Come admission season, and parents gear up to deal with a new set of ordeals every year. The latest one has cropped up in Noida, with many schools in the area alerting parents residing in certain far-flung sectors like Sector 82 and Sector 93 that they won’t provide transport to students of these areas.

As a result, the children now need to apply to the branches of these schools in Greater Noida or other schools for nursery seats.

While certain schools have told parents they won’t be admitting kids from those areas in their Noida branches, Cambridge School in Noida has clearly mentioned they won’t even be selling forms to parents residing certain areas keeping the distance factor in mind, parents said.

“Yes, we will not take in kids from those areas for nursery. For Class I, we are again open,” a school official said over the phone. “The distance is a factor. Those areas are more than 8 km away.”

Hapless parents have to now figure out a way given the limited options. Also, the Expressway, many say, is extremely dangerous for school buses as drivers tend to speed. One parent added that the Expressway has very few access points to service lanes, which lead to various sectors.

Catch-22
“Some schools are ready to provide transport, but it is not safe. Because of only a couple of exits, people drive in the wrong lanes and accidents happen,” one parent living in Sector 82 said. “The civic authorities won’t create any infrastructure, neither will the schools relent.”

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