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Police hold talks with school principals

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore April 21. When schools in Bangalore reopen after holidays, your children may be assured of better safety on roads.

At a joint meeting held by the Commissioner of Police, H.T.Sangliana, and the Director of Public Instruction with principals of 150 schools on Friday, several measures to tackle traffic congestion around schools, safety of schoolchildren, and road safety awareness among students were discussed. The officials of the BMTC and senior traffic police officers attended the meeting.

Mr. Sangliana suggested to principals that timings of schools could be staggered to avoid congestion on roads around schools. Schools were asked to seek help from local traffic police to have zebra crossings painted on the roads in front of schools and to install sign boards and blinking lights.

The Commissioner of Police mooted the idea that children should not be made to carry many books so that they could cross roads or get in and out of buses with ease. While cars, which brought children to school, could be allowed inside the compound to avoid congestion on the roads outside, schools could hire buses from BMTC to avoid overcrowding in autorikckshaws. The BMTC was asked to run more special buses, exclusively for schoolchildren from different parts of the City.

All traffic police officers were told to regularly visit schools and solve the traffic-related problems and to remove hawkers from school gates. The police should deal with eve-teasers near schools.

From the safety point of view, the possibility of under utilised school buses to help children of schools that did not have their own buses and introduction of separate buses to transport all children to schools, were discussed. Suggestions were made regarding taking road safety lessons in schools and holding training programme for senior children by the police and traffic wardens.

The Additonal Commissioner of Police (Traffic), M.N.Reddy, and the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), S.Parashivamurthy, spoke.

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