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NSUI asks PM to grant students bus fare
concession
Friday February 22, 2013 11:21:57 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: A
Congress-aligned students union asked Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to permit 50 percent concession for students commuting by
public transport country-wide. Such a concession exists for
students in Goa.
"All students across India should uniformly be able to utilise the
'half-ticket' policy for students which has been in place in Goa
for decades now," Hasiba Amin, president of the National Students
Union of India (NSUI), said at a press conference Thursday.
Students in Goa pay 50 percent bus fares in buses operated by
government-owned corporations as well as private buses. The
'half-ticket' policy came into effect in 1978, following a string
of agitations across the state.
Head of the state Congress IT cell Durgadas Kamat said that the
prime minister's office was being petitioned, ahead of the budget
session, so that necessary time could be given to the union
ministries to factor in the 50 percent student concession under
the respective budget heads.
"All the hundreds of thousands of students should be able to avail
benefit of this scheme, especially at a time when inflation has
hit families hard," Kamat said.
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