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Kanniyakumari Collector R. Alagumeena checked schoolhouse buses and vans nether the Nagercoil Regional Transport Office (RTO) astatine Scott Christian College successful Nagercoil connected Saturday, successful the beingness of District Superintendent of Police R. Stalin.
As portion of the yearly information audit of schoolhouse vehicles, officials carried retired inspections to guarantee that the vehicles were operating successful accordance with authorities guidelines.
During the inspection, Ms. Alagumeena said that 315 schoolhouse vehicles belonging to 85 schools nether the Nagercoil acquisition territory were examined. She added that guidelines, including step-in tallness (which should ideally beryllium little than 250 metres), conveyance flooring, partition betwixt operator and students and different information measures were checked.
The installation of CCTV cameras successful beforehand and rear broadside of the vehicle, arsenic good arsenic velocity governors were besides verified.
The Collector noted that astir of the vehicles were successful bully condition, portion insignificant defects were recovered successful a few. The owners of those vehicles were instructed to rectify the defects and contiguous them for re-inspection wrong 15 days earlier operation.
School vehicles that met each authorities information requirements were affixed with certification stickers for cognition successful the existent world year.
It was emphasised during the inspection that children indispensable beryllium transported safely. Drivers were instructed not to usage mobile phones portion driving, to deterioration spot belts and to guarantee information of the children during travel.
Following inspection, occurrence extinguishers were provided to drivers, on with a procedural mentation connected handling them, successful the lawsuit of fire.
