300 school buses to get tracking systems for better student safety
The tracking system will cover 76 schools and include both light and sound warnings
Times News Services
MUSCAT: About 300 school buses will be equipped with a tracking system to ensure the safety of students, the Directorate General of Education in South Al Sharqiyah Governorate has announced.
According to the directorate, the safety and security system will cover 76 schools in the Governorate where three devices will be installed on each bus. These include both light and sound warning systems and a tracking device.
The project is funded by the Oman LNG Development Corporation, with the company saying, “in order to ensure the safety of our students and coincide with the celebration of the annual day of the company, Oman LNG launched a project to supply about 300 school buses in South Al Sharqiyah Governorate with security and safety systems installed in cooperation with the Directorate of Education in the governorate.”
Mubarak Al Farsi, Assistant Director General for Administrative, Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the Directorate said: “The project comes from the Directorate’s keenness to develop the systems to be more useful to serve the students and parents and to achieve traffic safety.”
Al Farsi added: “the project includes the installation of three devices in the buses for audio and video warnings and for tracking of the bus, which is linked to a unified computer programme at the educational headquarters. In addition, six centres have been allocated across the various Wilayats of the governorate to install these devices in buses.”
Mohammed Al Mukhaini, Executive Vice President of Telecom and Community Affairs, at Oman LNG said: “The project contributes to making students’ daily attendance to school safe, and reflects the company’s keenness to develop community projects as a part of it is social responsibility.”
The project includes the installation of security and safety devices for 300 buses, which will cover 76 schools distributed across South Al Sharqiyah Governorate. Work is underway to expand this system.