Himachal Road Transport Corporation
| Slogan | safe service, courteous service |
|---|---|
| Parent | Ministry of Transportation, Government of Himachal Pradesh |
| Founded | 1958 as Mandi-Kullu Road Transport Corporation |
| Headquarters | HRTC Head Office, Shimla-171003,Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Locale | Himachal Pradesh |
| Service area | Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh |
| Service type | Bus service |
| Routes | 2325 |
| Depots | 27 |
| Fleet | 2645 |
| Fuel type | Diesel |
| Website | Corporate Website |
Himachal Road Transport Corporation, also referred to as HRTC, is the state run bus service of Himachal Pradesh, India. HRTC with its 2100 buses serves routes to towns and cities within Himachal Pradesh and adjoining states of Uttrakhand, Chandigarh, Punjab, and Delhi. HRTC is one of the first RTC's in India to offer a facility for online booking of tickets for all types of buses.
The corporation was jointly founded by the Government of Punjab, Government of Himachal Pradesh and Railways as Mandi-Kullu Road Transport Corporation in 1958 to operate in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The corporation was merged with Himachal Govt. Transport on 2 November 1974 and was renamed as Himachal Road Transport Corporation.
HRTC has its corporate office at Shimla and four divisional offices at Shimla, Mandi, Hamirpur and Dharamsala, each having integrated workshop. It has 27 depots each with a regional workshop. HRTC also owns 3 bus body building units along with 3 tyre pre-cure re-treading plants at Mandi, Parwanoo and Jassur. HRTC routinely upgrades driving skills of its staff and train new drivers at its Driver Training Institutes located at Jassur, Mandi, Taradevi, Hamirpur, Chamba, Sarkaghat and Kullu.
Other than regular services connecting Himachal to Chandigarh, Delhi and Haridwar; HRTC operates buses on some of the highest motorable roads in the world. These routes include Leh-Delhi, Shimla-Kaza, Kullu-Kaza, Manali-Killar and others. The Leh-Delhi routes operated by HRTC is 1203 km long and is the longest route by any RTC in India with a travel time of approx. 35 hours. The roads to Kaza are also termed as the world's most treacherous roads.
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