Non-transport vehicles
- Training period
- Not less than 21 days
- Behind the wheel
- Not less than 10 hours actual driving
- Lessons cover
- Parts A, B, C, F, G and K
- Prescribed by
- Rule 31(2) and 31(4)
Licensing courses · Rule 31, CMVR 1989
What an accredited centre teaches, hour by hour
The syllabus is not ours to set. Rule 31 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules fixes the lessons, the minimum training period and the minimum hours behind the wheel; the Ministry’s scheme for driver training centres then sets out the course hour by hour, the standard the trainee is tested against, and what the centre has to hold before it may run any of it. Everything on this page is one or the other.
Every course an accredited centre runs
- Light Motor Vehicle29 hours over 4 weeks
- Medium / Heavy Motor Vehicle38 hours over 6 weeks
- Training the Trainers30 hours over 6 days
- Vehicle Mechanism & Maintenance / Fuel Efficiency12 hours over 2 days
- Refresher / Orientation10 hours over 2 days
- Night & Hill Driving / Wet Weather / Emergency Manoeuvres4 hours in one day
- Traffic Education / Public Relations / Road Rage & Stress6 hours in one day
- Fire Hazards Training on Vehicle4 hours in one day
- Road Accident / Pollution and Environment4 hours in one day
- Pass mark
- 60% — theory and practical
- Attendance
- 85% minimum to sit the test
- Concludes in
- Form 5B
The floor
What the rule requires before any course is designed
A centre may teach more than this. It may not teach less. The learner's licence must also have been held for at least thirty days before the test of competence — Rule 15.
Transport vehicles
- Training period
- Not less than 30 days
- Behind the wheel
- Not less than 15 hours actual driving
- Lessons cover
- Parts E, F, G, H, I, J and K
- Prescribed by
- Rule 31(3) and 31(4)
MGV or MPV holder upgrading to HMV
- Training period
- Same syllabus
- Behind the wheel
- Not less than 5 hours actual driving
- Lessons cover
- Parts E, F, G, H, I, J and K
- Prescribed by
- Proviso to Rule 31(4)
The eleven parts of the syllabus
Rule 31(1) sets out the syllabus in eleven lettered parts. Which parts a trainee covers depends on the class of licence applied for — a light vehicle course covers six of them, a transport vehicle course seven, and the two lists overlap only in part.
- ADriving theory — I
- BTraffic education — I
- CLight vehicles driving practice
- DVehicle mechanism and repairs
- EMedium and heavy vehicle driving
- FTraffic education — II
- GPublic relations for drivers
- HHeavy vehicle driving practice
- IFire hazards
- JVehicle maintenance
- KFirst-aid
29 hours over 4 weeks
Light Motor Vehicle
Who may enrol
- —Fluent in reading and writing the regional language
- —Good vision, and free from other physical disability
- —Learner's licence held for at least 30 days before the test — Rule 15
Syllabus — Rule 31(2) — Parts A, B, C, F, G and K
Theory
8 hours- Driving theory
- 1
- Traffic education
- 2
- Basic vehicle mechanism — theory and demonstration
- 1
- Public relations and first aid
- 1
- Road etiquette, mannerism and road rage
- 1
- Causes of accidents, and case studies
- 1
- Driving for fuel efficiency
- 1
Practical
21 hours- Basic driving practice — on the driving range
- 2
- Skill driving practice — on the driving range
- 2
- Driving practice on rural and highway roads
- 2
- Driving practice on city roads — dense and lane traffic
- 4
- Uphill and downhill driving
- 2
- Reversing and parking
- 2
- Simulator — initiation, rain, fog, night
- 4
- Driving for fuel efficiency
- 1
- Test and evaluation
- 2
38 hours over 6 weeks
Heavy Motor Vehicle
Who may enrol
- —Fluent in reading and writing the regional language
- —One year completed on a light motor vehicle driving licence
- —Good vision, and free from other physical disability
Syllabus — Rule 31(3) — Parts E, F, G, H, I, J and K
Theory
16 hours- Driving theory
- 2
- Traffic education
- 2
- Vehicle mechanism — theory
- 2
- Vehicle maintenance and repair
- 1
- Public relations
- 1
- First aid and human psychology
- 1
- Road rage and stress management
- 2
- Cause and type of accidents; the driver's responsibility after one
- 2
- AIDS awareness; tobacco and alcohol
- 1
- Pollution and environment
- 1
- Driving for fuel efficiency
- 1
Practical
22 hours- Basic driving practice — on the driving range
- 2
- Skill driving practice — on the driving range
- 4
- Driving practice on rural and highway roads
- 4
- Driving practice on city roads — dense and lane traffic
- 3
- Uphill and downhill driving
- 2
- Reversing and parking
- 2
- Simulator — initiation, rain, fog, night, hilly terrain
- 3
- Driving for fuel efficiency
- 1
- Theory test and evaluation
- 2
A serious fault fails the test whatever the total score says.
