New Delhi: Delhi's killer roads claimed another life on Monday. The offender this time was the driver of a school bus carrying Kendriya Vidyalaya students. The bus overturned in Delhi's Preet Vihar, injuring 25 school children and killing a parent.

The question that was being debated by Smitha Nair on CNN-IBN's India 360 was: Is the safety of school buses low priority in India? To try and answer the question on the show was the President of the Institute of Road Traffic Education, Rohit Baluja.

No Guidelines

It appears that Delhi really has not learnt much from the Wazirabad tragedy of 1997 when 30 young students lost their lives. Not all the schools follow the stipulated guidelines, so what is really the defence of the schools?

According to CNN-IBN correspondent, Neha Seth, after the 1997 tragedy, the Delhi government had taken some action and the Supreme Court had even ordered that the name of the drivers should be written on school buses and if a bus was ferrying school children, it should have a sign painted on it saying it was a school bus. However, all these practices seem to be just on paper and have not translated into anything.

As far as school buses go, the defence of the state government is that they had tried to enforce laws, but somehow they seem to have fallen short.

On Monday, there was a meeting at Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit's residence, which concentrated on the Blueline menace in the Capital - which is a bus that many school children use incidentally.