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Travel to Jamshedpur


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launched in March 2009 adding to the existing city bus fleet. The fleet comprises Tata Star buses.

It services most areas of the city buses is terminals are Sakchi to Tatanagar Railway Station, MGM Medical College, Pardih Chowk, Kandra, NIT College, Sundernagar, Adityapur Colony, Kadma, Sonari, Mercy Hospital, Telco, Al-Kabir Polytechnic College and Govindpur.

There are 2 bus depots for city bus services that are Agrico, Baridih.

Each bus is equipped with GPS, electronic sign boards and computerized vending machines. As Jamshedpur is a participating city in centres 63 city urban development scheme JNNURM the state government has introduced around 50 LFB buses under the scheme.

And also run by private Mini Buses in the city areas around 250 buses. Terminals for 16th routes in the city of Jamshedpur.

Air

Sonari Airport is a small airport serving the city at present. It is spread over a 25 acre area in the Sonari area of the city. The airport is primarily used for bringing in chartered planes of TATA group.

A few airlines that started operations from Jamshedpur in 2007 were forced to withdraw due to unviable operations following conversion of the airport from Category 3C to 2C which means that runway length will be shorter and that no more than 45 passengers can be accommodated on a flight. Kingfisher and MDLR airlines had flights from the airport till November 2009. From 16 August 2010, airlines services were resumed by Deccan Charters with three daily flights to Kolkata.

The airport has a flight training school and simulator center for commercial pilots called Alchemist Aviation (formerly known as Tatanagar Aviation). The Jamshedpur Co-operative Flying Club was started by the Tata Sons group chairman Mr. Ratan Tata who is a pilot himself. The nearest commercial airports are Kolkata and Ranchi.

Tata Steel had in proposed to set up a
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