Swachh Bharat

Maintaining personal hygiene is necessary for many reasons; personal, social, health, psychological or simply as a way of life. Keeping a good standard of hygiene helps to prevent the development and spread of infections, illnesses.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan from Valmiki Basti in New Delhi on 2nd October 2014, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Prime Minister asked citizens to change their mindsets as cleaning is not only the responsibility of safai karamcharis. The ambitious drive includes sweeping, removal of garbage, debris and unauthorised encroachments from the roads, markets and residential places. The campaign is aimed at making India a clean country by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

A clean environment ensures the continual existence and survival of all life on Earth. Cleaning the environment reduces pollution, protects unique ecosystems, prevents the extinction of endangered species and conserves resources, such as water, land and air. A clean environment ensures the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems upon which human life and all other life on Earth depends.

If you look around, trash and litter is everywhere. Nobody seems to care about the waste, and how we discard it. If anything, we add to the garbage that is already abundant in the open and is everywhere. Littering a plastic cup on the road-side, after we done using it, is the norm. No one realize anything wrong with it. Throwing our waste on the street, and right outside our own house is a part of the daily routines. That’s how we are, that’s what we think is normal. Having waste and garbage scattered around everywhere does not bother us. We are content within ourselves as long as our house is polished clean up to the front doorstep. When it comes to surroundings, that’s where our responsibilities seem to end. That’s where we tend to stop – our doorsteps.

Taking context of travel & transportation: Throwing waste everywhere makes it difficult for other passengers during the journey and for the next passenger coming in. It takes 2 hours to clean the bus thoroughly from inside and outside after a journey. After a journey bus is filled with empty wafers packets, Biscuits, Bottles etc. this leftovers can be easily carried by the respected passengers but it is generally ignored. Due to this ignorance, Wash room in our bus Club One got choked several times because customers used to litter in the toilet

Sooner or later we have to realize this problem. We need to change our mentality on how we treat our neighborhood and surroundings. Littering is socially accepted in India – nobody minds, no one cares! We can make all the progress, we can make all the economic strides alongside the rich nations, but we can only go so far if we are surrounded by the smelly dirt piles and garbage. Financial and economic breakthroughs are good. However, along the way, what we really need is a change in our mentality to care for our environment, to care for our own surroundings. And, we need to realize this at personal level, sooner than later.

Online Bus Travel Industry in India

The bus travel industry in India is unorganized and highly fragmented. It is a 120 billion annual turnover industry with a growth rate of 25% per year. This industry is growing phenomenally in India, being one of the most preferred modes of transport for millions of Indians. There are around 2000 private bus operators which function with almost 20000 buses on point to point routes. In the Indian bus travel industry, most of the private players were regional players and did not have a pan India presence and therefore there was a lack of a centralized platform for organized scale of operations.

Despite of growth of online ticket reservations in India through renowned players like makemytrip.com (airline) and IRCTC.com (train), there was a reasonably slow growth when it came to online bus reservations. The role of IT in revenue management is prominently discussed by many researchers. The reasons for this slow growth could be attributed to several reasons like the unwillingness of the majority of the Indian population to book their bus tickets online, low internet penetration and more than that, the unavailability of a proper online platform to book their bus tickets.

The major challenge with the Indian bus ticketing industry is that despite of being used by millions of people it took a long period to witness some innovations in this sector. Moreover, within the travel industry it is noticed that the train and flight ticketing had centralized booking and reservation process implemented much earlier than bus travel industry. The bus operators are scattered across the country largely supported by conventional travel agents. There was an absolute need for transparency within the industry so that consumers can avail the services of a centralized system where they could be acquainted with the information regarding the total number of bus routes in operation, prices, availability, seat preferences, cancellations, refunds and feedback options.

E-ticketing or electronic ticketing in India is changing the landscape, especially air travel and railways ticketing coming a long way ahead. There are research studies which have discussed that service providers could increase their transactional efficiencies and expand their services by adopting modern IT in revenue management.

