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The project would be implemented on a PPP model for which bids would be soon invited from interested private companies.

Finance Secretary Sanjay Kumar said that keeping the space restriction and available technology in mind, the Administration had come up with the proposal of an automated driving school.

8220;Driving tests would be conducted with the help of automatic stimulators.The driving school too would work on the same principle. Though the expected time period for the implementation of the projects cannot be declared at the moment due to the involvement of a private company, it would take some time for the finalisation of the terms and conditions,8221; said Sanjay Kumar.

The financial aspects such as the driving and testing fee are said to be decided after working out the costs with the private companies shortlisted for the project. It is said that the testing fee is likely to be somewhere between Rs 15 and 20.

Shelving of the earlier proposed plan of a government-run driving school within the STA building, Sanjay Kumar said that a virtual driving school would serve the purpose in a better way.