Students wait for their turn outside a private bus in Mukkom as entry along with other passengers is not encouraged by the private bus crew. Now, it has come back to the same situation,” says Bijith Babu who once questioned the private bus operators’ crude practice in Mukkom. | Photo Credit: hand outThe discrimination against student bus passengers has resurfaced in the district with private bus operators ignoring the cashless smart card earlier introduced by the district administration under its ‘Savari Girigiri’ project. Wheel cards for private bus conductors to easily read the smart cards too have been under consideration to popularise the scheme, they point out. The smart cards given to around 3,000 students as part of a trial run are now rarely used by them.
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