“The government has approved a grant of RM600 special assistance each for 35,000 eligible school bus drivers nationwide.
School bus operators, he said, is one of the many groups that the ministry had been attempting to help weather this period of uncertainty through various measures. Dr Wee added that his political secretary had met them on Friday to continue to engage with the operators to further resolve pending issues facing the industry.
“The disbursement mechanism will be announced at a later time by the Land Public Transport Agency , which is the ministry’s agency in charge of distributing the assistance, ” he said.