Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: The Education Department has decided not to supply government-aided schools with any further Bal Rath school buses.
According to the state’s director of education, Shailesh Zingade, there are currently 410 Bal Rath school buses in use. He declared that such facilities will only be provided to assisted schools with consent.
Additionally, he stated that the supported schools that currently own Bal Raths would now have to pay for the upkeep and repairs of these cars out of their own pockets. Ministers and MLAs, however, could assist the assisted schools in this regard from their respective constituencies.
The decision was made after the government observed parents moving their children from government schools to assisted schools since the assisted schools could also offer school bus transportation to the pupils.
