Driving schools to take over testing from RTD
Published on: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Kuala Lumpur: Driver testing will eventually be conducted by driving schools instead of the Road Transport Department (RTD) as part of industry reforms, deputy transport minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said.Aziz said that the proposed move by the Malaysian Driving Industry Standards and Modernisation Council (Mapim), is part of an undergoing effort to upgrade the operations system of the driving schools.Mapim is made up of representatives from the Transport Ministry, RTD and the Road Safety Department.
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"Currently, the power including driving tests, lies with the Road Transport Department (RTD). In the future, the schools will conduct the tests, not RTD," NST quoted deputy transport minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi as saying. "The council wants to improve the quality of driving schools and how things are done. The government is supportive of this," he added.However, Aziz told the daily that the driving schools must first obtain international standards and be certified with the ISO 9000 rating.ISO 9000 is a quality management standard that presents guidelines intended to increase business efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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Aziz also said that the driving schools must also register itself under a common online system, and projected two years for the system to be ready.He also assured that the new system would minimise chances of learner drivers bribing RTD officers for licence.
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"There will be online pre-registrations where the rates are there for all to see, hence giving zero room for manipulation of fees, for instance."This will also spell the end for agents and runners. When transactions are done online and openly, with a monitoring mechanism at the back of this system, their services will be of no use to anyone," he reportedly said.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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