Maharana Pratap Inter State Bus Terminus

The Maharana Pratap Interstate Bus Terminus (Maharana Pratap ISBT), popularly known as Kashmere Gate Interstate Bus Terminus (Kashmere Gate ISBT), located in Kashmere Gate, Old Delhi, Delhi, India, is the oldest and one of the largest Inter-State Bus Terminals in India. It operates bus services between Delhi and the neighbouring states and union territories of Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Spanning about 5.3 acres, it handles over 1,800 buses a day.^[1]

Maharana Pratap ISBT became operational in 1976.^[2] It served as the only ISBT in Delhi till 1993 when it was transferred to the Transport Department, whereafter two new ISBTs were constructed in Sarai Kale Khan and Anand Vihar to de-congest the overcrowded Maharana Pratap ISBT. It was renovated in 2011–2012 by DIMTS at a cost of ₹ 70 crores, and inaugurated in 2013 by then Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit.^[3]

The terminus has 45 departure bus bays, eight idle bus bays, and 13 arrival bus bays,^[4] all catering to interstate buses or buses to other ISBTs in Delhi. City bus services, operated by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), run from the section known as the DTC Block.

It primarily serves the following scheduled bus services:

• Inter-state: Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, PunjabHimachal Pradesh (including popular destinations like Shimla, Manali, Kullu), Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and Rajasthan (northwestern Bagar region and western Thar Desert).

• Local connectivity within Delhi NCR: provides direct connectivity to other ISBTs in Delhi via DTC buses.

تم تكييف صالة المغادرة ومنطقة الانتظار وقاعة الطعام مركزياً. كما تم تركيب محطات تحلية مياه بتقنية التناضح العكسي لتوفير مياه شرب نظيفة للركاب. وتوفر منطقة واي فاي آمنة وعالية السرعة اتصالاً بالإنترنت للركاب. وللحفاظ على البيئة، تم إنشاء محطة لمعالجة مياه الصرف الصحي بسعة 1000 متر مكعب يومياً. تُعالج مياه الصرف الصحي ويُعاد تدويرها لاستخدامها في محطة التكييف ولأغراض الري وتنظيف المراحيض. كما تم تطوير نظام جديد لإدارة مواقف السيارات قادر على تخزين بيانات الحافلات الداخلة والخارجة من المبنى. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، تم تركيب كاميرات مراقبة عالية الدقة.

• "بوابة كشمير ISBT" (الخريطة). خرائط جوجل .