Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted time till August 22 for the State government to frame draft guidelines for school buses. Originally, while passing interim orders on a suo-motu writ petition, the first bench consisting of Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam, on July 27, had directed the government through Advocate-General A Navaneethakrishnan to frame the draft rules to regulate the use of vehicles carrying children to schools.
When the matter came up on Friday, the AG sought for some more time to enable the government to frame the rules. The bench said that it might not be difficult for the government to immediately frame the rules incorporating effective measures to be taken by the transport operators in view of the guidelines already issued by the Supreme Court and a circular issued by the Transport Department in August 2006.
The bench, however, granted time till August 22, with the hope that the AG would produce the draft guidelines by then. Earlier, advocate R Y George Williams brought to the courts notice that after the suo-motu petition was taken up, more than five fatal accidents involving school children had taken place.
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12:39 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Chennai: Another schoolboy fell prey to the killer school van that he was travelling in, marking a dangerous trend that has left parents fearful. The five-year-old boy, late on Tuesday, succumbed to injuries that he sustained when he was hit by the vehicle, after it dropped him. Police sources said kindergarten student V Aakash (5) of the Everest Matriculation School in Padappai near Tambaram, was dropped near his house in...
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Cardiff: World record wicket taker Muttiah Muralitharan's retirement from Test cricket last year means Sri Lanka must select two bowlers, instead of one, to make up for his absence, captain Tillakaaratne Dilshan said. "We have to play six batsmen and five bowlers (instead of four) now as Murali normally bowled 40 overs every day," Dilshan told reporters on Wednesday. "Now we don't have that type of bowler, so we need...
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