CJI intervenes to get bus service resumed after a Telangana girl writes to him

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, November 6

Taking cognisance of a letter written by a Telangana school girl, Chief Justice of India intervened to get a bus service—that was suspended due to Covid-19 pandemic—resumed to enable her to go to school.

In her letter dated September 17, class 8 student P Vaishnavi—a resident of Chidedu village in Manchal Mandal of Rangareddy district—wrote to the CJI that she and her siblings Preethi and Praneeth faced difficulties in going to school/college as the bus service to her village was discontinued due to Covid-19 pandemic. She complained that several others from her village also faced problems in commuting.

“Ever since my father passed away in the middle of the first wave of Covid-19, my mother has been taking care of us. We are forced to spend Rs 150 to go to school and college which are 6 km and 18 km away from our village respectively. Several students and other residents of our village are also facing similar difficulties,” Vaishnavi wrote in Telugu to the CJI, seeking his intervention for the resumption of school bus services to her village.

Taking note of the difficulties faced by Vaishnavi, her siblings, and other students, CJI Ramana asked the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation to resume bus services to enable the students to reach their school/college on time and to ensure that the Right to Education of the children was honoured.

Justice Ramana responded to her letter and informed her that the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation has restarted school bus services to her village. Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Managing Director VC Sajjanar tweeted to thank the CJI for alerting the corporation about the problems faced by students.