Growth Drivers of online travel industry in India:

 (i) Growth of Internet, (ii) Growth in Low-cost transportation option (iii) Secure payment mechanisms

Main Challenges:

 (i) Low margins and high operating costs (ii) Poor internet and credit card penetration

There are several players in this domain Redbus being the market leader, other players are Abhi bus, Simply Bus, Yatra.com and Bus Safar.com. With the redbus revolution, the potential in this arena is not out of sight. The competition in this business comes from basically travel agents and ticketing companies who have presence locally, nationally and few of those who even have an international presence. redbus over the years has adopted a business model which is quite difficult for the competitors to replicate due to which redbus is ahead in the contest.

Indian Bus Industry - An Overview Part 1.

Bus industry is one of the vital integral segments of Indian automobile industry. It is a common widespread public transport in India. The industry comprises of buses that are categorized into school buses, mini buses, tourist buses, deluxe buses, commuter buses and others depending on the use. Owing to the development of infrastructure and roads, connecting to remote places has become easier due to which more and more people are availing bus services. This has greatly contributed to the growth of bus industry. Proliferation of internet, rising income, online bus ticket search and booking, growth in low cost carriers, have further added to the growth of travel market in India

The first motor bus route started on July 15, 1926, and ran between Afghan Church and Crawford Market, Mumbai. The bus fare for the same journey was four annas, i.e 25 paise. Indian bus travel industry is a 15000 crores industry and growing annually at 25 %, with over 3,00,000 tickets sold daily, roughly making it an inventory worth $3bn.Indian bus market which was previously and at times still considered a very unorganized, fragmented and unregulated. However, now the market is slowing moving towards some uniformity and consolidation. Today, India has 5,000 private bus operators with a fleet size ranging from 5 to 500 buses.Indian bus market has revolutionized in the last 10-12 years,lot of changes have taken place in the functioning of the sector which is adding more convenience and comfort to the passengers. Indian bus market is divided into 4 broad categories

·         Mass market with bus ranging from Rs.22 lakh to 30 lakh. This market has the largest market share of over 60 %.  Rs. 22 lakh is for the non AC bus while an AC bus costs around Rs.30 lakh.

·         Value market with cost of the bus ranging from Rs.40 lakh to Rs.60 lakhs. Buses like ISUZU,Swaraj Mazda, MAN etc. occupy this segment and this segment has only 2 % market share.

·         Premium bus market is the market where bus range from Rs.80 lakh to a 1.2 crores. Volvo, Mercedes, Scania are the key players in this segment. This segment has a market share of around 25 % and it is this segment which is bringing about the changes in the industry.

·         Super premium bus market with cost of the bus from Rs.1.5 crores upwards. CLUB ONE, Olivia, SVLL connect form part of this segment and it occupies a niche market share of 1 %. The target group for this segment is the affluent class and people with deep pockets. Customers who prefer to travel in luxury.

The coming years will bring in consolidation, Lots of improvement and growth. The seeds of the future plants are being sown and good times lie ahead.

Technology in Buses : The Machine Part 1

We are living in 21^st century, technology has grown by leaps & bounds in this age. Today it is not possible for us to spend a single day or stay a single minute without any technological innovation. Smart phones invention has lead to your office, your wallet, your social presence, your music, your television all in one small device. If you do not make changes with the technology, you become outdated.

Gone are the days when bus journeys were looked down upon & the condition of bus used to be bad. Today there are sleek, clean, comfortable buses for the journey after the introduction of advanced buses by companies such as Volvo, Mercedes, Scania, Man along with our Indian cos Tata & Ashok Leyland.Technology has played an important role in this turnaround.

Indian Bus sector which is a 15,000 cr industry today has also made huge process in terms of technological innovations. In the Indian traveller's mindset bus travel is picking up, as is evident from the fact that the railways had to stop the Shatabdi service between Mumbai and Pune for a while because of the growing popularity of the Volvo bus service on the expressway linking the two cities. Ahmedabad –Rajkot have 39 train connections on an average  & 60 bus connections in a day. This shows the preference of bus over other modes of transport.

