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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: While the School Education Department had recently issued circular mandating teachers, who ride motorcycles, to wear helmets to school, KA Sengottaiyan, the school education minister, contradicted the circular and said that ensuring road safety was the job of the police and transport department. This is the second time this week, the minister has contradicted a circular issued by the school education department. Once again on Saturday, meeting reporters at Erode, he said that the circular mandating teachers to wear helmets was issued without his consent. A teacher who regularly wears helmets, will set a good role model for students to follow, the circular said. In a bid to prevent minor students from using vehicles, the circular also instructed headmasters, to not allow students who come to school on motorcycles..