Nashik: Police, RTO to soon conduct meeting with school principals, representatives

NASHIK: Senior officials of the police and the Regional Transport Office would soon meet principals and representatives of schools to inform them about the decision that has been taken for the security of students who travel in buses, vans, etc.
The school bus committee, headed by commissioner of police Vishwas Nangre Patil, has decided to make it compulsory for all schools to deploy traffic wardens during the opening and closing hours of the schools.
In the first week of June, RTO officers and the city police, including CP Vishwas Nangre Patil, had a brainstorming meeting over the security of school students.
As part of this, they had decided to take meeting of all school head masters, principals, etc in the last week of June to inform them about the decision.
However, in the backdrop of the dacoity and murder case in the city at a financial institute, the meeting was postponed. Officials said that they would conduct a meeting with the school head masters, principals or their representatives any time soon.
Police officials said that the school bus committee has decided to make it compulsory for all the schools to ensure that they keep traffic wardens to manage the vehicular traffic during the opening and closing times of the schools.
Further, it will also be binding on all the schools to ensure that they make arrangement of school bus parking within their premises.
Schools are also supposed to get character verification done of all the school bus drivers and they should be given identity cards so that it becomes easier for the police and the RTO to take action against illegal bus drivers and buses.
Meanwhile, the police and the RTO have decided to take strict action against autorickshaw drivers and vans that ferry more than the number of permissible school students in their vehicles.