Working group to consider quality of education of candidates for getting driver's licences in Moldova

Chisinau, 3 January /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today chaired a meeting to consider problems signaled by citizens in the process of taking the exams for getting the driver’s licence. Attending the meeting were leaders of the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry (MEI), Interior Ministry (MAI), Public Services Agency (ASP), National Anticorruption Centre (CNA) and State Chancellery, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     

In the beginning of the meeting, the PM read several complaints on difficulties faced by applicants in the process of taking the practical examination. Ion Chicu noted that the long term of scheduling can represent a corruption act in itself.

The new ASP leadership informed the prime minister about the measures taken in last December to remove such actions as the false registration, which creates artificial queues. Another problem signaled by the ASP leadership is the quality of the education provided at driver training schools. The information unveiled by ASP shows that an applicant takes the practical examination three times on average.

MEI State Secretary Iulian Postica proposed a mechanism of assessing the competences of the driver training schools in form of a ranking, in top of which the schools the graduates of which pass the exams best of all should be placed.   

In the end of the meeting, Prime Minister Chicu instructed to set up a working group to consider the problem of quality of the education of candidates, which is to include decision-makers from MEI, ASP, Education, Culture and Research Ministry, MAI and CNA. The working group will consider opportunities of improving the operation programme presently applied by ASP, the way of accreditation of driver training schools and a way of assessing the performance of the heads of the examination centres.      

The task of the working group is to present an action plan on all dimensions, meant to simplify the procedures and exams for getting the driver’s licence, without hitting the safety of the process.   

Ion Chicu said that, in next February, he would personally inspect some examination centres, in order to check the progress made in improving the procedures.