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Pune Bus Pravasi Sangh

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The Pune Bus Pravasi Sangh (Marathi for "Pune Bus Travellers' Association") is a group of users of the municipal bus transport system in the city of Pune, India. The group has emerged with its members coming together on a single pointed agenda of protecting and improving the existing municipal bus transport system that is being offered to the residents of the city of Pune. Membership is currently estimated to be more than two thousand.

Background

The members carry out weekly public rallies near the Pune Municipal Corporation Bus Station. Such rallies have been reportedly observed at other places in the city. There have been newspaper reports that the group has petitioned the transport authorities to display bus timetables, provide a rationalization for routes and fares, and maintain a bus fleet proportional to the population of the city. In particular the group has referred to a study conducted by the Central Institute of Road Transport (Government of India) as regards the transport situation in the city. The group has demanded that its recommendations be speedily implemented.

Weekly meetings are conducted Sundays from 16:00 to 17:00 Indian Standard Time near Nal Stop on Karve Road in the city of Pune. The group is not a formally registered society with the government of India, although one of the sub-groups belonging to a particular suburb was registered on account of an independent local initiative.

The bus transport system if improved would also address the increasing indiscipline, pollution, delays and most of the difficulties that one encounters while traveling between any two points in the city. It is claimed by the group during rallies that this has long since been known to the municipal authorities and that they are certain about the effectiveness of improved city bus transport as regards the current state of traffic in Pune.

Similar traffic conditions are experienced in several smaller towns and cities in India, but Pune Bus Pravasi Sangh is the first group to have emerged at the town/city level to further bus transport as an important and essential ingredient of municipal services.

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Pune Bus Pravasi Sangh Wikipedia