For free travel on public transport, a student must have a certificate from an educational institution

February 21, Minsk / Yulia Vanina - BELTA /. To obtain the right to free travel, a student must obtain a certificate of the established sample from the educational institution. This was announced today at a press conference by the head of the general secondary education department of the Ministry of Education of Belarus, Yuri Gladkov, according to a BELTA correspondent. According to Yuri Gladkov, in Belarus, all students of general secondary education institutions have received the right to free travel on public transport of regular urban service, urban electric transport and the metro from their place of residence (place of stay) to their place of study and back during the period from September 1 to June 30. This right is granted to them by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of February 16, 2011 No. 2002 "On some issues of student travel". Yuri Gladkov noted that the certificate must indicate the child's specific place of residence or stay and place of study. The presence of a photograph in the certificate is not provided for. "If the need arises to paste a photograph into the certificate, we will consider the possibility of developing a certificate of a different sample, which will include a photograph," he added. The head of the department emphasized that schoolchildren will have the right to free travel only to the place of general secondary education and from it to their place of residence. "This document does not provide for free travel for schoolchildren to the place of extracurricular education - to sections, clubs, to clubs, as well as to competitions or for other personal matters," he explained. According to the representative of the Ministry of Education, free travel for schoolchildren is provided in order to fulfill the instruction given by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the fourth All-Belarusian People's Assembly. Yuri Gladkov also noted that the heads of vocational schools, secondary vocational schools and higher education institutions can also provide needy students with financial assistance for travel on public transport. -0-