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(viii)
The driver of such vehicles should hold a valid driving
licence and an authorization card. The authorization card
shall be displayed conspicuously in the vehicle.
(ix)
Driver of all such buses should not be allowed to work for
more than 8 hours in a day and 48 hours in any week providing rest
of at least half an-hour after work of 5 hours.
(x)
Every vehicle shall carry a suitable photograph of
authorized driver duly certified by the RTA/STA.
(xi)
The owner of the bus and Principals should ensure that
every school bus carries a suitable photograph of the authorized
driver.
(xii)
It should be ensured that the driver has undergone a
training programme at DTC depot Nand Nagri. No driver without
this training should be allowed to continue on the duty day of
school bus.
(xiii)
Such a vehicle being used for transporting students should
not carry more than one and half times the number of
passengers authorized in the registration certificate.
(xiv)
In the beginning and thereafter every six months the
Principals shall obtain a certificate from the owner of the bus that
the speed governors fitted in the bus is in working order so as to
ensure that the school buses do not exceed the speed limit of 40
K.M. per hour.
(xv)
The Principal of the schools which have owned/hired the
buses or would be owning/hiring the buses for carrying school
children shall give the following information by 30th
April each year to this Directorate through Dy.Director
concerned:-
(a)
Number of children who have registered for school
transport.
(b)
The description of type of vehicle engaged for school
transport.
(c)
The cumulative seating capacity of each type of
vehicle engaged and the number of children allowed to travel in each
vehicle.
(xvi)
Such transport vehicles should have horizontal window
steel bars fixed on the exterior of the bus in such a manner that
the distance between any two bars does not exceed 20 cms.
(xvii)
Every such transport vehicle should carry a complete list
of the school children showing their names class, residential
address, points of stoppage for embarkation and disembarkation
alongwith a route plan duly attested by the Head of the
Educational institution indicating the place of origin.
Termination and detailed route it has to follow.
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