If your driving license is lost, then first FIR will have to be given to the police station. Because you will need a copy of the FIR for a duplicate driving license.
Driving license is one of those essential documents which are needed for driving two-wheeler and four wheeler vehicles besides many other things. Driving license is one of the necessary documents from taking advantage of schemes in many places to even as a proof. If in this case your original driving license is lost or torn for some reason. So there may be trouble for you while driving. That is why it is very important that you go and apply for a duplicate driving license immediately. And it is not very difficult to do, by following some easy steps, you can do it both online and offline.
If your driving license is lost, then first of all FIR will have to be given to the police station. Because you will need a copy of the FIR for a duplicate driving license. But if your driving license has become old which is not clear or has been torn, then you will have to submit the original for duplicate. After understanding this, now if you are applying for a duplicate driving license online, then first of all you have to go to the website of the State Transport Department.
After visiting the website and filling the requested details, now fill the LLD form. And after filling the form, keep a print out of it. And with this attach all your necessary documents. Now submit this form and all the documents to the RTO office. Please note that it can also be submitted online. At the same time, after 30 days of completion of the online process, the duplicate driving license will come to you.
Whereas, duplicate driving license can also be applied offline. For this, you have to first go to the RTO from which the original driving license was issued. And then fill the LLD form and submit it. Along with this form, the fee prescribed by the department will also have to be paid. After this whole process, you will get a duplicate driving license in 30 days.
Along with the online process of duplicate driving license, as soon as your paperwork is completed, you will also get a receipt during that time. Handle it carefully because you will need it when the duplicate DL reaches you. Or if for some reason there is a delay in the arrival of the duplicate DL. So you can find out from that receipt.
