Chandigarh, April 13 -- A day after six school children died and 20 sustained injuries in a tragic bus accident in Mahendragarh district, a special drive was conducted in several parts of Haryana on Friday to crack down on school buses plying without necessary documents and valid permits.
Haryana Chief Secretary T V S N Prasad issued stringent directives to the civil and police administration to check within the next 10 days, the fitness of all school buses in their districts even as a committee was set up to probe the factors leading to the accident.
According to officials, all departments concerned, including the traffic police, on Friday carried out special drives across the state to check whether school buses plying on the roads were ...