page_title: Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation
section_title: Types of services
hierarchical_section_title: Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation / Types of services
caption_attribution_description: English: A Volvo B7RLE bus managed by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India.
context_page_description: Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation is a government agency that operates the public transport bus service in Bengaluru, India. It has the highest number of Volvo buses operated by a public transport company in India. C.Shikha is the Managing Director of BMTC.
context_section_description: The following are the services run by BMTC:
  General: The regular Non-AC buses with a blue-white colour scheme. (Now all Non-AC buses come under this category)
  Samartha: Green Coloured newly bought buses replacing the older ones.
  Suvarna: Similar fare to ordinary buses serving important feeder routes, painted in red or green/white scheme. Now merged with the regular ones with blue-white  colour.
  BIG 10: Suvarna class buses with special green and bottle green livery plying on 12 major corridors towards the central commercial district. These buses are numbered with a G prefix. Now same livery as the general ones.
  BIG Circle: Suvarna class buses with special white colored BIG Circle livery. These buses ply on inner and outer ring roads . Buses are numbered with a C prefix or a K prefix. Now same livery as the general ones.
  Atal Sarige: Low fare buses painted with Indian tri-colour livery.
  Vajra: Air conditioned Volvo buses painted in blue livery (earlier red) running on important routes serving the IT companies and major residential areas.
  Vayu Vajra: Blue coloured (Earlier green/red) Volvo buses operated in 12 routes connecting to Kempegowda International Airport. Free Wi-Fi access is provided to the commuters in these buses.
  Marcopolo AC and Corona AC: Air conditioned buses with lower fare than Vajra services plying on select routes.(Marcopolo AC & Corona AC is now out of service )
  Metro Feeder: Special buses running on 18 routes as feeder network to the Metro stations
  Hop On Hop Off: This service was introduced for sightseeing in Bengaluru.  It covers a route connecting about twenty landmarks of great historic, religious and scientific significance.(no service now)
  BMTC has also introduced Mercedes Benz buses on a trial basis. BMTC has also introduced buses powered by solar energy on trial basis in Bengaluru.
  The BMTC announced that it would acquire 150 electric buses by September 2017. The project will be funded by the Union Government's Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles scheme of National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020.
caption: A BMTC Volvo bus.
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