CHENNAI: Ahead the Pongal festival, bookings for all the government buses and trains are almost full.

According to officials, around 50,000 people have prebooked so far. The government has also made arrangements to run special buses from January 12 to 14 for the convenience of people to celebrate Pongal in their hometown.

With regards to train bookings, regular and special trains are nearly full.

Also, Omni buses are getting full and more than 35,000 people have made reservations to travel abroad from Chennai. Since seats are filling fast, other transport corporation buses have been linked for booking.