Satyajit Vasudev Kavathekar (Shekar ji) has been in travel and tourism industry since last 2 decades. Shekar ji realized that there is huge business potential in providing intercity value for money bus service for the common man. In 1993 Shekar ji founded Raj Tours and Travels to provide intercity private bus service from Pune to various destinations Raj Tours and Travels is known to have introduced many new services/ features in intercity private bus industry. Like Raj Tours and Travels was the pioneer to ply sleeper buses on long routes like Pune – Nagpur and has recently introduced 2X1 sleeper buses in Pune – Nagpur route. At present Raj Tours and Travels have many routes like Pune – Nagpur - Pune, Pune – Raipur (CG) – Pune, Pune – Jabalpur (MP) – Pune, Pune – Akola, Pune – Bangalore, Pune – Latur, Pune- Shirpur, Pune – Nanded, Pune – Chandrapur, Pune – Hingoli- and Mumbai to Hingoli, and Pune – Goa, Mumbai to Chennai. Mumbai to chhindwara ( MP) Raj Tours and Travels sensed the need of travelers in Pune - Nagpur route and started Pune – Gondia – Pune route.