AMID the ongoing agitation by MSRTC employees, the transporter operated 79 buses to ferry 1,746 passengers, with two buses on the Nashik-Pune route running at full capacity of 84 passengers. Two men tried to end their lives outside Mantralaya.

Officials from the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) said 3,987 employees from the total headcount of 92,266 resumed work on Sunday. Most of the buses that have started are on inter-city routes like Pune-Mumbai, Sangli-Pune, Nashik-Dhule and Miraj-Pandharpur. For other routes, citizens are still dependent on private bus services that have been permitted by the government to pick up passengers from MSRTC bus depots.