Conditions and Tests
There are different categories of licences. The most common ones are:
- MC 50CC (Motorcycle 100cc) – can be used to drive motorcycles with an engine capacity of 50 cc or less.
- MC EX50CC (Motorcycle 100cc) – can be used to drive motorcycles and LMV (Light Motor Vehicle)CAR.
- 'MCW can be used to drive motorcycles of any engine capacity, but without gear. This includes mopeds, scooters, and other motorcycles which do not have gear.
- MCWG or M/CYCL.WG (Motorcycle With Gear) – can be used to drive all motorcycles.
- LMV (Light Motor Vehicle) – can be used to drive "light motor vehicles", including auto rickshaws, motorcars, jeeps, taxis, three-wheeler delivery vans, etc.
- LMV-NT (Light Motor Vehicle – Non Transport) – can be used to drive "light motor vehicles" for personal purposes only – not for commercial transportation.
- LMV-TR (Light Motor Vehicle – Transport) – can be used to drive "light motor vehicles" for commercial transportation.
- HMV (Heavy Motor Vehicle) – can be used to drive "Heavy or Low Motor Vehicle" ("open licence"; "All India Driving Permit for Cars and Trucks").
See the Class and vehicle categories section below for the complete list.
Most of the legislation regarding licensing is in the Rules of the Road Regulation and the Motor Vehicle Act 1988. While driving, drivers must carry the original copy of the driving licence. They should have an additional Badge if they are driving a taxi or any other public transport vehicle.
Drivers have to appear for an oral or written test, depending on the state, in order to get a learner's licence, which is valid for 6 months, and enables them to drive a car (LMV) or a motorcycle (MCWG), as long as someone with a permanent licence is present in the vehicle. Drivers then have to pass a driving test to get the permanent licence.
The presence of another person with a permanent licence is not needed in the case of MCWOG (Motor cycle without gear).
Read more about this topic: Driving Licence In India
Famous quotes containing the words conditions and/or tests:
“Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)