North Bengal State Transport Corporation

North Bengal State Transport Corporation

Founded	1960;65 years ago (1960) [1]
Headquarters	Paribahan Bhavan, Sagar Dighi West, Coochbehar-736101
Service area	West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, Bihar and Jharkhand
Service type	Bus transport network
Routes	459 [2]
Depots	21 [3]
Fleet	650+ in service [4]
Daily ridership	100,000+ [5]
Annual ridership	1.2 million+
Fuel type	Diesel fuel
Operator	Government of West Bengal
Chief executive	Partha Pratim Ray (Chairman) Dipankar Piplai (Managing Director) [6]
Website	nbstc.in

North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) is a state government run transport corporation in West Bengal, India. It plies buses mainly in North Bengal but operates services to other parts of West Bengal and neighboring states like Sikkim, Assam, and Bihar. ^[7] The corporation runs premium long haul buses as well as local buses. It is one of the most favoured bus operators in West Bengal.

Incidents

• In Early October 2021, a NBSTC bus rammed into a standing truck in Murshidabad, killing 3 people and leaving 10 injured. Later the police concluded that the bus driver could not estimate that the truck was motionless and this caused the fatal crash. ^[8]
• An incident took place in Alipurduar in October 2020, where a car collided with a NBSTC bus leaving 5 dead and 6 injured. As per police reports, both the vehicles were speeding when the accident took place. The car collided with the bus when it was in a sharp turn with high speed. ^[9]
• A NBSTC bus fell into a deep canal in January 2018 killing 36 people. This incident occurred in Murshidabad. Few survivors claim that it was the driver's fault as he was speaking over his phone while driving. ^[10]

References

1. "ORGANISATION STRUCTURE OF NBSTC AND PERFORMANCE DURING 1980-81 TO 1997-98" (PDF). University of North Bengal . 1999. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
2. "Bus Routes Of North Bengal State Transport Corporation". nbstc.in. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
3. "Depots & Divisions - North Bengal State Transport Corporation". nbstc.in. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
4. MPost (31 August 2023). "Cooch Behar: NBSTC revamps bus fleet". www.millenniumpost.in. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
5. "North Bengal State Transport Corporation". nbstc.in. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
6. "Management - North Bengal State Transport Corporation". nbstc.in. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
7. "Department of Transport from the Government of West Bengal".
8. "3 killed as bus rams into standing truck in Murshidabad". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
9. Pinak Priya Bhattacharya (6 October 2020). "Five killed in head-on car-bus crash in Alipurduar | Kolkata News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
10. "36 killed as bus falls into deep canal in Murshidabad". The Hindu. 29 January 2018. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 19 October 2021.