1.5 Lakh Sandipani School Students Yet To Get Bus Facility Across Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The students in 19 districts of Madhya Pradesh are still waiting for the promised bus services at Sandipani schools, nearly three years after the first phase of the programme was launched. The school education department had assured parents that students shifted from nearby government schools will get transport facilities. However, the bus service is yet to begin in 125…
Nearly 1.5 lakh students in Sandipani schools across 19 districts of Madhya Pradesh are still waiting for bus services, three years after the program's launch. The school education department had assured that students shifting from nearby government schools would receive transport facilities. However, the bus service remains unimplemented in 125 Sandipani schools within these districts, leaving around 1.5 lakh students without the promised convenience.
About 2,500 government schools have been merged with the Sandipani schools in the first phase. Despite this, the facility has not been provided in districts falling under Jabalpur, Gwalior, and Sagar divisions. The department had initially planned to conduct the bus tender process at the divisional level, but this was not finalized in the three mentioned divisions.
A centralised tender was later considered, with a single agency to operate buses for Sandipani schools statewide, but this proposal is yet to move beyond the tender process.
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