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Signal School Bus Links Underprivileged Children With Mainstream Education
The Signal School Bus helps children living or working around traffic signals learn and prepare for school.
It brings lessons to children instead of waiting for them to enter the education system.
Workers first contact their families and provide basic education and hygiene training.
The children can then be admitted to regular government schools.
Justice Vikram Nath said the bus helps connect them with the wider community.
Justice Sunita Agarwal said it is also important to stop children from leaving school later.
Gujarat also launched a digital War Room to monitor legal-aid work.
Paperless legal-aid centers were launched in several city clusters.
Supreme Court Justice Vikram Nath called the Signal School Bus a bridge connecting children at traffic signals to mainstream society.
The initiative provides education, hygiene training and family outreach before helping children enter regular municipal schools.
Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal highlighted preventing school dropouts as a major responsibility for Gujarat’s legal services authorities.
A GSLSA War Room will digitally monitor work across 32 districts, 257 talukas and more than 4,200 paralegal volunteers.
E-Permanent Lok Adalats were launched across Surat, Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara clusters.
- Who
- Supreme Court Justice Vikram Nath, Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Gujarat legal services authorities launched and discussed the projects.
- What
- A Signal School Bus, a GSLSA War Room and E-Permanent Lok Adalats were launched.
- Where
- The projects are centered in Gujarat, including Surat, Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara clusters.
- When
- The initiatives were discussed and launched on Saturday.
- Why
- The Signal School Bus aims to bring underprivileged children at traffic signals into education and mainstream society, while the other projects improve monitoring and access to legal services.
Key facts
- Signal School Bus
- Provides education and hygiene training to underprivileged children at traffic signals.
- Education pathway
- Children receive family outreach and basic education before admission to regular municipal schools.
- Dropout prevention
- Gujarat State Legal Services Authority is working to prevent children from leaving school.
- GSLSA War Room
- A digital monitoring room at the Gujarat High Court covering 32 districts and 257 talukas.
- Paralegal volunteers
- The monitoring network includes more than 4,200 paralegal volunteers.
- E-Permanent Lok Adalat
- A paperless, e-portal-based Permanent Lok Adalat was launched across four Gujarat clusters.
Quotes
Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal
Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court
“When we see a child at a traffic signal, a thought comes to mind, and when the signal turns green, we move forward, but the child remains at the signal.”
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“Children come to study, but after some time, drop-out starts. GSLSA (Gujarat State legal Service Authority) is constantly trying to prevent this.”
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