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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (AK)

Mangalore, Jul 4: The Dakshina Kannada district committee of the Students Federation of India (SFI), held a protest in front of the DC's office, regarding the private bus owners' decision to make bus passes compulsory for students, and their move to form squads to trap students who travel without bus passes, here on Friday July 4. 

SFI activists voiced their fury against the private bus owners and accused them of exploiting the student community by denying them the right to travel in buses with bus passes. They raised their discontentment over the already existing rules of the bus passes which let a student use the pass only once and do not allow the students to use the pass after 6 pm, and insisted on a revision of the rules.  

Speaking on the occasion, the Dakshina Kannada district secretary of the Students Federation of India, Jeevan Rajkuthar, demanded an answer from the bus owners for not utilizing the yearly fund of Rs.135 crore that the government shells out for bus concessions. SFI demanded that proper use of this fund be facilitated in the district which would benefit the student community.