MH-05 Kalyan: The deputy RTO office under Thane

In MH 05 AB 1234, the letters MH stand for Maharashtra and 05 for the Kalyan office. The letters AB mark the series, while 1234 is the four-digit number that tells one MH-05 car from the next.

Worth knowing: The MH-05 code does not follow the owner. A Kalyan car sold to a family in Thane, or taken along on a move to Pune, still shows MH-05; the code changes only if the car is re-registered outside Maharashtra or its registration details are changed.

Cars first registered at the Kalyan office from 1 April 2019 already came with a High Security Registration Plate (HSRP), and the Maharashtra transport department does not ask their owners to apply again.

For an older MH-05 car, the transport department website names the portal where you book the plate and look up the date for your car. Fitment at a fitment centre carries no extra charge, while fitment at home is charged extra. Our Maharashtra RTO guide covers the remaining plate rules.

MH-05 is the one code that belongs to the Kalyan office. Below it are the other Thane district codes nearby, which owners on the Kalyan side often mix up with it.

Kalyan has one office, a Deputy RTO for MH-05 that reports to Thane RTO. The Kalyan deputy office’s timings could not be confirmed from an official source, and it is worth asking the office directly ahead of any visit.

Kalyan RTO office, MH-05

The transport department’s regional offices list places the office at Sahyadri Nagar in Chikanghar, near Birla School, in Kalyan West. The department’s two office lists do not agree on this address, so confirm it with the office before your visit.

Plan the visit around the online booking. Licence tests are booked on the Sarathi portal, and most vehicle tasks begin on the Vahan portal.

The transport department does not say an area list for MH-05. What it does publish settles a few addresses near Kalyan, and the table below shows those, along with where to confirm the rest.

Worth knowing: Diwa and Kalwa are on the MH-04 list in the department’s pincode table, so an address there is registered at Thane rather than at Kalyan.

If your RC already shows MH-05, the Kalyan office holds your file. To read any other number, type it into the finder at the top of this page.

Moving house inside Maharashtra leaves the MH-05 number untouched. What changes is the address on the RC, and your insurer should be informed of it too.

Worked example: On a petrol car costing ₹6 lakhs, the MH-05 office collects 11%, or ₹66,000. A road safety cess, reported to be 2% of the tax, is added as well, and Vahan shows the exact amount.

Kalyan collects the same RTO fees as Thane or Vashi, as the amounts are fixed for the whole country. The Vahan portal takes the payment, and on a new car the dealer pays the fee within the on-road price.

For example: Buy a new car on a loan with a Kalyan address, and the RTO fees at MH-05 come to ₹2,300 before road tax. Registration is ₹600, the smart card RC ₹200 and recording the loan ₹1,500.

A car that has reached 15 years pays ₹5,000 at the Kalyan office to renew its registration, and a car older than 20 pays ₹10,000. A renewal that runs late costs ₹500 for every month for a car, or ₹300 for a motorcycle.

HSRP charges, the Maharashtra road tax and any state service charge come on top, and none of them is part of the RTO fee.

On a new car, the showroom files the registration on the Vahan portal for you, and the address on your proof decides whether the file goes to Kalyan, Thane or another office. A Diwa address, for instance, is on the Thane list.

To sell an MH-05 car, start with Form 29 from the seller and Form 30 signed by both sides, then apply at the Kalyan office or on Vahan. A car costs ₹300 to transfer and a motorcycle ₹150.

The new owner must also take over the policy within 14 days.

Taking hypothecation off a Kalyan RC

Once the loan is closed, the lender issues a No Objection Certificate (NOC). Submit it on Vahan with Form 35 to have the loan removed from the RC, which costs nothing. You will find the document list in our Maharashtra RTO guide.

For a Kalyan car, the Vahan portal handles vehicle requests and the Sarathi portal handles licences, with each request routed to the MH-05 office. The learner licence test in Maharashtra is an online test with Aadhaar authentication, which saves one trip to Kalyan.

Duplicate RC and RC status in Kalyan

When an RC goes missing or is damaged, the Kalyan office issues a duplicate on Form 26 for the fee in the fees table. Any MH-05 number can be looked up in the Kiwi Insurance RC status check.

Driving licence services in Kalyan

Driving tests are booked on Sarathi and taken in person. Our Maharashtra RTO guide carries the wider list of what can be done online.

Challans on MH-05 cars are found by searching the number on echallan.parivahan.gov.in or in the mParivahan app, and each challan states what is owed.

For the rest of the fine list, see our Maharashtra RTO guide.

Moving to Kalyan with a car from elsewhere in Maharashtra changes nothing but the address on its RC. A car from another state is re-registered with an MH number from the office for your address once it has been in Maharashtra for more than 12 months.

For an owner leaving Maharashtra with an MH-05 car, the same steps run in reverse. Ask the Kalyan office for the NOC on Form 28, which is free, and register the car in your new state.

Worth knowing: On the day the RC shows a new number or address, inform your insurer as well. Every form you may need is in our Maharashtra RTO guide.

A Kalyan buyer who may be posted outside Maharashtra can ask the dealer for a Bharat series (BH) number in place of MH-05, so a later move needs no No Objection Certificate (NOC) or re-registration.

In the private sector, the employer signs Form 60 for you, and it qualifies only with 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.

Eligibility rules and the tax that falls due every 2 years are explained in our Maharashtra RTO guide.

Kalyan applications are mostly made online, on the Vahan portal for vehicles and the Sarathi portal for licences. Keep the PDF for the occasions when the office wants a printed form.

When each form applies is explained in our Maharashtra RTO guide, and forms not listed here are on the Parivahan Sewa website.

How insurance links to the Kalyan RTO

The Kalyan office registers no new car until a valid policy is shown. On a sale, the RC moves first and the policy within 14 days, and after a re-registration or any RC change, inform your insurer at once.