A state transport bus in Maharashtra's Beed district has become a huge draw among students for its education-themed after its driver and conductor took it upon themselves to make the ride fun-filled and informative. ADVERTISEMENT From outside, the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus appears no different from the thousands of similar passenger carriers, with a white-orange colour scheme, plying across the state. But the ST bus turns vibrant with an array of images and messages pasted on the roof and side walls, resembling a mobile classroom inside.
"Students love what we have done to the interiors of the bus. In fact, more students are now travelling on our bus," conductor Vaishali Mule told PTI over the phone on Friday. The bus covers a distance of 200 km daily, both ways, to pick up students from their respective villages and drop them back from schools on the Beed-Nalwandi route.
Mule said she and her driver colleague Siraj Pathan have spent Rs 35,000 from their own pockets to deck out the bus with educational materials, visuals concerning personalities like Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, Swami Vivekananda and and messages imparting values. "Most of the students using our bus are children of labourers engaged in sugarcane cutting. These families didn't bother much about sending their kids to schools.
We think our initiative has changed that as more students, including girls, are going to school," she said. While bright images of in the solar system have bee.
