The need for exclusive bus for college students
                                                                                                                by: Lisvan Rodrigues

I travel everyday by bus and I have noticed that the conditions of the buses plying on Goa roads are pathetic. They are not public transport but junk on wheels, worse are the conductors who are shameless and rude, denying us, the student’s legitimate 50 percent concession on bus travel within state.

With great difficulty we reach college on time, ‘thanks’ to the pan-stained buses which have become a spitting bin for most of the tobacco and paan chewing passengers. Do sign boards like ‘no spitting’ and ‘no smoking’ help?

The bus tragedy at Aldona could have been avoided had the transport authorities conducted periodical inspections, at least once in a fortnight.

It costs a lot for middle-class people like me and other students who travel everyday from margao to panjim to study. I would therefore, appreciate if the government takes the initiative to put in motion a bus exclusively reserved for students, of course at concessional rates in the mornings.