Free bus-ride pass to end on September 6

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Requests for free bus-ride pass and its extension will be received at the universities and high schools and the passes will be handed out, between 12th to 18th of this month, informed Thursday the Municipal Departments of Education and Labor and “Ulaanbaatar Smartcard” Co. ltd. Procedure for free bus-ride pass usage of 2016-2017 for university, high school and college students that was approved by the public council will be organized as follows. The eligible student will need to inform the school to order the pass. The schools and universities will approve the requests to compromise to the limit stated by the procedure in order for the Department of Education to grant the pass to high schools and universities. As for colleges and vocational training centers, the Labor department will vouch for the grant. The students who received the pass in the last year will have to extend in order to use the pass for 2016-2017 academic year. The approved list of students from high schools and universities will have to be submitted to the Ulaanbaatar Smart Card to request the extension, while the vocational training centers and colleges must inform the Department of Labor. Fee for free bus-ride pass will be MNT 3,600, while the extension will cost MNT 1,000. Ts.Uuganbayar, the legal advisor of the Department of Education said on the matter “Total of 57,681 students have received the free bus-ride pass last year. The pass will be issued for the second time this year. The reason why we started receiving the requests after the new academic year is to provide every student with equal chance. The request for new pass and its extension will continue without further delay from today.” L.Amarjargal, the specialist responsible for the Department of Labor’s student program “Last year, the department received requests from 32 vocational training centers and colleges in Ulaanbaatar. Among the approximate number of 13,200 students, around 12,400 students have been issued with a pass. We’re planning to give extension and re-issuance for some 12,000 students from those 32 institutions”.