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India uses only one time zone (even though it spans two geographical time zones) across the whole nation and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). India does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST or summer time).
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
Raipur and Naya Raipur BRTS is a bus rapid transit in Raipur and Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh India. [ 1 ] It is operated by Naya Raipur Mass Transport Ltd (NRMTL). It was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 November 2016.
At a time when 'BRT' acronym was new to India and there was limited nationwide understanding of requirements for such an advanced public transport system, Pune was the first city in India to implement and operationalise a high capacity bus system on two corridors: Swargate–Hadapsar (East‐West Corridor) – 10.2 km
The Sitilink or Surat BRTS is an integrated bus rapid transit and public bus transport system for Surat, Gujarat, India. It has been operational since 26 January 2014 by Surat Municipal Corporation .
Some Mecklenburg County leaders see potential in bus rapid transit, which could be included in a revamped regional transportation plan, after an out-of-state trip to research the transit option.
Bhubaneswar Bus Rapid Transit System: Bhubaneswar: Odisha: 66.32 km (41.21 mi) 1 Chennai Bus Rapid Transit System: Chennai: Tamil Nadu: 70.3 km (43.7 mi) 1 21 Coimbatore Bus Rapid Transit System: Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu: 27.6 km (17.1 mi) 1 Hyderabad Bus Rapid Transit System: Hyderabad: Telangana: 39 km (24 mi) 2 Madurai Bus Rapid Transit System ...