Transport Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar called a meeting of driving school associations on Wednesday to forge a consensus on implementing the revised driving test rules.
Mr. Kumar appeared to have softened his stance after Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary M.V. Govindan and central secretariat member A.K. Balan suggested a path of common consent instead of arbitrarily implementing the new scheme.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan had slammed the government for catching driving students and instructors off guard by introducing the norms in an arbitrary fashion and without any ground reality check.