Raipur: Chief Minister Bhupesh
Baghel on Thursday inaugurated the Institute of Driving and Traffic Research
Chhattisgarh constructed at a cost of Rs 17 crore in Tendua village of Atal
Nagar, Nava Raipur. Equipped with all modern facilities of training, this
institute has been built on a huge land area of 20 acres in village Tendua.
Addressing the
inaugural function, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the Institute of
Driving and Traffic Research will play an important role in teaching safe driving
skills. For safe transportation, it is necessary that we ourselves drive the
vehicle following the traffic rules, along with this, it is also necessary that
the person in front should also drive the vehicle correctly. Today Chhattisgarh has about 66 lakh vehicles
including buses, cars, motorcycles, trucks, and school buses, so the training
for safe driving of vehicles becomes even more important.
On this occasion, the chief
minister announced 50 per cent concession in training fee to women and third
gender candidates getting training in IDTR and free of cost training to
disabled candidates. He also announced to include the construction work of
Cheria-Paonta road of Nava Raipur in the next main budget of the state government
on the request of MLA Dhanendra Sahu.
Chief minister said that
in this institute, which started today in Nava Raipur, training would be given
to trainees by means of state-of-the-art equipment through experts, in which
they should be trained in driving, parking, backing, descending and turning.
They will also be made aware of the working of the machines installed in the
vehicles. He said that it is important not to drive the vehicle at high speed,
but it is important that we have control over our vehicle. He said that
employment opportunities would increase for the candidates getting training
here.
Presiding over the
programme, transport minister Mohammad Akbar said that the candidates getting
training in this training institute would be supported in providing employment.
Those who get training here will be given priority in recruitment to the post
of driver in the government department. Licenses will be given to those who
complete the training. In relation to the “Tuhar Sarkar-Tunhar Dwar”
scheme of the Transport Department, he told that in this scheme, driving
licenses were given to 4 lakh 65 thousand 918 people at their homes. He said
that the State Government for the first time understood the problems of the
transporters and took decisions generously to solve them, which brought them
relief.
