Uttarakhand Transport Corporation

Uttarakhand Transport Corporation also referred to as UTC, is the state run bus service of Uttarakhand, state of India. UTC with its 1143 buses serves routes to towns and cities within Uttarakhand and adjoining states of Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir covering over 350,000 kilometers catering to the travel needs of over 100,000 people everyday. It also offers a facility for online booking of tickets.

History

Upon bifurcation of Uttar Pradesh in year 2000, the newly created Uttarakhand state felt the need of its own state owned transport agency, hence Uttarakhand Transport Corporation (UTC) was incorporated on 30 October 2003 under the provisions of the Road Transport Act, 1950.

Supporting Infrastructure

UTC has its corporate office at Dehradun, and three divisional offices at Dehradun, Nainital and Tanakpur. Each division has a regional workshop where major repair and maintenance work as well as assembly reconditioning work is performed. Each region has been further divided into operational units called Depots. The total number of depots in the corporation is 18, each depot has a workshop attached to it to provide supportive maintenance facilities.^[6] UTC also owns one tyre retreading plant at Dehradun to provide in-house tyre retreading facilities.

Fleet

UTC currently owns 1200 buses, and it has hired 55 privates buses. UTC categorize its buses into 5 categories as Volvo buses, Deluxe buses, Air Conditioned buses, Low floor buses that ply in association with JNURM to fulfill urban transportation needs, and Ordinary buses.^[7] Current buses-to-staff ratio is 3.71^[8]

External links

• Official website
• Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU)

References