RTO’s this move will ensure children’s safety in Mangalore: Check out

RTO’s this move will ensure children’s safety in Mangalore: Check out

June 15: Mangalore Regional Transport Office (RTO) will conduct a survey to check excess children being carried in vehicles, including autorickshaws rented or attached to school management. The police had booked 48 cases against school vans and autorickshaw drivers for carrying more than the prescribed number of children.
RTO has ordered autorickshaws not to ferry more than six children and school vans on carrying students according to the seating capacity are not being adhered to by the drivers and  continue to carry more number of children in their vehicles and this could put the children’s lives at stake.
This responsibility should be shared by others, including school authorities for denying school bus services to children coming from remote or city’s outskirts. When public transport are scarce in those regions parents are left with no option but to send their children in whatever vehicle is available.