About 4,953 additional buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) for the Konkan region have been fully booked between September 3-7 for the oncoming Ganapati festival with 4,200 group bookings in place.

Bookings to Konkan have been done from major areas in and around Mumbai, including Palghar and Thane. The MSRTC has this year planned to run 5,000 additional buses for the festival season.