The Kerala government’s bid to switch to the revised driving licence test format hit a stumbling block on the first day itself with driving schools across the State boycotting tests en masse on May 2, forcing the Motor Vehicles department (MVD) to call off test proceedings for the day.
Driving schools associations, including unions affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), and the All Kerala Driving School Owners Association, who have been opposing the reforms, boycotted driving tests across Kerala on the day.
In Malappuram, members of a union affiliated to the CITU barricaded a ground, preventing entry of vehicles and candidates, in protest against the new reforms brought in by the Kerala government.
