Government demands tougher rules for driving schools

The driving schools will plan and carry out a number of activities designed to improve the training of drivers. A relevant Government decision was published in the Official Gazette of Moldova on February 19, Info-Prim Neo reports. Under the decision, the Ministry of Education and Youth will set up a specialised subdivision as part of the Vocational Education Division that will coordinate and monitor the activity of the driving schools. There will be formulated regulations concerning the organisation of the activity of the given institutions. They will include the requirements for the technical-material basis, the sanitary norms and the motives that can be used to suspend the activity of the driving schools. The Ministry will make sure that the teaching aids for driving schools are worked out, made and distributed. According to the same decision, the Ministry of Information Development will increase the number of questions included in the questionnaire and will work out new methods of assessing the applicants for driving licence. To get a driving license of category B, for which the largest number of people, especially amateurs, apply, the applicants should complete a course of about three months. The courses and the necessary documents cost approximately 3,000 lei. Experts say that the courses will become longer and the costs higher after the Government’s rules are implemented.