West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation
West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation (WBSTC) is a West Bengal state government undertaken transport corporation. Besides plying buses throughout West Bengal it controls some waterways transport, e.g. ferries. WBSTC owns many depots throughout the state to station their buses.
History
West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation was established in the year 1989. Formerly it was known as West Bengal Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. It started with the Ferry Service on the Hoogly and the Muriganga rivers. In the year 1992 it started operating buses with only 8 buses & now it runs vessels for ferry service.
Fleet
Now it has fleet of 183 buses and 20 vessels for Passenger Ferry Service. Now in Kolkata it is operating Volvo City Bus Services in public-private partnership mode with Kaushik Logistics in the Airport - Tollygunge route. Right now its fleet consists of 60 Volvo low-floor buses and plans to add more in the near future. It is currently running the air-conditioned Volvo low-floor buses mostly to and from the airport.
Depo List
VS Series AC Volvo 8400
- VS1 Esplanade – Airport Terminal
- VS2 Howrah Station – Airport Terminal
- VS3 Parnasree – Airport
- VS4 Parnasree – Ecospace
- VS6 Esplanade – Diamond Harbour
- VS10 Kudghat – Ecospace
- VS10A Kudghat – Airport
- VS12 Santragachhi – Salt Lake
- VS13 Garia Bus Stand – Bantala IT Park
- VS14 Esplanade – Airport
- VS14A Esplanade – Salt Lake
V Series :(WBTC AshLey AC Bus)
- V1 Tollygunge – Airport Terminal
- V2 Santragachi – Airport
- V9 Tollygunge – Unitech
- V10 Rashbehari – Barasat
- V13 Rashbehari – Ecospace
- V20 Exide – Barasat
MW Series AC MARCOPOLO
- MW1 Jadavpur Sulekha – Unitech
- MW2 Howrah Station – Unitech
- MW6 Tollygunge – Ecospace
- MW7 Airport Gate No.1 – Bantala IT Park
- MW7 Science City – Ruby Hospital /Patuli
AS Series (MiniBus)
- AS1 Rabindra Sadan – New Town
- AS1/A Parnasree – New Town
- AS3 Garia Railway Station – New Town
ST Series
- ST6 Tollygunge – Salt Lake Technopolis
- ST7 Ultadanga – Sapoorji Housing Estate
- ST7A Ultadanga – Hatisala
- ST10 Santragachi – Balaka Abasan
- ST11 Ruby Hospital – Balaka Abasan
- ST12 Sapoorji Housing Estate – Baruipur/Kamalgazi
- ST13 Bagbazar – Rajarhat
- ST15 Ultadanga – Ecospace
- ST16 Sapoorji Housing Estate – Joyenpur
- ST17 Prasadpur Bazar to Esplanade via-Sonarpur
- ST21 Namkhana – Digha
- ST37 Esplanade – Kulpi
Route Without Number
- Ultadanga - Kanmari
- Esplanade – Usthi
- Esplanade – Dhola
- Esplanade – Ramgamga
- Esplanade – Namkhana
- Esplanade – Bakkhali
- Esplanade – Bankura
- Nabanna – Jaynagar Mazilpur
- Esplanade – Nandigram
- Esplanade – Gadkhali via Tollygunge, Garia, Baruipur, Canning, Basanti
- Esplanade – Jharkhali via Tollygunge, Garia, Baruipur, Canning, Basanti
- Esplanade – Chunakhali via Tollygunge, Garia, Baruipur, Canning,