To Understand The Working Of Vasai Virar Mahanagar Transport

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To Understand The Working Of Vasai Virar Mahanagar Transport

Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation started its own transport service on 3 October 2012 in association with Bhagirathi Transport Corporation Pvt Ltd, known as VVMT. It operates a large number of bus lines in the Vasai- Virar Town. VVMT also plies its buses in Vasai-Virar villages. It also has operation outside Town limits into neighbouring Town of Mira- Bhayander, Thane City & Mumbai City. VVMT bus plies from Vasai to Thane & Vasai to Mulund.

The VVMT uses diesel-powered buses for its operation. The majority of the VVMT display boards will only have the destination name written in Marathi. All buses with electronic display board are introduced in the fleet, which has a destination with the route number flashing in Marathi as well as English in front of the buses.

The topic for the project was selected to know how exactly VVMT buses are operated in Vasai Virar region. The small survey was conducted related to the topic were respondents belonged to different 3 categories viz passengers, drivers, and conductors, staff members. The sample size for the survey was 100 respondents. The staff members of VVMT buses has also helped a lot in providing the information. The selection of this topic has also provided me with an in-depth knowledge of how exactly the buses are working, what are the needs of passengers, problems faced by workers while working and etc.

The Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation, (VVCMC) is the civic body that governs areas and villages in Vasai-Virar tehsil in Maharashtra state, western India comprising the most populated part of Palghar district. It is an extended suburb of Mumbai. According to the 2011 census, it is the fifth-largest city in Maharashtra with a population of more than 1.3 million. The city is located 50 km north of Mumbai, on the north bank of Vasai Creek, part of the estuary of the Ulhas River. It was formed on 3 July 2009 by combining four municipal councils and 53-gram panchayats.

With a total of 34 and above routes, VVMT recently started municipal bus services in Vasai and Virar location, the far north suburb of Mumbai in Thane (Now Palghar) district is one of the most helping modes of transportation for a daily job working people when the auto taxi prices rise with petrol and auto don’t run on Meter unit system charging high at few destinations. Basically 2 types of VVMT buses, which are Mini Bus and Long Bus which was introduced later. Below are bus numbers details and routes along with helpline numbers of Vasai Virar City Municipal Transportation (VVCMC) running between 3 stations which are Virar, Nalasopara, and Vasai...”