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Road Safety
The company has
been playing a leading role for many years now in promoting road safety and
safe driving in the country. The company believes that in addition to fund
support, one of the best ways for corporates to fulfill their social
responsibility is by offering their managerial skills to society.
In line with this, the company manages two Institutes of Driving Training &
Research (IDTR) in Delhi and Maruti Driving Schools across country. Through
these facilities, the company has brought international
standards in driving training and state of
the art training infrastructure in the country.
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The first major step towards promoting road safety was in the year 2000 when
Delhi Government invited the company to manage the Institute of Driving
Training and Research (IDTR) and start driving training courses. The company
introduced training facilities and infrastructure including world-class driving
test tracks, advanced computer simulators and training modules as per
international standards at the institute, which is spread over an area of 14.5
acres.Regular research in road safety and safe driving was also started at the
institute. In 2006, the second IDTR was set up to promote road safety by
primarily targeting non-commercial drivers and impart driving training to them.
This institute is also equipped with the same facilities and infrastructure as
made available in the first IDTR.
Setting up GUJARATI
In a landmark move the company signed an MoU with the Government of
Gujarat, to set up, manage and run The Gujarat Regional Automobile Training
Institute ( to be referred as GUJRATI) at Gajadara village of Waghodia taluka
in Vadodara district. It is the first of its kind initiative in the country.
The institute will not only provide driving training to tribal youth, it will
also offer automobile technical training to them and help their employability.
Several other state governments, such as Haryana, Bihar, Uttarakhand,
Chattisgarh and West Bengal have also approached the company to set up driving
training institutes in their states. The company has already signed an MoU with
the Government of Haryana for setting up two driving training institutes at
Rohtak and Bahadurgarh.
Maruti Driving Schools
The company has also involved its dealers across the country in
promoting road safety and safe driving. In collaboration with them, the company
has set up 40 Maruti Driving Schools in 36 different locations across the
country. These schools are equipped with world class, state of the art driving
simulators offer training courses for beginners as well as refresher programs.
Over 41,500 people have trained so far.
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