UM AL QUWAIN — By the coming academic year, as many as 250 new school buses will join the fleet of Emirates Transport buses, an official said.
Currently, Emirates Transport is operating a total of 2,785 buses to transport thousands of students all across the country.
Emirates Transport has signed an agreement to buy 250 new school buses of 60-passenger capacity each for the year 2008/2009 at a total cost of around Dh100 million. Emirates Transport will receive the buses in June and July.
Mohammed Abdullah Al Jurmen, Director General of Emirates Transport, signed the agreement, which also includes purchase of 50 buses equipped to transport people with special needs.
Talking about the agreement, Al Jurmen said Emirates Transport was keen to upgrade its bus fleet so as to bring in the highest standards of safety and comfort.
Emirates Transport had earlier inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education (MoE) to transport school students by the advent of the next academic year (2008/2009).
Meanwhile, Emirates Transport and MoE are also mulling to make it mandatory for buses carrying students of nursery and elementary schools to have supervisors.
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