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Over loading in School buses
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Wednesday, 2 April 2014
7:48 pm
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Rules being thrown to wind in Kashmir
Srinagar: The private schools across
Srinagar are violating the rules in a broad day light with the students being
packed to capacity in the school buses and state authorities acting as ‘mute
spectators’, accused parents.
On Wednesday, the delegation of parents hailing from
various areas across Srinagar told KNS that their children are being physically
tormented by the school authorities due to the over load in the school
vehicles, ferrying children to and fro from home to school.
“It is the physical torture that is being inflicted upon
our children on the daily bases- the over load in the school buses has become
the order of the day,” said Mukhtar Ahmad, a Barzulla resident. He added
that the parents have reported the matter to the state authorities at several
times but no concrete action on ground is being done.
Another aggrieved parent stated that across Srinagar- the
school buses are violating the traffic regulations as well as the education
rules by over loading the buses with the school children. He accused that
the children are being physically tortured and that no steps are being taken by
the government to end the crises if such serious nature.
Also concerns are being raised by various civil society
groups in valley over the over loading of school vans ferrying the children of
lower classes. They however appealed the parents to restrain from sending their
kids in these vans to schools. Pertinently, after the SRTC stopped to ferry
school children, the private schools functional in valley purchased the vehicles
in personal capacity. When KNS tried to contact Director Education Kashmir, his
cell phone was continually switched off.
Meanwhile, Superintendent of Police (SP) traffic for
Srinagar Haseb-ur-Rahman told KNS that the traffic department is continually
monitoring the situation and whosoever is found violating the traffic norms-
stern action is being taken on ground. He added that last year traffic
department fined various school buses and vans against the charges of
overloading and that same is being pursued this year as well. “We appeal
parents to resister complains so that the overloading in busses and vans
ferrying school children could be ended at an earliest.” (KNS)
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