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Drivers’ training academy for Tamil Nadu

RANIPET: A drivers’ training academy is to be established in Tamil Nadu with financial assistance from the Central government, while the State government will set up training tracks in all the Regional Transport Offices in the state, according to K.N. Nehru, Minister for Transport and Agriculture.

Inaugurating the upgraded Regional Transport Office here on Thursday, Mr. Nehru said that the State government had planned to establish 100 trauma care hospitals on the national and state highways throughout the State. Steps are being taken to provide ambulance service through the private sector to transport those injured in road accidents to the nearest hospital.

Three hundred accident-prone spots have been identified for improvement of the road conditions and removal of the causes for accidents. Counselling would be provided to the drivers once in three months to create awareness of the need to prevent accidents. Speed-breakers would be erected and caution boards displayed at the junctions where the State highways/district roads join the national highways/State highways.

The Minister said that the revenue earned by the transport department had increased from Rs.1,200 crore per year to Rs.2,000 crore in the last two years.

The government has opened 30 more RTO offices and unit offices in the State, bringing the total number to 90. While there were 1.06 crore registered vehicles in Tamil Nadu, 6000 new vehicles were being registered every day.

Ten thousand new driving licences were issued and another 10,000 licences renewed every day in the various offices in the State.

S. Machendranathan, Principal Secretary-cum-Transport Commissioner said that all RTO offices had been computerised, and were issuing computerised driving licences and RC books to the public. In future, all documents too would be preserved in the digital format in the RTO offices.

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