kolkata to increase road safety and prevent accidents the west bengal government is gradually moving towards the idea of filtering driving licenses issued for commercial purposes and is talking to big automakers in this regard it said today gradually not all will be given driving licenses and the filtering process would start there is also a need for corporatisation of the driving schools and the government is in talks with companies such as maruti tata motors and ashok leyland state transport secretary alapan banerjee said at the inauguration of toyota driving school so far the prime consideration of the state government has been of providing jobs to the unemployed people of the state as well as to those coming from the neighbouring states but with the increasing number of road accidents in the state claiming more than 6000 lives annually there is a need for proper training of drivers for which participation of the corporates is needed banerjee said he added that only those drivers trained in a structured format in good driving schools would be able to avail of the benefits of gatidhara and other schemes state transport minister suvendu adhikari said the government had engaged iit kharagpur for conducting an audit of the existing driving schools in west bengal there is a need for inspection and upgradation of the existing driving schools he said the government in association with itis is also setting up driving schools across the state through a threetier structure topsel toyota a dealer of toyota would impart driving skills to the unemployed youth for free pti published on dec 29 2016 at 0603 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app driving license tata motors limted ashok leyland alapan banerjee tata motors toyota homenewsindustrybengal to filter driving licenses in talks with corporates