Hyderabad: Hyderabad police commissioner M. Mahendar Reddy on Wednesday asked managements of all schools to install CCTV cameras inside and outside their campuses for the safety of students.
As per the Public Safety Act, any institution or establishment where 100 or more people gather should install CCTV cameras. These cameras can be linked to the command control centre of the police in due course, he said.
The commissioner was addressing school managements at a meeting conducted on Wednesday by the traffic police to promote road safety. Mr Reddy appealed to the school managements to adopt roads in front of their institutions and spend money on zebra markings and installation of other signboards for the safety of children as part of their corporate social responsibility.
Mr Reddy called upon the managements to partner with traffic and law and order police, RTA and the school education department in making Hyderabad an accident-free city.
“If principals, teachers and parents follow all rules, children too will learn. If elders can follow and teach, the sense of responsibility towards society can be developed among children in their first five years of education,” Mr Reddy said.
Referring to WHO data that nearly 1.50 lakh people had died in road accidents in India in 2015, he said people should stop citing excuses for accidents and work towards an accident-free Hyderabad.
Tough rules on parking at schools
DCP, traffic, A.V. Ranganath said that the traffic police would write to the school education department for de-recognition of schools that failed to provide parking space for its buses and vans.
Addressing school managements at a meeting on road safety here on Wednesday, he said school buses were not allowed to stop on the road in front of schools, causing traffic jams. They should be allowed inside the campus for the students’ convenience.
“Schools should not expect the traffic police to do everything; the managements should provide parking lots in the school or at an alternative location. They should deploy security guards for regulation of traffic and ensure that the school buses are in condition,” he said.
