The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to start Nagpur -Pune min AC sleeper buses soon.
The move will largely benefit students and professionals who are mostly disappointed after getting waitlisted tickets in trains and also have to shell out big ticket price charged by private bus operators, espe- cially in festive season.
The bus will have a total capacity of 45 passengers of which 15 seats will be sleeper and 30 will be seated. There will be two services that will start from Nagpur to Pune at 12 noon and 5 pm.
Similarly, two buses will be deployed from Pune to Nagpur route that will leave on the same timings for their journey towards NagpurThe distance between the two cities will be covered in 14 hours. The bus will be routed through Amravati and will not take the Samruddhi Mahamarg, Shende stated.
MSRTC presently runs Shivshahi Buses on the Nagpur- Pune route, but there were no sleeper services. The sleeper bus service will be an alterna- tive to travelers on the route that has a huge demand. The price for a one way ticket will be Rs 1,400, stated an official.