Strict norms in place for school vehicles
The Hindu
MVD releases transportation protocol ahead school reopening in Nov.
The Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) has come out with a students’ transportation protocol to ensure the fitness and safety of vehicles ferrying students, once the schools in the State reopen in November.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Transport Minister Antony Raju said that MVD officials will visit all schools and carry out checks to ensure their fitness before October 20. The vehicles can be deployed for transporting students only after the fitness check and trial run.
The MVD will provide a Students Transportation Protocol Fitness Certificate to the vehicles after testing. All vehicles used for transporting students, including private vehicles hired by schools, will have to get this certificate.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.