Today’s bus come equipped with charging facility, WIFI to keep you connected on the go, Buses have facility to watch live television along with pre- loaded DVD, they come fitted with toilets, food is served on board. Sleeper buses are also part of innovation in the sector.

New technologically advanced multi axle buses have helped reduce the travel time between Intercities by 15% .Bus travel normally used to be carried out for journeys in the 6-10 hours range. This mindset is also changing with the introduction of multi axle automatic transmission sleeper & semi sleeper buses. Take for instance Ahmedabad to Bangalore by train takes 36 hours, while the same journey in bus is carried out in 24-26 hours.

Power steering equipped bus with automatic transmissions helps the bus operators in improving their mileage & in reducing the effort put in by the driver along with providing comfortable travel to the passengers.

Change is the only constant in life & it keeps taking place for the betterment of humanity & mankind.There is some new innovation taking place now as you go through this article.

Eagle travels,a bus operator in states of Gujarat,Maharashtra,Rajasthan,Delhi since last 35 years having its services between Ahmedabad,Rajkot,Jamnagar,Porbander,Bhuj,Gandhidham,Anjar,Baroda,Surat,Vapi,Udaipur,Mumbai,
Pune,Jaipur,Delhi & Mundra among others.Eagle travels were the first operator to have a networked office and giving computerised tickets,Eagle travels are the pioneers in introducing Volvo,Mercedes & multi axle buses in the Gujarat region. Eagle's recent addition to its fleet is Club One the best in super luxury buses,it believes in technology & its use & up gradation.Our fleet of 200 buses consists of 50 volvo,Mercedes buses,  We strive to keep you “A step ahead….. Always”

Monsoon

Year 1975-76: There was a huge flood in Damanganga river & the railway bridged has collapsed,Rail transport facility to Mumbai was down. It was during this time that our founder Chairman Sh Rasiklal Damjibhai Golwala decided to run his 2 buses on the Rajkot- Mumbai route to serve the man kind, in order to help clear the mayhem created. Little did he know that such a decision will lead to him setting up a full fledged bus travel company popularly known as 'EAGLE TRAVELS' today.

Monsoon's are a time where the weather outside is lovely and exotic. In today's time people want to venture out & experience this beautiful weather & enjoy with their friends & family. Long drives, Journey through the country side or on the long beautiful highways refreshes you but also rejuvenates you.

With the advent of technology it is now easier to book tickets with us, Simply log on to our website www.eaglebus.in, select your From & To destination along with your date of travel,We will provide with the options to select from in terms of  departure timing,bus type ( Volvo,AC sleeper,Non ac) seat selection, whether you are women traveller. You can either select our unique 'PAY LATER' option which allows you to have a confirmed ticket while you pay one hour before the departure or 'PAY NOW' option. In 4 simple steps the tickets are booked.

We have also set up a dedicated call centre for bookings 079-61555555 is the no.. Booking is just a phone call away with this facility. We have also developed an andriod app which can be downloaded on your phone & booking is just a tab away.

Eagle travels now has services to over 30 cities like Ahmedabad, Baroda,Surat,Rajkot,Bhuj,Gandhidham,Porbander,Jamnagar,Mundra,Jaipur,Udaipur,Pune,Nathdwara,
Delhi,Chittor,Mumbai,Banglore.With its fleet of over 200 buses consisting of Non Ac sleeper & seating,AC sleeper,Volvo single & multi axle seating, semi sleeper & sleeper buses, Mercedes multi axles & newest addition to the family CLUB ONE.

Make the most of this monsoon by exploring new cities & finding new destinations.

Our Journey

Eagle travels commenced its corporate journey under the leadership of Late Sh Rasiklal Damjibhai Bavaria(Golwala) in the year 1978.  Our founder chairman was a man of vision & possessed exemplary quality who always thought beyond the horizons. He believed in being focused & sharp like an Eagle, which is the king of the birds & is known for its agility & precision. "It was his passion to serve people & help them with better facilities while travelling"., He introduced “Comfort” to the travel industry. This attitude of his made his develop buses with entertainment facility way back in the year 1980 when television was also not introduced.

