Safety lax in Greater Noida school: Panel

Noida | Wednesday | 8th August, 2018

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I will talk about it once I get it.”The principal of the Greater Noida school did not respond to queries. “We had checked about 48 buses and other vehicles run by the school. The school had said that most of the buses were outsourced. We have issued a one-week notice to them to get the speed governors and other important equipment fixed in all of these buses,” said Prashant Tiwari, assistant RTO (enforcement).District magistrate BN Singh said, “I am yet to get the report. GREATER NOIDA: A state government committee has indicted the management of the Greater Noida school where a nursery student was allegedly raped by a swimming pool lifeguard last month for lack of safety measures.The five-member panel, formed by the district administration, has found various lacunae in the safety mechanism of the school, including lack of monitoring of CCTV footage from 168 cameras in the campus, employment of 19 employees on visitor cards, lack of proper I-cards, single health check-up of students in a year etc.The committee has also made a number of suggestions for strengthening the same, along with the need for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to define the role of the district administration in such cases..