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BusIndia.com — world’s largest online bus ticketing system launched

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Harmeet
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Union Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Oscar Fernandes, officially launched Busindia.com, the integrated bus ticket portal.

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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.

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Inaugurating the portal in New Delhi, Oscar Fernandes, 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."

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.

"We have taken bus travel in India to a different level and are proud to have redefined the bus ticket booking in India. We are thankful for the support provided by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and CIRT in making this happen."

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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.