Govt, private schools in Bhojpur hardly maintain safety standards

Kumar Rajiv Nayan

Ara : After the Ryan International School incident at Gurugram and closure to two schools at Patna for not maintaining safety standards, the CBSE has tightened its noose around all the CBSE schools in Bhojpur district. About 20,000 students study in 17 CBSE schools in Bhojpur district. Besides, thousands of students study in government schools. But, neither the CBSE schools nor government schools are serious about the security and safety of the students.

The CBSE and ICSE have issued guidelines for maintaining safety and security standards in schools but the government has not issued direction in this regard so far to its school. The guardians and parents are now quite concerned about the safety and security of their wards after the murder of a 7 year old student at Ryan International School, Gurugram, recently. District Education Officer (DEO), Bhojpur, Awnindra Kumar Sinha, said that the CBSE, ICSE schools and even private schools will be issued direction to maintain safety standards.

Director, Sambhawana Residential School, Kumar Dwijendra Kiran said that all the guidelines issued by the CBSE are being followed at his school. The school is covered under the CCTV, guardians are informed through SMS and Speed Governor has been installed in buses, retired armymen, retired CRPF and retired police personnel are being recruited as security personnel. He said that new guidelines have been received from the CBSE which will be implemented within two months.

Director, Mount Litera School, Shreyansh Jain, said that CBSE guidelines were being followed strictly and   security guards having licence have been employed and GPS system has been installed in buses, SMS facility is available, the entire school campus is covered with CCTVs and buses are painted in yellow colour and names of drivers and conductors and their mobile numbers are written in black colour on the buses but applications for the verification of teachers and non-teaching staff are pending with the SP office for the last three years.

Director, Gyan Jyoti Residential School, Aditiya Vijay Jain, said that the school has no SMS facility and GPS system has not been installed on buses. Although biometric system has been introduced for the attendance of students but it seldom works.

Bhojpur Fire Brigade Officer, Lalikant Pawan, said that Fire Brigade office is authorized to issue fire safety certificates and the certificates were issued to some schools which applied for the same.