Guilty won’t be spared: Thakur

Shimla, February 5

The affiliation of the private school at Dadahu, whose bus had met with an accident on the Dadahu-Sangdah road in Sirmaur district, killing seven children earlier this month, has been cancelled following a probe ordered by the government. “The school affiliation has been cancelled from January 4, 2019, following an inquiry into the incident,” said Transport minister, Govind Singh in reply to a question of Congress MLA from Renuka, Vinay Kumar.

Vinay Kumar asked the government to table the document, wherein the affiliation of the school has been cancelled adding that the parents of the students had repeatedly complained to the school authorities about the poor condition of the bus, but it did not pay any heed.

Intervening in the reply, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur assured the House that the government will not spare the guilty if it was found that there has been any negligence in the passing of the school bus that met with an accident near Dadahu in Sirmaur district earlier this month killing seven children.

Thakur intervened after the opposition members, including former CM Virbhadra Singh, claimed that the checking authorities had rejected the school bus in view of its condition, but it was passed by the higher authority.

Singh said the government must look into the issue as it was a serious matter that how the passing was done by the higher authorities, and whether they had done it sitting in their room. “We will look into this aspect in detail and take action accordingly,” the Chief Minister said adding that two school bus accidents have occurred in one year which was a serious matter. Intervening in the reply to another question, the CM said the state government has started Mukhya Mantri Grihini Suvidha Yojana to give gas connections to the families, which were not covered under Centre’s Ujjawala Yojana in the hill state. — TNS