Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 3) — The Land Transportation Office is working on translating the driver’s license exam into the country’s major languages upon the orders of Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade.
“We have already created a team for each of the major dialects. The assigned team will translate the driver’s license examination. The translation will be checked by experts of the language to ensure that the terms are accurate and official,” LTO Assistant Secretary Edgar Galvante said in a statement released by the Department of Transportation on Tuesday.
This is in line with Tugade’s department order issued on February 14, which emphasizes “the need to afford examinees the opportunity to fully comprehend the Driver’s License Examination.”
“I instructed the LTO, all examinations shall now be done in English, Tagalog, or the local language of the examinee,” Tugade said in a statement.
Tugade’s order will be effective 15 days after its publication in the government’s website or in a newspaper of general circulation, the DOTr said.
From then, LTO’s regional offices have 30 days to translate the driver’s license exam in their respective regional languages to comply with the order.
