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.