The official department of motor vehicles controls the fitness of the school bus in Kozhikode in this photo on the file.
In order to increase the safety of students of passengers in educational buses, the department of motor vehicles (MVD) and the police decided to introduce strict standards for school buses in Kozhikode. Only those who are completing a one -day MVD educational program on a safe driving, which was officially launched on Wednesday, will be able to drive educational institutional vehicles from the next academic year.
Drivers who receive training will be issued a certificate that must be proven for enforcement platoon during flash vehicles under increased security measures. The training will be provided after the license verification. The police permit certificate will also be mandatory if drivers have the history of involvement in violations of the traffic rules.
According to MVD officials, the fitness control of vehicles for educational institutions will be completed by the end of May, and compulsory exercises performed every year. Automated devices will also be used to complete the process. Until August, CCTV cameras will also be mandatory for all educational institutions, they said.
Officials of the traffic police said it is expected that the fitness control will cover more than 1,000 school buses in the city of Kozhikode. They made it clear that safety standards still apply to drivers working for private coaching centers. For vehicles other than school buses, stickers issued after police inspections will be mandatory to operate the services of pick-and-Drop. They have been confirmed that the mobile coercive units of the police and MVDs will be checking together to reveal the safety rules.
Meanwhile, a proposal for the GPS tracking system in school buses still hangs in balance due to alleged lack of cooperation by various school management. Now the GPS system is functional only in very few buses of private institutions in Kozhikode. The mobile application MVD Vidhya Vahan designed for this purpose also remains insufficiently used.
Similarly, the launch of the card and the detection of radiofrequency identification and detection (RFID) for students that were planned a few years ago to monitor the entry and output of students in school buses has not been implemented. Sources in the MVD and the police reported that technical problems related to the establishment of an exclusive server continued to be the main obstacle to its implementation.
Published – May 15 2025 08:49 IS
