Panel asks Govt to ensure kids don’t suffer

NCPCR commission member informs the Delhi’s Transport secretary that kids are facing lots of problems as the buses are stuck up in the BRT corridor, reports Chetan Chauhan.

Updated on: Apr 25, 2008, 03:48:19 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Even schoolchildren are hassled because of the confusion on the BRT corridor. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has raised this pertinent issue and has asked the Delhi government to take immediate steps to ensure children don’t have to suffer.

In a letter written to Delhi’s Transport secretary, commission member Sandhya Bajaj said that school going children in south Delhi were facing lot of problems as the buses are not coming to their colonies to pick them or to drop them because they are caught in the corridor for hours.

In wake of this, parents are being forced to drop or pick children from the new designated spots. “Reaching those designated spots is also not easy because of traffic jams that the corridor has caused in the nearby areas. Many a times parents get late in picking the children thereby creating a huge risk for him,” she said.

Many schools in the area have cited low attendance of students or children not reaching on time as a visible adverse impact of the corridor. Since the part of the corridor has become operational, children are finding it difficult to reach the bus stops, the new designated spots for school buses.

The commission has cited residential areas like Chirag Dilli, Sheikh Sarai, Madangir and Pushp Vihar as the worst suffering areas. “People in these areas have to walk or travel for over a kilometer to pick up their children,” the letter said.

The commission fears the chaos on the corridor may endanger the life of schoolchildren and has, therefore, asked Delhi government to take stringent steps to avoid any untoward incident.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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