A
new school bus safety policy ensuring a safe ride for school students might be
released by next week, say experts. The policy will address the problem of
illegal vans ferrying children to schools, school principals bearing the
responsibility of the safety of the school bus and other issues that have
plagued the city schools and buses.
A
school bus committee was constituted in 2010 to come up with guidelines to
ensure the safety of children in the school transport. The panel recently
comprised of transport commissioner Sonia Sethi and education commissioner
Purshottam Bhapkar, along with experts such as Indrani Malkani, who drafted the
initial school bus policy, Anil Garg, president of the School Bus Owners
Association and two Regional Transport Officers.
According
to sources in the transport and education department, the draft policy is
almost ready and could be released within the next seven to eight days. “The
new draft policy is nearly done, but the transport department has referred it
to the education department for some of the points, especially relating to
school principals,” said a senior official from the education department. “The
policy can be expected to be released soon.”
One
of the major points expected to be included in the policy is the regulation of
those private vans, which are not abiding by safety norms and risking the lives
of the students. This was the major demand of the school bus owners.
Source | Hindustan Times | 15 October 2015
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