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 With
the closure of Kohla Bridge in 1947, most of the trucks
and buses owned by Allied Chirag
Din and Sons, Nanda Bus Service, N.D. Radhakrishan and
other small transport operators got held up on the other
side of the border. The foremost challenge that the
State of
Jammu
and Kashmir faced was the availability of essential
commodities. The handful of private transporters did not
come forward to meet the challenge. Their vehicles had
to be commandeered to bring refugees from border areas
but they did not co-operate with the State’s Emergency
Administration. The non co-operating transporters were
even jailed.
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The
Government addressed the issue of development of road
transport immediately after assuming office which led to the
birth of the first-ever Government owned transport fleet on
June, Ist 1948. A handful of persons were drawn virtually from
the road-side both at Jammu and Srinagar to form the
management to operate the 50 trucks it acquired from General
Motor Corporation, Bombay along with some accessories left by
the American
The
Organisation was run as a government department in the early
stages. Later it was named as Government Transport
Undertaking.
 The
J&K State Road Transport Corporation (a successor to the
erstwhile Government Transport Undertaking ) came into
existence on 1.9.1976 under Road Transport Corporation Act of
1950. The J&K SRTC has played a vital role in
developing the economy of the State right from the
independence of the Country from 1947. The JKSRTC has
maintained the supply of essential commodities to every nook
and corner of the State very efficiently and operates
passenger bus services in all the regions within the State. It
also operates services on Inter-state routes in Punjab,
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan.
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