Prayagraj: Prayagraj district administration has decided that the schools should make arrangements for students to board and alight from vehicles within the campus or on playgrounds wherever possible, instead of allowing vehicles to halt on roads and obstruct traffic.Presiding over a meeting of the district school vehicle transport safety committee, district magistrate, Manish Kumar Verma,…
Noida: A dingy staircase in a five-storey building in Sector 49 leads to classrooms where nearly 200 students prepare for competitive exams like JEE, NEET and CUET. Outside, high-tension cables dangle loosely from a power pole. In Sector 62, abutting Delhi-Meerut Expressway, dozens of centres operate from residential buildings squeezed into lanes too narrow for…
Ludhiana: It took seven fire tenders making around 200 rounds to douse a massive fire that broke out in a textile unit at Kailash Nagar in Sherpur late on Wednesday night.The struggle to control the conflagration went on for nearly 19 hours. Flames spread through the entire unit, destroying the huge stock of raw material…
Kanpur: A checking conducted in the city revealed that 14 coaching centres in Kakadev were operating without proper registration.Crackdown on the institutes operating without complying with the mandatory safety arrangements is being conducted in the city following the tragic fire incident in Aliganj, Lucknow, which claimed 15 lives.In an inspection conducted by the higher education…
Bokaro: Out of the around 30 private students’ hostels, coaching centres, and libraries operating in the city, none has obtained the mandatory fire safety No Objection Certificates (NOC), data available with the Jharkhand fire services reveal.Three eminent coaching centres inspected on Wednesday did not possess the fire safety NOC, fire department officials said.DSP (City) Rajeev…
Noida: The district administrations carried out fire safety audits of coaching institutes across the two NCR districts and sealed at least two centres, operating without mandatory registration and fire safety clearances, in Noida. In Ghaziabad, several coaching centres were found violating fire norms, prompting authorities to disconnect electricity supply at some non-compliant premises.The drive follows…
