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More than 64 per cent of the people who appeared for the physical driving tests in Chandigarh in the last three months have failed, taking the total number of candidates who cleared tests to a mere 2,787, sources said.
According to the details obtained by the Registering and Licensing Authority of Chandigarh, out of the 7,861 people who took the tests in the months of September, October and November, 5074 applicants (64.54%) flunked the tests.
Reacting to the poor show by the majority of applicants, Chandigarh Transport Director Pradyuman Singh told The Indian Express, “Chandigarh is the only city with the best driving tests as per international standards so as to be able to produce good quality drivers driving on the city roads.”
The driving track in Chandigarh where the tests take place in sector 23 has been made and designed scientifically by the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT), Pune.
As per the data, of the total car drivers who flunked the driving test in Chandigarh a majority of them failed in the “reverse”, gradient and hairpin parameters. Most of the two-wheeler drivers failed to navigate the roundabout properly, a U-turn and hairpin bend during their tests.
As per details, about 27 per cent of car owners who failed in the test are those who could not reverse properly within the given track.
The transport director stated that even if the bumper is out of the said position, a person is disqualified.
In the reverse parking parameter, the vehicle has to be parked properly in the available space on the driver’s right, inside the parking track while moving in the reverse direction on the track. The applicant is tested for standard direction, kerb hit and time taken in this track — a category in which most of the car owners failed.
Around 20 per cent the second highest who failed in the tests are those who cannot manage to control the car when a gradient and a hairpin bend comes. In the hairpin bend, the applicant is tested for not stopping, reversing and for hitting the kerb during this.
Similarly, at the gradient point, it is seen that the vehicle has to move in the forward direction without rolling back beyond the permissible limit.
Similarly, as per details, two-wheeler drivers have failed the most in navigating a roundabout that is 40 per cent, followed by 25 per cent who flunked in U turn and 20 per cent in hairpin bend.
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