Road The
Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) operates bus services from Puttaparthi bus station. People visit Puttaparthi from all over India, and most State transport services also supply buses to Puttaparthi. Puttaparthi is well connected by road to
Anantapur (84 km),
Bangalore (154 km),
Vijayawada (507 km),
Tirupati (227 km),
Chennai (529 km) and all parts of
Anantapur district.
Rail Puttaparthi has a railway station named as
Sri Sathya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam. The Railway station was inaugurated and became functional on November 23, 2000;
Sathya Sai Baba's 74th birthday. It is about 8.6 km to the west of the ashram and 4 km south of the neighboring village of Kothacheruvu. This station falls under the Bangalore Division of the
South Western Railway and lies on the
Bangalore–Guntakal railway line. Travel time between the Rail station and Puttaparthi is approximately 15-25 minutes through various modes of transportation;
cabs,
autorickshaws and APSRTC buses. The town is connected directly by train to
Bangalore,
Secunderabad,
Chennai,
Vishakapatnam,
Vijayawada,
Coimbatore,
Mumbai,
New Delhi,
Bhuvaneshwar and
Kolkata. and Sri Sathya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam railway station is the 5th busiest station in Bangalore division of SWR.
Air Puttaparthi Airport (IATA: PUT, ICAO: VOPN) is a
domestic airport situated outside the village, 1 km from the Sathya Sai Baba Super Specialty Hospital. "It is a small airport with facilities for chartered flights rather than commercial aircraft. The airport was inaugurated on November 24, 1990 to serve the Super Speciality Hospital for emergency situations. The airstrip was constructed by L&T ECC. It was later extended to enable the operation of jet aircraft." It is owned by the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and is spread over of land, housing a runway that is 2,230 metres long. The nearest International airport is the
Kempegowda International Airport at
Devanahalli, a suburb of Bangalore which is about 119 km from Puttaparthi. == Sports ==