Our centres

One licence, five accreditations, six districts

Varanasi is where the dangerous goods work sits. It holds the licence issued by the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the training hall a batch spends three days in, and the ground where the placarded tanker stands.

The other five are Accredited Driving Training Centres under Rules 31B–31J, listed on the Sarathi portal. 2 are open — Sonbhadra and Bhadohi — and 3 more are going up across three districts of Uttar Pradesh. Each carries a classroom block, a simulator laboratory and an automated test track laid to specification.

The Varanasi dangerous goods centre building

Varanasi · Division I

Where the HAZMAT work sits

Everything under Rule 9 runs from here. This centre holds the licence to train drivers carrying dangerous and hazardous goods, and it is this centre’s certificate the licensing authority acts on when it places the endorsement.

A three-day batch spends its mornings in the training hall and its afternoons outside on a placarded tanker, doing what cannot be taught from a slide: hose handling, earthing, extinguisher selection, the first five minutes of a leak.

Licence: Government of Uttar Pradesh, vide Extraordinary Gazette Notification
Recognised under: Rule 9, CMVR 1989
Flagship course: 3 Days Training Program for Drivers Carrying Hazardous Goods and Substances
Also runs: Tanker crew safety, defensive driving

Read the HAZMAT course

An accredited centre does something a driving school cannot.

A driving school teaches. An accredited centre teaches, then conducts the driving-skill test itself, on its own track and against criteria Rules 31B to 31J fix in advance. Form 11A is the finding, after inspection, that it is equipped to do both.

Division II

The Accredited Driving Training Centres

Approved in Form 11A by the State Transport Authority and listed on the Sarathi portal.

Sonbhadra

Open

Safe Road Training and Testing Center · Uttar Pradesh

Running the licensing courses — LMV and HMV — with classroom instruction, simulator hours and the driving-skill test conducted on the centre's own automated track. Form 5B is issued on completion.

The driving-skill test is taken here for all 4 classes — Two-Wheeler, e-Rickshaw, LMV and HMV. How a run is taken.

LMV — training & test
HMV — training & test
Two-Wheeler — test only
e-Rickshaw — test only
LMV — test only
HMV — test only

Bhadohi

Open

Safe Road Training and Testing Center · Uttar Pradesh

The driving-skill test is taken here for all 4 classes — Two-Wheeler, e-Rickshaw, LMV and HMV. How a run is taken.

LMV — training & test
HMV — training & test
Two-Wheeler — test only
e-Rickshaw — test only
LMV — test only
HMV — test only

What will stand at each

Automated test trackthe eight, a gradient, the reverse-S, angular and parallel parking bays
Track control roomevery corner on camera, the run scored as it happens
Simulator laboratorylight and heavy vehicle rigs
Classroom blockprojector, hazard class and signage charts
Administrative blockreception, token counter, records and a waiting area
Training and test vehiclesLMV and HMV, kept on campus

Photographed when there is something to photograph.

Three more

Under construction

Safe Road Training and Testing Center · three districts of Uttar Pradesh

Accredited and being built. The classroom blocks and the tracks are going up now; LMV and HMV will run at each once it opens, with the driving-skill test on campus as at Sonbhadra and Bhadohi.

LMV — training & test
HMV — training & test
Two-Wheeler — test only
e-Rickshaw — test only
LMV — test only
HMV — test only

What each campus actually holds, photographed rather than described, is on the facilities page.

What a centre is required to hold before it may run a course at all, and the courses themselves hour by hour, are on the ADTC courses page.

Which centre should the drivers come to?

Tell us where they are and what they drive, and we will name the nearest open centre — or say whether it makes more sense to bring the batch to your depot.

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