Over 4K govt students enjoy free trips on Metro
More than 4,000 students from Chennai Corporation schools, government schools and government-aided schools were taken for educational trips on Metro Rail in the past three months.
By : migrator
Update: 2020-02-21 20:56 GMT
Chennai
According to a CMRL statement, the educational trip for the year 2019-20 commenced on June 4, 2019. A total of 4,205 students took the trip in November and December 2019 and January 2020. CMRL has been undertaking monthly educational trips from Central Metro to St Thomas Mount and Airport via Koyambedu and Washermenpet to Airport via AG-DMS for the students.
“For the previous academic year, 2018-19, a total of 31,178 students from around 60 schools had travelled in Metro. Also, 24,400 students travelled between June 2019 to January 2020,” the statement said.
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