Ludhiana DTO Warns Schools Not Complying With Safe School Vahan Scheme
Author(s): City Air NewsLudhiana, May 6, 2015: District Transport Officer (DTO) Mr Anil Garg has warned the schools to make sure vehicles ferrying their students to school premises must comply with the "Safe School Vahan Scheme", else...
Ludhiana, May 6, 2015: District Transport Officer (DTO) Mr Anil Garg has warned the schools to make sure vehicles ferrying their students to school premises must comply with the "Safe School Vahan Scheme", else action would be taken against them. The DTO said that they have already distributed "Inspection Performa" to around 600 schools affiliated with CBSE, ICSE and PSEB in Ludhiana. He said barring a few, majority of them are yet to submit their forms.
DTO Anil Garg said that they would submit names of schools which have not submitted the performa';s and are not complying with the Safe School Vahan scheme with the Punjab & Haryana High Court. He informed that four city schools have already been summoned by the Punjab & Haryana High Court.
This particular scheme of the Punjab government has been started for ensuring the safety of school children and to reduce the accident rate of school buses.
DTO Anil Garg said that majority of accidents involving the school buses happens due to the unsafe bus body fabrication and the failure of the education institutions to adopt comprehensive periodical preventive maintenance procedure and lack of driving skills among the bus drivers.
Stressing upon the need for reducing ‘Road Accidental Deaths’ in the state he said that the reduction in the increasing deaths due to road accidents was the call of the hour. He said that the Punjab government has initiated an elaborate drive to ensure that the road safety norms are being properly implemented.
He said that for this purpose a scheme namely ';Safe School Vahan'; has been formulated by the transport department. He informed that the School Education Department has been entrusted upon a special responsibility to properly maintain school buses and their use following the norms of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 and Supreme Court rulings.
Date:
Thursday, May 7, 2015