Nanded RTO MH-26 and the MIDC CIDCO office

Nanded keeps things to a single office. One Regional Transport Office (RTO), in the MIDC area of CIDCO, registers cars from all 16 talukas under MH-26, and no second office in the district has a code of its own.

An MH-26 plate, MH 26 AB 1234 for instance, splits into four parts. MH is the code for Maharashtra and 26 is the Nanded RTO, then AB gives the letter series, and 1234 is the four-digit number unique to the car within that series.

Worth knowing: With one office for the whole district, a Kinwat car and a Nanded city car both carry MH-26. That code stays put if the owner later moves to Pune or Nagpur, and it changes only if the car is re-registered outside Maharashtra or its registration details are changed.

Any MH-26 car first registered on or after 1 April 2019 already has its High Security Registration Plate (HSRP), fitted by the dealer, and the transport department does not ask its owner to reapply.

Owners of older MH-26 cars book the installation on the booking portal named on the Maharashtra transport department website, and the date that applies to them is shown there too. There is no extra fitment charge at a centre, while home fitment is charged extra. For deadlines and plate types, see our Maharashtra RTO guide.

Nanded district has a single code, MH-26. The Nanded office also runs the Deputy RTOs for Parbhani and Hingoli, so it is the parent office for three districts, but only Nanded addresses get MH-26.

Hingoli split from Parbhani district on 1 May 1999, and its Deputy RTO, coded MH-38, now sits alongside Parbhani’s MH-22 under the Nanded office.

Every Nanded task, from a new registration to a licence test or an address change, goes to the one office at P-149 in the MIDC area of CIDCO. The transport department lists both its address and its pincode, 431603.

Nanded RTO office, MH-26

As a full Regional Transport Office, Nanded oversees the Parbhani and Hingoli Deputy RTOs and runs two border check posts, at Degloor and Billoli, on the Telangana border.

Worth knowing: Owners from Kinwat, Mahur or Deglur make the same trip to CIDCO as city owners. Book a driving test slot on Sarathi, and check the visit with the office, before you travel in from a far taluka.

Nanded makes this easy. Any address in the district’s 16 talukas is registered at MH-26, and only an address over a district border points you to another office.

Enter a number such as MH26AB1234 in the finder at the top of the page and it confirms the registering office, which is where the car’s record is kept.

Worth knowing: Moving from Hadgaon to Nanded city, or out to Pune, leaves the MH-26 number as it is. The RC needs the new address, and your insurer needs to hear about it too, so inform your insurer once the RC is updated.

Inside Maharashtra, Nanded district borders Yavatmal, Latur, Parbhani and Hingoli. Across the state line it meets Adilabad, Nirmal, Nizamabad and Kamareddy districts of Telangana and Bidar in Karnataka, and cars from there carry their own state codes.

Road tax is a state matter, so Nanded owners pay what owners elsewhere in Maharashtra pay. An MH-26 car pays the Maharashtra one-time tax at first registration, at a percentage that rises with the price band and differs for petrol, diesel and gas.

For example: For a ₹6 lakh petrol car registered in an individual’s name at MH-26, the tax works out at 11%, or ₹66,000. On top comes a road safety cess on the tax, which is reported as 2%; confirm what you owe on Vahan.

An owner in Nanded pays the same RTO fees as one registering at Parbhani or Latur, as the amounts come from national rules. On Vahan you pay them yourself, while the dealer handles them as part of a new car’s price.

For example: On a new car bought with a loan, the MH-26 office collects ₹2,300, which is ₹600 for the registration, ₹200 for a smart card RC and ₹1,500 for the hypothecation entry. Road tax is charged separately.

At 15 years an MH-26 car’s registration must be renewed for ₹5,000, rising to ₹10,000 beyond 20 years, and a late renewal runs up ₹500 a month for a car (₹300 for a motorcycle).

The HSRP, state service charges and the Maharashtra road tax are not included in these amounts.

Buying a new car in Nanded is straightforward on the RTO side. The dealer applies on Vahan, the CIDCO office approves it, and the car gets MH-26 whether the buyer lives in Bhokar, Loha or the city.

Ownership of an MH-26 car is transferred by the Nanded office through Vahan. The seller completes Form 29, seller and buyer put their names to Form 30, and the office charges ₹300 for a car or ₹150 for a motorcycle.

A buyer in Nanded should then shift the insurance into their name within 14 days.

Removing a loan (hypothecation) from the RC in Nanded

With the loan cleared, submit Form 35 and the lender’s No Objection Certificate (NOC) on Vahan to have the hypothecation deleted, which costs nothing. The paperwork is set down on our Maharashtra RTO guide.

A good part of Nanded RTO work never needs the drive to CIDCO. The Vahan portal takes vehicle applications and the Sarathi portal takes licence ones, and in Maharashtra the learner licence test itself is online with Aadhaar authentication.

Duplicate RC and RC status check in Nanded

To replace a lost or spoilt RC, apply on Form 26 to the Nanded office and pay the duplicate fee in the fees table. The Kiwi Insurance RC status check brings up the status of an MH-26 registration.

Driving licence services in Nanded

Apply for a licence on Sarathi and then take the driving test at the CIDCO office. What else can be done online is covered on our Maharashtra RTO guide.

Look up any challan against an MH-26 number on echallan.parivahan.gov.in or through mParivahan, where the amount for each offence is shown and can be paid.

For the complete schedule of fines, open our Maharashtra RTO guide.

Nanded borders Telangana, so a car moving in may well carry a TS or TG plate. After more than 12 months in Maharashtra such a car must be re-registered with an MH-26 number, while a car from Pune or Latur simply keeps its MH number.

Owners leaving Maharashtra for Telangana or anywhere else take the same route the other way. Get the NOC on Form 28 from the Nanded office first, then register the car in the new state.

Worth knowing: Each time the number or address on the RC changes, inform your insurer so the policy matches. Our Maharashtra RTO guide explains every form.

With a transferable job, ask the Nanded dealer for a Bharat series (BH) number rather than MH-26. Take it to a new posting in Hyderabad or Bengaluru later, and it needs neither a No Objection Certificate (NOC) nor a fresh registration in that state.

Private sector staff need Form 60, which an employer with offices in 4 or more states or union territories can sign. 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.

The 2-year tax is set down on our Maharashtra RTO guide.

Applications for the CIDCO office now start on the Vahan portal or the Sarathi portal. Keep a printed form only for the rare case where the office wants it on paper.

Our Maharashtra RTO guide says which form fits which task, and others are in the list of RTO forms on the Parivahan Sewa website.