The state-owned transport solutions provider Mowasalat has started the first branch of its Karwa Transportation Training and Development Centre (KTTDC) in Doha.The functioning of the office was announced yesterday at a meeting at the new centre, located near the Al Kaabi roundabout in Mansoura.
Mansouri (centre) is flanked by Ahmed al-Ansari (second left) and Mohamed al-Hajri along with training centre manager Robert Makando at the media briefing
Reiterating the company’s desire and commitment to improve the overall driving safety and standards in the country, Mowasalat officials hoped that public would utilise the facilities at the new office to attain better driving skills.
The new office represents the company’s resolve to provide the best quality driving and training skills in the country, felt executive director Ahmed Busherbak al-Mansouri. He said the new centre has been established as part of Mowasalat’s plan on providing multiple solutions to meet necessary requirements through the best means of driving and mobility training.
The new facility will take care of the trainees’ admissions, registration, and licensing and it will also organise courses in defensive driving and other training methods in safe driving and emergency vehicle driving, said al-Mansouri.
The official also claimed that the customer care services provided through the centre is the first of its kind among the country’s driving schools.
The company executive director said Mowasalat would look into the possibility of starting similar training centres in different parts of the country, including in some other locations on the outskirts of Doha if the response is deemed to be “exceptionally good”.
He believes Mowasalat’s instructors are perhaps the best qualified and the only in the field to be certified by internationally acclaimed bodies such as Smith and Guilds the National Safety Council in UK.
“Besides being equipped with most sophisticated equipment for training drivers, the centre also has a fleet of vehicles at its disposal to transfer trainees to the main driving school at Abu Hamour,” said al-Masnouri, adding that the transportation of trainees is done wholly free of cost.
The latest training school has facilities to cater to the requirements of approximately 9000 trainees per year.
“The office also offers facilities to train 3,000 company staffers annually,” explained the company business development director Ahmed al-Ansari.
Besides ensuring better driving discipline among the trainees through a series of in house and outdoor classes, the new training centre will also focus on the necessity of highlighting better traffic awareness among the country’s residents, he said.
The centre, said al-Ansari, would not retain its training vehicles for no more than two years in line with the international driving schools’ safety guidelines. It also employs a considerably large number of female instructors, he said.
KTTDC manager Robert Makando said the centre has trained more than 2,600 trainees at its facilities in Abu Hamour in the first four months of this year.
“Of these, 1,300 joined for classes only in the month of April”, he said.
Compared to the figures during the corresponding period last year, there was a 50% rise in the number of trainees in the first four months of this year, explained Makando. Recruitment manager Mohamed al-Hajri was also present at the meeting.
