THE Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board on Friday said post-graduate students are not covered by the 20-percent student fare discount.
In a statement, Ariel Enrile Inton, one of the LTFRB’s board members, reacted to a recent altercation between a female student and Edel Barcoso, a conductor of Jasper Jean Transit, when the latter slapped the former after she failed to show her student identification card.
Though the current memorandum circular on student fare discount does not require the presentation of identification, Enrile Inton said student passengers must still have proof of enrollment.
He said there is a need to review the circular.
Under its guidelines, students taking up medicine, law, master’s or doctorate degrees are not covered by the student fare discount, he said.
Out-of-school youth are also not entitled to the discount, he added.
“Student fare discount is not a law. It is only a Memorandum Circular under the LTFRB not mandated by the law like discounts for senior citizens and PWDs [persons with disabilities],” he said.