Jamshedpur Abhibhavak Sangh protest overloading of school vehicles

Jamshedpur, September 2: Parents have shown seriousness on the incident of overturning of vehicles filled with school children in the city.

Citing rules and court orders, the district administration has been demanded to take appropriate action by conducting an investigation campaign.

Regarding this, parents demonstrated in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office on Saturday under the banner of Jamshedpur Abhibhavak Sangh and submitted memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner demanding formation of a committee to ensure the safety of children and determine the fare.

As per the Sangh’s press release in the last one week, there have been two incidents of overturning of school vehicles. Children were also injured in both these accidents.

The parents felt that number of children allowed to sit in the vehicles was fixed. Then the vehicle operators had increased the fare citing loss. After that, children were overloaded.

They claimed that restriction for petrol tempo-5, diesel tempo-8, van- 10 to 12, mini bus 28 to 30, big bus-45 (the capacity of all including the driver and co-driver was determined.)

Writ Petition 13029/1985 of the Supreme Court and the order was issued by the Jharkhand Education Tribunal in the year 2011. It was said that private school managements have to operate buses to bring them to school and take them home. Despite this, buses are not operated by most of the schools in the city.

Because of this, parents have to make arrangements for their children to go to home and school by tempo or van. School vehicle operators are taking advantage of this and the result is that children remain unsafe while going to and from home and school.