StatesChhattisgarh
Jashpur Nagar to get ₹11.83 crore bus stand as old one strains under 100 buses a day
The new terminal, approved at Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai's initiative, will come up on the old cattle market site and take 35 to 40 buses at a time.
Key points
- The bus stand will cost ₹11.83 crore and is being built on about three acres.
- The existing stand handles more than 100 buses and 5,000 passengers every day.
- Tendering is under way; no completion date has been given.
Jashpur Nagar in northern Chhattisgarh is to get a new high-tech bus stand costing ₹11.83 crore, approved at the initiative of Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai. Details of the project were released on Wednesday.
The terminal will be built on about three acres in Ward No. 8, on the site of the town’s old cattle market, and will have parking for 35 to 40 buses at a time. Tendering for the work is under way.
The town’s present bus stand is badly stretched. It handles more than 100 buses and over 5,000 passengers a day, with services running to Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar and West Bengal.
The new building is planned with waiting halls, ticket counters, lifts, toilets, digital screens showing arrivals and departures, and 40 shops. No date has been given for its completion.
Jashpur Nagar is not the only town in the district getting a new terminal. Modern bus stands have also been approved for Kunkuri and Pathalgaon, and construction is under way at Bandarchua and Duldula, where ₹1 crore has been set aside for each.
Sai also said on Wednesday that a new bridge would be built over the Mahanadi at Shivrinarayan at a cost of more than ₹63 crore, and directed officials to prepare a long-term plan for expanding health services across Chhattisgarh.