NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) will soon address woes of college students travelling by buses on the Mumbai-Agra national highway.Students who had from several colleges, who hadstarted the 'Students Safety Campaign', create traffic awareness and highlight woes of students travelling by city buses and met standing committee chairman Uddhav Nimse over the issue and were told that the civic body would review the issue.

Students of K K Wagh College, Bhujbal Knowledge City, and Maratha Vidhya Prasarak Samaj Medical College had the campaign was started against the backdrop of rising number of accidents on the highway. They have been creating awareness amongst college students, general public and drivers of various types of vehicles through word of mouth, through social networking sites, etc. Recently, Nimse had asked the student volunteers to put down their grievances and suggestions in English, on paper which would then be which he would forwarded to the central government.

Early in August, the volunteers met the divisional controller of MSRTC and traffic officials Kailas Deshmukh, Dept Manager A N Pathak, traffic officer M Mahajan and others to present a memorandum over their concerns. These included insufficient bus services, the tendency of bus drivers to skip bus stops and the increasing number of accidents. The officials assured that they would conduct a survey and find solutions. They also promised to conduct a survey and draw a time table for buses plying in the main areas of the city.

"The survey has been completed. The MSRTC will be giving us the time table by the end of the monthfor buses from the main areas of the city to this area," said Prasad Sanap, a student volunteer. He added that their demand for street lights had been met and a regular bus stop had also been erected near Rasbihari High School.

"There are 11 educational institutes Adgaon Naka to Adgaon on the highway NH-3 , on a 6-7km stretch. In each of these, institutions there are at least 4,000-5,000 students. Every month, there is an accident involving a student. at least one student meets with an accident, some of which are fatal.

We will soon submit our suggestions to the NMC so that it can be forwarded We met him recently and he assured that he would take our grievances to the Centrecentral government," said Sanap.

He said that they would mention information about those dead in road accidents here after acquiring it from the police, over-bridge near colleges and crowded places on the highway for crossing the road, an office of the highway police with ambulance, police, etc.