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National Travels is a travel agency located in Bangalore, India which operates bus transport throughout the country, with almost 1000 employees. The company is recognised by Government of India.
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History
National travels was founded by late B.P.Basheer Ahmed and taken over by his sons(Seven of them) and all head the company to date. Services operated in 1927 with 2 Ford vehicles from Shivajinagar to city market.
Package tours
More than 200 buses run on daily services in major cities in South India like Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Calicut, Goa, Bombay, Hyderabad, Madras, ooty etc. They even run bus services in rural Mandya, tumkur, and Bangalore districts. The company has Volvo buses.
Contract services
They have Clients from Private sectors and multi-nationals like HMT, BEML, BHEL, MICO, Wipro, Volvo India, Indian Airlines etc have made contracts with National Travels to aid their transportation facilities & industrial undertakings and to drop and pick up the employees to their respective workplaces. They have a workshop situated in Kalasipalya, Bangalore.
Other services
Transportation is not the only services which the company provides but also:
- Al-Kabir educational society, Mysore.
- National computer training center, Bangalore.
- National tile factory, Kunigal.
- National Steel Corporation, Bangalore.
Zameer Ahmed Khan
Zameer Ahmed Khan who is a partner in the partnership has also entered politics. He was the Minister of Waft and Hajj committee in the state government during HD Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka during 2005-2006. Then he resigned to the state Governor following a stand off with the chief minister. [1]
References
Categories:- Travel and holiday companies of India
- Bus transport in India
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