Schools asked to provide parking space on premises

  • | Tuesday | 20th November, 2018

"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.

AURANGABAD: In an attempt to reduce congestions at different points in the limits of the Cantonment area in the city during school hours, the traffic branch has shot a letter to school managements asking them to make parking arrangements for vehicles, which drop and receive students, in the school premises The letter has cited the risk to the safety of students stepping out of the school to board buses and auto-rickshaws and also the inconvenience faced by commuters due to the congestion on the road, especially in front of the schools.Senior inspector Mukund Deshmukh has held meetings with the school managements in the Cantonment area exhorting them to use the space in their premises for parking vehicles.Deshmukh told TOI, "The irresponsible, insensitive and lackadaisical attitude of the schools is posing a grave risk to the students as well as the commuters passing from in front of these schools."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. 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."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."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. "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.

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