Bus passes to be made in schools/colleges from April 1 in Punjab
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, March 9, 2015: The Punjab Transport Department today took a revolutionary decision to make bus passes of School and College students in their respective schools instead of students making beelines in...
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Mar 9, 2015 12:30
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Chandigarh, March 9, 2015: The Punjab Transport Department today took a revolutionary decision to make bus passes of School and College students in their respective schools instead of students making beelines in Bus Stands for making Bus Passes. The new scheme would be operational from the commencement of new academic session starting from April 1.
Disclosing this here today Managing Director, PRTC Manjit Singh Narang said that teams of PRTC would visit the schools/colleges and issue the passes to the students.
He said that the orders have already been given to the general managers of Patiala, Sangrur, Kapurthala, Bathinda , Budhlada, Ludhiana, Faridkot and Chandigarh to do the needful in this regard.
He further said that now students need not to stand in queues at bus stands for three months to get their bus passes issued. This will help them to devote more time to academic pursuits.
He said that with this innovative step, PRTC wouldn’t feel the need to appoint more officers for this task. Now, only one inspector and two officers will be present at the concerned school or college and the passes will be issued without any delay. He said that one team from the department will go at different institutes at different days.
He said that the bus passes are issued for three months and this order will be implemented from the new session commencing on 1 April. Institutes have already started taken applications from the students regarding bus passes. An inspector from the department will go to the particular institute for processing these applications, collect the fees and stamp the form and issue the pass.
He said that this decision will be beneficial for the department as well as schools and colleges. He said that this will help in the prevention of bogus passes. He also said that bus passes will be renewed before their expiry. He said that a database will be created having information regarding bus passes issued to an institute and this list will be uploaded on corporation website.
