navi mumbai cops on the road after frequent intervals for 24 hours well thats what the annual konkan yatra promises the motorists heading to their hometowns in konkan region for ganesh chaturthi celebration as it is time for family gettogether however the traffic load will obviously increase with some 30000 more cars and around 2000 buses plying towards konkan regionhence the state transport department has reportedly deployed around 1000 special buseswhile the notification for special traffic arrangement will be effective from wednesday midnight the maximum volume is expected on friday and saturday when devotees want to be at their homes for the chaturthi starting monday a massive posse of police both traffic and deployment from the police commissionerate totaling 380 of them including 38 officers will guide extra volume of vehicles wheeling down to native homes in the konkan belt spanning three districts of raigad ratnagiri and sindhudurg the deployment 100 from headquarters and 280 from traffic department will be engaged in 12 hour duty in two shifts for 24 hour presencedcp traffic arvind salve told toi tuesday we would like motorists to avail of the alternate route via the pune expressway nh 4 that has several diversions to reach native homes in view of the load and possibility of traffic jam because only one bridge on savitri river in mahad is operational as the other was washed out in the heavy rains there are seven routes from the expressway that get linked to various destinations right from mahad till kankavli in sindhudurg districtthe dcp said coordination with the two dcps of pune and highway safety police will ensure smooth traffic flow on the expresswayalternate routes from pune expressway1 from bhorvarandha ghat for travelling to mahad2 from satara via umbrej and kumbharli ghat for chiplun3 from satarakarad via anskura ghat for rajapur and further down to sawantwadi via nh17 goa highway4 from satara karad via amba ghat to chiplun rajapur and sawantwadi5 from kolhapur via amboli ghat to samantwadi6 satarakaradkolhapur via gaganbawda ghat for vaibhavwadi and kankavli7 kolhapur via radhanagri dajipur via fonda ghat to kankavlialternate route in the cityfor the stretch of palaspe to kharpara on the goa highway nh 17 which is also the jurisdiction of the highway under city commissionerate the alternative route is from gavan phata via chirner to kharparasaryu motor turbhe area kalamboli circle kharpada and palaspe