With only a few days after the implementation of the Transport Assistance Scheme, concerns have been raised to the Education Ministry from students who have been turned away from public buses, upon producing their coupons.
Fijivillage received complaints from parents that some students cannot board the school bus as it is full, or some stay back after school for training purposes, and when they go home, bus drivers refuse to receive their coupons.
Education Minister Filipe Bole said the Ministry also received complaints of a similar nature, but to his understanding, the vouchers are to be used by students who travel in school buses.
Bole adds that the Transport Assistance Scheme Committee will meet again with the Bus Operators to clear the issue, on whether students will be allowed to travel in public buses using their coupons.
Meanwhile, more than a quarter of Fiji's total student populations whose forms have been processed have qualified for the Transport Assistance Scheme.
However, Bole said that a number of forms which were incorrectly filled not stamped by schools and assessed as doubtful, have been returned to the schools for proper verification before it is submitted again.
Students raise concern
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