Union
Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri. Oscar
Fernandes today officially launched Busindia.com, the integrated bus
ticket portal. Busindia.com portal brings together bus transport
operators across the country under a single window, thus facilitating
passengers to plan their bus travel across Indian cities with ease.
BusIndia.com enables passengers to do trip booking and hotel booking,
providing a full itinerary experience for the first time in Indian
bus booking. Radiant Info Systems Ltd. (Radiant Info), the Bangalore
based technology solutions company, has developed Busindia.com in
partnership with the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT).
Radiant Info, is also credited with the launch of India’s first
online bus ticket reservation system in 2006 for Karnataka State Road
Transport Corporation (KSRTC).
BusIndia.com
has already integrated 16 transport corporations from Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Odisha, Meghalaya and Gujarat in
Phase 1. Shortly, Phase 2 will see the inclusion of transport
corporations from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Jammu &
Kashmir, Goa, Puducherry and Goa along with other state-owned
transport corporations.
Inaugurating
the portal in New Delhi, Oscar Fernandes, Union Cabinet Minister
for Road Transport and Highways, said, “It
gives me great pleasure to offer Busindia.com to all citizens of
India and anyone across the world who wishes to plan bus travel in
the country. This is
an important milestone in transportation services in our country and
I am proud that we have been able to achieve this. I compliment the
efforts of Radiant Info and their team who have relentlessly worked
over several years to integrate all state services into one single
portal.”
Commenting
on the launch of the BusIndia.com, Venu Myneni, Co-founder, Chairman
and CEO of Radiant Info said, “It has been
our dream project since the launch of the first online bus ticketing
system we did in 2006. With bus services in India connecting to
remote locations within the country, this service will now be useful
to anyone in India and abroad to easily plan their travel within the
country.”
Talking
about the newly launched solution, Ananda Rao, Director, CIRT
said, “We are pleased to have partnered
with Radiant Info on developing BusIndia.com. This is truly a
first-of-its-kind gateway for bus booking and makes it the largest
portal in the world in its category. With plans to integrate this
with the IRCTC portal and taxi booking, it will certainly create an
integrated travel experience in India.”
BusIndia.com
provides a unique and user friendly experience of booking of bus
tickets for various transport corporations and
operators services and routes across the county under a single
platform. All the vehicles and services on
BusIndia.com are operated as per pre-defined schedule
route and timings with definite trips. This helps and assists the
passengers in better planning and management of their itineraries.
BusIndia.com bus services have reliability and comfort of being run
by professionally run transport corporations.
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