India Learner's Licence Application

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-03

Why this candidate, why now

This GOV-878 "GovSchema Standard Research" cycle re-confirmed India (opened as GovSchema's eleventh jurisdiction in GOV-869) has only one published schema — in/mea/passport-application-first-adult — leaving 5 of 6 focus verticals open for India specifically (DMV, Business Formation, Visa, Taxes, National ID & Civic Documents), even though the other ten jurisdictions' matrix is saturated. DMV was chosen first: it is the largest-volume, best-bounded individual government interaction, and every other jurisdiction in the registry already has at least one DMV-vertical schema.

India's DMV-equivalent is the Sarathi/Parivahan system run by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) through state Regional Transport Offices (RTOs). Its single "Form 2" covers 7 distinct services (new Learner's Licence, new Driving Licence, addition of class, renewal, duplicate, address change, name change); this document narrows to the Learner's Licence service only, since it is the mandatory, well-bounded gateway every driver passes through before a Driving Licence — the same narrow-first-schema convention used for every other jurisdiction's initial DMV/passport/visa schema (e.g. nl/rdw/drivers-licence-renewal, de/bmi/passport-application, in/mea/passport-application-first-adult).

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): in/morth/learners-licence-application / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India, through the state Regional Transport Offices (RTOs), under the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
• Primary source (fetched directly, HTTP 200): https://parivahan.gov.in/sites/default/files/DownloadForm/cmvr/FORM-2.pdf — the current, amended Form 2 ("FORM OF APPLICATION FOR LEARNER'S LICENCE OR DRIVING LICENCE OR ADDITION OF A NEW CLASS OF VEHICLE OR RENEWAL OF DRIVING LICENCE OR CHANGE OF ADDRESS OR NAME"), hosted directly on the national parivahan.gov.in domain. Confirmed current (not stale) because it includes the post-2021-amendment E-Rickshaw/E-Cart and Adapted-Vehicle- for-Divyang categories.
  • Negative check. A Meghalaya RTO mirror (megtransport.gov.in/pdf/form2.pdf) was also fetched and found to be a stale, pre-amendment version of Form 2 (uses obsolete categories such as "Invalid Carriage" instead of the current COV list) — it was not used as a source, and this registry's convention of preferring the national/canonical source over a state mirror when both exist (per in/mea/passport-application-first-adult's VERIFICATION.md) held again here.
  • Extraction technique: direct curl fetch of the PDF with a browser-like User-Agent, then zlib-stream decompression and Tj/TJ content-stream text extraction (this PDF's content streams are plain, not CID-keyed like the MEA passport-booklet PDF, so the simpler technique sufficed — no pdfjs-dist scratch-install needed this time).
• Secondary source (fetched directly, HTTP 200): https://parivahan.gov.in/en/content/licensing-related-fees-charges — the MoRTH's own Rule 32 fee schedule, confirming Rs. 150 per class of vehicle for issue of a learner's licence. Not encoded as a fixed documents[] field value (fees can change by rule amendment over time), consistent with this registry's fee-field convention.
• Attempted but not used: sarathi.parivahan.gov.in, the transactional per-state application portal. Its stateSelection.do entry point returned an "Access Denied" WAF page to direct fetch/curl — a hard block, not a UA-sniffing issue (the parivahan.gov.in content site, by contrast, was fetchable with a browser-like User-Agent). No live-portal walkthrough was performed as a result; this document is transcribed from the canonical PDF only.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-03.
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) / document(s) | |---|---| | "Services applying for" checkbox — Issue of New Learner's Licence (vs. 6 other services) | applyingForNewLearnersLicenceOnly | | Class(es) of Vehicle (COV) checkbox group + footnotes | classOfVehicleApplied | | Aadhaar Card Number / Aadhaar application number | aadhaarNumber, aadhaarApplicationNumber | | Name of Applicant: First/Middle/Last Name | firstName, middleName, lastName | | "Son/Wife/Daughter of" relation + name | relationType, relatedPersonName | | Date of Birth | dateOfBirth | | Parent/Guardian Declaration (s.7(2), Motor Vehicles Act 1988) "in case of applicant who is a minor" | applicantIsMinor, parentGuardianName, parentGuardianRelationship, documents[].parentGuardianConsentDeclaration | | Gender (Male/Female/Transgender) | gender | | Identification Mark | identificationMark | | Educational Qualification | educationalQualification | | Blood Group | bloodGroup | | Email / Mobile / Landline | email, mobileNumber, landlineNumber | | Present Address fields | presentAddressLine1/VillageOrTown/District/State/PinCode | | Permanent Address (only if different) | permanentAddressSameAsPresent, permanentAddressLine1 | | Self-Declaration as to Physical Fitness, questions (a)–(f) | hasEpilepsyOrLossOfConsciousness, canReadRegistrationMarkAt25m, wearsGlassesOrContactLenses, hasLossOfLimbOrMuscularDefect, hasNightBlindness, canHearOrdinarySoundSignal, usesHearingAid, hasOtherDiseaseOrDisabilityDangerousToPublic | | General declaration — prior disqualification | previouslyDisqualifiedFromLicence | | Organ donation declaration | willingToDonateOrgans | | Annexure, Proof of Address AND Age (10-item list) | documents[].proofOfAddressAndAge | | Annexure, Medical Certificate (Form-1A), gated on "renewal and above 40, or Transport Licence" | documents[].medicalCertificateForm1A, gated on classOfVehicleApplied == transport_vehicle (the LL-relevant half of that OR condition; the renewal-and-40+ half applies only to the out-of-scope renewal service) | | Passport-size photograph, "size not more than 50 KB" | documents[].passportPhoto | | Rule 32 fee schedule (Rs. 150/class) | documents[].applicationFeePayment |

