Karnal RTO: HR-05 office, sub-division codes and tax

HR-05 is the code directories give the Karnal registering office, which they place in the Sector 12 Mini Secretariat, and HR-45 is listed for commercial vehicles. Assandh, Indri and Gharaunda each have a listed code, and two old parts of the district, Panipat and Kurukshetra, now register on their own.

Read HR 05 AB 1234 and you have a car first registered in Karnal: HR for Haryana, 05 for the code listed for the Karnal office, AB for the letter series and 1234 for the four-digit number.

Worth knowing: An HR-05 car bought by someone in Panipat or Ambala still shows 05, since the Karnal number changes only if the car is re-registered outside Haryana or its registration details are changed, wherever in the state the owner lives.

Since 1 April 2019, new cars registered at Karnal have been handed over with a High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) already on them.

Worth knowing: For an HR-05 car registered earlier, the installation is booked on the booking portal named on the Haryana Transport Department website, and that site also shows the HR vehicle date. The plate’s security marks are listed on our Haryana RTO guide.

Karnal district has five listed codes. HR-05 and HR-45 are the Karnal office’s private and commercial codes, while HR-40, HR-75 and HR-91 belong to Assandh, Indri and Gharaunda; the Panipat and Kurukshetra codes went with those districts.

Directories list both the HR-05 office and the HR-45 commercial office at the Mini Secretariat in Sector 12, Karnal, pincode 132001. Haryana has no official address list for its offices, so confirm this one with HR-05 or through the Haryana Transport Department website. The Karnal office hours could not be confirmed from an official source, so check its working hours with HR-05 before the trip.

Commercial vehicles, HR-45

HR-45 is the commercial code listed for Karnal, and one directory puts that office at the same Sector 12 Mini Secretariat. Karnal taxis, buses and lorries carry it; a family car registered in the city takes HR-05.

Assandh, Indri and Gharaunda offices

Three sub-divisions of Karnal district are listed with their own codes: Assandh (HR-40), Indri (HR-75) and Gharaunda (HR-91). A directory gives the Assandh office the pincode 132039, and no address is given for the other two.

A Karnal city address on the RC points to the HR-05 office. In the Assandh, Indri or Gharaunda sub-divisions the car may be registered at the local office and get that town’s code, so check with the dealer which applies to your village or town. No official list of the areas each office covers is available; the RC address decides.

The finder at the top of the page works backwards too: Enter a number like HR05AB1234 and it shows the office that code is listed for.

Worth knowing: Shifting from Gharaunda to Karnal city leaves HR-91 on the car. File the RC address change, then inform your insurer that you have moved.

Karnal’s road tax is Haryana’s one-time tax, worked out as a percentage of the vehicle’s price at its first registration in the state. Cars for personal use pay 5%, 8% or 10% by price, and a car in a company’s name is charged the same.

For example: Five lakh rupees spent on a car in Karnal puts it in the 5% band, so the HR-05 registration carries a road tax of ₹25,000, paid at the start and not again.

The Karnal office charges the national RTO fees, which means Assandh, Indri, Gharaunda and Panipat ask exactly the same. You pay on Vahan, and a dealer adds the amount to a new car’s price.

For example: On a new car bought with a bank loan at Karnal, the RTO fees total ₹2,300, that is ₹600 for the registration, ₹200 for a smart card RC and ₹1,500 for the loan, all before road tax.

A Karnal car that turns 15 renews at ₹5,000, and a car above 20 at ₹10,000. If you leave the renewal late, Karnal charges ₹500 a month extra on a car and ₹300 a month on a motorcycle.

Vahan routes your file by address: HR-05 in the city, a town code elsewhere

Your Karnal dealer registers the car on Vahan, and the office chosen depends on your address. Karnal city buyers get HR-05; a buyer from Indri or Assandh may get that sub-division’s code instead, and one from Panipat an HR-06 number.

To change the owner of an HR-05 car, apply on Vahan to the Karnal office. The seller signs Form 29, the seller and buyer complete Form 30, and the transfer costs ₹300 for a car or ₹150 for a motorcycle.

Karnal then gives the buyer 14 days to take over the policy in their own name.

Clearing hypothecation on a Karnal RC

With the loan closed, put the bank’s NOC and Form 35 on Vahan, and Karnal removes the lender from the RC at no charge; our Haryana RTO guide lists what to attach.

Start Karnal RTO work online. The Vahan portal deals with vehicles and the Sarathi portal with licences, and each sends your application to HR-05 or to the sub-division office for your address.

Duplicate RC and RC status check in Karnal

To replace a lost or damaged Karnal RC, apply on Form 26 for a duplicate RC and pay the fee in the fees table. You can check that an HR-05 record is in order with the Kiwi Insurance RC status check.

Driving licence services in Karnal

Karnal licence applications, and the test slot that follows, are made on Sarathi. Every licence service is set out on our Haryana RTO guide.

Pending challans on a Karnal car appear when you enter the number at echallan.parivahan.gov.in or in mParivahan, and you can pay there.

See our Haryana RTO guide for fines on the other common offences.

A car coming to Karnal from Panipat or Kurukshetra is already on HR plates and keeps them, so only the RC address changes. A car from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab or any other state owes Haryana road tax within 30 days of being kept here and has to be re-registered once it has been kept here for more than 12 months.

Leaving Haryana? The Karnal office provides the NOC on Form 28, and the car is then registered in the state you are moving to.

Worth knowing: As soon as the RC shows the Karnal address, and again once any new number is issued, inform your insurer, using the document list on our Haryana RTO guide.

A Karnal buyer who can be transferred to another state may register the new car under the Bharat series (BH) rather than HR-05, which removes the need to re-register after moving.

Private sector applicants give the dealer Form 60, the employer’s confirmation of offices in 4 or more states or union territories. The format is YY BH #### XX, where YY is the year of first registration, the four digits are allotted at random, and XX represents the alphabetic series, which can be a single letter or two letters. It is black on a white plate, like any other private car.

BH road tax is paid every 2 years, as our Haryana RTO guide explains with the eligibility rules.

In Karnal these are now filed mostly on the Vahan portal or the Sarathi portal, and the PDF helps only if an office asks for a printed copy.

Our Haryana RTO guide tells you which form each task needs. A Karnal owner needing a form not shown here can download it from the Parivahan Sewa website’s forms list.

How insurance links to the Karnal RTO

HR-05 registers a new car only when it is insured. On a sale, the RC is transferred first and the buyer has 14 days to transfer the policy, and once the RC address or number changes, inform your insurer so the policy keeps pace.