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MORE IN THE OFFING: Transport Department staff check documents of buses operated by schools and colleges on Velachery Main Road in East Tambaram. TAMBARAM: The Transport Department will initiate a series of measures to ensure that buses and vans engaged by educational institutions in the southern suburbs of Chennai operate, complying with the prescribed norms. Staff of the Regional Transport Office, Meenambakkam (at Alandur), and the Motor Vehicle Inspector, Tambaram, conducted a sudden inspection of school vehicles on Velachery Main Road at East Tambaram a few days ago. Several vans and buses were checked and they said a majority of the vehicles flouted rules. Complaints against school vans included absence of an attender, overcrowding and those against college buses were invalid documents, lack of first aid kits, fire extinguishers, over-speeding and reckless driving, they said. Some of the drivers of engineering college buses did not have relevant documents. Officials of the Transport Department said that in addition to norms stipulated by the Motor Vehicle Act, the Supreme Court had issued guidelines on safe travel of students in vehicles. These included installation of fire extinguishers, provision of first aid kits, protective and window railings. Portable fire extinguishers were expensive and operators of college buses sometimes shifted them from one bus to the other for obtaining fitness certificates, staff members revealed. Staff also said they had received complaints from residents that drivers of vehicles of engineering colleges in Sholinganallur and nearby areas indulging in over-speeding and rash driving on arterial roads. Role of colleges About 800 buses and vans are operated by educational institutions in the southern suburbs of Chennai. Officials said it was not possible for the government to monitor the movement of each and every vehicle operated by educational institutions. Schools and colleges too had to share the responsibility of ensuring safe travel of students, they said. In a month’s time, a meeting of representatives from educational institutions will be convened to spread the message of safe travel and road discipline. Officials warned that vehicles flouting norms would have to face serious action .
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