SC takes serious note of lack of fire safety norms in school

The Supreme Court took a serious note of the total lack of fire safety measures in schools across the country and directed that all schools should observe and implement National Fire Safety Norms to ensure the safety of school children against such incidents. A Bench comprising Justices Lokeshwar Singh Panta and Mr Alveer Bhandari issued the directions on a PIL which was filed in the aftermath of an incident in which 400 small school children had died when fire broke out in Lord Krishna Middle School, Tamil Nadu. Another incident had taken place in North India in 1995 in which large number of school children lost their life when fire broke out in their school. Justice Bhandari writing judgment for the Bench also directed all the State Governments and Union Territories to file compliance report within a month . The Apex Court also directed that teachers in the school will also be given training in fire fighting measures within one month . Expressing serious concern and anguish on the utter lack of fire security measures in hundreds of thousands of school spread all over the country where lakhs of children go to study, the Apex Court told the authorities to strictly implement the directions of the court to ensure that such gruesome incidents do not occur in future risking the lives of innocent school children. The apex court also directed the schools to get installed fire safety equipments so that damage to lives and property in such incidents can be minimised. The SC also directed that in future no recognition would be granted to schools which do not confirm to national fire safety norms.

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