Workshop On Standardization Of Driving Training Curriculum Heldat National Highways & Motorway Police Road Safety Training Institute Islamabad

A workshop on "Standardization of Driving Training Curriculum and Institutes " was organized by National Highways & Motorway Police at National Highways & Motorway Police Road Safety Training Institute Islamabad on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Feb, 2018 ) :A workshop on "Standardization of Driving Training Curriculum and Institutes " was organized by National Highways & Motorway Police at National Highways & Motorway Police Road Safety Training Institute Islamabad on Wednesday.

The workshop was attended by representatives of all private driving training schools including Hassan Driving Training School, Iqra Driving Training school and many more from twin cities. The aim of the workshop was to bring uniformity in the standard driving training procedure and curriculum to avoid road accidents in Pakistan and introduce professional drivers.

The guest speaker consultant Asian Development bank Dr. Umer Masood Qureshi, Additional IG, NH&MP Ghulam Rasul Zahid, SP HQ Adeel Shahzad, CPO DLA Inam Elahi, CPO Driving Training Institute Saeeda, Incharge Road Safety Awareness Unit Sohail Mustafa also participated and expressed their views regarding Standardization of Driving Training Curriculum And Institutes.

All private driving training school authorities were requested to follow the procedure of mechanism of Road Safety Training Institute, NH&MP in order to cleanse the highways and motorways from traffic accidents as well as to introduce professionally trained drivers on roads.

Representatives of private Driving training schools presented their driving training mechanism in detail.

Guest speaker Consultant Asian Development bank Dr. Umer Masood Qureshi also addressed the participants of the event and informed that we are losing thousands of precious human lives every year.

He also pointed out that it is need of the hour to pay heed towards Road and Traffic Engineering as per International Standards. He also urged to increase the number of drivers training schools across the country so as to improve the skills of drivers.

A dditional IG, NH&MP Ghulam Rasul Zahid said that safe driving mainly depends upon the skills of the driver along with quality of vehicles and condition of the roads. Keeping in view the importance of safe driving, Motorway Police has launched "Safe Driving Training Institute" at par with international standard.

The institute has incorporated unique style of training with latest technology. SP HQ Adeel Shahzad gave briefing to the participants of the Workshop. "It is the only institute of its kind where driving training will be imparted through simulator", the SPO numerated various benefits of the use of Driving Simulators and said "the first benefit of a driving simulator is that trainees can be exposed to different driving conditions in a realistic, virtual environment that would be far too hazardous to practice in real life.

Driving simulator software may allow you to design your own scenario.