Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited

Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited
Overview
Locale	Pune
Transit type	Bus
Number of lines	282
Number of stations	66
Daily ridership	8,07,511
Chief executive	TS Dharurkar
Headquarters	Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd, Shankar Shet Road, Swargate, Pune
Operation
Began operation	19 October 2007
Operator(s)	Pune Mahanagar Palika
Number of vehicles	1000

Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd or PMPML, is the public transport service provider for the city of Pune and Pune Metropolitan region, which includes areas surrounding Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad.

At present, the PMPML has around 1000 buses on the roads on a given day. The number of routes has almost reached 300 due to the addition of a couple of new routes over the past few months, operating 63.4 million km of route and transports approximately 0.23 billion passengers per annum. Bus fares are charged on the basis of km travelled, and range from the minimum fare of Rs.1.4 for 2 km to Rs.14.85 for a journey of 60 km.

In February 2008, the Union urban development ministry cleared a proposal to provide funds for purchasing 650 public transport buses for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. The funds have been issued under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Of the total, 200 were supposed to be semi-low floor buses. The number of buses sanctioned for Pune is 500, while that for Pimpri-Chinchwad is 150.

References

• An Analysis of Economic Profitability of Municipal Transport Undertakings in India
• The urban travel behavior and constraints of low income households and females in Pune, India. If PMT wants to improve its services in Pune, they must first learn from BEST (Mumbai's Bus Service) and train and motivate their conductors and drivers of PMT !