Ahmedabad: The city police have imposed a ban on the entry of agents and unauthorized individuals within 100 meters of the RTO offices at Subhash Bridge and Vastral. According to a notification by Ajay Kumar Chaudhary, in-charge police commissioner, the ban will be in effect from Saturday until January 7. The order states, "Although agent practices are officially absent at the RTO, certain individuals, either alone or in groups, have been entering the premises or nearby areas, deceiving appli...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Regional Transport Office (RTO), District Education Office (DEO) and traffic police of Ahmedabad in a joint drive caught 16 minors for operating non-geared two-wheelers and motorcycles without valid driving licenses. Their guardians were also penalized. This initiative aimed to target students who were bringing vehicles to school without the necessary documentation. Over the past three years, there has been a 40% increase in the issuance of licenses for non-geared two-wheelers ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Transport Commissioner of Gujarat, in a press release, has informed that the driving license test appointments scheduled for October 5 have been rescheduled. The release didn't mention exactly which date the appointments of October 5 have been shifted to. The Transport Commissioner further stated that due to technical glitches in coordination between the Sarathi portal and the Government of India's Parivahan portal, the automatic driving test tracks are impacted at RTO/ARTO offi...Read More

Ahmedabad: Thousands of vehicle driving test applicants across Gujarat were left stranded on Thursday due to server downtime in 38 Regional Transport Offices (RTOs), including Ahmedabad. The technical issue, which affected the National Informatics Centre (NIC) servers, is expected to continue into Friday, with no tests being conducted at Ahmedabad’s RTOs on Friday either. The transport department is expected to announce on Friday whether tests will resume on Saturday. All Friday appointment...Read More

Rajkot: Very heavy rainfall and strong winds have been lashing the city, causing several trees to fall. In one such case, the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) camera was damaged after a tree fell on the track where people take driving tests for two-wheelers and four-wheelers at the city's RTO office. Additionally, the camera wires were dislodged due to the strong winds. As a result, the driving test track has been closed for repairs for a week, leaving around 3,500 applications for driving ...Read More

Ahmedabad: Vehicle and license-related operations have been disrupted at the Regional Transport Office (RTO) in Ahmedabad since Monday due to server issues. People who had appointments for their driver’s license tests and were waiting in line for hours could not take the test as the Sarathi Portal was down for maintenance. Today is the second day the Sarathi portal has been unavailable, although it has been experiencing glitches for the past 4-5 days. This problem is affecting RTO office...Read More

Rajkot: RTO Rajkot has detained a rickshaw and suspended the driving license of rickshaw driver for a year after a viral video in which a dozen school students could be seen being carried in rickshaw very dangorously.  A rickshaw with RTO registration number GJ03CT5152 was being driven by Devabhai Bharwad. As many as four girl students in school uniform were placed behind the rickshaw in standing position. They were literally hanging by holding the hooks on moving rickshaw. DeshGujarat  ...Read More

Rajkot: Members of the Rajkot Travels Association made a representation before the district collector regarding harassment by the police and RTO over tax payments in other states. According to Vijaysinh Jadeja, president of the Rajkot Travels Association, the All India Tourist Permit tax is lower in Nagaland, Diu, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, among other states, compared to Gujarat. As per the "One Nation, One Tax" scheme of the Central government, private travel bus operators from Gujarat...Read More

Ahmedabad: Applicants visiting the RTO offices in Ahmedabad for any vehicle-related work are facing delays due to e-memos often being shown as pending on the RTO portal. This issue affects the completion of vehicle-related services at the RTO, even after payments are made. When an e-challan is issued, it is shown against the vehicle on the RTO portal so that online payment can be made to settle the fine. Around 70% of vehicle owners are experiencing trouble as their e-memo is listed as pendin...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Transport Department is likely to introduce an automatic e-challan system at toll plazas to detect vehicles without valid documents such as Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates, tax, insurance, permits, or fitness documents. This system, expected to start in couple of months, will affect 10 lakh commercial vehicles across Gujarat, including 2.5 lakh from Ahmedabad in the initial phase. The e-detection project aims to link the Vehicle-4 server with toll plaza ser...Read More