Adriving licence certifies that a person passed a test on a particular morning. It does not certify that they were ever taught. For an ordinary car that gap is a road-safety problem. For a driver taking forty kilolitres of motor spirit through a district town at two in the morning, it is a public-safety one.
Safe Road Group was formed in 2020 to close that gap from both ends: one division certifies the drivers who carry dangerous goods, the other runs Accredited Driving Training Centres where a learner is taught the prescribed syllabus and then tested on the centre’s own track.
Both halves exist because the law already asked for them. Rule 9 has long required a certificate of training before a hazardous goods endorsement may issue; Rules 31B to 31J created the accredited centre. Eastern Uttar Pradesh needed somebody to build to that standard and be inspected against it.
We have trained more than 50,000+ drivers since then — from oil marketing company depots, the transporters contracted to them, chemical plants, and fleets across India and Nepal. Increasingly we go to them: an on-site batch keeps the vehicles earning.
Behind that: a licence from the Government of Uttar Pradesh for the dangerous goods work, Form 11A accreditation from the State Transport Authority for the centres, and instructors who have spent enough time at terminal gates to know which parts of the syllabus drivers get wrong.
Each carries its own approval. We list them separately because a fleet officer verifying us will want to check the right one.
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
OperationalThe group's flagship entity, formed under a gazette notification of the Government of Uttar Pradesh and registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Trains and certifies drivers who transport hazardous and dangerous goods.
Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
OperationalAn Accredited Driving Training Centre at Sonbhadra: the full CMVR course for LMV and HMV, and the driving-skill test on campus for all four classes — two-wheeler, e-Rickshaw, LMV and HMV.
Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh
OperationalAn Accredited Driving Training Centre at Bhadohi: the full CMVR course for LMV and HMV, and the driving-skill test on campus for all four classes — two-wheeler, e-Rickshaw, LMV and HMV.
Three districts of Uttar Pradesh
Under constructionThree further Accredited Driving Training Centres being built across three districts of Uttar Pradesh. Each will run the full ADTC course and conduct the driving-skill test on its own campus.
The Ministry's scheme asks a driving instructor for a pass in the twelfth standard, five years of driving experience, and a certificate in motor mechanics or a higher qualification in mechanical engineering. That is the floor.
Our instructors hold engineering degrees — B.Tech in mechanical, electrical, automobile and chemical engineering — and five to ten years of teaching behind them. Several hold a Craftsman Training Instructor certificate: a qualification in how to teach a trade, not in the trade itself.
The dangerous goods side adds its own: a post-graduate diploma in fire safety, because the third day of the Rule 9 course is assessed on emergency procedure and a slide deck will not teach it.
A fleet officer or a procurement team evaluating us can ask for the qualifications of the people who will actually stand in front of their drivers, and we will send them.
Our driver training centres and our dangerous goods centre are approved under different rules, by different authorities, for different things. Confusing the two is the commonest mistake made about centres like ours, so they are set out separately.
Sonbhadra · Bhadohi · and three being built
Accreditation is what separates these centres from an ordinary driving school. It vests the centre with functions a driving school does not have — among them conducting the driving-skill test on its own campus and issuing Form 5B, which exempts the holder from the test at the RTO.
Varanasi
The certificate this centre issues is what the licensing authority acts on when it endorses a driving licence to carry dangerous or hazardous goods under Rule 9(3). Without a certificate from a recognised institute, the endorsement cannot be made.
Every approval above names the authority that granted it and the rule it was granted under. The numbers stay off the website: a published approval number ends up copied onto somebody else’s certificate. Ask us and we will send the documents, or confirm the accreditation directly with the State Transport Authority.
Checking a certificate we issued to a trainee is a different thing, and it is instant — verify a certificate.
We would rather be inspected than advertised.
Ask, and you get the documents themselves rather than a brochure.
