Pune: The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) will operate extra buses for Bhimashankar, Nilkantheshwar, Baneshwar, Bhuleshwar and Ramling on Mahashivratri on Tuesday to clear extra rush of passengers.

The Pune divisional controller of MSRTC said, “The buses will depart from Shivajinagar, Manchar and Ghodegaon bus stations. The extra buses will arrive at Amrit Hotel, seven kilometres before Bhimashankar and from there, other state transport buses will depart for Bhimashankar temple.”

Extra ST buses from Swargate to Nilkantheshwar, Swargate and Bhor to Baneshwar, Saswad to Bhuleshwar, Shirur to Ramling and Baramati to Someshwar will also be operated. Buses for Bhimashankar will depart from Swargate, Baramati, Bhor, Narayangaon, Shirur, Rajgurunagar, Talegaon, Indapur, Saswad, Daund and Pimpri-Chinchwad bus stations.