Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station
bus station in India
The Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS), also known as the Imlibun Bus Station (Imlibun means "grove of tamarind trees"), is a bus station on the Musi River in the Imlibun area of southern Hyderabad, India. It is owned by the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) and is India's fifth-largest bus station, covering 20 acres (81,000 m2), behind Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus, Bengaluru's Kempegowda Bus Station, Vijayawada's Pandit Nehru Bus Station and Delhi's Millennium Park Bus Depot.
History
The bus station was first built during the Nizam era, and was owned by the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway and known as the Central Bus Station. It was built in the shape of a dome and was named Imlibun. It was a converted aircraft hangar, built during the 1930s by Butler and Company of the US to accommodate the Nizam's fleet of public single- and double-decker buses.
In 1994, the Central Bus Stand was expanded and the present MGBS was built. The Musi river bed was partially filled for the new facility. 18 acres of Imlibun island was leased by GHMC to APSRTC for 99 years.The original bus stand was built with the "Misssisipi" hangar few metres away from Musi in 1953. After MGBS was built, the Central Bus Station was shifted to the new structure on the Imlibun island. Although it used to be accessible by two major and two minor road bridges, it is presently accessible by four road bridges and two metro lines.
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