Previous to our launch of bus services between Rajkot & Mumbai in the year 1978, Eagle travels was known as ‘Saurashtra tourist corporation’ & used to lease bus for corporate affairs & wedding functions. What began with a fleet of 2 buses having its services in just 2 cities with one departure in a day has today reached a fleet size of over 200 buses covering over 30 cities in 6 states of India with over 75 departures in a day.

Eagle Corporation diversified to new businesses in the year 1995, Eagle entered into retailing of petroleum products, C&F agents for various FMCG companies like Amul, Adani Wilmar , Havmor, Pepsi among others. Eagle also took up automobile dealerships for Kinectic Honda,Ford cars, Vespa,Suzuki & Ashok Leyland along with starting Parcel services to all destinations covered by Eagle travels network.

Our founder chairman was a noble man who believed in giving back to the society whole heartly, He was Counsellor of Rajkot Municipal Corporation for several years along with being Trustee in several temples & organisations. He used to allow free travel for patients & sick people & used to pay school fees for underprivileged children. He even used to manufacture medicines for ‘Diabetics’ & used to distribute it free for cost.

The vision & mission of our founder chairman is now being taken ahead by his able son Mr Jayendra Rasikbhai Bavaria, who has been able to add several feather to Eagle’s wings. Our Current chairman Sh Jayendra Rasikbhai Bavaria has the same passion as his father, He was actively involved in this business since he was almost 16 years old, He used to undertake long overnight journey to Udaipur  for monitoring coach building operation sometimes this journey was carried out standing. His passion towards his work is so high that he never realized he is taking such pains. Mr Bavaria is always keen on bringing new technology in the business, He was instrumental in being the 1^st travel operator in Gujarat & western region to bring Volvo, Mercedes Single & Multi axles buses. 

He understood the importance of serving customer better by introducing bottled water free of charge to each passenger. He brought WIFI in buses to keep the customer connected during their travel. It is under Mr Bavaria’s leadership that  Eagle Travels became the first travel operator in the country to introduce computerized tickets & also set up a dedicated call centre for ticket booking. He believes in being technologically advanced, this approach made him the 1^st travel operator to link all their booking offices.

Mr Bavaria is also the President of Gujarat Tourist vehicle federation & represents the private bus operators industry to various government bodies & agencies. He is a customer service oriented man, who personally oversees that customer satisfaction has to be achieved at any point of time.

 He is now being assisted by his children Mr Darshan Bavaria. CLUB ONE Eagle’s new initiative in super luxury travel is the brain child of Mr Darshan Bavaria. 

Eagle for Everyone.

Eagle travels a name synonym for comfortable & luxurious travel in Gujarat has been able to spread its wings to other states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan & Delhi covering over 25 cities with over 80 departures daily from its fleet of over 200 buses. Eagle travels has evolved over the last 35 years as the preferred  mode of travel for over 2 crore people as it services for everyone.

Eagle travels wide range of buses include Non AC sleeper bus,AC sleeper bus,Volvo/Mercedes bus, Volvo sleeper, Volvo Sleeper & Seating, Volvo & Mercedes multi axle bus along with the newly introduced DC designed bus on Volvo B9R chasis CLUB ONE.

 Rajkot, Ahmedabad,Mumbai,Udaipur, Nathdwara,Pune are some of the cities to which we have multiple range of services like Non AC sleeper bus,Volvo seating bus, Volvo sleeper bus & Club One services. Our fares range from Rs 160 to Rs 2500. We have something to offer for all of our passengers.

For our passengers who do not want to come down to our office physically and book tickets we have started a dedicated call centre 079- 61555555 for all your booking needs & queries.

For passengers who use a smart phone, We have an andriod based app for ticket booking.

