Driving license online form in Nepal: how to apply, step by step

The department's notice lists one site per province. Apply on the site of the province where you will sit the exam. For a problem with the site, write to the province's address below or to the department at gunaso@dotm.gov.np.

1. 1Open your province's site from the table above and start a new driving license application.
2. 2Fill the form. If you have a National ID or the Nagarik App, scan its QR code and the form fills itself, as the department's notice describes. Without them, you fill it in yourself.
3. 3Choose the category you want: A for a motorcycle, scooter, moped or e-scooter, K for a scooter or moped, B for a car, jeep or delivery van.
4. 4Pay the fee online. The form shows the amount for your category.
5. 5Sit the written exam (likhit) on the date the site gives you. It is 25 questions from the department's published collection; practise them first in the free likhit mock test.
6. 6Pass the trial (the practical test) on a vehicle with an up-to-date bluebook.
7. 7Wait for the smart card. Check whether it is printed at applydlnew.dotm.gov.np/licensecheck.

The minimum ages the department's 2082/83 question books give, by category:

The fees the department's question books give. The online form shows the exact amount for your category and province, and that is what you pay.

All 1,000 questions are on this site with their answers, in Nepali and English: bike and scooter, car, and the 85 traffic signs. The mock test is drawn the way the real paper is. In Nepali: लाइसेन्स लिखित परीक्षा मक टेस्ट.

• 25 questions in 30 minutes, 4 marks each. 60 marks of 100 pass, which is 15 right.
• Every question comes from the department's published collection for your category: one of 500 for bike and scooter, one of 500 for car. A fixed number comes from each subject, 6 of them on traffic signs.
• Failed, or missed it? You can sit it again after 3 months (A/K question 152). Sent out of the exam room for misconduct, you wait 3 months too (B question 173).
• Adding a category to a license you already hold needs no written exam (B question 200).

70% passes the trial (A/K question 216, B question 201). After passing the written exam you have three attempts within 18 months (B questions 209 and 210). Bring a vehicle whose bluebook is up to date (A/K question 210).

• Is my card printed? Check at applydlnew.dotm.gov.np/licensecheck, as the department's citizen charter gives it.
• Going abroad and need it fast? The department prints urgently for work, study and some other reasons. Apply online at applydlnew.dotm.gov.np/login; it takes at least 72 hours once approved.
• For work abroad the charter lists your passport, visa or residential card, ticket and work permit (labour approval); for study, the No Objection Certificate or Certificate of Eligibility, the university offer letter, passport, visa and ticket. For the labour approval itself see shram swikriti.

• Renewal is online too, on the province sites above, since 1 Shrawan 2083.
• Under the amended rules a license is valid for 10 years (A/K question 165, B question 112). One older question in the same book still says 5 (A/K question 146).
• Renew within 3 months (90 days) of expiry with no fine (A/K question 131, B question 132). After that a fine applies, and a license not renewed within 5 years of expiry is cancelled (A/K questions 166, 190).

• Lost it? Get a recommendation letter from the traffic police, then apply to the transport office with it and the fee for a duplicate, Rs 500 (A/K questions 142, 198; B question 65).
• A license from a Transport Management Office is valid throughout Nepal (A/K question 199).
• A foreign license can be validated in Nepal without a test, and an international driving permit is valid throughout Nepal (A/K question 218, B question 111).