Mild to medium color blind people can now obtain the driving license
Table of Content :
- About New Update
- What Are Colour Blindness and the current Driving License rules
- Rules About Color Blindness In Foreign Countries
Ministry
of Road Transport and Highways has put up a draft to allow Color blind people
to get a Driving License. They have also asked suggestions from all
stakeholders and the public on this new proposed amendment in the Motor
Vehicles Act
“The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a notification for an amendment to the Form 1 and Form 1A of the Central Motor Vehicles (CMV) Rules, 1989 for enabling the citizens with mild to medium colour blindness in obtaining the driving license...,” the ministry said in a statement.
It is
to be noted however someone with severe or total color blindness will not be
allowed to obtain a driving license. The new draft states that the currently
present question ‘ Can you distinguish between the color Red and Green’ will
be removed. There will still be a medical fitness test to ensure the applicant
doesn’t have total or severe color blindness.
What Is Colour Blindness
and the current Driving License rules
Colour
blindness is a disease that causes an inability to perceive some shades of
color. It usually involves people being unable to identify the difference in
color. A total of 8% of males and 0.4% of females suffer from congenital
color blindness which makes it impossible for them to acquire a driving
license irrespective if they are able to perform every action needed to drive a
car.
Rules About Color
Blindness In Foreign Countries
European
Union has removed restrictions of color blind people while in the USA a color a blind person will not be able to obtain a commercial driving license.
This draft if successfully implemented will help a lot of color blind people get a driving license.
The MoRTH has been taking
many measures to enable ‘divyangjan’ citizens to avail transport-related
services and especially relating to the obtaining of the driving license, it
said. The advisories, the statement said, have been issued in this regard to
facilitate driving license to ‘divyangjan’ citizens. Further, an advisory for
people with monocular vision has also been issued
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