Corruption in Learners Licence Testing Centre will soon be a thing of the past this is after Eastern Cape MEC for Transport Thandiswa Marawu, officially opened the first ever pilot site of a Computerised Learners Licence Testing (CLLT) Centre in the country at Ngqushwa Traffic Department in Peddie today.
Addressing the delegates, MEC Marawu said that the system will eliminate the intervention of corrupt officials who facilitate a pass mark for the candidate since the marking is manual.
“This new computerised system replaces the current booklet testing module and is aimed at introducing road safety as a life skill curriculum”, she added.
With regard to the new Computerised Learners Licence Testing:
- All the applicable questions per test type and the required marks to pass a specific test will be maintained on the eNaTIS.
- Functionality will exist to maintain the demonstration clip to be displayed to the applicant on screen (text) as well as the audio clip (in all 11 official languages).
- The examiner will allocate a specific terminal to the successfully identified applicant before he/she enters the test room.
- The terminal will request the applicant for his/her fingerprint.
- The system will scan the applicant’s identification number and validate its accuracy by comparing it with the application details.
- The system will inform the applicant that he/she is at the correct terminal or if he/she is at the wrong terminal.
- The system will randomly generate the test questions for the applicable test for each terminal. The test questions will be temporarily downloaded to the test terminal. After the test has been authorised, the questions will be deleted. The answers of the questions will be verified on the eNaTIS data centre.
- The terminal will then be locked immediately after the laps of the test time.
The classroom is equipped with 20 kiosks with an equal number of touch screen CLLT computers, one workstation and a document printer for the examiner, including full electrical and network points deployed to power the classroom and ensure connection to the eNaTIS system.
To guard against electricity interruptions, the classroom is also equipped with six KVA Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) which have two hours battery pack.
