Driving licence: RTOs to accept medical fitness certificates from MBBS docs only

The Regional Transport Offices (RTO) across Maharashtra will no more entertain fitness certificates issued by Ayurvedic doctors to persons applying for learners’ driving licence or renewal of driving licence.

Only doctors at government hospitals or those having MBBS degree can issue such certificates. Regional transport officer Arun Yeola said, “We will not accept medical fitness certificate from the doctors who are not MBBS-degree holders.”

Yeola added, “The medical fitness certificate is very essential as it gives the information whether the person is suffering from night blindness or colour blindness. If the applicant has any of these diseases, then we do not issue driving licences.”

The new amendment for issuing medical certificate has been made under the Central Motor Vehicle Act 1989 rule 5, which says that every application for the issue of a learner’s licence or a driving licence or for making addition of another class or description of a motor vehicle to a driving licence or for renewal of a driving licence to drive a vehicle other than a transport vehicle shall be accompanied by a self-declaration as to the physical fitness and every such application for a licence to drive a transport vehicle shall be accompanied by a medical certificate.