BusIndia.Com, Â an Integrated Bus Ticket Booking Website promoted by Government of India was launched last week by Oscar Fernandes, Union Minister for Transport.
The Website would act as  single window application for Bus Ticket Booking , like IRCTC, through which users can seamlessly plan their bus travel including stopovers, changing routes, multi-trips and round-trips.
BusIndia.com has been developed by a Bangalore based IT Firm Radiant Info Systems and is promoted by Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) and Union Ministry of Transport of India.
The Website deals exclusively in providing Online Booking for various State owned Bus Transport Services. This includes Buses operated by State Road Transport Corporations of Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Punjab, Meghalaya, Orissa, Nagaland etc.
BusIndia also offers Online Tickets for Privately owned Buses operating between major cities.
In India trains are widely used and the IRCTC website has over 55 lakh hits per  day with over 2 lakh unique visitors and over 1 lakh tickets booked.
The number of bus users is at least six times more in number than the ones that use train services. This shows the depth and potential of connectivity bus services has in India.
While the site itself is intuitive and easy to book on a PC and even a mobile device, Road Transport Ministry is constantly working towards making travel in India more pleasurable and more integrated for commuters. There are plans of integrating busindia.com with IRCTC in the future wherein people can combine their train and bus journeys together and in the process travel far and wide in the country. It will then be a very unique experience for everyone.
Radiant Info is a name in the Transport sector with credentials and success in implementing online ticketing solutions to several of State Transport Units is well known and their effort in this area is.
Radiant’s Online Reservation System have delivered more than 11.63 Crore+ Seat bookings with revenues in excess of Rs.3600+ Crores since 2006.