ISLAMABAD: National Highway & Motorway Police (NH&MP) has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Total PARCO Pakistan Limited (TPPL) which would provide training opportunities to TPPL's transporters' drivers and also assist in providing guidance in various training curriculum development. While addressing the signing ceremony Minister of State for Communications, Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhary said that National Highways & Motorway Police has taken a unique initiative to train HTV drivers for the first time on the basis of Public / private partnership with TOTAL PARCO on such a productive inception. He said that more than 90% transportation of cargo and passengers in Pakistan is made through road and Highways. He said over the year increased number of buildup areas around roads and Highways as well as increased traffic has made it crying need of the hour to impart quality and standard training to the HTV drivers. He said this joint training venture shall not only educate HTV drivers but also reduce the accident's ratio in Pakistan. This venture will augment the efforts and initiative of NH&MP to provide good drivers for future CPEC routes across the country. He said this agreement shall fulfill its future goals and targets. On this occasion minister assured that ministry of communications shall support this noble cause of spreading awareness and education for safer road in Pakistan. He termed this initiative as one of the most beneficial mutual arrangement of safe transportation operations bearing in mind the existing driving conditions, road infrastructure and driving behaviors and a need for continuous improvement of the road transportation environment by all stakeholders. Sabrie appreciated the role of drivers training undertaken by NH&MP and its leadership-specially Khalid Mehmood, Commandant NH&MP Training Colleges and endorsed TPPL's confidence in their capabilities and also announced that TPPL will soon be importing & installing a heavy vehicle truck simulator at the training facility in Sheikhupura. "We see this partnership as a small gesture of our contribution to the industry, the department, the country and the people of Pakistan", he re-affirmed.
