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"Due to the schools' irresponsible behaviour, I fear that a student may end up getting hurt as many students rampantly cross the roads to board vehicles," said Kadri, who is also an IT professional. "The auto-rickshaws, school buses and private vehicles that come to pick up the students are parked in a haphazard manner, increasing the chances of accidents," said Deshmukh. "Senior police officers said that parents of the school students were ready to cooperate but it was the schools which were unwilling to provide parking facility within the school premises.The traffic division of the Cantonment area has been taking follow-ups for the installation of traffic signals at crucial points around the schools for quite sometime but has failed to evoke a response in the affirmative. "For the tourists passing through the area, traffic chaos in front of schools speaks poor of the city as well as the country," said a lawyer from Nandanvan Colony who even threatened of moving the court if the schools did not mend their ways.Masood Kadri, a parent-activist who has also been taking up the issue, said that traffic snarls have become an everyday affair on the roads outside the schools. The traffic branch has also sought shifting a toll booth from the area but this request too has been nothing but an exercise in futility.The roads passing from the jurisdiction of Cantonment traffic division connect to Bibi-Ka-Maqbara, Aurangabad caves Panchakki , Government Medical College and Hospital, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University and other key installations that are frequented by thousands of people on a daily basis..