Traffic outside schools to be managed by staff

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 23

Police Commissioner SS Srivastav has asked school managements to depute their employees or security staff to manage the traffic outside their premises in the morning and afternoon hours when students deboard and board, respectively, the school buses or vans.

School vehicles generally pick and drop students from outside the schools, which is in violation of norms and Safe School Vahan Policy. In the afternoon when school buses and autorickshaws pick the children up from outside the schools, it leads to traffic chaos, leaving commuters harried.

The city top cop, at a meeting with school principals, asked them to deploy some people to manage the school transport so that the traffic is not hindered. Besides, he directed the educational institutes to get the police verification done of their teaching, non-teaching and fourth class staff along with drivers and conductors. He said school managements should know about the antecedents of their all the employees.

The police commissioner also asked the school managements to install high quality CCTV cameras inside and outside their premises. This would help avert untoward incidents, he said.

Those flouting the norms would be dealt strictly to ensure safety of the schoolchildren, he said.

According to him, the police department will also hold police-public meetings at schools to develop an atmosphere of trust between police and the common people.

The police will organise a mini marathon on October 22 wherein school and college children could participate.