TGSRTC engaging with stakeholders in its efforts to improve bus connectivity across the State.
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The Telangana State Road Transport Department (TGSRTC) has been engaging with stakeholders in its efforts to improve bus connectivity across the State, a step towards identifying potential new routes, and assessing feasibility.
Official data indicates that the State road transport undertaking operates its 9,000 buses on over 3,300 routes that connect scores of neighbourhoods and approximately 11,000 villages across Telangana. There are around 1,000 villages that remain unconnected.
The move to expand its network comes after the TGSRTC leadership studied the rapid urbanisation and increasing population due to a host of factors, which include migration, and decided to extend service areas where these trends have been noticed. Teams have been constituted which are busy engaging with residents of newer colonies, and neighbourhoods that have been taking shape, especially in mofussil areas.
For instance, the transport juggernaut’s Hyderabad Region, which administers 14 bus depots such as Midhani, Maheshwaram, Hayatnagar and Ibrahimpatnam, runs as many as 285 routes. According to officials, teams from this region have been interacting with office bearers of resident welfare associations so as to assess connectivity, understand issues, revive routes that were rendered inoperative in the past few years, and identify possibilities of devising new routes, depending on the demand.
“Our Vice Chairman and Managing Director V. Nagi Reddy had directed the strengthening of bus facilities and asked us to study the feasibility of enhancing connectivity to colonies that have come up recently, gated communities, and municipalities. As a result of this, our teams have been interacting with RWAs and passengers. We are gathering data which will be submitted to the leadership for taking an appropriate decision,” said Hyderabad Regional Manager Sudha Parimala.
The TGSRTC has encouraged residents of such colonies to contact either the respective regional managers or depot managers to communicate their route requests. “Dial-your-officer” programmes are also being planned, with the one for Hyderabad Regional scheduled for November 17. The Corporation has requested RWA office bearers, and individuals have to contact concerned officials with the requirements.
Published – November 16, 2025 08:49 pm IST
