Mumbai: The Country Corporation Bus received an extraordinary response with almost 4 Lakh travelers chose KONKAN bus during the recent Ganesh festival, statistics released on Tuesday showed.
Minister of Transportation State and Chair of the MSRTC Anil Paratab announced that Cash-Straped Bus Corporation obtained Rs 7.8 Crore from bus bookings for Konkan.
“We have planned to deploy only 2,200 buses, but because of heavy demand for passenger bookings, we finally transport citizens to Konkan at 3,290 buses,” said Puriab.