The Delhi Police has written to the Directorate of Education saying that several vehicles hired by parents for ferrying their children to and back from school are operating illegally in the city.
It has sought for the cooperation of principals and parents on the issue.
“These vehicles are operating without taking adequate safeguard measures thus jeopardizing the lives of schoolchildren who are using this form of transport. Most of these vehicles are overloaded and driven recklessly in utter disregard of traffic rules and regulations. There have been numerous instances of fatal accidents involving these illegal vehicles wherein schoolchildren have lost their lives,” the Delhi Police wrote to the DoE.
‘Arrange legal transport’
The police have asked the parents to arrange legal transport for their wards and avoid hiring overloaded vans. “It is requested that necessary directions may be circulated to all school principals to further exhort the parents in PTA meetings and other interactive forums to make use of safe transport provided by the schools and abstain from sending their children in illegal school vans/cabs which can prove dangerous or fatal owing to non adherence of motor vehicles laws,” the police wrote.
