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, ST Stand or State Transport Term is used.
See also: Transport in Delhi.
As of December 2023, Delhi has 3 operational ISBTs being managed by the Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTIDC), and 3 more planned to be constructed. They are as follows:[1]
At 37acres, the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.R. Bus Terminus in Chennai, India, is the second largest bus station in Asia.[4] As of 2010, the terminus handled more than 500 buses at a time, and 3,000 buses and 250,000 passengers a day.[5]
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 | 12197 | |
| 5 | Gujarat | 11373 | |
| 6 | Andhra Pradesh | 10737 | |
| 7 | Telangana | 9094 | |
| 8 | Delhi | 7683 | |
| 9 | Kerala | 6241 | |
| 10 | Haryana | 3787 | |
| 11 | Rajasthan | 3708 | |
| 12 | Himachal Pradesh | 3187 | |
| 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 | 2644 |
| 7 | Ahmedabad | 1477 |
| 8 | Pune | 1650 |
| 9 | Surat | 875 |
| 10 | Jaipur | 201 |
| 11 | Kanpur | 80 |
| 12 | Lucknow | 190 |
| 13 | Nagpur | 540 |
| 14 | Indore | 487 |
| 15 | Coimbatore | 925 |
| 16 | Kochi | 203 |
| 17 | Patna | 70 |
| 18 | Bhopal | 225 |
| 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 |