What is NOT independently confirmed / out of scope

• A live Sarathi state-portal walkthrough. sarathi.parivahan.gov.in WAF-blocked direct fetch; this document is transcribed from the national Form 2 PDF, which the site itself states is the basis for the online form, but the exact online screen flow/validation messages for any given state's Sarathi instance were not directly observed.
• Full permanent-address sub-fields. Only permanentAddressLine1 is modelled (matching the same representative-field convention used in in/mea/passport-application-first-adult), not a full second address block; a future MINOR addition could add district/state/pin-code if a live-portal pass shows they are collected separately from present address.
• Driving Licence issue, addition of class, renewal, duplicate, and address/name-change services, plus the driving test and vehicle registration (Form 20 / VAHAN, a separate portal) are explicitly out of scope of this first India-DMV schema, matching this registry's narrow-first-schema-per-jurisdiction convention.
• Driving-school enrolment fields (Form 2 has a driving-school block: school name, enrolment number/date, certificate number/date) are omitted; they are optional/conditional on a driving-school pathway not required for a Learner's Licence itself and are more relevant to the DL/test flow.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

• India's second registry entry (after in/mea/passport-application- first-adult), and its first DMV-vertical schema — India is now 2/6 verticals covered.
• Conditional flow uses requiredWhen (GSP-0013) for the minor-guardian- consent and permanent-address branches, and steps[].transitions with exitReason (GSP-0013 §4) for the single genuine scope gate (a different Form 2 service requested).
• dateOfBirth, aadhaarNumber, aadhaarApplicationNumber, and mobileNumber are marked classification: sensitive-pii; the physical- fitness declaration fields and blood group are marked classification: health; remaining name/address/contact fields are marked classification: pii, per GSP-0006's advisory vocabulary.
• Mock-data condition-evaluator testing (a positive-control adult LMV applicant; a minor MCWOG applicant to exercise the guardian-consent branch; an adult transport-vehicle applicant to exercise the Form-1A medical-certificate gate; and a wrong-service profile to exercise the scope-exit transition) confirmed every requiredWhen/transitions branch resolves as intended: the positive control has zero missing required fields and requires only the three baseline documents; the minor profile correctly flags parentGuardianName/parentGuardianRelationship as missing and adds the consent-declaration document; the transport-vehicle profile correctly adds the Form-1A document; and the wrong-service profile correctly exits with not_eligible_different_service_requested. No script is checked into the registry (structural-reference schemas in this registry do not carry conformance fixtures — GSP-0016 fixtures are used once a schema reaches verified).

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer with access to a specific state's Sarathi portal instance (or independent confirmation from someone who has completed a live LL application) confirms: the online form's exact field-by-field presentation matches Form 2's paper columns, whether permanent-address sub-fields are collected separately online, and current fee figures at that state's instance (some states add service/smart-card surcharges on top of the central Rule 32 fee).

Re-verification

Per the practice's cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months).