The theory paper is forty questions drawn at random by software from a bank of at least a thousand, weighted across every topic, and sixty per cent passes. The practical is marked on a fixed checksheet out of a hundred, and sixty passes that too — except that anyone who commits a serious or dangerous fault is disqualified regardless of the score. Eighty-five per cent attendance is what earns the right to sit either.
For drivers already in service
The refresher and orientation capsule
Two to three days, run periodically for drivers who are already working — State transport undertakings, private and public sector fleets, tanker and truck crews, and police and para-military drivers where they are sent.
- —Behavioural practices and stress management
- —Defensive driving techniques
- —Traffic rules and regulations
- —Emergency handling techniques
- —Maintenance and fuel conservation
- —Pollution and environment
- —Case studies on accidents — the cause, who was at fault, how it could have been averted
- —Safety clinic for accident-prone drivers
It ends in a practical skill test and a theoretical behavioural analysis, so that the driver leaves knowing which of his own habits the course was about. The simulator is used deliberately here — it is the only way to put an experienced driver into rain, fog, night and a tyre burst in one afternoon without risking anybody.
On the track
What you will actually be asked to drive
Every feature below is on the circuit at our operational centres, and the driving-skill test is taken on it. This is the part of a course worth asking any centre about.
Two-lane straight road — starting, moving, stopping, gear changing, steering, overtaking, stopping distance
Parking bays — parallel, angular and perpendicular
Hump road — clutch balance and biting point on a slope, with reduced sight distance
Dip road — judging the depth of a water stream and driving through it
Three-point and five-point turns — turning on a restricted road
S-bend and V-bend — difficult manoeuvres without much acceleration or deceleration
Figure-of-eight — left and right steering, sharp turning, negotiating a roundabout
Reversing box — proper method of reversing and turning
Four-lane and six-lane road — lane selection, lane discipline, the stop line, junction approach
Speed track — control in an emergency such as brake failure or a tyre burst
Hill track — uphill and downhill driving
With the range aids that make it behave like a road — traffic signs, automatic light signals, road markings, barriers, bollards and lighting — and cameras covering the whole circuit, so the run is scored as it happens rather than written down afterwards.
Fees
The fee is set by the State, not by the centre
The State Transport Authority fixed what an accredited centre in Uttar Pradesh may charge for each course, by its notification of 2 February 2023. These are those figures, inclusive of GST. They are the same at every accredited centre in the State — if one quotes you more for these courses, it is overcharging.
| Course | Hours | Duration | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Motor Vehicle | 8 theory + 21 practical | 29 hrs over 4 weeks | ₹6,000 |
| Medium / Heavy Motor Vehicle | 16 theory + 22 practical | 38 hrs over 6 weeks | ₹10,000 |
| Training the Trainers | 10 theory + 20 practical | 30 hrs over 6 days | ₹10,000 |
| Vehicle Mechanism & Maintenance / Fuel Efficiency | 4 theory + 8 practical | 12 hrs over 2 days | ₹1,000 |
| Refresher / Orientation | 4 theory + 6 practical | 10 hrs over 2 days | ₹1,000 |
| Night & Hill Driving / Wet Weather Driving / Emergency Manoeuvres | 2 theory + 2 practical | 4 hrs in one day | ₹1,000 |
| Traffic Education I & II / Public Relations / Road Rage & Stress Management | 3 theory + 3 practical | 6 hrs in one day | ₹500 |
| Fire Hazards Training on Vehicle | 2 theory + 2 practical | 4 hrs in one day | ₹500 |
| Road Accident / Pollution and Environment Training | 2 theory + 2 practical | 4 hrs in one day | ₹500 |
Source: Notification No. 155(1)/STA/2023 dated 2 February 2023, State Transport Authority, Transport Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh — fee schedule for Accredited Driver Training Centres. Amounts are inclusive of GST.
What the fee does not include
The licensing authority’s own charges — the learner’s licence, the test of competence and the issue of the driving licence — are separate, fixed by Rule 32 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, and paid to the RTO rather than to us.
The three-day dangerous goods course under Rule 9 is not in this schedule. It runs at our Varanasi centre under a separate licence and is quoted separately.
Bulk bookings, corporates and PSUs
The notified fee above applies to these courses whoever books them. What is open to discussion is everything around them — batch scheduling across locations, on-site delivery at your depot, and the dangerous goods and industrial safety programmes, which this schedule does not cover at all.
Write to b2b@saferoadgroup.orgAnswered by the Manager (Training). A written proposal, not a price over the phone.
Enrolling
Tell us the class of licence, the head count and the district, and we will confirm the next batch date at the nearest centre.
WhatsApp us Call +91 91588 91589These courses run at the accredited centres — Sonbhadra and Bhadohi open, Jaunpur and Ghazipur being built. Varanasi, where the dangerous goods work sits, is one of the districts the Ministry lists as a high priority district for driver training, which is a fair description of the corridor all five sit on. See the five centres.