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Thursday, March 28

Mangaluru to have transport training hub at Konaje

Mangaluru to have transport training hub at Konaje


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Mar 28, 2015 :  is all set for  distinction as the only city catering to multiple requirements of the transport sector. It will have a driving test track, a drivers’ training institute and a vehicle inspection centre, all at one place.

While the transport department has already awarded the work on automated driving test track to Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), plans are in the final stage for the training institute and inspection centre.

  All the three facilities are coming up on a 10-acre plot purchased by the department from Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) in Phajir village near Konaje, according to Deputy Commissioner of Transport, Mangaluru, Afzal Ahmed Khan.

D. Devaraj Urs Truck Terminals Ltd., a government of Karnataka Company, has the task of constructing the training institute. Its Managing Director told media  that the primary aim of the institute is to sharpen the skills of drivers of heavy vehicles who are already  on the job.  Refresher courses of two-three days duration would be conducted to acquaint drivers with the latest developments and technology in the field.

This would particularly be useful to drivers of vehicles transporting hazardous material. At the same time, transport department inspectors too would be made to attend refresher courses at least once a year it was informed.

The government would build the civil infrastructure, including administrative building, driving track, canteen and hostel, training would be imparted by reputed truck manufacturers.  The institute would be administered by a society chaired by the State Transport Commissioner and would run on no profit-no loss basis.   Trainees would have to pay fee for training, boarding and accommodation, which would be the actual cost incurred only.     

A vehicle inspection centre too would come up along with the test track and the training institute.  The centre is to be equipped with state-of-the-art  facility to test vehicles, and  would do away the ’visual method’ by the transport department officials in certifying a vehicle to be ‘fit’  for the road.

The Motor Vehicles Act and rules make it mandatory that every transport vehicle (goods as well as passenger vehicles) should be certified to be ‘fit’ to be on the road every year.  Presently, the fitness certificates are issued by regional transport officers after inspection by inspectors of motor vehicles.   The centre would certify a vehicle with minimal human visual estimate only if it meets all the specified parameters.


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