Education on the go: BBMP to turn buses into schools
The civic agency will procure 10 buses from the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) to use them as mobile school buses.
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BENGALURU: With the pandemic resulting in increasing number of school dropouts, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to conduct bridge courses to bring them back into schools. The civic agency will procure 10 buses from the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) to use them as mobile school buses.
Each bus is being procured at a cost of Rs 4 lakh.The BMTC will modify the scrapped, unused buses before handing them over to BBMP. The buses will be equipped with a mat for children to sit, a white board and a chair for the attender. The BBMP will also provide food to these children. Nagendra Nayak. Assistant Commissioner, Education, BBMP, told The New Sunday Express, “These buses are mobile school buses