Thiruvananthapuram: Cops issue directives for school vehicles

Thiruvananthapuram: The traffic police in the state capital has issued guidelines for vehicles transporting students to schools that are set to reopen on Thursday. .

The vehicles should not be overcrowded and must adhere to the norms and security guidelines. They should keep security stickers issued by police stations under the city police limits, display the ‘on school duty’ board and follow the instructions of police officers on duty. The vehicles should not be parked near school gates and must not create traffic blocks by parking on the roads for a long time. The teachers should ensure that students are dropped in the school compound and taken back from there.

There will be curbs for parking at major junctions. Employees of private vehicles should follow a queue system. The drivers, cleaners, ayahs and helpers should guide the students to enter the vehicles, get down and cross the roads.

Heavy vehicles like tippers, goods and tanker lorries should avoid school zones in the morning and evening. Other vehicles will not be allowed to park in school zones. Employees of the school buses who misbehave with children will be booked under the sections of PoCSO and JJ Act.

The road in front of the Holy Angels Higher Secondary School near General Hospital will be made one way from 8 am to 9.30 am and from 3 pm to 4.30 pm.

City police commissioner K. Sanjay Kumar Guruddin said that the details of the guidelines have been intimated to the authorities and employees of all educational institutions. He asked all concerned to cooperate with the campaign for an accident-free academic year.