West Bengal Transport Department's New Driver Training Manual The government of West Bengal has been proactively attempting to reduce road crashes and fatalities in the state for quite some time now, with their "Safe Drive, Save Life" campaign. As a part of the commendable effort, the Transport Department of the Government of West Bengal, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has published a fairly comprehensive Driver Training Manual, which is downloadable at this link: http://transport.wb.gov.in/wp-conten...09_06_2017.pdf. A copy of the PDF file has been uploaded to Team-BHP (below). There are a few significant errors and omissions in the DTM, but presumably this is an ongoing work which should be revised and updated in the near future.
Remarkably, India does not have a similar publication issued by the central or state governments currently, and there is no approved study material regarding road rules or driving techniques, whether for learners or licensed drivers, in the country. The last such publication, the Indian Highway Safety Code, existed in the 1950's, and can be found at this thread. Numerous countries have their Highway Code published online as a downloadable PDF, including the UK Highway Code.
Maruti Driving School has a publication for learner drivers as well, titled Learn to Drive Safely (uploaded to Team BHP as well), which has a 50-page MCQ section. Given that a learner driver needs to clear a 10-question MCQ at our RTOs today with a score of 6 deemed as a pass, I doubt very many would go through the questionnaire section at all - but I hope everyone does! LearntoDriveSafely MARUTI.pdf |