Cyberabad schools may come online one day a week to deal with traffic chaos during monsoon

A recent survey of 526 large schools found that nearly two million vehicles congregate outside school campuses during a 15-minute rush hour. File | Photo credit: The Hindu

Schools in Cyberabad may soon conduct online classes once a week during the monsoon season as the police plans to reach out to educational institutions in an effort to ease school-related traffic congestion and facilitate civic activities across the commission.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner M. Ramesh said he would soon hold a meeting with school managements and ask them to conduct online classes ideally during the mid-week months of July and August. If implemented, students would attend eight days of online courses over two months. “This will reduce pressure on roads and also enable Cyberabad city officials to plan and execute civic works,” he said.

The proposal comes at a time when schools have reopened after the summer break and traffic jams have returned to the main school corridors. Morning and afternoon rush hours witness heavy vehicle movement as parents, school buses and private transport converge on campuses, which often lack adequate infrastructure for pick-up, drop-off and parking.

“It would not only provide relief to children who have to travel during unpredictable rains but also reduce traffic on the roads,” said a parent when informed about the proposal.

A recent survey of 526 large schools found that nearly two million vehicles congregate outside school campuses during a 15-minute rush hour. It also found that 64% of schools are located on narrow roads, 56% lack a dedicated drop-off area and 29% have insufficient drop-off capacity. More than 250 schools have been identified as congestion hotspots.

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Jeedimetla emerged as the largest high-pressure school transport group with 116 schools and 73,041 students. Balanagar has 67 schools and 46,523 students, including 30 schools operating without organized transport. Kukatpally is home to 40 schools and 37,728 students, of which over 32,000 depend on private vehicles and other modes of transport. KPHB has 38 schools and 26,946 students, with 14 schools lacking transport service. Madhapur has more than 1.5 lakh students overlap with the IT commuter daily, making it one of the most critical zones of the city.

The summer break brought twenty-six-year-old B. Lalithya a rare respite from traffic. Working the evening shift, he traveled from Srinivasapuram Road in Ramanthapur to Begumpet and believed he had largely escaped Hyderabad’s rush-hour congestion. That changed when schools reopened.

Around 3 pm, his journey slows down near Hyderabad Public School in Ramanthapur, where there are queues of hundreds of vehicles. Captain Veera Raja Reddy Marg presents another hurdle. The two-kilometer stretch up to the NGRI metro station has nine schools in addition to colleges and training centers and often takes more than 10 to 15 minutes to navigate.

“I lose at least 10 to 15 minutes just crossing these stretches, even though it’s not considered rush hour. After that, the journey is slow because there are several school buses on the roads at the same time,” he said.

These congestion spots fall under Uppal Division of Malkajgiri Traffic Zone-II which has 66 schools. Along with LB Nagar division, it forms the zone of 111 educational institutions which generate considerable daily vehicular movement.

According to Malkajgiri Traffic Zone-II DCP V. Sreenivasulu, the Habsiguda-Nacharam corridor and Uppal witness the highest volumes of school-related traffic in the zone. “To deal with the situation, traffic personnel are deployed at Survey of India Junction, HPS Ramanthapur and Delhi Public School, Nacharam from 7 am onwards. We are also enforcing restrictions on heavy vehicles, including private buses, between 7.30 am and 11.30 am and again from 3.30 pm to 10.30 pm,” he said.

Transportation officials say the lack of dedicated parking spaces for vehicles remains one of the biggest contributors to congestion. The growing reliance on private vehicles for school drop-offs has only added to the pressure, forcing roads meant for regular traffic to absorb thousands of additional vehicle movements within a short period of time each day.

Published – 20 June 2026 12:40 PM IST