The move aims to identify problems and issues (if any) to amend or adjustpolicies, or to ask the relevant authorities to put in measures to address theissues and prevent corruption in this field.
Through inspection, the legal regulations in the training, testing and issuanceof driver's licences will also be reviewed to see if any corruption orstanding issue is present.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport has assigned the Directorate forRoads of Vietnam and municipal/provincial transport departmentswith organising the inspection and examination of driver traininginstitutions and driving examination centres under their jurisdiction.
The country currently has 149 driving examination centres, 343 centres for cardriving training, and 463 centres for motorbike driving training.
The transport ministry has also recently sent a document to all municipal andprovincial authorities on the prevention of corruption and tighteningmanagement of driving licences, noting that this activity "has greatimpact on the society and directly affects people, transport units,traffic safety and traffic accidents," and that this is an area with highrisks of corruption.
The ministry also seeks to modernise the driving educationactivities with more widespread and comprehensive application of informationtechnology./.
