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The School bus facility at SBOA School and Junior College is for students of class LKG to class 5. The fee for the bus ranges from Rs.1800 to Rs.2300 per term depending on the distance travelled.
The school bus picks up students from a point on the route closest to the students residence and drops them back at the same point. If the parent is not around to receive the child, the child is taken back to the school and the parents have to arrange to collect their wards from the school.

The other option available is to send them via private vans. This is definitely more convenient as the pick up and drop are usually at your doorstep or closer than the school bus drop point and they usually wait for a few extra Min's. The biggest drawback is that all the operators use Mahindra vans(The green boxy ones) and they are not very comfortable. Swaraj Mazda or even a tempo traveller would be nice, but I guess only if a big group of parents go out of their way to find one, the situation is not going to change.

If you live within a 2km radius from the school, you can always use an auto rickshaw, the only disadvantage is that kids don't have anybody to supervise them in the back seat.

So the ideal situation would be to live next to the school! To accommodate 1700 families near the school would be next to impossible! So the best solution is to run more buses in more routes so as to cut travel time and enable the kids to be dropped off closer to their homes and also it would be the safest option.

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  1. UnknownApril 6, 2021 at 2:38 AM

    Looking for SBOA School and Junior College bus for my daughter that goes from Guest Hospital, Kilpauk to the school both ways

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