Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, February 4-
Punjab School Education department has allotted a fund of over Rs 4 crore to create awareness among the school staff and students regarding how to react during an emergency or natural calamity related incidents, besides making arrangements to avoid any exigency like electrocution or fire.
Disclosing this in a press communiqué issued here today, cabinet minister Harjot Singh Bains said that the instructions have been issued to the heads of elementary and secondary schools to use the funds to install display boards carrying emergency helpline numbers like police-112, fire-101, ambulance-108, women helpline-1091, traffic helpline-1073 and child helpline-1098 etc.
The Minister further said that the school heads have also directed to draft an evacuation plan keeping in view of the safety of school staff and students in case of any fire incident in the school or natural calamity, and install emergency panic alarms wherever needed. He said that the school's staff has been asked to keep regular checks on school buildings to ensure that electric equipment and wires are in order.
