KA-34 Ballari (Bellary) RTO office and separate Hosapete office

Ballari, also known by its old name, Bellary, registers vehicles under KA-34. Since 2021 the district has been smaller: Hosapete and five other western taluks were reported to form the new Vijayanagara district, whose office uses KA-35, so a Hosapete car is no longer a Ballari registration.

A Ballari plate such as KA 34 AB 1234 splits into four parts. KA is Karnataka, 34 is the Ballari RTO, AB is the letter series, and 1234 is the four-digit number that identifies the car. A KA 35 plate, by contrast, was issued at Hosapete.

Worth knowing: A KA-34 car whose owner moves to Hosapete keeps KA-34 on its plate. The code still shows the office of first registration, and it changes only if the car is re-registered outside Karnataka or its registration details are changed.

KA-34 is Ballari’s only code. The code easily taken for a Ballari one is KA-35, the Hosapete office. Hosapete is reported as the headquarters of Vijayanagara district, carved out of Ballari in 2021.

Reports of the 2021 notification put Hosapete, Kudligi, Hagaribommanahalli, Kotturu, Hoovina Hadagali and Harapanahalli taluks in Vijayanagara, and left Ballari with Ballari, Kurugodu, Siraguppa, Kampli and Sanduru.

Ballari’s single code, KA-34, belongs to an office listed as a Regional Transport Office. Its address is taken from copies of the Transport Department contact list, and directories differ on the pincode, so confirm it before you go.

Ballari RTO office, KA-34

The office appears as Regional Transport Office, Ballari, on the Bellary-Hospet Road in the Cantonment area. One directory lists it under the Kalaburagi transport division.

Worth knowing: Since the 2021 split, an owner in Hosapete, Kudligi or Harapanahalli lives in Vijayanagara district, whose office is KA-35, not KA-34. Driving tests at either office are booked on Sarathi first.

The address in your papers decides the office, and the 2021 split moved the line. Going by reports of the split, Ballari district’s five taluks register under KA-34, and the six taluks that went to Vijayanagara use the Hosapete office, KA-35.

Checking a car you already own is simpler. The RC names its office, or you can enter a number such as KA34AB1234 in the finder at the top of this page to see it.

Worth knowing: Moving from Siraguppa to Hosapete, or anywhere else in Karnataka, means an address update on the RC and no new number. After the update, inform your insurer of the address.

Worked example: For a ₹4 lakh car registered in Ballari, 13% tax is ₹52,000. The 11% cess on it is ₹5,720 and the welfare cess ₹1,000, so the road tax bill is ₹58,720, the same as at Hosapete.

A KA-34 registration costs the same in RTO fees as one at Hosapete, as the amounts are national under Rule 81 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules. You pay them on Vahan, and a new car’s dealer settles them with the registration.

Worked example: When a Ballari buyer finances a new car through a bank, the KA-34 office charges ₹600 to register it, ₹200 for the smart card and ₹1,500 to enter the loan. Those three charges add up to ₹2,300, and the Karnataka road tax is a separate bill.

A KA-34 car that reaches 15 years renews for ₹5,000, and one beyond 20 years for ₹10,000. Leave it late and the office adds ₹500 a month for a car, ₹300 a month for a motorcycle.

New cars in Ballari are registered by the dealer on Vahan, with the office picked by the buyer’s address. Since the 2021 split, a Ballari or Siraguppa buyer is given KA-34 and a buyer from Hosapete or Kudligi gets a KA-35 number, even at the same dealer.

With a loan still marked on the RC (hypothecation), the lender gives a No Objection Certificate (NOC) and you file Form 35, which is free. Anything beyond a simple Ballari sale, such as a buyer in Andhra Pradesh, is covered in our Karnataka RTO guide.

For a Ballari owner, a vehicle request begins on the Vahan portal and a licence request on the Sarathi portal, with the KA-34 office doing the processing. Karnataka made many of these contactless on 1 November 2021.

Duplicate RC and RC status check in Ballari

Use Form 26 to replace a lost or damaged KA-34 RC, at ₹300 for a car. Kiwi Insurance also lets you check your RC status online.

Driving licence services in Ballari

In Ballari, the learner’s licence application and the test slot are both handled on Sarathi, before you attend the test in person. See our Karnataka RTO guide for anything else that is online.

Section 196 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, as amended in 2019, fines a Ballari driver ₹2,000 for driving without insurance, and ₹4,000 for any repeat.

Pay a KA-34 challan at echallan.parivahan.gov.in or on mParivahan. Ballari drivers can find more offences and amounts in our Karnataka RTO guide.

Moving to Ballari from Hosapete, Kalaburagi or another Karnataka city leaves your KA number as it is, and the RC simply takes the new address. Ballari district borders Andhra Pradesh, and a car from there, or from any other state, has to be re-registered in Karnataka once it has been kept here for more than 12 months.

Going the other way, out of Karnataka, the KA-34 office issues the NOC on Form 28, and the destination state does the new registration.

Worth knowing: Inform your insurer as soon as the car has its KA-34 number, so that the policy and the RC agree. Owners arriving from Andhra Pradesh will find the state’s wider rules in our Karnataka RTO guide.

If your work moves you between states, a Bharat (BH) series number can replace KA-34 for your Ballari car, and no No Objection Certificate (NOC) is needed on a transfer. Defence and government staff are eligible, as are private employees of companies in 4 or more states or union territories, who submit Form 60.

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 cars pay tax every 2 years in place of Karnataka’s one-time tax (details in our Karnataka RTO guide).

All the forms come from the national Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989. Most go online through Vahan or Sarathi, so the PDF is there for the times the KA-34 office wants paper.

Before you submit: For each service the Parivahan Sewa website lists the documents to attach, and it holds every other RTO form too.