Pune MSRTC starts buses to Konkan

PUNE: The Pune unit of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) started buses to the Konkan region from Wednesday in view of the demand from people to visit their homes for the upcoming Ganapati festival.
“The buses departed from our depots at Swargate and Pimpri in the evening for Dapoli, Ratnagiri, Khed, Chiplun and Guhagar,” an MSRTC officer said. Almost every household in Konkan celebrates Ganesh festival, he added.
The officer said, “Maximum of 22 passengers will be allowed in each bus and in case of group bookings, the buses would go to the interiors of these five destinations to drop passengers.For instance, if a group of people from Ratnagiri makes a booking, our buses will go to the respective villages and drop them off.”
Officials can be contacted for queries on 7387499482 (Dipak Ghode), 8329614848 (Dnyneshwar Ranware), 7588379858 (Sachin Shinde), 8329059652 (Pradip Kamble).