Nawanshahr - After the unfortunate incident of overturning of a school bus in Mahindergarh district of Haryana yesterday, keeping in mind the safety of school children in Punjab, women and child development department, police department and district transport department, education department jointly launched a special campaign. The buses of different schools of K district were checked And about 24 school vehicles were checked Of which 10 school buses were challaned for not fulfilling the conditions of the Safe School Vehicle Policy.
  Giving information on this occasion, Kanchan Arora District Child Protection Officer Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar said that even in Nawanshahr district, according to the directions of Mr. Navjot Pal Singh Randhawa (IAS), Deputy Commissioner Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, school children in the district A special operation was conducted keeping security in mind. He said that 6 children died in the school bus accident at Mahindergarh in Haryana As a result of which a special campaign was launched today in the whole of Punjab and various school buses were checked.
Apart from this, they were also made aware about the safety precautions by talking to the drivers of school buses. The Punjab State Child Rights Commission has been constituted under Section 17 of the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 of the Government of India. The right is Under Section 13 of the Act, the Commission also has the power to inquire into complaints received against violation of child rights and issue show cause notices.
  He told that as per the orders given by the Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court in Civil Writ Petition No. 69 of 2009 and Civil Writ Petition No. 21506 of 2022 after six children died due to a school bus accident in Haryana, school buses in the state of Punjab are safe. School vehicles must fulfill the conditions of the scheme and it is the responsibility of the school principal to use only vehicles that fulfill these conditions for the children. He said that in order to prevent such an unfortunate incident from happening in the future, the buses of various schools were checked today at District Nawan Shahr. And simply the drivers were instructed to ensure that they get checked within 20 days under the Safe School Vehicle Scheme. The conditions of the Vehicle Safe School Vehicle scheme (such as the driver wearing a school uniform, CCTV cameras installed in the school bus, having a lady attendant on any girl traveling in the school bus, the driver's license being up to date, vehicle (used to have a fitness certificate) will be impounded for those buses. They instructed the school heads that the school vehicles which do not fulfill the conditions based on the above rules should not be used for transporting school children.
School vehicles should be specially checked. While checking by the team, 24 buses of about 14 schools of Nawanshahr district were checked today, including the buses of Doaba Arha School, Cambridge School, Prakash Model School, Shivalik School, Kirpal Sagar Academy, Guru Ramdas School, Apollo School. There were and a total of 10 buses were challaned and two school buses were impounded.
According to the guidelines received from the Honorable Deputy Commissioner, this campaign will continue in the coming time to ensure the safety of children traveling in school buses in Nawanshahr. The checking team includes District Child Protection Officer Kanchan Arora, Manjit from the Education Department. Lal, Ramandeep Singh ATO from Transport Department, Inderjit Singh DEO from Traffic Police Jaswinder Pal Singh Dilawar Singh ASI from District Child Protection Unit Shanu Rana Accountant Santosh Rani DEO were present.