Sri Lanka, Aug. 14 -- Parents of children attending schools in private school buses complain that several private school bus drivers are insisting on fares for months that schools were not held.

Several parents claim that bus drivers countrywide are threatening insisting on parents and their children not to get into buses unless they pay fares for April and May even though schools were not held in these months, due to the Coronavirus threat.

Parents said this was an injustice to them as they did not receive the transport service during this period.The government has also granted a financial concession on leasing following a meeting private school bus owners held with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in July. Accordingly no leasing insta...