As the country is under lock-down due to COVID-19, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway has extended the validity of several documents such as driving license, permits and registration documents/papers of vehicles that got expired on or after February 1, 2020. Such documents will now be valid till June 30, 2020.
The documents include fitness, permits (all types), driving licence, registration or any other concerned document under the Motor Vehicle Rules.
This would mean that if you have a driving license, the validity of which expires on April 5, 2020, then your driving license would remain valid till June 30. The move comes as a relief for individuals who were facing difficulties to renew their documents due to closure of government offices. Further, effective from September 1, 2019, hefty fines and levies had been introduced in the amended Motor Vehicles Act.
Had the date not been extended, then as per the act, driving your car without a valid license would have cost you Rs 5,000.
In its press release, the ministry said, "The decision was taken to facilitate people facing difficulties in renewing the validity of various motor vehicle documents due to nationwide lockdown in the country and closure of government transport offices."
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