Protests against Kerala’s driving test reforms bring tests to a halt across State
The Hindu
Kerala government’s bid to switch to the revised driving test format hit a stumbling block on the first day itself with driving schools across State boycotting tests en masse, forcing MVD to call off test proceedings for the day
The Kerala government’s bid to switch to the revised driving test format hit a stumbling block on the first day itself with driving schools across the State boycotting tests en masse on May 2, forcing the Motor Vehicles department (MVD) to call off test proceedings for the day.
Driving schools associations, including unions affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), and the All Kerala Driving School Owners Association, who have been opposing the reforms, boycotted driving tests across Kerala on the day.
In Malappuram, members of a union affiliated to the CITU barricaded a ground, preventing entry of vehicles and candidates, in protest against the new reforms brought in by the Kerala government.
In Kozhikode, union members protested against the decision by wearing black badges and denying entry to vehicles and candidates to a venue where as many as 51 driving test candidates had booked slots for tests at Chevayur. However, no one turned up for the tests in the wake of the protests.
In several places across the State, including at Muttathara in Thiruvananthapuram, where candidates had booked slots for May 2, they failed to show up following the protests.
At other places across Kerala where people reached the test venues, the protesters did not allow them to enter the test venues.
In Kasaragod, MVD authorities informed the candidates that driving tests had been suspended until May 24.
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