India, Sept. 26 -- The Maharashtra government will invite bids next month to lease land at 150 locations owned by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) for ST bus depots, Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik said at the inauguration of HOMETHON 2025, a property exhibition organised by NAREDCO Maharashtra.

The minister said tenders would be floated for the long-term development of bus depots across the state on 98-year leases, structured as an initial 49-year term extendable by another 49 years. He made the announcement at the opening of the fourth edition of HOMETHON 2025, a three-day property exhibition being held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai.

"MSRTC has over 13,000 acres of land parcels at strategic loc...