The process of registering and issuing a social pass for students, for free access to public transport, began this Thursday, in Luanda, under the supervision of the National Integrated Ticketing Company (ENBI).
According to the president of the ENBI executive committee, Mário Nsingui, the passes, called "GiraMais", have a real price of 4500 kwanzas, but the State subsidizes 4000 kwanzas and the remaining 500 kwanzas are paid by the student to acquire the registration form. enrollment.
"And each student's trip is 100 kwanzas that the State will support, plus the 4000 kwanzas for the pass, we are talking about an investment of more than 1.5 million kwanzas" in this first phase, he detailed.
Mário Nsingui reported that ENBI plans to grant, in a first phase, the "GiraMais" pass to more than 30,000 students, with the prospect of reaching almost 120,000 students by the end of 2023, including the provinces of Huíla and Benguela.
Speaking at the end of the official launch ceremony of these passes, which took place at the Escola do Ensino Primário e Secundário Juventude em Luta, in Luanda, the leader also said that the student pass has a duration of three renewable years.
ENBI has an installed capacity to issue 1000 passes/day, he added, and the institution's partners will be certified to expand the issuing network and issuing capacity.
Mário Nsingui also revealed that an act of signing an adhesion contract was initialed with all urban public transport operators and these, with ENBI signs, should not restrict the transport of students.
The provinces of Huíla, Benguela, Huambo, Malanje and Cabinda will be the next beneficiaries of this pass, with technical work already underway in coordination with the provincial governments.
The regularity of operators, within the scope of "GiraMais", will be supervised by the National Land Transport Agency, as its administrator for Operations, Alberto Nkengue, said at the time.
"The role of the agency is only as a regulator, to verify whether ENBI's duties are in fact being fulfilled and we are here to verify, verify and in case of non-compliance there will be sanctions", said the person in charge.
This is the first time that Angola has implemented social passes for students, a measure that follows several complaints from students and guardians due to the costs of transport from home to school and vice versa.
