India, June 16 -- The Maharashtra government has constituted a high-level technical task force to integrate all public transport services in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) into one coordinated network, a move aimed at creating a seamless public transport network across all the cities. A government resolution (GR) to this effect was issued by the urban development department on Monday.

The task force will be chaired by the assistant general manager (traffic and operations) of BEST, and have representatives from different cities as members. It will examine how the bus systems run by different operators in different cities, each with its own routes, schedules, ticketing systems and fare structures, can be integrated.

The panel has be...