The process of issuing bus passes for school students will change in the coming academic year. Students will get passes as soon as schools re-open and they need not wait for several weeks as they have been doing.
The School Education Department has decided to make use of its Education Management Information System (EMIS), a comprehensive database of all students in the State.
School Education Secretary D. Sabitha told senior officials in districts, during a video-conference on Tuesday, to instruct the heads of all schools to collect information about students requiring bus pass and immediately begin updating it in their respective EMIS records. The data would be consolidated at the State-level by the Department, which would submit the information to Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC), an official who took part in the meeting told The Hindu .
The process would commence with the government schools initially and would be extended to aided, private and other schools later. Till now, individual schools collected the list of students needing bus pass and submitted it to the TNSTC.
Till this year, the process began only by June first week. Heads of all Government Schools have been asked to update their respective EMIS records with information such as the address of the student and location of the school.
