KA 04 RTO: Yeshwanthpur RTO for Bengaluru North

Say the plate on a North office car is KA 04 AB 1234. Karnataka gives the KA, the North office gives the 04, AB marks the series, and 1234 is the four-digit number.

Worth knowing: The 04 is fixed at first registration. An owner who later moves from the north of the city to Jayanagar finds the plate stays KA 04, since the code changes only if the car is re-registered outside Karnataka or its registration details are changed.

Bought new from 1 April 2019? Then your KA-04 car came with its High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) fitted by the dealer. Cars registered at Bengaluru North before that date need one installed.

Plates are booked through the booking portal named on the Karnataka Transport Department website, which sends you on to the SIAM site; check there which date applies to a KA-04 car. If you need the sticker colours or any other plate rule, our Karnataka RTO guide goes through them.

Bengaluru North registers under one code, KA-04. Several other codes belong to the north side, so check which is on your RC: KA-50 Yelahanka, KA-43 Devanahalli towards the airport, KA-52 Nelamangala on the Tumakuru Road edge, and KA-60, which directories give to RT Nagar without official confirmation.

Directories agree on the street but not the door. They list Bengaluru North in the Corporation Complex on Subedar Chatram Road, Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Yeshwanthpur, Bengaluru 560022, with No. 3 in some entries and 52 in others.

With the address and the hours both coming from directories, a quick check with the office saves a wasted trip.

What the Yeshwanthpur RTO does not handle

Automated driving tests take place on the tracks at Jnanabharathi (KA-41) and Electronic City (KA-51), the only two in Bengaluru, so check the venue in your Sarathi booking. Autorickshaw permits belong to the KA-57 office, and an address in Devanahalli or Nelamangala goes to that town’s own office.

KA-04 takes its name from North Bengaluru, and the localities on its list could not be confirmed from an official source. If the car already exists, 04 on the RC means its file is here; for a new car, the dealer applies to the office for your home address.

Worth knowing: Yeshwanthpur is where the office is listed, and that does not make every Yeshwanthpur address a KA-04 one. Homes towards Yelahanka or out on the Bengaluru Rural edge can belong to other offices, so the dealer’s answer for your address is what counts.

The tax a KA-04 car pays is Karnataka’s lifetime road tax, collected once by Bengaluru North at registration. Four bands by cost apply to petrol and diesel cars and three to electric ones, with no separate company rate.

Driving in on another state’s plates? After more than 30 days in Karnataka the car owes Karnataka tax. Once its registration moves to Bengaluru North, the amount is a part of the lifetime tax that shrinks with age, from 93% (up to 2 years) to 25% (over 15 years).

Electric cars registered since 1 May 2026 pay 5%, 8% or 10%. Our Karnataka RTO guide covers the other Karnataka tax rules.

There is no Bengaluru North price list of its own, as RTO fees are set nationally and apply at every Karnataka office. Owners pay on the Vahan portal; on a new car, the dealer pays as part of the sale.

For example: Say you buy a new car on finance and live in the North office’s area. KA-04 charges ₹600 to register it, ₹200 for the smart card RC and ₹1,500 for the hypothecation, ₹2,300 in all before road tax.

Keep the car to 15 and the renewal is ₹5,000; past 20 it is ₹10,000. Leave it overdue and ₹500 a month is added for a car, ₹300 for a motorcycle.

Choice numbers cost more again. A pick from the running series is ₹20,000 and one from an advance series ₹75,000, going by the department’s 2021-22 annual report.

Expect the road tax, both cesses and the HSRP as separate items.

If you live in the area Bengaluru North covers, a new car gets a KA-04 number however far away the showroom is. The dealer prepares and files the registration on Vahan.

A KA-04 car changes hands through Bengaluru North, the office on its RC, whether or not the buyer lives in the north. Two forms do the work, Form 29 from the seller and Form 30 with both signatures, and Rule 81 charges ₹300 for a car, ₹150 for a motorcycle.

Next, the buyer has 14 days from the RC change to get the policy transferred.

Removing a loan (hypothecation) at Yeshwanthpur RTO

After the loan is closed, lodge Form 35 and the lender’s No Objection Certificate (NOC) with KA-04; the hypothecation comes off with no RTO fee. Each document is described in our Karnataka RTO guide.

Vehicle jobs for a KA-04 car begin on the Vahan portal; licences begin on the Sarathi portal. Since 1 November 2021, 15 Sarathi and 18 Vahan services in Karnataka have needed no trip to an office.

Duplicate RC and RC status for KA-04 cars

Replace a lost or spoiled KA-04 RC on Form 26, paying the duplicate fee from the fees table. To see what a registration shows, try the Kiwi Insurance RC status check.

Driving licence services for Yeshwanthpur RTO

Licence applications can go through Sarathi or a Bangalore One or Karnataka One centre; automated driving tests are taken at Jnanabharathi or Electronic City. For renewing a licence, see our Karnataka RTO guide.

A KA-04 car’s challans can be looked up and paid on echallan.parivahan.gov.in or in mParivahan by typing in its number.

Look up the rest of the penalties on our Karnataka RTO guide.

Moving within Karnataka to the north of Bengaluru? Update the RC address and keep your number. Bringing a car from another state is a longer job, with Karnataka tax due after more than 30 days here and re-registration needed once the car has been kept in the state over 12 months.

When a KA-04 car is about to leave Karnataka for good, the NOC on Form 28 comes from Bengaluru North. Some of the lifetime tax can come back as a refund under rates in the Karnataka Act, and Bengaluru North can explain the claim; once the car is registered elsewhere, inform your insurer.

If an employer may post you to another state, a Bharat series (BH) number, requested through the dealer in place of KA-04, lets you move without a No Objection Certificate (NOC).

If you work for a private company, the employer must have offices in 4 or more states or union territories and complete Form 60 for you. 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.

Who can apply, and how the BH tax falls due every 2 years, is covered on our Karnataka RTO guide.

Each of these can usually be filed online on Vahan or Sarathi, so print one only when Bengaluru North asks for paper.

Our Karnataka RTO guide explains each form, and the list of RTO forms on the Parivahan Sewa website covers the others.

How insurance links to the Yeshwanthpur RTO

Bengaluru North checks for a valid policy before any new registration. Each time it updates an RC, with a new owner, address or KA-04 number, inform your insurer so the details on both match.