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Telangana Govt to establish driving institute
State government has decided to establish a ‘Driving Training and Research Institute’ at Madepally village in Rajanna Siricilla district soon.
Hyderabad: State government has decided to establish a ‘Driving Training and Research Institute’ at Madepally village in Rajanna Siricilla district soon.
When the institute comes up, heavy vehicle driving schools in the hands of privately-owned monopolies, which have allegedly failed to follow proper standards and do not have trainers with required skill sets, will be a thing of past.
According to Transport Department officials, there are about 66 driving schools in the State and all of them are private ones. Ranga Reddy district has the highest number of driving schools in the State. Other places like Warangal (Urban), Nalgonda, Mancherial, Mahbubnagar, Medchal and few other districts have the major number of heavy vehicle driving schools.
The Transport Department is supposed to be the nodal agency with supervising authority over these schools and it is supposed to ensure the proper training standards are followed. But that never happened. However, staff crunch and mounting day-to-day pressure of work is resulting in lax supervision over these schools, the sources said.
Speaking to The Hans India, Transport Department sources said that in several cases these schools do not even have their own vehicles. But, for inspection sake these schools bring a vehicle that could pass the fitness test by the Transport Department officials. But no one knows whether they are using the same vehicle for training or not.
In many cases, cleaners, helpers, attendants who move along with transport, goods carriers and other heavy vehicles including those used in the agriculture, road works like JCBs, earth movers, etc are provided on-job training by drivers without following prescribed norms of teaching.
They get training without even having a learning license and get a licence with the help of middlemen. Such unscientific training does not help them learn on how to react quickly in crisis like situation, the sources said.
Hence the proposed institute would help put an end to such problems, the source added.