For passengers who want to book tickets using internet/online we have our portal www.eaglebus.in.

We know that the penetration of credit card in India is around 2 % & internet banking is also slowly growing so for all our customers who want to book tickets with us online & do not have a credit card/internet banking to pay can avail of  PAY LATER facility. Where by a passenger has a confirmed booking & has to pick up the ticket one hour before departure by paying at our office.

For passengers travelling long distance with us like to Delhi, Banglore we provide them with a blanket during the journey.

Our Volvo B9R bus & B7R bus have charging point in all seat sections so that our passengers do not have to face drained out battery of mobile, laptop ,ipod etc...

Our bus in the Jamnagar- Rajkot- Ahmedabad have WIFI facilities allowing our passengers to surf internet while on the move & not miss their important work & pleasure.

We provide a bottle of water to all our passengers along with entertainment in form of either personal LCD screen in case of AC sleeper & Volvo sleeper buses & 2 LCD screens in Volvo/Mercedes seating & multi axle buses.

We also have Eagle privilege card for all our regular patrons, We provide a 10 % discount on each booking starting from the time they issue the card with us. The privilege card comes with a small registration fees of Rs 200 & is valid for one year.

Our latest offering CLUB ONE comes with 140 degree recliner seats each seat has its own entertainment system with a 14" inch tv screen equipped with LIVE TV & 5000 of entertainment programmes to choose from. We serve gourmet food to all our passengers along with coffee. The bus is equipped with state of the art flush toilets. Our bus also has Bus Hostess to serve our passengers with food & drinks.

We believe in catering to each & every type of passengers with equal zeal, enthusiasm & vigour as each passenger is important to us. We are here today because of the love, faith, support & good wishes of your wide range of passengers.

Thanking you for the trust you have on us, Continue to shower us with your thoughts,inputs,feedbacks & words of praise to keep us going.

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Summer Destinations

 According to TIME magazine 550 Million people travel in a year in India & 61 % of this travel use bus as their mode of travel. Bus as a medium carries over 355 crore people in a year. May is considered the month when maximum no. of people travel in India,primarily due to the fact that it is time of summer vacation in educational institutions when everyone either travel to their hometown or go for a holiday.

All means of transport available in India at this point of time are running to packed capacities, there are infact even large queues to book tickets. Several new summer services are started in order to meet the heavy rush of passengers.

We at Eagle Travels with our experience of last 35 years also prepare ourselves to meet the summer rush, We start our preparation almost 2 months in advance when we start our repair work on all our buses & service them for efficient working during the summer conditions & rush. Eagle travels also believes in helping our passengers reach their desired destinations in the best of  comfort & luxury.

Eagle travels have also started the following long distance inter state bus services to meet the demand of its passengers

Ahmedabad - Delhi AC sleeper coach via Udaipur & Chittor Daily Departure At 1:30 PM

Ahmedabad- Jaipur AC Sleeper coach Via Udaipur,Daily departure at 10:30 PM.

Ahmedabad- Bhuj AC sleeper coach via Gandhidham,Daily departure at 10:30 PM.

Ahmedbad- Udaipur AC sleeper coach, Daily departure at 8:30 PM.

Rajkot - Indore Sleeper coach,Daily departure at 4 PM.

Jamnagar- Rajkot- Ahmedabad - Banglore Multi Axle i shift b9r volvo semi sleeper bus, Daily departure from Jamnagar at 7 AM, Rajkot 10 AM & Ahmedabad 3 PM.

Rajkot- Ahmedabad- Mumbai DC designed bus built on volvo b9r chasis in our new introduction called CLUB ONE.This bus comes with utmost luxury facilities,There are only 21 140 degree recliner seats with LIVE tv & 5000 hours of programming for the entertainment of passengers,with gourmet food being served to passengers along with coffee by bus hostesses & having flush toilets. The best in class & never before heard of such facilities in Asia.

 Our motto always remain to serve our customers better & give them comfort, Safety, luxury & style to their style.

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