Conduct Safety Audits to Ensure Structural Safety of School Buildings: MoE

This will follow the repair of demolition or structurally non -secure structures if necessary, and the prohibition of use until the certified secure is safe. The authorities were advised to provide temporary training regulations, gaining the area created due to destruction, regular monitoring and reporting, and providing security and structural fitness compliance certificate for any re -unemployment.

The structural integrity of the school buildings is to ensure the safety and welfare of all children and staff, as emphasized in the “Guidelines on School Safety and Safety – 2021” and National Disaster Management Guidelines (NDMA, 2016) of the Department of Education and Literacy.

This was stated in a letter that was discussed several days ago by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education and Literacy, the Ministry of Education, Joint Secretary, Archal Sharma Awashi for all states and UTs of all states and UTs for actions similar to KVS, NVS, CBSE and Partan Presidents.

The joint secretary called for urgent and comprehensive actions to ensure the safety of children and all school stakeholders: All state states and UTs focus on the determination of school structures that are not in use through security audits according to national guidelines, and to immediately evaluate the government -supported and private school buildings.

If any school building or part of it is found to violate insecure or structural security standards, quick steps should be taken to prevent any risk for children, personnel or other community members when necessary.

Schools with insecure structures should not be used to conduct courses under any circumstances until they are safely certified by the competent authorities. The area after destruction, playground, Poshan Vatika, professional skills and so on.

In cases where demolition or major repairs are made, states and UTs can be set to temporary secure alternative buildings to ensure the continuity of education. Regional Training Officer and Local Authorities should regularly monitor the progress of such repairs or destruction and submit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) and District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

The use of fresh occupancy, repaired and newly built school buildings should be allowed only after obtaining the necessary safety or structural fitness certificate from a qualified engineer or authority required by the rules.

The joint secretary requested an emergency intervention to instruct fields and engineering agencies in order to implement the measures and to avoid further injuries and loss of life due to preventive infrastructure failures. This initiative should be given the highest priority at all levels and mismatch can take action under the relevant provisions.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the Ministry has published a final directive to take urgent steps to all states and UTs to ensure student safety and prosperity to all states and UTs. This includes the fact that the “School Safety and Safety Guidelines” (2021) (2021) published on 27 February 2017 and the National Disaster Management Guidelines (NDMA, 2016), according to the national security codes, the safety inspections of schools and child -related facilities, in the emergency preparations for personnel and students, training and consultancy and peer networks provide psychosocial support.

The Ministry called on the training departments, the school boards and affiliated officials to move these measures to move without delay in practice. Minister, on Monday, Deputy Dr. Lok Sabha. Alok Kumar said to answer a question about the security supervision of the schools he put forward by Suman.