Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd, is the public transport service provider for the city of Pune and Pune Metropolitan region, which includes areas surrounding Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. PMPML was created following a merger between the Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) and Pimpri-Chichwad Municipal Transport (PCMT). Formerly, PMT was responsible for public bus operations in the Pune city limits
and PCMT ran buses in the neighboring sister city of Pimpri-Chinchwad. In February 2008, the Union urban development ministry cleared a proposal to provide funds for purchasing 650 public transport buses for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. The funds have been issued under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Of the total, 200 were supposed to be semi-low floor buses. The number of buses sanctioned for Pune is 500, while that for Pimpri-Chinchwad is 150. At present, the PMPML has a fleet of 1600 buses, transporting about 800 thousand commuters daily. The organisation runs buses in routes across the Pune metropolitan limits, and has 10 bus depots and 20 major bus stations.
