page_title: Bihar State Road Transport Corporation
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bihar State Road Transport Corporation / History
caption_attribution_description: English: BSRTC Mercedes buses
context_page_description: Bihar State Road Transport Corporation or BSRTC is a state-owned weakly managed road transportation company in Bihar with compared to other Indian states it is facing financial crisis in term of government funding, which degrade its process of expanding basic infrastructural assets both HR and number of buses in BSRTC, as par to 3 tier cities public transportation system. BSRTC was set up in 1959 under the provisions of Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950. It is wholly owned by the Government of Bihar.
context_section_description: Prior to May 1959, road transport services  in Bihar were managed by Rajya Transport, which was set up in the year 1953 with the nationalisation of some routes in the state. Rajya Transport and Communication, Government of Bihar and was departmentally administered till it was transferred in May 1959 to Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC), a statutory corporation created under the provisions of the State Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950.
  Total capital invested in BSRTC till March 1983 was ₹53.9 crores out of which ₹24.77 crores was the share capital of the state government and ₹465 crores loans from the same source, while ₹24.48 crores was contributed from other sources in the shape of shares and loans. Investment in BSRTC was second largest investment made by the Bihar Government, after Bihar State Electricity Board.
  Currently the Administrator of Bihar State Road Transport Corporation is Shri Amrendra Prasad Singh, IAS.
caption: BSRTC Mercedes buses
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