More than 9,000 drivers, 4,000 cleaners and helpers, 7,000 women attendants and 1,000 bus supervisors who work on school buses are facing a tough time. With the entire country under lockdown and no work available, all of them have already faced 50 per cent salary cut and to make the matter worse, none of them will get their salary from next month.

With uncertainty looming on their work and a majority of them being migrants, the school bus employees have opted to return back to their villages till the situation normalises. But, with them choosing to go back to their villages, the School Bus Owners Association (SBOA) fears that it would be difficult to put the system back together when schools reopen.