Parents using private transportation services to send their children to school have been urged to opt for licensed operators.
The Transportation and Telecommunications Ministry yesterday shared, on its official Instagram account, a list of authorised transportation companies that parents can choose from.
Parents can scan a QR code given with the post to view the list of transport companies authorised to transport children to school.
The GDN has previously reported about several cases of negligence where children have been left behind or abandoned on school buses across the kingdom.
In February last year, a bus driver and a private school employee were arrested after a child was found abandoned inside a locked bus outside a home in the Northern Governorate.
Fortunately, the child was rescued by policemen who spotted the girl during a routine patrol. The bus driver, who transported the children to and from a private school in Bahrain, was said to have forgotten the girl inside the vehicle after she reportedly fell asleep.
The GDN also reported an incident where a child was left behind on a bus in extreme temperatures in June 2019.
The Indian boy, aged nine at the time, fell asleep in the front of a private school’s mini bus, and the driver and a supervising teacher did not see him when they were taking a group of 24 children to the school’s premises.
The boy was only noticed when he woke up crying after the bus driver left the school grounds.
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