Kerala HC stays state transport company transfer curbing concession in ticket fares for CBSE college students
4 min readBy PTI
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has placed on maintain for a month a call of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation chopping down the concession in journey fare for college kids of CBSE faculties and making the administration of such establishments liable to pay 35 per cent of the ticket worth.
The High Court mentioned that the petitioner, affiliation of managers of CBSE faculties, made out a prima facie case for an interim order and stayed the operation of clause 4 of the KSRTC’s February 27 memorandum for one month.
Clause 4 of the February 27 memorandum issued by the KSRTC said that in respect of self-financing faculties, unaided faculties and recognised faculties, 35 per cent of the ticket fare shall be paid by college students, 35 per cent by the administration of the establishment and solely a 30 per cent concession can be granted.
The courtroom additionally issued discover to the Kerala authorities and the KSRTC, represented by advocate Deepu Thankan, looking for their stand on the claims within the petition by August 9, the subsequent date of listening to.
The petitioner affiliation in its plea has claimed that the memorandum was “classifying students based on the institutions in which they study and offering different rates of concessions.”
“Such a classification among the students travelling in the same bus is discriminatory and arbitrary. That apart as per clause 4 of the memorandum, CBSE/ ICSE school management are made liable to pay 35 per cent of the ticket fare in respect of their students travelling in KSRTC bus.”
“There is no authority to the 3rd respondent (KSRTC) to impose such a condition on the management of CBSE/ICSE schools,” the petition has contended.
The petitioner affiliation has mentioned that below the memorandum, college students of presidency and aided faculties would get full concession regardless of the revenue of their dad and mom.
It has additionally contended that when the CBSE college managements weren’t receiving any providers from the KSRTC, the transport company can not demand any ticket fare from them for his or her college students’ journey on KSRTC buses.
The petition has sought quashing of clause 4 of the memorandum and a course to the KSRTC to make sure college students travelling on their buses should not discriminated in opposition to based mostly on the establishment by which they’re learning.
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has placed on maintain for a month a call of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation chopping down the concession in journey fare for college kids of CBSE faculties and making the administration of such establishments liable to pay 35 per cent of the ticket worth.
The High Court mentioned that the petitioner, affiliation of managers of CBSE faculties, made out a prima facie case for an interim order and stayed the operation of clause 4 of the KSRTC’s February 27 memorandum for one month.
Clause 4 of the February 27 memorandum issued by the KSRTC said that in respect of self-financing faculties, unaided faculties and recognised faculties, 35 per cent of the ticket fare shall be paid by college students, 35 per cent by the administration of the establishment and solely a 30 per cent concession can be granted.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
The courtroom additionally issued discover to the Kerala authorities and the KSRTC, represented by advocate Deepu Thankan, looking for their stand on the claims within the petition by August 9, the subsequent date of listening to.
The petitioner affiliation in its plea has claimed that the memorandum was “classifying students based on the institutions in which they study and offering different rates of concessions.”
“Such a classification among the students travelling in the same bus is discriminatory and arbitrary. That apart as per clause 4 of the memorandum, CBSE/ ICSE school management are made liable to pay 35 per cent of the ticket fare in respect of their students travelling in KSRTC bus.”
“There is no authority to the 3rd respondent (KSRTC) to impose such a condition on the management of CBSE/ICSE schools,” the petition has contended.
The petitioner affiliation has mentioned that below the memorandum, college students of presidency and aided faculties would get full concession regardless of the revenue of their dad and mom.
It has additionally contended that when the CBSE college managements weren’t receiving any providers from the KSRTC, the transport company can not demand any ticket fare from them for his or her college students’ journey on KSRTC buses.
The petition has sought quashing of clause 4 of the memorandum and a course to the KSRTC to make sure college students travelling on their buses should not discriminated in opposition to based mostly on the establishment by which they’re learning.
