Centre will revive plan to ‘civilise’ auto drivers

Jul 11, 2010 - PRASHANT PANDEY |

New Delhi

With the D-day being less than three months away, the Union tourism ministry is planning to revive the training programme for autorickshaw and taxi drivers ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The programme had run into rough weather with the drivers not turning up at the training venues.

Talking to this newspaper, tourism secretary Sujit Banerjee said that the programme would resume soon. “The autorickshaw associations have assured us that they will send the drivers for training. The programme would be started soon,” said Mr Banerjee. While refusing to elaborate on the reasons for the programme not finding enough takers when it was first launched, Mr Banerjee maintained that most of the issues have been sorted out.
The programme, aimed at imparting basic etiquette and communication skills to the auto drivers, had been initiated late last year with the Haryana Institute of Public Administration being given the responsibility for designing the course and training being imparted through Delhi Institute of Hotel Management and Indian Institute of Public Administration. However, after training of about 800 autorickshaw drivers, the programme was virtually discontinued. The ministry had plans to train 8,000 auto and taxi drivers to ensure good impression on and less hassles for tourists. In order to attract autorickshaw drivers, the ministry had even agreed to pay a compensation of Rs 200 for each day attended by the drivers in lieu of loss of their income. However, the programme, aimed to give the tourists a hassle free travel, failed to take off.

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Do we need an event to

Hasan Arabi

11 Jul 2010 - 11:17

Do we need an event to improve things in Delhi. Commonwealth Games or no CGs improvements in social, civic, professional ethics should have always been taken care of. Delhi has has the crudest/roughest public service persons so far as public dealings are concerned. You speak to any auto-rickshaw driver, he will not see that you are an elderly person or not - he will treat you as any riff-raff. Delhi needs to be made polite in all spheres of public dealings. Every other state in India is on a better platform than Delhi or Haryana in so far as public decencies are concerned.

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