Badge - Nuances.

Badge, an authorisation to drive a transport vehicle if some one wants to obtain now, he has to pass minimum eight standard.Rule 8 of the Central Motor vehicles Rules 1989 prescribes this.

Before 1989, the qualification for obtaining an authorisation to drive a transport vehicle was, the applicant should be able to read and write .

The Government of India has issued a notification in GSR 583 (E) dated 21.9.06

By this notification it has reintroduced Rule 8 which prescribes a pass in eighth standard as a qualification for obtaining an authorisation to drive transport vehicle.

In practice a large number of candidates are coming with certificates indicating that they have passed eighth standard.

How to trust the credentials of the certificate.

There are certain simple tests:-
1. Give the candidate a tamil magazine or newspaper and ask him to read. If he reads fluently, take it for granted that the certificate is genuine one
2. You can address the Chief educational officer of the district to know whether such a school exist.If you write to that school, the chances are you may get bogus confirmation.
3.If the candidate is not able to read the script, you can straightaway reject the application writing on the border of the paper "unable to read Tamil and hence application is rejected".
Because in law there is no appeal provision against such rejection.

So instead of merely relying on the certificate we have to be extra careful in believing the truthfulness of the certificate.