'Reserve
seats for students in BEST buses'
Monday March 14, 2011 10:46:24 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Four seats
should be reserved for students in state-run BEST buses running
across Mumbai, a social organisation headed by son of Maharastra
Revenue Minister Narayan Rane demanded Monday.
Noting that Shiv Sena's youth wing chief Aditya Thackeray met
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in December last year and made a
strong plea for two separate compartments - one for students and
the other for elderly people across suburban trains in Mumbai, the
Swabhiman Sangathana students' wing president Prathamesh Kolumkar
claimed Thackeray conveniently ignored the students' plight in the
BEST buses.
"With the BMC polls next year and students' population forming a
solid vote bank, Shiv Sena's youth wing has desperately jumped on
to the bandwagon without analysing the consequences of their act
on the innocents and taking undue advantage of their political
affiliations," Sangathana president Nitesh Rane said.
Releasing copies of a letter sent to BEST chairman Sanjay Potnis,
Kolumkar mentioned the troubles students face while travelling on
the crowded BEST buses.
"We understand the circumstances in which the students have to
travel by local buses. Potnis has accepted our demand," he said,
adding they would wait for a week and then see how the measure was
being implemented.
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