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INDORE: Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Tuesday cancelled fitness certificates of five school buses after a surprise inspection revealed that they were not fit to ferry school students. One of these buses also had ‘start’ problem, which led to cancellation of fitness certificate on spot.Transport department has launched the drive to ensure safety of school children. “School management has been instructed to rectify these faults and present vehicles for re-inspection and obtain fresh certificates,” she added. The self-start system of bus (MP09-FA-4028) belonging to Ryan International School did not work properly during inspection. Four of these buses belong to Ryan International School and the other was of Kasera Vidya Niketan School.Regional transport officer Jitendra Singh Raghuvanshi suspended fitness certificate of the five buses owing to malfunctioning of emergency exits, non-functional indicators, bad and damaged condition of tyre, absence of fire extinguisher etc..