New Maruti IDTR inaugurated at Rohtak
April 23: Maruti Suzuki India has opened a new Institute of Driving and Traffic Research (IDTR) at Rohtak.
The carmaker’s road safety initiative has also seen it set up Maruti Driving Schools in partnership with its dealer partners; over 200 such schools are currently operational across the country. The state-of the-art driving training facility in Rohtak is an example of Public-Private-Partnership between the company and the Haryana government. IDTR Rohtak is expected to train over 20,000 people in safe driving, annually.
Maruti also holds an annual Young Driver of the Year contest with Autocar India, Autocar Professional’s sister magazine, which is a nation-wide hunt for the best driving talent and where the winners are chosen on the basis of their safe driving skills.
According to a report compiled by the International Road Federation, India loses 160,000 lives and around Rs 100,000 crore in road accidents every year. While India has only one percent of the global vehicular population, it still accounts for over 10 percent road fatalities, at a global level. And an overwhelming 78 percent of road accidents are caused due to the driver’s fault.
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