BANGALORE: The city police will implement another scheme framed on the lines of the existing Safe Road to School programme and implement it in 50 schools of the city during this academic year, Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh has said.

Mr. Singh said the new scheme would have a provision for participation of parents. It would provide for separate marking on roads for parking buses and autorickshaws near the schools. "The city police, in association with Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation, will implement the new scheme this year in 50 schools," Mr. Singh told The Hindu on Tuesday. He said the police would continue with the Safe Road to School scheme this year in the schools that implemented it last year.

Considering huge traffic jams as a result of parents dropping and picking up their children near schools in private vehicles and also the safety aspect of children, the police, in association with the BMTC, last year mooted the Safe Road to School scheme. The police identified a number of prominent schools in the heart of city that contributed to chaos on roads and asked the school authorities to join the scheme. The scheme was enforced in 16 schools.

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