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Child information compromised-50% schoolhouse buses, vans & autorickshaws without fitness- nary checks!
A shocking find has surfaced portion studies were being conducted by the civilian engineering section of the Visveshvarayya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, a premier engineering college. Out of the 1,584 registered schoolhouse buses successful the city, 825 are operating without fittingness certificates according to the study by Proshun Chakraborty successful Times of India, Nagpur edition. It was recovered that 632 retired of the 1,249 schoolhouse vans surveyed excessively ferry students without the fittingness certificates. The survey besides revealed that vans and autorickshaws are illegally modified to accommodate the maximum numbers of students. The city's 9 zones demarcated by the metropolis constabulary amusement that 66,206 students usage autorickshaws, vans, and buses to commute to their institutions successful the city.
Only 44% of 570 schools successful metropolis supply autobus facilities to students, portion the remainder commute by autorickshaws and vans according to the study. The survey highlights however these backstage vans flaunt information norms and worldly the maximum fig of children to gain much money.
The property study successful hard transcript has besides stated that galore of the drivers bash not person driving licences. The children's limbs successful galore cases dangerously protrude extracurricular the dimensions of the vans and autorickshaws. The drivers affix hooks to bent schoolbags extracurricular the bodyline of the vehicle, besides expanding its dimensions. And besides stated was the information that a immense fig of these vehicles isolated from having nary fittingness certificates, person nary valid security policies.
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Above 2 pictures sourced from Udaipur blog, Udaipur
The Telegraph photograph showing a crammed 3-wheeler successful Jamshedpur
The Telegraph photograph showing a schoolhouse van successful Patna
While the survey has harped upon the appalling script astatine Nagpur (Maharashtra), coincidentally this happens to beryllium the constituency of the Minister for Transport and Highways, who ever talks astir roadworthy accidents and safety, including his "dreams successful vain" for the six airbags proposal.
We tin visualise the script astatine Nagpur arsenic a microcosm for the wholly messy situation, arsenic regards transport of schoolhouse children is concerned, successful our country. In different towns, cities and metros the concern is nary better. While successful different cities, I person besides observed specified violations of the postulation norms particularly by the vans and autorickshaws. We perceive and work astir respective accidents involving tiny kids who are injured oregon killed portion being ferried to oregon from schools.
No factual steps are being taken by the authorities to amended the appalling scenario.
The child's parents yet succumb and go hostage to the machinations, whims and demands of the persons owning these vehicles. Quite a fewer of these are illegally fitted with LPG cylinders. Rather the parents go mute spectators, knowing afloat good that they are handing implicit attraction and information of their astir loved ones to specified persons with specified vehicles.
Reference is besides made to a thread astir information successful 3-wheelers that I had posted successful 2018:-
