshire-Ellis. Doing Business in India. Springer, Apr 12, 2012 pg. 127

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