Government fails to ensure safe transportation of school pupils
| Date :09-Jul-2019 |
By Ashish Rajput:
There is an urgent need of specific policy to provide safe school transportation for the children
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The Government lacks control over mushrooming numbers of private schools and majority of them have no transportation system. There is an urgent need of specific policy to provide safe school transportation for the children
Entire Government machinery is on mission of education to every child but fails in ensuring safe school transportation for children. The Government has no policy for school transportation which put the lives of future citizens on risk. Mode of school transportation emerging a major issue due to absence of any specified school transportation system which leads to safety of children and mismanaged traffic arrangements.
Every new academic session starts with huge hue and cry in the name of safe transportation to students but the ground reality is poles apart. Majority of the school vehicles are still ferrying children without any safety measure. The Government lacks control over mushrooming numbers of private schools and majority of them have no transportation system. There is an urgent need of specific policy to provide safe school transportation for the children.
Surprising is the fact that around 2,500 busses, 2,500 vans and around 5,000 auto-rickshaws are engaged in ferrying school children. Movement of 10,000 small and big school vehicles at a time on city streets leads to paralyze the traffic arrangements. Even after a rigorous campaign of traffic police, no one can deny overloading in school vehicles and violation of safety norms in vehicles.
What is more that the traffic police started another campaign against minor aged driving and issued more than 100 challans to parents for allowing driving to their minor aged children within a week. On the other hand, parents have raised genuine question that is the traffic arrangement in city favourable for cycling of children?
Rajesh Bahuguna
Divisional Commissioner, Rajesh Bahuguna, while talking to ‘The Hitavada’, said that it is correct that safe school transportation emerges as a major problem and concrete initiatives should be taken place in this regard. Collaborative efforts are required from schools and parents for safety of children. Specific school transportation system is a policy matter for higher authorities.
Bharat Yadav (IAS)
Collector Bharat Yadav said that school transportation emerges a major problem for safety of children. He informed that there is no policy for mode of school transportation but efforts are being made to ensure safety of
children in school vehicles. He said for soon holding a meeting of schools and parents associations to take necessary initiatives in this regard.
ASP Amrat Meena
Additional SP (Traffic), Amrat Meena said that traffic police have started a rigorous campaign to implement safety measures in school vehicles but it has limited resources to take action against vehicle owners due to absence of any specific policy for school transportation. He also advocated for framing school transportation policy to provide safe
transportation to children.