The Automated Driving Test Online Licensing and Training Centre at Naruana village, on Badal Road, spread in 1.25 acres, has started a new chapter in the road safety by allowing only trained and tested drivers to make way on roads, thereby minimising accidents.
This was said by Deputy Commissioner, Bathinda, Basant Garg, here today.
Elaborating on the Rs 2-crore pilot project of the state government, which is now being replicated at 32 places in the state, Dr Garg said the driving school offers all facilities meant for getting learner licences and permanent driving licences from registration to getting the document made under one roof.
The DC said since its inception in April 2015, the centre had issued 27,027 driving licences so far, of which 5,440 were issued in December 2015.
“The popularity of the project can be gauged from the fact that in December 5,440 licences were issued in 21 working days. This gives an average of 259 licences per day, which means that a new licence is being produced in every 1.84 minutes,” he said.
Dr Garg said the state government had also entered into a liaison with Maruti company that teaches driving. Maruti staff teach the assigned syllabus and give practical training in a module of 20 days. The learner was taught and shown basics of driving and was allowed to drive on a simulator run on the latest Windows 7 and then for 10 days the trainee undergoes a practical training.
He said the simulator training module was a comprehensive one wherein the first-time learners’, especially women, feel safe driving on a computer and then became confident enough to drive own vehicle.
District Transport Officer Latif Ahmed said the applicant was issued a token number, appears for test on touch screen tablets on road safety and signages, get documents made and the licence the learners’ licence is given in an hour, while permanent licence was issued in two hours from the onset of the registration procedure. The applicant undergoes medical examination on the spot.
He said the applicant appears for a test on track laid for two-wheelers and four-wheelers wherein the examinee’s movements were captured on cameras. Those who did not qualify in the test were asked to appear again after a period of seven days.
The DTO also appealed to applicants to bring along the vehicle, for which they had applied licence, so that its easier for them to take the driving test.
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