Kerala government cuts vehicle fitness test fees by up to 50%

The Kerala authorities has issued a gazette notification slashing the conveyance fittingness tests by up to 50%.

The Union authorities had importantly accrued the fittingness trial fees for vehicles by introducing a three-tier classification system. After the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways accrued the fees by amending the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (Fifth Amendment), the Kerala Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) enforced the revised rates for fittingness tests, effectual November 17, 2025.

The determination faced backlash from conveyance owners successful Kerala, prompting the State authorities to little fees for vehicles implicit 15 years via a gazette notification. An explanatory enactment said that the Union authorities notification, G.S.R. (850)(E) dated November 11, 2025, has amended regularisation 81 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, frankincense expanding the interest for renewal of the certificate of fittingness for definite property categories of vehicles.

However, centrifugal transport associations criticised the revised interest arsenic excessive, peculiarly affecting operators successful the nationalist transport assemblage wherever a ample fig of vehicles are implicit 15 years old. Taking into relationship the information that the steep summation is apt to impact the operational viability of transport operators and the wide nationalist who trust connected nationalist transport services, the State authorities decided to trim the enhanced fee.

As per the revised rates, for vehicles aged successful the 15–20 twelvemonth category, ₹500 volition beryllium charged for a motorcycle, ₹600 for a three-wheeler, ₹1,000 for a airy centrifugal vehicle, and ₹1,000 for a dense vehicle. For vehicles implicit 20 years old, ₹500 for a motorcycle, ₹1,000 for a three-wheeler, ₹1,300 for a airy centrifugal conveyance and ₹1,500 for a dense vehicle.