Rules 31B to 31J do not ask a centre to promise anything. They set out what it must physically have before it may call itself accredited — the track and its gradients, the simulator, the classroom hours, the instructor qualifications, the records — and an inspection establishes it is there.
So the photographs below are not decoration. They are why the Form 5B our centres issue is accepted in place of the driving test, and why a depot can send us drivers without sending somebody to check.
A figure-of-eight circuit laid to the specification an accredited centre must provide: the eight, a gradient, the reverse-S, angular and parallel parking bays, and a straight for controlled braking. The run is recorded automatically as it happens — the same circuit and the same criteria for every candidate.
Every corner of the circuit is on camera, and the run is scored from here. That is what lets an accredited centre conduct the test at all: the same fixed criteria for every candidate, recorded as it happens rather than reconstructed afterwards.
Light and heavy vehicle rigs, used before a learner goes on the track and again for what a track cannot safely reproduce: night running, fog, a tyre burst at speed, a load shifting on a bend. It is not a substitute for road hours — it is where a driver makes the expensive mistake once.
Theory hours are prescribed, not optional: 16 of the 38 hours on the heavy vehicle programme are classroom. The walls carry the hazard class and signage charts, because a driver who has looked at one for three days recognises it at a gantry. Taught in Hindi, with English material.
A placarded tanker stands here for the dangerous goods drills — hose and valve handling, bonding and earthing, extinguisher selection, the first five minutes of a leak. None of it can be taught from a slide, and all of it is what the third day is assessed on.
A track that records its own result.
That is the quiet reform in Rules 31B–31J: the same circuit, the same criteria and the same instruments for every candidate, written into the rule and checked by inspection.
Varanasi, Sonbhadra and Bhadohi, on working days.
If your organisation is going to send drivers to us, or trust a certificate we issue, it is reasonable to want to see the place first. Fleet and HSE officers are welcome at any open centre on a working day — tell us when, and we will have a batch running.
