Brac Driving School in Uttara, Dhaka

In 2011, fifty schoolchildren and two prominent media personalities in Bangladesh were killed in separate incidents of road crashes. The events spurred nationwide outcry and prompted the government to convene an emergency meeting of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) in that year. Considering the dismal state of driver training in the country, the meeting came to conclude that BRAC among other organizations, in joint collaboration with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), will train driving instructors and provide road safety training to in-service drivers.

BRAC Driving School was launched in 2012 as a feasible measure to tackle the alarming increase in road fatalities over the years. BRAC commissioned Hubert Ebner (India) Pvt Ltd to prepare training materials and conduct the Training of Trainers (TOT) for the driving trainers recruited by BRAC. The school uses contemporary driving training technologies such as driving simulators, visual impairment systems, and P-Drive (digital driving testing devices) to train the students.

BRAC Driving School primarily has two training programs which are Shurakkha (defensive driving training) for commercial vehicle drivers and basic driving for the general public. Besides, the program took up a project called Four Wheels To Freedom which trained 75 professional female chauffeurs to provide them with an income generation tool.